Episodes

Attorney compensation is today's topic, and Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright pull back the curtain on a structure most law firms don't use. When Ben and his partner Taylor founded Gideon Asen, they made a conscious decision never to create a path to equity partnership. Ben explains the "agency cost" problem that sets in once ownership gets too diffuse, then walks through their first bonus system's costly failure — arbitrary payouts that bred resentment instead of goodwill. Jeff and Ben unpack the curr...