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Nov. 24, 2025
“Best Of” 2025: A Visit with Inner Circle Legend Charla Aldous
Earlier this year, hosts Ben Gideon and Rahul Ravipudi welcomed a “force of nature” to “Elawvate.” She’s also known as Charla Aldous , founder of Aldous Law . The episode remains one of the podcast’s most popular conversation...
Nov. 21, 2025
Building ‘Comes Down to Balance’, with Andrew Garza
“Even if it's going to mean we're less profitable, short term, if it provides sanity, we're going to do it,” Andrew Garza says as he reflects on his entrepreneurial journey, including co-founding Claggett, Sykes & Garza Trial...
Nov. 10, 2025
Truths about Leaving a Firm, with 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...
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...