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Sept. 29, 2025

AI that Helps You Work Smarter for Clients, with Will Davis and Ed Kirk

“Occasionally, we will introduce our listeners to a new product that's designed to help trial lawyers do a better job for their clients and their practices,” host Ben Gideon explains as he kicks off this episode about Supio ,...
Sept. 26, 2025

Do You Have a Vision or a Pipe Dream?, with Ben Gideon

Here’s what a vision is not : a pipe dream or a Christmas wish list. Here’s what it is: a big, audacious goal that’s worthy of your time and energy. Ben Gideon lays out this critical difference by unpacking his own vision for...
Sept. 15, 2025

Winning $27.7 Million from Conservative Jurors, with John Heenan

“It is not easy to get substantial damage awards from Montana jurors,” says John Heenan of Billings-based Heenan & Cook . Yet conservative Montana jurors awarded $27.7 million in his negligence case against a private prison c...
Sept. 12, 2025

The Art of Decision-Making, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright

Every business succeeds or fails based on decisions: making good ones and recovering from bad ones. “Sounds like a pretty rudimentary concept,” says Gideon Asen founder Ben Gideon . To break down that concept, Ben and firm CO...
Sept. 1, 2025

Defense Timelines vs. Medical Truth w/ Chris Nace & Samantha Peters

Medical records meticulously documented the routine endoscopy that went wrong, ending tragically in the patient’s death. But when Chris Nace and Samantha Peters took the case to trial, they were confronted with the defense’s ...
Aug. 29, 2025

From Silicon Valley to Legal AI Startup, with Jerry Zhou

Jerry Zhou and childhood friend Kyle Lam had vast skills in software development by the time Covid hit and they left Microsoft. That’s when they sat down at a Starbucks and wrote “all the ideas that we had about things that w...
Aug. 18, 2025

How Bad Faith Turned $1M into $56M, with Rahul Ravipudi

The jiu-jitsu club had a $1 million insurance policy, but when an instructor accidentally rendered a new student an incomplete quadriplegic, the carrier put its interest above their own insured’s – and paid the price. Rahul R...
Aug. 15, 2025

Leaving a Law Firm to Start Your Own w/ Ben Gideon & Jeff Wright

"Anybody who tells you that leaving a law firm is an easy process is lying to you," says Ben Gideon . To lay out the unvarnished truth, Ben shares his experience leaving a 17-year partnership to launch Gideon Asen . In a conv...