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The 80/20 Principle — 326 episodes

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326: Perplexity for Lawyers: AI Research With Sources

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325: Copilot Doubt To Power

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324: Why I switched from ChatGPT to Claude

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323: Revolutionize Your Law Practice with AI and Flat Fees

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322: Scaling Smarter: EOS Strategies for Law Firm Growth

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321: Stealth Recording -a Smart Move or Dangerous Ethics Problem?

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320: AI in Legal Decision-Making: The Dawn of a New Era

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319: Gavel Exec: AI Copilot for Legal Drafting

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318: AI is a consensus machine (and here's why that's good for some lawyers)

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317: AI, ClioCon, and the Future of Law: What Lawyers Need to Know Now

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316: Inside the Smartphone-Powered Law Firm (with Elise Buie)

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315: Email is the Most Under-leveraged Marketing Channel for Lawyers (with Tyler Cook)

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314: Why law firm SOP manuals are now obsolete (because of AI)

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313: The New Rules of SEO for Lawyers in the Age of AI (with Megan Hargroder)

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312: The Release of GPT-5 and How to Escape the Vortex of Bad Information

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311: Protecting Client Data in the Age of AI

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310: The Power of Direct Mail for Lawyers: Insights from Wilson Zehr

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309: Tech-Driven Insights from Solo Lawyer Lee Rudin

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308: Mastering AI: A Lawyer's Guide to ChatGPT

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307: Wisper Flow: The AI Assistant You Didn't Know You Needed

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306: Revamping Legal Research - The AI Advantage for Solo & Small Firms

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305: Improve Your Memory using Proven Techniques (with Anthony Metivier)

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304: Subscription Pricing for Transactional Lawyers (with Mathew Kerbis)

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303: From Russia with Passion & Drive - Miami attorney Ilona Anderson

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302: Photographic Memory: A Skill You Didn't Know You Had

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301: Stop Losing Billable Hours: How AI Simplifies Time-Keeping & Billing for Lawyers

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300: Leveraging AI by Balancing Critical & Creative Thinking

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299: The Future of Legal Work: What Lawyers Need to Know in 2025

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298: Thinking Like a Philosopher: Jonny Thomson on Truth, AI, and the Socratic Method

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297: A Year of Remote Lawyering: How Jeff Austin Took His Practice to Patagonia

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296: Mastering Your Zoom Presence: Tips for Looking Professional Online

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295: Deb Feder, a Business Attorney Now Helps Professionals Grow Their Businesses

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294: Google NotebookLM (plus AI in the Courtroom)

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293: Want to Travel the World While Practicing Law? Here's How Brian Dixon Made It Happen

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292: The Keys to AI-enhanced Legal Writing (with Ross Guberman)

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291: Judge Scott Schlegel Explores the Use of AI in the Court System

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290: 3 Keys to a Smooth Running Practice

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289: The Best AI Note-Taking App for Lawyers

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288: ABA Ethics Opinion on Lawyers use of AI

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287: Social Media Marketing: 5 Pro Tips for Lawyers

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286: Online Workspaces for Modern Law Work

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285: 6 Key Systems for Lawyers (with Kristen David)

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284: Get Better Clients Using Conversational Emails

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283: Finding & Working with Overseas VAs (with Gabriel Marous)

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282: Sensible & Satisfying Productivity (with David Sparks)

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281: The 5 Biggest Mistakes in Using Technology (and How to Avoid Them)

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280: Update on Generative AI Chatbots & How Lawyers Can Use Them Safely

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279: LinkedIn Networking: How to "Work the Room"

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278: How to Get More Out of Podcasts You Listen to (Snipd)

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277: Traction Business Coaching for Law Firms (w/ Kellam Parks)

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276: Privacy vs Security: Top Tips to Avoid Hackers

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275: Frictionless Scheduling (with Calendly, etc.)

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274: The Year of Ninja Lawyering

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273: Digital Nomadism - Part 2 (with Megan Hargroder)

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272: Legal Malpractice Insurance Made Easy

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271: Automating Documents & Productizing Your Services (with Dorna Moini)

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270: Build a Successful Law Firm and Run it While Living in Europe

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269: Master of Tech, Deficient in Delegation (Interview with lawyer Brandon Siegal)

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268: Modern Note-Taking for Lawyers with Obsidian

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267: Getting The Most out of Microsoft 365 - Part 2

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266: Getting The Most out of Microsoft 365 - Part 1

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265: Digital Nomadism for Lawyers (with Megan Hargroder)

