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Nov. 7, 2025

Secrets to Scaling a Criminal Defense Firm, with Tim Zerillo

“I tell people my practice is primarily sex, drugs, and white collar crime. No rock and roll,” says defense lawyer Tim Zerillo in this conversation about building a criminal defense firm. With hosts Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright...
Oct. 27, 2025

When Your Experts Get It Wrong, with Chuck Hehmeyer and Elizabeth Kayatta

“We had to say, ‘Hey, we're going to be honest with you here. For a long time, we had this wrong, and our experts had it wrong.’” That’s the theme that Chuck Hehmeyer and Elizabeth Kayatta emphasized in their med-mal case on ...
Oct. 24, 2025

The “Vivid Vision” Playbook for Growth, with Cameron Herold

Building a business without a clear vision is like doing a 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle with no picture on the box. That’s the metaphor that informs Cameron Herold ’s revolutionary “Vivid Vision” model. He describes it in this c...
Oct. 13, 2025

Are You Speaking with an Authentic Voice at Trial? With Jeremy D'Amico

Jeremy D'Amico describes how his authentic trial voice transformed difficult facts into compelling narratives that yielded major verdicts: $45 million for a speeding Marine who wasn't wearing his motorcycle helmet and $23 mil...
Oct. 10, 2025

Aim, Plan, Honor: Strategic Growth, with Melissa Shanahan

Melissa Shanahan encourages her law firm clients to envision a “three-legged stool” that supports growth. The three legs of that stool are: aim, plan, and honor. “When you don't have one of those, you don't really get the tra...
Sept. 29, 2025

AI that Helps You Work Smarter for Clients, with Will Davis and Ed Kirk

“Occasionally, we will introduce our listeners to a new product that's designed to help trial lawyers do a better job for their clients and their practices,” host Ben Gideon explains as he kicks off this episode about Supio ,...
Sept. 26, 2025

Do You Have a Vision or a Pipe Dream?, with Ben Gideon

Here’s what a vision is not : a pipe dream or a Christmas wish list. Here’s what it is: a big, audacious goal that’s worthy of your time and energy. Ben Gideon lays out this critical difference by unpacking his own vision for...
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...