The Agile Attorney Podcast
By John E. Grant
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Episodes: 122
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The Agile Attorney podcast teaches legal professionals how to streamline their legal workflows using the principles, practices, and tools of the Kanban Method.
Join Accredited Kanban Trainer and award-winning legal operations professional John E. Grant as he shares the keys to implementing effective strategies, practices, and technologies to drive true efficiency in your legal processes.
For more information on how John can help you develop an agile mindset and bust through your legal delivery bottlenecks, visit https://agileattorney.com.
This is the show for you if you find yourself asking questions like:
-How can I make my law practice more efficient?
-What is the best way to implement legal project management in my legal workflow?
-How can I best leverage technology to improve my legal workflows?
-What is the best way to transition my practice to flat fees or other alternative billing structures?
-How can I get my legal team to perform better?
-How can I better build productized legal services?
-What is the best way to increase law firm revenue without adding headcount?
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117. The Bomb on the Bus: A Law Firm Productivity Problem with Clarke Ching
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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116. Low Productivity in Your Law Firm? Don't Blame the People
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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115. Spring Cleaning Your Law Practice: Managing Capacity, Catching Up, & Letting Go
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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114. The Case for Better Meetings: A Smarter Way to Move Legal Work Forward
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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113. Building a Practice That Lasts: Kanban, Credibility, and the Long Game with Jordan Couch
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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112. The Problem with Billable Hour Targets & What to Measure Instead with Radhika Dutt
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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111. The Core Patterns Behind an Agile Law Practice [Agile Lawyering Finale]
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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110. Why Every Legal Matter Needs a Strategy Plan [Agile Lawyering Part 10]
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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109. Creating Consistency in Law Firms Without Sacrificing Autonomy [Agile Lawyering Part 9]
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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108. The Client Journey Map: A Systems Tool for Better Client Experience and Law Firm Flow [Agile Lawyering Part 8]
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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107. Beyond Tracking Hours: The Law Firm Metrics That Improve Flow [Agile Lawyering Part 7]
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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106. Breaking the Cycle of Urgency in Law Firms [Agile Lawyering Part 6]
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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105. The Counterintuitive Solution to Getting More Work Done [Agile Lawyering Part 5]
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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104. Quality Standards for Law Firms: How to Make Expectations Explicit and Work Predictable [Agile Lawyering Part 4]
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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103. Bottlenecks in Law Firms: Fixing Flow Without Heroics [Agile Lawyering Part 3]
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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102. Build a Promise-Keeping Machine for Your Law Practice [Agile Lawyering Part 2]
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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101. First Principles: An Introduction to Agile Lawyering 101
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Managing Capacity by Making Work Visible: Agile Lessons for Law Firms with Dimitri Ponomareff [Bonus]
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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The Fundamentals of Process Improvement with Joe Bockerstette [Bonus]
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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100. Why Agile Lawyering Matters & The Journey to 100 Episodes
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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099. Stop Random Acts of Marketing: Build an Intentional Strategy for Your Law Firm
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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098. What Law Firms Can Learn from Radical Product Thinking with Radhika Dutt
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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097. Creating Space Within Your Law Practice: Finding Momentum Without Overwhelm
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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096. An Agile Approach to Quality Legal Writing with Brendan Kenny & Neven Selimovic
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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095. Beyond Marketing: How Client Communication Builds Engagement and Improves Practice Flow with Strawberry Nevill
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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094. Alternative Intelligence for Lawyers: Empower Your Team Before Turning to AI
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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093. Legal Document Automation: Building Productized Legal Services with Laura Patton
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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092. Essential Skills to Build a Successful and Profitable Law Practice
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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091. Broken Systems, Not Bad People: How Blame Breaks Your Law Practice
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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090. Stop Writing Policies and Start Creating Working Agreements with Tim Lennon
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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089. The Four Ds of Productivity: Removing Bottlenecks & Managing Capacity
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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088. Why This Firm Stopped Chasing Clients- and Got More Done
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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087. Change Management for Law Firms: How to Engage Your Team from Day One
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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086. From Chaos to Consistency: Lessons from a Decade of Agile Lawyering with Jeff De Francisco
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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085. Make Work Visible: Using Kanban Boards To Manage Your Law Firm’s Capacity
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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084. Technical Debt in Law Firms: How Small Shortcuts Create Big Problems
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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083. Delivery Debt is as Bad as Financial Debt, and Your Law Practice May Be Drowning in It
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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082. The Best Way to Word Your Checklists
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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081. Task Engines in Law: Why Some Cases Sabotage Your Firm’s Productivity
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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080. AI for Legal Workflows: The Potential and the Pitfalls
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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079. Make Space Before September: A Call for Rest and Intention
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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078. Build Financial Clarity into Your Law Firm with CFO Danielle Hendon
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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077. The BEST System for Managing Legal Work: Kanban for Lawyers Part 3
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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076. How Scrum Lessons Can Improve Your Law Practice: Kanban for Lawyers Part 2
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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075. Legal Workflow Lessons from the Factory Floor: Kanban for Lawyers Part 1
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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074. Using Kanban to Manage Capacity
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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073. Don't Let Magical AI Thinking Cloud Your Sense of Capacity
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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072. The Hidden Dangers of Overcapacity
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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071. How Trauma Informed Lawyering Helps Avoid Burnout with Dr. Colin James
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May 27, 2025 |
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070. Profit First for Lawyers: A Conversation with RJon Robins
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May 20, 2025 |
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069. Document Automation Secrets for Small Law Firms with Quinten Steenhuis
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May 13, 2025 |
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068. Adaptability by Design: Building Law Practices That Respond to Change
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May 06, 2025 |
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067. AI & Legal Writing: How to Use It Effectively with Jonah Perlin
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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066. Build a Law Practice that Reflects Your Values, with Carolyn Elefant
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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065. Scale Your Practice with a Mesh Management Approach
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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064. The Dental Chair Theory of Lawyering
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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063. Legal Automation Pitfalls: Are You Meeting Client Needs?
