Leadership In Law Podcast

Are you a Law Firm Owner who wants to grow, scale, and find the success you know is possible? Welcome to the Leadership In Law Podcast with host, Marilyn Jenkins! Cut through the noise. Get actionable insights and inspiring stories delivered straight to your ears - your ultimate podcast for navigating the ever-changing world of law firm ownership. In each episode, we dive deep into the critical topics that matter most to you, from unlocking explosive growth to building a thriving team. We connect you with successful law firm leaders and industry experts who share their proven strategies and hard-won wisdom. So, whether you're a seasoned leader or just starting your journey as a law firm owner, the Leadership in Law Podcast is here to equip you with the knowledge and tools you need to build a successful and fulfilling legal practice. Your host, Marilyn Jenkins, is a Digital Marketing Strategist who helps Law Firms Grow and Scale using pe

Leadership In Law Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Marilyn Jenkins, with 187 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Marilyn Jenkins hosts Leadership In Law Podcast, a business show with 187 episodes published.

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  Episode #178

  Why Great Engineering Teams Slow Down and How to Fix It with Thanos Diacakis

  Oct 1, 202628 minS4

  Your product roadmap can look perfect on paper while your engineering team quietly grinds to a halt. When that happens, the issue is rarely “lazy developers” or “bad attitudes” it’s usually overload, unclear priorities, and a business engineering communication gap that makes every request feel like an emergency. We sit down with Thanos Diacakis, a software leader with nearly 30 years of experience across startups and tech giants, to unpack what actually helps teams ship high-quality software faster. We talk about why business leaders and engineers often lack a shared language, how to create healthy conflict instead of feature-factory pressure, and why the fastest teams often win by doing less at once. Thanos shares a clear four-step framework for aligning product goals with engineering practices: shorten the path to production, build quality into the system, manage complexity as you scale, then earn planning and predictability. We also challenge common myths around Agile, speed vs quality, and technical debt. You’ll hear why manual “quality gates” can backfire, how automation and CI/CD tighten feedback loops, and why technical debt is better understood as compounding investment. Thanos explains when ditching sprints for Kanban can reduce meeting overhead, how a simple 10% investment rule can produce dramatic improvements, and what leadership habits prevent burnout in high-performing engineering teams. He also shares where to find him on LinkedIn, his site cosmicteacups.com, and his Team Metrics tool for visualizing features, bugs, and investment work over time. Reach Thanos here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thanosd/ https://www.cosmicteacups.com/ https://Team-metrics.dev Season 4 Episode 178 Ready to level up your law firm marketing? Book a FREE Discovery Call with Marilyn Here: https://lawmarketingzone.com/bookacall Leadership In Law Podcast with host, Marilyn Jenkins Powered by Law Marketing Zone® https://lawmarketingzone.com A full-service Digital Marketing Agency helping clients increase Leads, Cases, and Profit by getting their digital marketing right. Subscribe on your favorite Podcast listening platform! Like, Share, and Review us! #leadershipinlawpodcast #leadershipinlaw #lawmarketingzone #marilynjenkins

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  Episode #176

  Preparing Your Business for Investment or Exit with Albert Lin

  Sep 24, 202634 minS4

  Scaling a business is hard enough. Scaling it with the wrong partners, a messy cap table, and handshake governance can quietly set you up for a blowup later. We talk with Albert Lin, Chief Investment Officer at Northview Law and founder of dCarbon VC, about what he learned moving from corporate M&A to private equity and then into the operator seat building a growing firm designed to serve secondary and tertiary markets where quality professional services are in short supply. Albert shares a clear framework for evaluating opportunities and risk using both legal and investor discipline: how to spot when your team structure no longer matches your stage, why many founders hire the wrong financial leadership too early, and how to think about runway and fundraising timing. From vesting schedules to good leaver and bad leaver clauses, we get specific about the tools that keep incentives aligned as the business evolves. We also dig into the most expensive early mistakes founders make: skipping a real shareholder agreement, relying on “tribal council” decision making, and ignoring dispute resolution, liquidity terms, and life-event scenarios like death, divorce, or disability. If you are thinking about an eventual exit, Albert lays out three practical levers that drive business valuation: professionalizing operations so the company runs without you, building credible growth wedges with proof points, and starting tax planning years in advance. Reach Albert here: https://www.northviewlaw.com/contact Season 4 Episode 176 Ready to level up your law firm marketing? Book a FREE Discovery Call with Marilyn Here: https://lawmarketingzone.com/bookacall Leadership In Law Podcast with host, Marilyn Jenkins Powered by Law Marketing Zone® https://lawmarketingzone.com A full-service Digital Marketing Agency helping clients increase Leads, Cases, and Profit by getting their digital marketing right. Subscribe on your favorite Podcast listening platform! Like, Share, and Review us! #leadershipinlawpodcast #leadershipinlaw #lawmarketingzone #marilynjenkins

