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The Agile Attorney Podcast — 124 episodes
119. Making It Rain: How to Increase Client Flow in Your Law Firm with Robert Hartmann
118. Running Your Law Firm on Hard Mode? Simplify Capacity with the Tetris Strategy
117. The Bomb on the Bus: A Law Firm Productivity Problem with Clarke Ching
116. Low Productivity in Your Law Firm? Don't Blame the People
115. Spring Cleaning Your Law Practice: Managing Capacity, Catching Up, & Letting Go
114. The Case for Better Meetings: A Smarter Way to Move Legal Work Forward
113. Building a Practice That Lasts: Kanban, Credibility, and the Long Game with Jordan Couch
112. The Problem with Billable Hour Targets & What to Measure Instead with Radhika Dutt
111. The Core Patterns Behind an Agile Law Practice [Agile Lawyering Finale]
110. Why Every Legal Matter Needs a Strategy Plan [Agile Lawyering Part 10]
109. Creating Consistency in Law Firms Without Sacrificing Autonomy [Agile Lawyering Part 9]
108. The Client Journey Map: A Systems Tool for Better Client Experience and Law Firm Flow [Agile Lawyering Part 8]
107. Beyond Tracking Hours: The Law Firm Metrics That Improve Flow [Agile Lawyering Part 7]
106. Breaking the Cycle of Urgency in Law Firms [Agile Lawyering Part 6]
105. The Counterintuitive Solution to Getting More Work Done [Agile Lawyering Part 5]
104. Quality Standards for Law Firms: How to Make Expectations Explicit and Work Predictable [Agile Lawyering Part 4]
103. Bottlenecks in Law Firms: Fixing Flow Without Heroics [Agile Lawyering Part 3]
102. Build a Promise-Keeping Machine for Your Law Practice [Agile Lawyering Part 2]
101. First Principles: An Introduction to Agile Lawyering 101
Managing Capacity by Making Work Visible: Agile Lessons for Law Firms with Dimitri Ponomareff [Bonus]
The Fundamentals of Process Improvement with Joe Bockerstette [Bonus]
