Episodes
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. 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. 6, 2025
Special Preview: Decoding EOS to Scale Your Law Firm
Elawvate’s “Build & Grow Your Law Firm” podcast devotes its third episode to EOS, or “entrepreneurial operating system.” Your guide is Megan Piper , a certified EOS implementer who coaches clients along their journey from “ch...
Aug. 1, 2025
What Trial Risks Are You Willing to Take?, with Tara Eberly and Ken Suggs
Ken Suggs recalls the time when he “chickened out” rather than go ahead with his experiment that involved dropping a box of typewriting paper on a steel box to show the crash worthiness of a car. He lost that case. “I've got ...
July 24, 2025
Special Preview: “Build & Grow Your Law Firm” Unpacks Starting vs. Growing a Firm
Building a law firm and building a law firm designed for growth: Often mistaken. Very different. Tune in to the second episode of Elawvate’s “Build & Grow Your Law Firm” podcast to understand the difference. Your guides are B...
July 21, 2025
Jujitsu Tactics in the Courtroom, with Dennis Donnelly
Described by host Ben Gideon as “the Brazilian jujitsu of trial lawyers,” Dennis Donnelly shares his insights from 44 years in practice. “I don't know about all of you, but I try a lot of cases, and usually somewhere in the t...
July 11, 2025
Special Preview: Welcome to Elawvate: Build & Grow Your Law Firm
For four years, you’ve tuned in to Elawvate, the podcast where “personal growth meets the practice of trial law.” Now, host Ben Gideon invites you to a special preview of Elawvate’s new “Build & Grow Your Law Firm” podcast, w...
July 7, 2025
Winning $7.6M for Wrongfully Imprisoned Client, with David Lebowitz, Doug Lieb, and Alyssa Isidoridy
When police officers intentionally falsify evidence to arrest someone they believe is guilty, it’s usually "an ends-justify-the-means approach," says Doug Lieb . He and trial partners David Lebowitz and Alyssa Isidoridy chall...
June 23, 2025
Inside A Med-Mal Master’s Nine-Figure Playbook, with Brian McKeen
"It's not rocket science," says Brian McKeen about trial advocacy. His record-breaking verdicts may suggest otherwise. The Detroit med-mal virtuoso shares with hosts Ben Gideon and Rahul Ravipudi how he transformed from a spo...
June 9, 2025
From Milking Cows to Making Insurance Companies Pay, with Ricardo Echeverria
In a personal injury case, the plaintiff’s lawyer must rely on witnesses to perform. In a bad-faith case, their job is educating the jury about the rules that insurance companies must follow. That’s how Ricardo Echeverria des...
May 26, 2025
Turning Clinical Judgment Against the Defense: $11.9M Win, with Karen Zahka and Austin Dana
When FDA guidelines failed their client, trial partners Austin Dana and Karen Zahka flipped the script by arguing for clinical judgment, typically a defense position. Hospitalized with an epileptic seizure at age 13, their cl...
May 12, 2025
Chasing Justice, Not Ambulances: The Garmey Family Story, with Terry Garmey and Alexis Garmey Chardon
Spare Terry Garmey the old joke about ambulance chasers. “I'm defensive about being a plaintiff's lawyer. I like what I do,” says one of Maine's most respected plaintiff's lawyers. His daughter Alexis Garmey Chardon , who lef...
April 28, 2025
Could AI Find What Your Opposition Is Desperately Hiding? with Darryl Williams
"AI knows what absolute truth is," says Darryl Williams , whose military career solving "strategic surprise" led him to create algorithms that dive deeper than conventional AI. Speaking with host Ben Gideon , Darryl explains ...
April 14, 2025
"Find Your Isiah Thomas People" to Accomplish Greatness, with Kimball Jones
"Attach yourself to the right people. Anything great that you ever accomplish is almost certainly accomplished by a team," says Kimball Jones , who's on an incredible winning streak with verdicts of $550 million, $105 million...
March 31, 2025
Never Get Blindsided Again: Affordable Focus Group Tactics, with Elizabeth Larrick
Trial lawyer and consultant Elizabeth Larrick brings her expertise on focus groups to hosts Ben Gideon and Rahul Ravipudi . With experience conducting over 1,000 focus groups, the founder of the Trial Lawyer Prep Podcast expl...
March 17, 2025
Spot Bad Jurors Before They Kill Your Case, with Brad Cosgrove
When Brad Cosgrove got the case of a woman who died during elective cosmetic surgery, his first thought was, “Is this rare?” During his investigation, he discovered that the plastic surgeon had been linked to other deaths but...
March 2, 2025
Debating the Pros and Cons of Big Data, with Josh Koskoff and John Campbell
Big data doesn’t stymie a lawyer’s creativity in the courtroom; it actually informs smart decisions. So argues John Campbell , who co-authored “Jury Ball: The Big Data Revolution Is Here” with his wife, Alicia, and Sean Clagg...
Feb. 16, 2025
Training Lawyers for the Most Challenging Stage: The Courtroom, with Jesse Wilson
“I say the theater is a safe place to be dangerous. I firmly believe that the courtroom is a dangerous place to be safe.” That’s why Jesse Wilson teaches lawyers and witnesses how to be dangerous in the courtroom. A Juilliard...
Feb. 2, 2025
Getting Bad Jurors to Strike Themselves, with the Farah & Farah Problem-Solvers
Frank Fratello used to consider money an “evil secret” in jury selection. Then he got a $2.5 million verdict. Fresh off the red-eye to Florida, Frank told his trial partner David Thompson about a strategy he’d learned days be...
Jan. 19, 2025
Mastering the Art of Unpredictable Moves: Charla Aldous' Unconventional Courtroom Tactics
Hosts Ben Gideon and Rahul Ravipudi invite trial lawyer Charla Aldous for a conversation about her distinguished career. Sharing stories that range from amusing to poignant, she recalls making corporate defendants wither and ...
Dec. 2, 2024
A Legacy of Taking on Big Tobacco and Other Villains and Making a Difference with Scott Schlesinger
Scott Schlesinger has known what it means to be a trial lawyer from his earliest days, growing up in the shadow of his father, legendary Florida trial lawyer Shelly Schlesinger. Scott talks about how the lessons and values h...
Nov. 18, 2024
Record-Breaking Results for Victims of Sexual Assault, with Spencer Lucas
Join Ben and Rahul for a conversation with Spencer Lucas, Partner at Panish Shea Ravipudi, in which Spencer talks about his recent $135 million verdict on behalf of two victims of sexual assault by a teacher at a public schoo...
Nov. 4, 2024
The Critical Role of Experts in Plaintiff’s Cases and Beyond with Expert Institute Founder and CEO Michael Talve
Join Ben and Rahul for their conversation with Michael Talve, Founder and CEO of Expert Institute, a nation-wide expert search and research firm. Michael talks about how he stared the business in his apartment with a few fri...
Oct. 21, 2024
From Public Speaking to Winning Trial Lawyer with Robert Glassman
From a young age, Robert Glassman worked hard to perfect his abilities as a public speaker. When he was in high school, his parents enrolled him in a Dale Carnegie program to develop confidence speaking in front of strangers...