Elawvate: The Trial Lawyer Podcast

Join us for a discussion of digital marketing for trial lawyers with attorney and digital marketing guru, Seth Price.  Learn how Seth used his experience building a successful law firm using digital marketing, and then started a  digital marketing firm to help other law firms do the same.  In this episode, we discuss what works and doesn't work for trial lawyer marketing, pitfalls that lawyers fal...

What you Will Learn In this episode, Josh begins by discussing how his legacy growing up in a family of prominent trial lawyers shaped his outlook on the role of a lawyer and his own personal journey to becoming a successful trial lawyer.  Josh discusses what he learned from his father and grandfather, and what he needed to unlearn  to find his own unique style.  Josh describes how he struggled ea...

Perhaps no individual plaintiff’s lawyer can claim to have had a larger impact on the trial bar than Don Keenan (( https://www.keenanlawfirm.com/ ).  Not only has Keenan been involved in hundreds of successful jury trials and handled cases in 47 states, but with his book, The Reptile (co-authored with jury consultant, David Ball), Reptile organization (now the Edge and Keenan Trial Institute), Kee...

The episode begins with a discussion of how Pat went from graduating Yale Law School to becoming one of the nation's leading medical malpractice plaintiff's trial lawyers.  Pat talks about how he started as a newspaper reporter covering malpractice trials, and was drawn to this field even  before attending law school.  Pat talks about what drew him to medical malpractice cases, why these cases  ar...

Sonia discusses the  evolution of jury consulting to trial consultants and, finally, to litigation consulting.  Part of that evolution is the constant balancing of the science and the art of human psychology and social psychology.  The science is through training -- Sonia's training is as a Ph. D psychologist with an emphasis in  litigation.  The art is the constant exposure to prospective jurors...

What you will learn from this episode. Bob talks about the importance of the trial culture in Southern Florida during his time as a young lawyer.   After working a brief time as an insurance defense lawyer, Bob met the famous trial lawyer  Sheldon ("Shelly") Schlesinger and went to work at Shelly's firm.  There, Bob observed Shelly's unmatched trial skills and unique domineering style.  Bob talks...

What you will learn .  Our show begins with Karen discussing the breaking news of the verdict in the Chauvin murder trial (we taped the show the morning after the jury reached its guilty verdict).  Karen discusses the cognitive dissonance she feels as a criminal defense attorney, believing that the jury reached a correct and just verdict but describing the awkward tension being a defense attorney...

In this Second Episode of the Elawvate Podcast, Rahul ( Rahul Ravipudi (psblaw.com)  and Ben ( Ben Gideon | Gideon Asen LLC) spend time with a trailblazer, Kalpana Srinivasan.   Part of being a successful trial lawyer is consistently making the right decisions.  While that is easier said than done, Kalpana has done that her whole career.  After graduating from Stanford Law School and receiving off...

Episode 01 - Success Starts from Within with Rick Friedman You don’t want to miss the Elawvate interview of Rick Friedman, one of America’s pre-eminent plaintiff trial lawyers and teachers.  In this episode Ben ( Ben Gideon | Gideon Asen LLC)  and Rahul (( Rahul Ravipudi (psblaw.com) ) talk to Rick about his latest book, The Way of the Trial Lawyer: Beyond Technique  (published by TrialGuides and...

In this brief trailer, Ben Gideon and Rahul Ravipudi talk about what motivated them to launch this podcast and their goals and expectations for the show.