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264: The Legal Singularity - How A.I. will Improve Our Profession (with Ben Alarie)

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263: New Tech Effectiveness Assessment for Lawyers

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262: Essential Tech Tools & Tips (with Adriana Linares)

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261: Overture.law - An Innovative New Way of Getting & Making Referrals

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260: Technology vs. Natural Growth

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259: A Celebrity Actor Shares Law Practice Insights (Surprise Guest)

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258: Streamlining Operations using Agile Methodology (John Grant)

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257: Using Airtable Databases to Help Run a Small Law Firm (Jess Birken)

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256: Get Staffed Up with Remote Workers in Latin America (Guest: Brett Trembly)

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255: A Practicing Lawyer's Perspective on ChatGPT (Enrico Schaefer)

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254: Gumbo, ChatGPT & Systems (with Matt Granda)

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253: Hiring & Working with Overseas VAs (with Joey Vitale)

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252: Building Accountability Charts & Tracking Portals (with Melissa Shanahan)

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251: The Future of Lawyer Work is Here

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250: Modern Systems for Virtual Law Practice - Part 2

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249: Modern Systems for Virtual Law Practice - Part 1

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248: GPT-4 is Here - Lawyers Beware

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247: Productize Your Legal Services

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246: Cybersecurity for Law Firms

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245: How to run a new law practice without any prior business skills (with Chris Earley)

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244: Interesting Questions about Law Practice Management

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243: How the 80/20 Rule Helps Practicing Attorneys (with Patrick Slaughter)

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242: Lawyer Burnout & How to Avoid or Resolve it

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241: A Retrospective of Tech Adoption by Lawyers (Interview with Monty McIntyre)

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240: Interview with Nashville solo lawyer Brian Payne

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239: A.I. Powered Note-Taking for Lawyers (with Otter.ai)

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238: Revenue & Expense Tracking Insights (with Melissa Shanahan)

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237: Multi-Disciplinary Thinking for Lawyers

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236: 80/20 Data Insights for Lawyers ("Moneyball")

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235: Is the 80/20 rule too good to be true?

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234: Marketing with Authenticity - Part 2

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233: Marketing with Authenticity

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232: Speed Learning (a 80/20 leverage tactic)

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231: Using 80-20 Leverage in Your Law Practice

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230: It's Not Just About Money

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229: Crowdsourcing Lawyer Insights & Perspectives

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228: Law Practice Management 101

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227: Polishing Witness Testimony (with Elizabeth Larrick)

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226: Clarity, Systems & Creativity

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225: The Brilliant Tyrant

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224: PDF Bookmarks for Lawyers

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223: PDF e-Briefs for Lawyers

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222: PDF Security for Lawyers

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221: Digital Signatures for Lawyers (PDF Skills Pt. 2)

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220: PDF Essential Skills for Lawyers

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Join the Inner Circle

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218: How to Have An Amazing Social Media Profile

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217: How to Sell Your Law Practice (with Patrick Slaughter)

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216: A Better Way to Collect Documents from Clients & Other People

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215: Cyber Security for Small Law Firms (with Tom Lambotte)

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214: How to Build An Audience to Better Market Your Law Practice

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213: Case Study: Effective Marketing for Small Law Firms (with attorney Radlyn Mendoza)

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212: The South Indian Monkey Trap (also ensnares lawyers)

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211: Performing Autopsies (useful advice for lawyers)

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210: Contrived Enthusiasm (Bad Lawyer Marketing)

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209: Build Trust More Effectively

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208: My Cousin Vinny - a Practice Guide for Lawyers?

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207: The Best Way To Systematize Your Practice

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206: Exceptional Client Service (with John Strohmeyer)

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205: Modern Legal Ethics (with Dane Ciolino)

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204: Digital Workflow Fundamentals

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203: Paperless Law Practice - Common Questions

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202: Fundamental Questions (for the modern lawyer)

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201: Toxic Clients - Part 2

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200: Getting Rid of Bad Clients

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199: The Ultimate KPI (the most important thing to measure in managing your practice)

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198: How to Take a 1 Month Vacation (Interview with Andrew Legrand)

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197: Say No to More Things So You Can Focus on What Matters Most

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196: Best Practices for Adopting New Technology

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195: The 2 Levels of Knowledge (Physicist & Chauffeur)

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194 - Effective Information Processing for Lawyers

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193 - The 3 Keys to Successful Delegation

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192: Be Your Own Gatekeeper

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191: Invisible Fences

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190: Text Automation for Lawyers (with TextExpander)

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189: How to Create and Effectively Market a Flat Fee Offer

