The Agile Attorney Podcast

135. What Business Clients Want From Their Law Firms with Stephanie Corey (Voice of the Client)

What do business clients actually want from their law firms, beyond excellent legal work? For in-house legal teams managing tight budgets, growing workloads, and pressure

134. Why Your Law Practice Should Avoid Diving Catches & Other Heroics

Sometimes saving the day comes at a cost. After an unexpected problem forced me into a “diving catch” last week, I found myself dealing with the aftermath of pushing my c

133. How to Talk to Clients About AI [AI ROI Part 4]

Your clients are probably already using AI to ask questions about their legal matters. The question is no longer whether they will use these tools, but whether they will

132. When People Need Answers But Can’t Afford More Legal Help (Voice of the Client)

People do not stop needing answers when they can no longer afford legal help. They still have questions, still need to understand what is happening, and still need guidan

131. Why Overdue Tasks Keep Piling up in Your Law Practice

Overdue tasks are a frustrating reality for many law firms. But the problem is not always a lack of discipline or effort. Often, it is the way the system is designed to m

130. Law Firm Blueprint: How Jim Boatman Aligns Vision, Values, & Operations

A law firm’s vision and values only create real impact when they influence the decisions people make every day. Many firms have mission statements that live on a website

129. Legal Workflow Made Simple: Kanban Board Essentials for Lawyers

Kanban boards are one of the most effective tools for visualizing and managing work in a law practice. Whether you are juggling multiple matters, tracking client requests

128. The AI Brain Fry Problem: Why Productivity Tools Overwhelm Us [AI ROI Part 3]

AI tools promise productivity and efficiency, but many lawyers experience AI brain fry, a form of mental fatigue caused by working with AI in ways that outpace human perc

127. The Secret to Adapting Law Firms to AI with Marion Ehmann

AI is transforming the legal profession, but adopting new technology isn’t just about tools. It requires a mindset shift. Without structured approaches, lawyers can strug

126. Where Legal Quality Assurance Fails: Lessons from a Real Appellate Case [AI ROI Part 2]

Errors in legal work can have significant consequences, yet many law firms rely on quality assurance processes that are insufficient or misapplied. Even experienced teams

125. Pricing with Confidence: How Lawyers Can Capture the True Value of Their Work with Etinosa Agbonlahor

Pricing legal services is one of the most challenging aspects of running a law practice. Many lawyers rely on hourly billing or copy industry defaults without fully under

124. How to Fire a Client & Protect Your Law Firm’s Capacity

Deciding to end a client relationship is one of the most difficult choices a lawyer can make. Many attorneys feel obligated to continue working on a matter even when it c

123. Legal Ops, Legal Tech, & Litigation: How One Mindset Can Improve All Three with Justin McCallon

Lawyers often think of legal operations, legal technology, and legal practice as separate disciplines. But many of the same principles that improve a legal department, su

122. The AI Productivity Trap: What Lawyers Are Missing About ROI [AI ROI Part 1]

AI is being sold to lawyers as a productivity breakthrough, a way to eliminate tedious work, increase efficiency, and free up more time for higher-value thinking. But onc

121. Right Tool, Right Problem: Choosing Better Systems for Law Firm Operations with Robin Sims-Allen

Law firms are constantly being introduced to new tools, frameworks, and operational philosophies that promise better efficiency and better results. But the challenge is n

120. Get Curious Before You Get Defensive: Clean Language Questions for Lawyers

As a lawyer, it’s easy to fall into defensive mode when a client expresses frustration with your work or challenges your bill. But instead of getting defensive, what the

119. Making It Rain: How to Increase Client Flow in Your Law Firm with Robert Hartmann

Many lawyers are highly trained in practicing law but receive little to no guidance on how to consistently bring in business. Without a clear business development strateg

118. Running Your Law Firm on Hard Mode? Simplify Capacity with the Tetris Strategy

The biggest threat to your law firm’s productivity is unlikely to be a lack of effort, but rather too much complexity. If your firm feels like it is running on hard mode,

117. The Bomb on the Bus: A Law Firm Productivity Problem with Clarke Ching

What do you do when productivity starts to slip in your law firm? For many leaders, the instinct is to push harder by setting targets, issuing ultimatums, or applying pre

116. Low Productivity in Your Law Firm? Don't Blame the People

At the recent ALA conference, I attended several talks that framed low productivity as a personal issue, and I don’t think that’s the whole story. In today’s episode, I