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Win Your Case at Voir Dire, with Todd Schafer
A jury once told Todd Schafer that they had decided the case in his favor before he stood up for opening statement. Why? Todd pulls back the curtain on his success with picking juries in this conversation with hosts Ben Gideo...
Recent Episodes
March 9, 2026
Win Your Case at Voir Dire, with Todd Schafer
A jury once told Todd Schafer that they had decided the case in his favor before he stood up for opening statement. Why? Todd pulls back the curtain on his success with picking juries in this conversation with hosts Ben Gideo...
Feb. 23, 2026
Trial Excellence and Effecting Change, with Shanin Specter
Shanin Specter ’s $25 million verdict against Boeing last November is just one example of his approach to tort: It’s not just about compensation and deterrence. It’s also about sharing important public information. The son of...
Feb. 9, 2026
View from a Former JAG: Our “National Emergency,” with Margaret Donovan
A former JAG officer and federal prosecutor, Margaret Donovan is now an associate at Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder and proud to promote her firm’s work suing the administration – including in this conversation with hosts Rahul ...
Jan. 26, 2026
Big Law IP Strategy and Activism, with Neel Chatterjee
From running a radio station in undergraduate school to running an “IP litigation ambulance” as a young lawyer to running a platform that fights the Trump administration’s attacks on law firms, Neel Chatterjee has had a remar...
Dec. 22, 2025
Try Good Cases, Be Great Teammates, with Pat Salvi II
The list of wins is long: $363 million on a toxics exposure case; $148 million on a paralysis case, $79 million on a police pursuit case; $75 on a brain injury case. But the philosophy at Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard is short:...
Dec. 8, 2025
Gideon Asen Record $25M Med-Mal Verdict, with Ben Gideon and Meryl Poulin
In med-mal cases, the defense often argues that a defendant couldn’t have anticipated a patient’s unusual problem. When a 15-year-old girl died from complications of undiagnosed lymphoma, the plaintiff’s team turned that argu...
Nov. 24, 2025
“Best Of” 2025: A Visit with Inner Circle Legend Charla Aldous
Earlier this year, hosts Ben Gideon and Rahul Ravipudi welcomed a “force of nature” to “Elawvate.” She’s also known as Charla Aldous , founder of Aldous Law . The episode remains one of the podcast’s most popular conversation...
Nov. 10, 2025
Truths about Leaving a Firm, with 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...
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Benjamin R. Gideon
Partner, Gideon Asen LLC
Rahul Ravipudi
Partner, Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP
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