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  Episode #175

  HybridHero to Manage Real Estate Costs with Chris Burke

  Sep 21, 202630 minS4

  Your office might be costing you far more than rent, and not because it’s “too big” in a simple way. The real leak is uncertainty: partners and leadership teams making high-stakes decisions about space, staffing, and hybrid policies without reliable workplace utilization data. I sit down with Australian entrepreneur and advisor Christopher Burke, founder of Brickendon Consulting and the workplace platform HybridHero, to unpack what law firm leaders are missing and how to fix it. We dig into the hidden cost of underused desks, meeting rooms, and floors, plus the operational drag that shows up when people waste time hunting for a workspace or routing every request through an EA. Chris explains how most firms are still guessing, why that breaks down fast as you scale across multiple locations, and how a single view of your real estate footprint can reveal quick wins. We also talk through what “good” hybrid management looks like in practice: clear goals, consistent one-to-ones, mentorship for junior attorneys, and policies you can actually measure rather than assume. Chris shares concrete examples like heat maps, “no data” black holes, and how swipe-card signals can connect to workplace planning without turning the firm into a time clock. We even zoom out to the next five years, including a sharp reality check on AI, training, and why culture still needs intentional in-person time. Reach Chris here: https://hybridhero.com/podcasts/ Season 4 Episode 175 Ready to level up your law firm marketing? Book a FREE Discovery Call with Marilyn Here: https://lawmarketingzone.com/bookacall Leadership In Law Podcast with host, Marilyn Jenkins Powered by Law Marketing Zone® https://lawmarketingzone.com A full-service Digital Marketing Agency helping clients increase Leads, Cases, and Profit by getting their digital marketing right. Subscribe on your favorite Podcast listening platform! Like, Share, and Review us! #leadershipinlawpodcast #leadershipinlaw #lawmarketingzone #marilynjenkins

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  Episode #173

  Improve Client Intake with MyPartnerLab.co with Dr. Merideth Thompson

  Sep 14, 202630 minS4

  A packed calendar can still hide a serious revenue leak: consults that never convert because the client is deeply undecided. We sit down with Dr. Merideth Thompson, a negotiation professor, work-life researcher, and the founder of Partner Lab, to name that leak and measure its impact. She calls it the “ambivalence tax” and for family law firms it shows up as wasted consultations, retainer reversals, emotional labor, and rising burnout across attorneys and intake teams. We get practical about what ambivalence looks like in real life: intense emotional dysregulation, unclear post-divorce plans, attorney shopping for validation, and the impossible demand for “emotional justice” through a legal process. Then we shift to solutions, including Retensio, a research-driven divorce readiness assessment that can be embedded into your law firm intake workflow. The goal is not to pressure people, but to bring structure and behavioral data into a moment that usually runs on chaos and gut feel. We also tackle ethical gatekeeping, why lawyers should not be the ones deciding “should you divorce,” and how better qualification protects client agency while freeing attorneys from playing therapist. Dr. Merideth shares why highly intelligent people can overthink emotionally charged choices, how personality dynamics can shape negotiation strategy, and why firms that help clients get clarity build a stronger reputation and a long-term referral engine. Subscribe, share this with a firm owner who needs it, and leave a review so more lawyers can find smarter ways to grow. Reach Merideth here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/merideth-j-thompson/ https://mypartnerlab.co Season 4 Episode 173 Ready to level up your law firm marketing? Book a FREE Discovery Call with Marilyn Here: https://lawmarketingzone.com/bookacall Leadership In Law Podcast with host, Marilyn Jenkins Powered by Law Marketing Zone® https://lawmarketingzone.com A full-service Digital Marketing Agency helping clients increase Leads, Cases, and Profit by getting their digital marketing right. Subscribe on your favorite Podcast listening platform! Like, Share, and Review us! #leadershipinlawpodcast #leadershipinlaw #lawmarketingzone #marilynjenkins

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  Episode #172

  AI Powered Systems & Senior Level Legal Judgement with Brian Elliott

  Sep 10, 202632 minS4

  The billable hour wasn’t designed for the way businesses buy legal help today, and clients feel it every time a routine request turns into an expensive, slow, hard to implement deliverable. We sit down with Brian Elliott, a longtime general counsel and legal tech founder, to map what’s breaking in the traditional law firm model and what replaces it when legal services start looking more like infrastructure: scalable, reliable, and quietly embedded in day to day operations. We dig into why so much legal work is repeatable and measurable, from contract review to standard negotiations, and how that reality supports pricing and delivery models built around outcomes. Brian explains what “embedded legal services” look like in practice, including how playbooks, templates, and fallback positions can be packaged so business teams can execute without stopping everything to call outside counsel. The goal is not just simpler advice, but guidance that is ready to implement. Then we get practical about legal AI. Instead of only building tools that help lawyers do what they already do, Brian argues for tools that help clients do some of that work safely while escalating the right issues to human experts. We explore “judgment layers” that sit on top of systems like ChatGPT or Claude, plus the decision ledger habit that turns senior level legal judgment into structured data, checklists, and heuristics an AI can follow. We also talk proactive agents like dispute sentinels and regulatory monitoring that can surface risk before it becomes a legal fire drill. Reach Brian here: https://www.elliott.law/ https://www.calefirm.com/ https://www.5point4.com/ @lawasinfrastructure on Substack Season 4 Episode 172 Ready to level up your law firm marketing? Book a FREE Discovery Call with Marilyn Here: https://lawmarketingzone.com/bookacall Leadership In Law Podcast with host, Marilyn Jenkins Powered by Law Marketing Zone® https://lawmarketingzone.com A full-service Digital Marketing Agency helping clients increase Leads, Cases, and Profit by getting their digital marketing right. Subscribe on your favorite Podcast listening platform! Like, Share, and Review us! #leadershipinlawpodcast #leadershipinlaw #lawmarketingzone #marilynjenkins

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