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How elite lawyers make decisions.
Traditional legal media focuses on outcomes. But this podcast focuses on operating principles: how lawyers assess risk, build judgment, and choose opportunities.
The podcast is a library ambitious lawyers can consult to learn how exceptional lawyers think, and our guests return to document their progress.
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055 Gopi Panchapakesan: the introverted trial lawyer
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Jul 10, 2026 |
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054 Adam Gill: dealmaking in risk management
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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053 Rohit Nath: how curiosity leads to the frontier
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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052 Tim Chen Saulsbury: doing the up-front work
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May 13, 2026 |
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051 Alamdar Hamdani: seeing around the corner in enforcement
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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050 Shashi Kewalramani: compounding skills across a nonlinear career
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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049 Louis Tompros: creating adjacent bets
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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048 Neel Chatterjee: testing assumptions
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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047 Tim Yoo: how to study elite performers to find an edge
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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046 Mani Walia: the lunch that launched a fund a decade later - trust, focus, and alignment
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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045 Joe Ahmad: sincerity over polish, and empathy and risk in trials
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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044 From teen mom to BigLaw: Patti Burris on turning fear into focus and freedom
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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043 Priyanka Timblo: inside a $101M verdict, and being underestimated and all-in
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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042 Judge Vince Chhabria: how case management is justice, and the biggest surprise from the bench
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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041 Rakesh Kilaru: White House decision tools and “trial by subtraction” for high-stakes cases
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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040 Dai Wai Chin Feman: optionality and business development for career control
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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039 Ambika Kumar: building a new practice for tech free speech fights
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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038 Manisha Sheth: leaving partnership for government and betting on yourself
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May 30, 2025 |
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037 Sunny Kim: quit BigLaw, own your narrative, LinkedIn upgrades in 20 minutes
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May 16, 2025 |
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036 Randy Gaw: niching and storytelling for firm founders
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May 09, 2025 |
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035 Hilary Gerzhoy: why ethics failures start with fear, not greed
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May 02, 2025 |
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034 Jaimie Nawaday: Disrupting Drinking and culture change through storytelling
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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033 Vishal Shah: going plaintiff-side and the strategy in building a firm
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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032 Pratik Shah: the market for appellate law and choosing your lane
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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031 Tim Yoo: what lawyers can learn from pro-wrestling, applied mathematics, and tennis
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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030 Fear as fuel for first-gen lawyers: Lora Krsulich on trust, parenting, and teams
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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029 Sonal Mehta: decisions under uncertainty and opportunity cost in litigation and careers
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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028 Silpa Maruri: creativity, self-advocacy, and how to launch a law firm
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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027 Samuel Levine: escape the prestige trap, change the law, and serve the poor
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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026 Heather Stevenson: from law to business to law and how to learn quickly
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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025 Kalpana Srinivasan: hip-hop dancing and gut decisions in career
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May 02, 2024 |
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024 Ryan McCarl: highbrow and lowbrow influences in legal writing and the book publishing journey
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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023 Moez Kaba: boldness and a career-changing subway conversation
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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022 Nimesh Gupta: moving from biglaw to bigtech to startups
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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021 Neel Chatterjee: moving fast and breaking things and counterintuitive career decisions
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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020 Paul Grewal: asymmetric bets, conspiracy theories, and the best question for career decisions
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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019 Alamdar Hamdani: entrepreneurial civil service and the most underrated risk in the US
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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018 Gurbir Grewal: nonlinear career paths through government
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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017 Amandeep Sidhu: turning tragedy into opportunity and a building a portfolio of causes
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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016 Avaneesh Marwaha: the #1 skill lawyers need to develop
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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015 Kenneth Anand: going your own way for career gratification
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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014 Manik Suri: inner confidence to follow new technologies
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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013 Judge Matthew Kennelly: how he manages his docket and how new ideas spread among judges
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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012 Chief Judge James Holderman: growing up on a farm and the hardest task he had on the bench
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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011 Archit Shah: building Robinhood's legal team
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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010 Megha Parekh: why perfectionism isn't the goal and being unapologetically yourself
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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009 Kunal Patel: lessons from working with celebrity musicians
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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008 Bilal Zaidi: insights from interviewing top creators
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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007 Ashwin Krishnan : the future of sports as entertainment
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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006 Sachin Shivaram: how Atlas Shrugged led him to the steel industry
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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005 Avanti Bakane: how to collect good people
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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004 Rudhir Krishtel: finding true autonomy
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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003 Vivek Jayaram: getting clients on Craigslist and building a law firm
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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002 Vineet Shahani: taking singles over career home runs
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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001 Adam Gill: how trading stocks led to litigation finance
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Oct 19, 2020 |