Elawvate: Build & Grow Your Law Firm
Episodes
The AI Toolbox for Lawyers, with Zach Blattner and Berkeley Almand-Hunter
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Lawyers drive law firms. The open secret? AI drives the office – so everybody at the office needs to know something about it. In this episode, hosts...
Law Firm Finances Demystified, with John Scott
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If your law firm sets a budget in January and forgets about it until October,&nb...
How To Make All Systems Go, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The law firm that runs on systems runs better — but you have to actually follow them. Ben Gideon reflects on a "best practice breakfast" that expose...
The Entrepreneur’s Top 10, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Gideon started his career as a lawyer. So when he charted a new path as an entrepreneur, co-founding Gideon Asen in 2020, he knew he had a learnin...
The Profit First Method, with Mike Michalowicz
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Entrepreneurs may think that taking an accounting class or learning leadership skills will help them manage their businesses. “I call BS on that,”...
Building a White Collar Boutique, with Arlo Devlin-Brown
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After serving as a federal prosecutor and as a partner in a Big Law firm, Arlo Devlin-Brown “got a little bit of a bug” to try something different...
Hiring the Right People, with Alec Broadfoot
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It was a killer operation – except the hiring misfires were killing it. "We ended up firing seven out of ten employees we hired," Alec Broadfoot rec...
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...