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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062. Delegation Pitfalls: When Legal Work Goes Too Deep or Too Wide
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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061. Delivering Your Legal Work: Direct Flight or Long Layover?
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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059. Stop Billing and Start Pricing with Jonathan Stark
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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058. The Key to Happier Lawyering with Brita Long
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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057. Is Your Engagement Agreement Scaring Your Clients?
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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056. Less Is More: Why WIP Limits Boost Legal Productivity
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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055. Fixing the Client Homework Bottleneck
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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054. Action without Action with Tim Lennon
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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053. Time Management Strategies You Need: Calendar Blocking and Calendar Bucketing
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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052. Making Daily Standups Work in Your Law Practice
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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051. Matter Management Meetings Suck. Do This Instead.
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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050. Flat Fee Pricing for Lawyers with Elise Buie and Emery Wager
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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049. Lessons from Old Hollywood: Why Flat-Fee Legal Work Is Nothing New
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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048. The Obvious Switch to Value Pricing with Jonathan Stark
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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047. How Kanban Creates Capacity Liquidity in Your Law Firm with Richard Hoare
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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046. Improving Legal Workflows without New Technology
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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045. Agile Access to Justice, Leveraging Process Improvement to Serve the Underserved
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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044. Kanban Made Easy: A Lawyer's Guide to Visual Task Management
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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043. The Right Way to Incentivize Your Team
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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042. Ditch Effective Hourly Rates: How to Calculate Matter-Level Profit
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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040. Legal Workflow Management and Matter Management Are Not the Same Thing
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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039. Productive With Dollar Signs, with Clarke Ching
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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038. Delivering Effective Feedback to Legal Teams
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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037. Putting the ‘Flow’ Back into Workflow
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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036. What To Do When I’m the Bottleneck with Melissa Shanahan and Ben Hudson
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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035. Two Heads Are Better: How Coworking Sessions Can Improve Law Firm Efficiency
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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034. Short-Term Efficiency Can Hurt Long-Term Goals
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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033. Connecting with Your Clients’ "Why"
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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032. Organize Your Law Practice for Business Success with Michael Clarke
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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031. Tech Improvement Should Be Step 3. Don’t Skip Steps 1 & 2.
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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030. From Solo to CEO: Lessons in Building a People-First Law Firm with Justie Nicol
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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029. Getting Team Buy-in for Change
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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028. 3 Signs Your Law Practice Is Over Capacity
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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027. The Advantages of a First-In, First-Out Policy
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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026. Start with What You Do Now
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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025. Following Your Law Firm Strategic Plan with Melissa Shanahan
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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024. Sticking with Change When Change Gets Hard
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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023. Roots of the Lawyer Shortage
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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022. How to Write Effective Law Firm Policies
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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021. You Can't Scale Your Way Out of a Sustainability Problem
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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020. The “Really Check:” Fostering Accountability with Jess Birken & Meghan Heitkamp
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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019. Fit for Purpose: Designing Legal Services To Meet Client Needs
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May 30, 2024 |
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018. Understanding "Jobs To Be Done" to Unlock Hidden Client Needs
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May 23, 2024 |
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017. How Minimum Viable Products Can Improve Efficiency AND Quality
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May 16, 2024 |
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016. Aligning Your Firm's People and Systems with Tim Lennon
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May 09, 2024 |
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015. Mastering Effective Handoffs in Your Legal Practice
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May 02, 2024 |
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014. How to Prioritize Work Within Your Law Practice
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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013. Taming Email Overwhelm
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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012. Principles for Legal Design with Alexandra Devendra
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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011. The Definition of Done
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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010. Make Policies Explicit
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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009. Focus on Quality To Improve Efficiency
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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007. Don’t Let Efficiency Destroy Customer Value
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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006. What Clients Really Want from Lawyers
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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005. Close the Closable: Finding Balance in Your Caseload
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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004. Kanban Board Essentials for Lawyers
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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003. Finding and Fixing Bottlenecks to Drive Law Practice Efficiency
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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002. The Honest Reckoning with Capacity
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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001. Four Agile Principles to Help Your Legal Practice
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Start Here: Build a Practice That is Profitable, Scalable, and Sustainable
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Voice of the Client: Jason
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Voice of the Client: Dennis
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Voice of the Client: Amy
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Voice of the Client: Angel
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Voice of the Client: Lynn
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Jun 10, 2021 |