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188: The '5 Whys' is a Powerful Problem Solving Tool

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187: Automated Scheduling

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186: Everything is Figureoutable (including how to create your dream practice)

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185: Don't Do This (The Secret to More Effective Marketing)

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184: My Well-Kept Secret (with Megan Hargroder)

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183: Your Best Marketing Focus for 2022 (with Megan Hargroder)

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182: What to Focus on in 2022 to Transform Your Practice

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181: Funny Online CLE programs (with Joel Oster)

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180: Paperless Lawyering Questions from Attorney Joe O'Keefe

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179: Mental Models - Part 2

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178: Mental Models (Charlie Munger)

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177: Building a Better Biography (with Megan Hargroder)

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176: Make Knowledge Work More Visible

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175: Make it Personal

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174: Mental Trauma & Stress

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173: Reading Jurors' Minds (with Elizabeth Larrick)

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172: Review of The Law+Tech Evolution (with Denise Howell)

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171: Virtual Executive Assistants (with Valerie Trapunsky)

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170: Effective Decision-Making for Lawyers

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169: Self Sufficiency

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168: The New Law Business Model (with Ali Katz)

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167: Crisis Management for Lawyers

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166: Q&A: Advice to a New Lawyer

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165: Flat Fee Billing & Other Alternatives (with Kristin Tyler)

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164: Being a Mom While Creating Law Practice (with Kim Felton)

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163: Visualizing Workflows using Kanban Boards (with John Grant)

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162: Your Personal Brand (with Mike Kim)

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161: Managing Clients

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160: Kaizen for Lawyers

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159: PKM for Lawyers

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158: Persuasive writing for lawyers

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157: Spotlight: Immigration Lawyer Bin Xia Zhang

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156: Security for Lawyers - Part 2

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155: Getting Buy In

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154: Security for Lawyers

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153: Creativity for Lawyers

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152: Naked Emperors

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151: Start a New Firm (with Joe Emmerth)

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150: Easy is Hard

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149: Crazy Talk

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148: No Goals Heresy (with Melissa Shanahan)

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147: 21 Essential Books

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146: Invisible Threats - Optimal Action

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145: Cobwebs to Cables

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144: Turtle Steps - Velocity Work

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143: Contrarian Insights

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142: Legal Writing Powered by A.I. (with Ross Guberman)

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141: Essential Software

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140: Morning Pages

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139: Information Sherpas

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138: Megatrends for Lawyers

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137: Reflections on Systematizing Your Law Firm (with Kerry Wallis)

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136: Subscription Outsourcing of Legal Work (with Kristin Tyler)

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135: Persuasion & Polarization

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134: Be a Better Lawyer (wtih Dina Cataldo)

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133: SWOT Analysis

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132: Update: Paperless Lawyering

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131: A Tool for Documenting Systems

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130: Trust Your Intuition

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129: Cranking The Gears of Your Business

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128: Subscription pricing with Dan Lear

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127: Accountability Drives Growth (with Melissa Shanahan)

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126: Online reviews with Andy Stickel

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125: Case Study - Attorney Pete Clancy

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124: Low-Cost Outsourcing

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123: E-Discovery Opportunities

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122: The Tax Terminator

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121: Mind Over Law

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120: People Over Technology

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119: How Small Things Make a Big Difference

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118: How to Get Free Advertising Online

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117: Frameworks, Tags & Two Important Books

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116: Zooming out

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115: Chatbots are helpful

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114: Systems Building with Attorney Jeff Lewis

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113: Evernote for Lawyers (with David Ward)

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112: Digital Evidence

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111: Amazing transcription tool (and more…)

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110: Information Anxiety

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109: Improving Your "Knowledge Factory"

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108: Email can be fun (or at least productive)

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107: Managing Information in an Age of Digital Disruption

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106: The power of just six words

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105: Work Smarter, Not Harder

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104: Ruminations on Good Marketing

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103: Practicing while blind

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102: Get referrals without asking

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101: Overcoming barriers to getting what you want

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100: Getting help to get what you want

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099: Get What You Truly Want

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098: Essential Search Skills

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097: Specialized search tools for lawyers

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096: Envisioning your ideal life & practice

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095: Let's work on your practice together, now!

