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Sept. 15, 2025
Winning $27.7 Million from Conservative Jurors, with John Heenan
“It is not easy to get substantial damage awards from Montana jurors,” says John Heenan of Billings-based Heenan & Cook . Yet conservative Montana jurors awarded $27.7 million in his negligence case against a private prison c...
Sept. 12, 2025
The Art of Decision-Making, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright
Every business succeeds or fails based on decisions: making good ones and recovering from bad ones. “Sounds like a pretty rudimentary concept,” says Gideon Asen founder Ben Gideon . To break down that concept, Ben and firm CO...
Sept. 1, 2025
Defense Timelines vs. Medical Truth w/ Chris Nace & Samantha Peters
Medical records meticulously documented the routine endoscopy that went wrong, ending tragically in the patient’s death. But when Chris Nace and Samantha Peters took the case to trial, they were confronted with the defense’s ...
Aug. 29, 2025
From Silicon Valley to Legal AI Startup, with Jerry Zhou
Jerry Zhou and childhood friend Kyle Lam had vast skills in software development by the time Covid hit and they left Microsoft. That’s when they sat down at a Starbucks and wrote “all the ideas that we had about things that w...
Aug. 18, 2025
How Bad Faith Turned $1M into $56M, with Rahul Ravipudi
The jiu-jitsu club had a $1 million insurance policy, but when an instructor accidentally rendered a new student an incomplete quadriplegic, the carrier put its interest above their own insured’s – and paid the price. Rahul R...
Aug. 15, 2025
Leaving a Law Firm to Start Your Own w/ Ben Gideon & Jeff Wright
"Anybody who tells you that leaving a law firm is an easy process is lying to you," says Ben Gideon . To lay out the unvarnished truth, Ben shares his experience leaving a 17-year partnership to launch Gideon Asen . In a conv...
Aug. 6, 2025
Special Preview: Decoding EOS to Scale Your Law Firm
Elawvate’s “Build & Grow Your Law Firm” podcast devotes its third episode to EOS, or “entrepreneurial operating system.” Your guide is Megan Piper , a certified EOS implementer who coaches clients along their journey from “ch...
Aug. 1, 2025
Scale Your Firm, No MBA Required, with Megan Piper
Megan Piper says that her job coaching entrepreneurs “is to help them succeed and then to get out of the way.” To do this, she teaches a model called EOS, or “entrepreneurial operating system.” And while EOS is “industry agno...