Elawvate: Build & Grow Your Law Firm
Episodes
Core Values that Matter, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Creating culture isn't about hiring people and forcing them to adopt your values—it's about finding people who already share them. Hosts Ben Gideon ...
Secrets of a Serial Entrepreneur, with T.A. McCann
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What could a law firm entrepreneur learn from a tech incubator? Pioneer Square Labs has vetted 500-plus business ideas and launched 43 software compan...
Building ‘Comes Down to Balance’, with Andrew Garza
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“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 h...
Secrets to Scaling a Criminal Defense Firm, with Tim Zerillo
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I tell people my practice is primarily sex, drugs, and white collar crime. No rock and roll,” says defense lawyer Tim Zerillo in this conversatio...
The “Vivid Vision” Playbook for Growth, with Cameron Herold
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ca...
Aim, Plan, Honor: Strategic Growth, with Melissa Shanahan
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Shanahan encourages her law firm clients to envision a “three-legged stool” that supports growth. The three legs of that stool are: aim, p...
Do You Have a Vision or a Pipe Dream?, with Ben Gideon
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ener...
The Art of Decision-Making, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every business succeeds or fails based on decisions: making good ones and recovering from bad ones. “Sounds like a pretty rudimentary concept,” sa...
From Silicon Valley to Legal AI Startup, with Jerry Zhou
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Leaving a Law Firm to Start Your Own w/ Ben Gideon & Jeff Wright
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ...
Scale Your Firm, No MBA Required, with Megan Piper
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 cal...
Starting a Firm vs. Growing a Firm, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Building a law firm and building a law firm that’s designed for growth “are often mistaken, but very different ventures,” observes host Ben Gide...
Building a Law Firm: Lessons from the Trenches, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I really wish when we started our practice, someone had taken me under their wing and said, 'This is how you do this.'" In the premiere of “Build &...
Welcome to Elawvate: Build & Grow Your Law Firm
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everything You Really Need to Build a Law FirmWelcome to Elawvate: Build & Grow Your Law Firm, the podcast that gives entrepreneurial attorneys th...