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094: Marketing in a Time of Pandemics with Conrad Saam

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093: How Lawyers Can Future Proof Their Practices

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092: Coping with Disaster By Having a Mobile Practice - Tips from Elise Buie

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091: Disaster Response - Pandemic Edition

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090: How a California business lawyer leverages tech with David Sparks

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089: Financial Reporting in Your Law Firm with Amanda Aguillard

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088: Effective Marketing with Mark Homer

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087: Personal Branding with Mike Kim

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086: Referrals by Email, Pt 2 with Erica Pero

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085: Top Tech Recommendations for a Better Practice

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084: Charming Scoundrels

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083: Tradeoff Calculations

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082: Trouble Creating Systems - Answering a lawyer's question

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081: Referral Marketing by Email (with John Rafferty)

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080: Smith.ai Virtual Receptionist's services are top-notch and low-cost

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079: Working ON your business

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078: The Twelve Automation Essentials

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077: Forbidden Keys to Persuasion

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076: Your MBA in Law Firm Management

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075: Two Important Things

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074: Solo attorney Todd Smith - Appellate Specialist

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073: Improve your law practice in 2020

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072: Attention to Automation

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071: Simplify Your Practice (to make it run smoother, and be more enjoyable)

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070: Transform your firm by working more ON your business

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069: Outsourced Lawyer Work with Kristin Tyler

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068: The Power of PDFs with Aaron Krigelski

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067: Accounting Essentials for Your Law Firm with Amanda Aguillard

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066: Speaking Authentically to Clients

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065: What's your vision for success?

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064: Backing up your law firm's data

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063: Effective Task & Project Management

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062: Improve Your Thinking, Improve Your Life

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061: How having a podcast can help you market better

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060: The Tech Whisperer Adriana Linares

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059: Legal Tech Consultant Tom Lambotte

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058: Learning How to Use Technology Better

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057: Text Automation Insights with Brett Burney

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056: Insights from savvy legal technology consultants with Chelsey Lambert

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055: Secrets of Successful Virtual Assistance with Trivinia Barber

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054: Business Coaching for Lawyers with Patrick Slaughter

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053: Practice Management Challenges with Jared Correia

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052: Website Chat Services

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051: SEO voodoo for online marketing with Megan Hargroder

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050: Why creating systems is hard and how to make it easier

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049: Reduce Costs, Save Time and Increase Productivity by using Document Management Software with Craig Bayer

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048: Patrick Slaughter's magic law practice

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047: Practice Management Software (with Jared Correia)

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046: Email Effectiveness

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045: Breaking Norms for Radical Efficiency

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044: Valuable Lessons from The Karate Kid

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043: Gathering Client Feedback & Testimonials

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Episode 42: Joining a Mastermind

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Episode 41: How to Attract Great Clients

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Episode 40: Overview of Strategic Marketing Principles

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Episode 39: The 80/20 Principle

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Episode 38: Story-Based Marketing & Communications

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Episode 37: Visual Persuasion

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Episode 36: New Orleans & Mardi Gras

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Episode 35: The Easy Fast Action Way to Get New Clients

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Episode 34: Interview with Diana Stepleton

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Episode 33: Keys to Effective Outsourcing

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Episode 32: The 5 Levels of Delegation

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Episode 31: The Hidden Logic of Human Nature

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Episode 30: Automation - Keeping It In Perspective

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Episode 29: The Power of Systems

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Episode 28: The Importance of Vision and Goals

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Episode 27: Online Reputation & Review Services

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Episode 26: Collecting Client Feedback

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Episode 25: Effective Goal Setting

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Episode 24: The Power of Meditation

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Episode 23: Starting a New Law Firm

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Episode 22: Sensible Social Media

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Episode 21: How to Improve Your Reputation

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Episode 20: Perhaps My Competitors Can Help Your Practice

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Episode 19: Embrace Sensible Business Management, Not Artificial Intelligence

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Episode 18: Achieving Success Deliberately

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Episode 17: The Brutal Truth About Building Trust Online

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Episode 16: Creating Systems in a Law Firm

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Episode 15: Tech Advice You Should Avoid

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Episode 14: Securing Your Law Firm Data

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Episode 13: Digital File Organization

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Episode 12: Paperless Lawyering: Equipment & Software

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Episode 11: Paperless Practice

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Episode 10 - Delegation

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Episode 9 - Automation

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Episode 8: Use Systems To Make Your Practice Run Smoothly

320

Episode 7: Direct Response Marketing

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Episode 6: Referral Marketing is the Most Powerful Kind

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Episode 5: How to Market Your Practice (Basic Principles of Trust-Building)

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Episode 4: Finding Top-Notch Consultants

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Episode 3: Your Unique Vision of Success

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Episode 2: Your Law Firm "Success Plan"

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Episode 1: Building Your Dream Practice