Legal Management Talk Podcast
Legal Management Talk
Our Legal Management Talk podcast keeps you in the know while you’re on the go. Most episodes are less than 30 minutes long so you can learn about a specific legal management topic as you make your way throughout your day.
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Latest Episode
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ALA's Meeting the Moment: Developing Leadership Skills
In the latest episode of ALA's Meeting the Moment series, ALA President Amanda Koplos, CLM, CPA; President-Elect Travis Armstrong, CLM, CPA; and Immediate Past President Geoffrey Williams, CLM, MBA, M.Div. sit down for the first-ever live taping of the podcast to discuss their leadership journeys and how to become a leader in the Association. They also address some other hot topics, including DEIA and artificial intelligence.
Published Apr 15, 2025
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Capitalizing on Your Firm's Digital Marketing
Amid everything your firm does on a daily basis, digital marketing may not seem like a top priority, but it can be one of the most important ways to grow your business and find new clients. Join Bo Royal, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pareto Legal, as he shares his insights on how you can use marketing to cut through the online noise and get a large return on your investment.
Published Jul 2, 2024
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Mastering Mentorship at Your Firm
A robust mentorship program can be an important recruiting and retention tool for your firm, but it also requires commitment from everyone involved. In this episode, Elise Powers, Founder of Eleview Consulting, talks about how to structure a mentorship program and convince partners to dedicate time to supporting the next generation of senior attorneys. She also gives a preview of her presentation at ALA's 2024 Annual Conference titled, "How to Reenergize Your Firm's Mentorship Program."
For more information or to register for Annual Conference, visit alaannualconf.org.
Published May 7, 2024
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Crafting an Effective Succession Plan
Recognizing the need for succession plans at your firm is a good first step, but what does that plan look like in practice? In this episode, David Wood, a former trial attorney and Principal of David Wood Consulting, talks about the plan he created and used to successfully transition his clients to the next generation of attorneys. He also discusses the role firm administrators play in ensuring a succession plan runs smoothly.
Published May 2, 2024
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Change Management Techniques for Law Firms
Why is change such a tough thing to manage in firms (well, for people in general)? Catherine Alman MacDonagh, JD, the Founder of Legal Lean Sigma Institute and a member of ALA’s Professional Development Advisory Committee, discusses steps for managing change, the importance of creating small change “wins,” how to avoid change burnout and more. Plus, we leave on a positive note about how to feel hopeful about changes.
Published Apr 25, 2024
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The Billable Hour versus Value-Based Pricing
What can penguins teach us about instituting change at your firm? Shaun Jardine and his sidekick Declan the Penguin answer that question through the lens of shifting your billing method to value-based pricing (VBP), which can be a good way to consolidate the many different billable hour policies attorneys have while offering clients the quantity and quality of service they desire.
Published Mar 20, 2024
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Getting the Most Out of AI, Part 2
In Part 2 of our conversation with Kriti Sharma, Chief Product Officer of Legal Tech at Thomson Reuters, we talk about the questions you should ask when choosing AI software to use at your firm, what the regulation landscape looks like and how AI will change the future of talent recruitment.
Published Feb 22, 2024
