Legal Talk Network

As the new year approaches, you may be re-evaluating your priorities and searching for a better balance. This popular archive episode offers a few ideas that can help you restructure your day, reduce your stress and keep your batteries charged. Resolve to tune in and take charge of your day in a better way.

You work so hard every day in your firm to build a more profitable practice. But then you take a look at the numbers, and wonder why there isn’t much income left at the end of the day for you.

Budgets can feel overwhelming. We create them to help us stay on target, but feel like money is being spent everywhere – how is it really contributing to your bottom line?

In this episode, I speak with Brooke Lively, Founder of Cathedral Capital, to talk about why budgets suck, and how to run a more profitable business.

Cathedral Capital is a company made up of a team of CFO’s and Profitability Strategists who help entrepreneurs turn their businesses into profitable companies. Brooke is a highly regarded international speaker and author.

With expertise in growth management, creative problem solving and profitability strategy, Brooke has been featured in international media including Forbes, CNBC, and US News and World Report.

When designing your firm’s website or marketing materials, it can be overwhelming to want to ‘get it right’.

Oftentimes, we forget that design has many iterations, and that the first draft of anything we create is rarely the final version.

So, when it comes to your service design, are you designing assets with your clients in mind? Are you studying and taking into account how your potential clients are searching for and finding you?

This week on the show, I spoke with Sérgio Taveres, who has a PhD in Culture and Technology, and works at the Helsinki studio of lead design agency Frog. He approaches strategy and foresight with design techniques.

So many young lawyers and recent grads are hungry to earn a law clerk position. As prefaced in the ‘Law Clerk Handbook’ by Judge Alvin B. Rubin and his clerk Laura B. Bartell, “the partnership between a federal judge and the judge’s clerk can be a splendid and mutually rewarding relationship”. Host Dave Scriven-Young sits down with Judge Joan Lefkow of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and her former law clerk Gerard Belfort now at Ballard Spahr. Together they discuss what law clerks do, recommendations for earning a clerkship, and tips for litigators in front of the court.

Stay tuned for Darryl Wilson’s litigation tips about conflicts of interest.

Sonia Russo is joined by Shawn Hoover (a first chair trial attorney with the Georgia Capital Public Defenders), Anthony Santos (a deputy district attorney in Jefferson County, Colorado), and U.S. Army Major Earl Wilson (the chief of military justice at the first cavalry division at Fort Hood, Texas). Together, they deep dive into the criminal justice system from the perspective of lawyers of color.

We’re talking with Lab coach, Maryellen Stockton, today about what re-onboarding looks like in 2022 with going back to the office If today’s podcast resonates with you and you haven’t read The Small Firm Roadmap yet, ! Thanks to and for sponsoring this episode.

So many young lawyers and recent grads are hungry to earn a law clerk position. As prefaced in the ‘Law Clerk Handbook’ by Judge Alvin B. Rubin and his clerk Laura B. Bartell, “the partnership between a federal judge and the judge’s clerk can be a splendid and mutually rewarding relationship”. Host Dave Scriven-Young sits down with Judge Joan Lefkow of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and her former law clerk Gerard Belfort now at Ballard Spahr. Together they discuss what law clerks do, recommendations for earning a clerkship, and tips for litigators in front of the court.

Stay tuned for Darryl Wilson’s litigation tips about conflicts of interest.

We’re talking with co-founders of Lawyerist, Sam Glover & Aaron Street, about a new way to think through your exit strategy. If today’s podcast resonates with you and you haven’t read The Small Firm Roadmap yet, ! Thanks to , , and for sponsoring this episode.

We've made it through another year. Well, almost. We probably shouldn't start counting our bats and pangolins before they've hatched. Joe and Kathryn look back at the wild ride of 2021 and make some predictions about what 2022 holds. Also... it's that time of year to send in your Lawyer of the Year nominations.

Special thanks to our sponsors, Lexicon and Nota.

Podcast host Meg Steenburgh welcomes recent grad Shannon Knapp and fellow law students Sarah Roberts and Tiffany Love to get their perspectives on law school, legal practice, and life! They each discuss their unique student and real-world experiences—sharing the paths they’ve chosen to pursue, tips for self-care and motivation, and what has helped them handle the rigors of law school and entrance into the profession.

Shannon Knapp is a recent graduate of Syracuse University School of Law and an Associate Attorney at Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC in central New York. 

Sarah Roberts is an entrepreneur based in eastern Texas and a 2L at Syracuse University School of Law.

Tiffany Love is an Air Force spouse, civilian paralegal, and 3L at Syracuse University School of Law.

Thank you to our sponsor NBI.