100. Why Agile Lawyering Matters & The Journey to 100 Episodes
099. Stop Random Acts of Marketing: Build an Intentional Strategy for Your Law Firm
098. What Law Firms Can Learn from Radical Product Thinking with Radhika Dutt
097. Creating Space Within Your Law Practice: Finding Momentum Without Overwhelm
096. An Agile Approach to Quality Legal Writing with Brendan Kenny & Neven Selimovic
095. Beyond Marketing: How Client Communication Builds Engagement and Improves Practice Flow with Strawberry Nevill
094. Alternative Intelligence for Lawyers: Empower Your Team Before Turning to AI
093. Legal Document Automation: Building Productized Legal Services with Laura Patton
092. Essential Skills to Build a Successful and Profitable Law Practice
091. Broken Systems, Not Bad People: How Blame Breaks Your Law Practice
090. Stop Writing Policies and Start Creating Working Agreements with Tim Lennon
089. The Four Ds of Productivity: Removing Bottlenecks & Managing Capacity
088. Why This Firm Stopped Chasing Clients- and Got More Done
087. Change Management for Law Firms: How to Engage Your Team from Day One
086. From Chaos to Consistency: Lessons from a Decade of Agile Lawyering with Jeff De Francisco
085. Make Work Visible: Using Kanban Boards To Manage Your Law Firm’s Capacity
084. Technical Debt in Law Firms: How Small Shortcuts Create Big Problems
083. Delivery Debt is as Bad as Financial Debt, and Your Law Practice May Be Drowning in It
082. The Best Way to Word Your Checklists
081. Task Engines in Law: Why Some Cases Sabotage Your Firm’s Productivity
080. AI for Legal Workflows: The Potential and the Pitfalls
079. Make Space Before September: A Call for Rest and Intention
078. Build Financial Clarity into Your Law Firm with CFO Danielle Hendon
077. The BEST System for Managing Legal Work: Kanban for Lawyers Part 3
076. How Scrum Lessons Can Improve Your Law Practice: Kanban for Lawyers Part 2
075. Legal Workflow Lessons from the Factory Floor: Kanban for Lawyers Part 1
074. Using Kanban to Manage Capacity
073. Don't Let Magical AI Thinking Cloud Your Sense of Capacity
072. The Hidden Dangers of Overcapacity
071. How Trauma Informed Lawyering Helps Avoid Burnout with Dr. Colin James
070. Profit First for Lawyers: A Conversation with RJon Robins
069. Document Automation Secrets for Small Law Firms with Quinten Steenhuis
068. Adaptability by Design: Building Law Practices That Respond to Change
067. AI & Legal Writing: How to Use It Effectively with Jonah Perlin
066. Build a Law Practice that Reflects Your Values, with Carolyn Elefant
065. Scale Your Practice with a Mesh Management Approach
064. The Dental Chair Theory of Lawyering
063. Legal Automation Pitfalls: Are You Meeting Client Needs?
062. Delegation Pitfalls: When Legal Work Goes Too Deep or Too Wide
061. Delivering Your Legal Work: Direct Flight or Long Layover?
059. Stop Billing and Start Pricing with Jonathan Stark
058. The Key to Happier Lawyering with Brita Long
057. Is Your Engagement Agreement Scaring Your Clients?
056. Less Is More: Why WIP Limits Boost Legal Productivity
055. Fixing the Client Homework Bottleneck
054. Action without Action with Tim Lennon
053. Time Management Strategies You Need: Calendar Blocking and Calendar Bucketing
052. Making Daily Standups Work in Your Law Practice
051. Matter Management Meetings Suck. Do This Instead.
050. Flat Fee Pricing for Lawyers with Elise Buie and Emery Wager
049. Lessons from Old Hollywood: Why Flat-Fee Legal Work Is Nothing New
048. The Obvious Switch to Value Pricing with Jonathan Stark
047. How Kanban Creates Capacity Liquidity in Your Law Firm with Richard Hoare
046. Improving Legal Workflows without New Technology
045. Agile Access to Justice, Leveraging Process Improvement to Serve the Underserved
044. Kanban Made Easy: A Lawyer's Guide to Visual Task Management
043. The Right Way to Incentivize Your Team
042. Ditch Effective Hourly Rates: How to Calculate Matter-Level Profit
040. Legal Workflow Management and Matter Management Are Not the Same Thing
039. Productive With Dollar Signs, with Clarke Ching
038. Delivering Effective Feedback to Legal Teams
037. Putting the ‘Flow’ Back into Workflow
036. What To Do When I’m the Bottleneck with Melissa Shanahan and Ben Hudson
035. Two Heads Are Better: How Coworking Sessions Can Improve Law Firm Efficiency
034. Short-Term Efficiency Can Hurt Long-Term Goals
033. Connecting with Your Clients’ "Why"
032. Organize Your Law Practice for Business Success with Michael Clarke
031. Tech Improvement Should Be Step 3. Don’t Skip Steps 1 & 2.
030. From Solo to CEO: Lessons in Building a People-First Law Firm with Justie Nicol
029. Getting Team Buy-in for Change
028. 3 Signs Your Law Practice Is Over Capacity
027. The Advantages of a First-In, First-Out Policy
026. Start with What You Do Now
025. Following Your Law Firm Strategic Plan with Melissa Shanahan
024. Sticking with Change When Change Gets Hard
023. Roots of the Lawyer Shortage
022. How to Write Effective Law Firm Policies
021. You Can't Scale Your Way Out of a Sustainability Problem
020. The “Really Check:” Fostering Accountability with Jess Birken & Meghan Heitkamp
019. Fit for Purpose: Designing Legal Services To Meet Client Needs
018. Understanding "Jobs To Be Done" to Unlock Hidden Client Needs
017. How Minimum Viable Products Can Improve Efficiency AND Quality
016. Aligning Your Firm's People and Systems with Tim Lennon
015. Mastering Effective Handoffs in Your Legal Practice
014. How to Prioritize Work Within Your Law Practice
013. Taming Email Overwhelm
012. Principles for Legal Design with Alexandra Devendra
011. The Definition of Done
010. Make Policies Explicit
009. Focus on Quality To Improve Efficiency
007. Don’t Let Efficiency Destroy Customer Value
006. What Clients Really Want from Lawyers
005. Close the Closable: Finding Balance in Your Caseload
004. Kanban Board Essentials for Lawyers
003. Finding and Fixing Bottlenecks to Drive Law Practice Efficiency
002. The Honest Reckoning with Capacity
001. Four Agile Principles to Help Your Legal Practice
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