On the Road with Legal Talk Network

Legal Talk Network On the Road covers the latest conferences, bar meetings, industry events, and trade shows. Recorded live from the conference room floor, our hosts interview bar presidents, committee and section chairs, and other leaders to offer an exclusive look at the biggest events in legal, as well as what is on the horizon for those who practice law.

On the Road with Legal Talk Network is a technology podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 878 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts On the Road with Legal Talk Network, a technology show with 878 episodes published.

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  Insights from the 2026 ALPS Bar Leaders Retreat

  Sep 21, 202620 min

  Across a week of conversations in Missoula, one theme kept resurfacing no matter who was in the chair: AI is forcing every bar leader in the country to rethink risk, mentorship, and what it means to serve solo and small firm attorneys who are already stretched thin. Chris Newbold, COO of ALPS Insurance, opens this compilation with a thank you to the bar leaders who made the retreat what it was. From there, the episode pulls together moments from across the series focused on solo and small firm practice: Rachel Okun on why relationships built through bar leadership matter more than marketing, Kevin Maxim on the collision between attorney-client privilege and AI, Mark Bassingthwaighte on why succession planning has become a quiet crisis for solos, and Susan Carns Curtiss on the anonymous posts revealing how many newer attorneys are struggling to find mentorship. John Mudd, Alison Gee, Angela Armstrong, and Susan Bradford Tarley round out the conversation with their own takes on wellness, hallucinated case law, and the legal deserts still waiting to be served. Together, these voices paint a picture of a profession adapting in real time, uncertain but not without hope. Proving once again that ALPS Insurance puts the "treat" in retreat, they gathered leaders in law from across the country this summer. These sit-down conversations reveal flavors of leadership and legal trends from a variety of perspectives. Cool takes, one scoop at a time, recorded live at the 2026 ALPS Bar Leaders Retreat in Missoula, MT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Adapting to AI and Technology: Strategies for Law Firm Resilience – 2026 ALPS Bar Leaders Retreat

  Sep 21, 202652 min

  After 28 years as ALPS Insurance's Risk Manager, Mark Bassingthwaighte says cybersecurity now worries him more than legal malpractice, and he's tired of hearing solo and small firm lawyers insist they're too small to be a target. Bassingthwaighte, who's worked with more than 1,200 law firms and delivered over 700 CLE seminars, traces a quieter crisis behind the numbers: he estimates some form of attorney impairment, burnout, depression, addiction, or dementia, plays a role in as many as half to 70% of malpractice claims, including one case where an attorney was found hiding client files in the trunk of his car. He also breaks down how generative AI is supercharging phishing attacks at a scale small firms have never had to defend against, and pushes back on the fear that AI itself will replace lawyers, arguing it will only take out the ones who refuse to adapt. Bassingthwaighte closes on a message he repeats often to lawyers facing a claim: you're not judged by the mistake you made, you're judged by what you do about it. Proving once again that ALPS Insurance puts the "treat" in retreat, they gathered leaders in law from across the country this summer. These sit-down conversations reveal flavors of leadership and legal trends from a variety of perspectives. Cool takes, one scoop at a time, recorded live at the 2026 ALPS Bar Leaders Retreat in Missoula, MT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Community, Burnout, and Knowing Who to Call – 2026 ALPS Bar Leaders Retreat

  Sep 21, 202644 min

  In 2016, Susan Carns Curtiss added 46 women attorneys she knew to a Facebook group with no real plan behind it, and it's since grown into Girl Attorney, a network of more than 40,000 women lawyers trading practice advice, mentorship, and support across the country. A plaintiff's personal injury and wrongful death trial lawyer in Oklahoma City, Curtiss describes watching newer attorneys increasingly post anonymously about burnout and a lack of mentorship, even as most of the community is thriving, and shares her own recent experience nearly drowning in a growing litigation docket before a longtime colleague stepped in to help her offload cases. She credits two decades of showing up in her local bar and trial lawyer community for having someone to call when she needed it, and pushes back gently on the idea that women's push for work-life balance is a new trend rather than a fight that's been underway for years. Curtiss closes with a call not to look away from what she sees as a broader breakdown in the rule of law, and to find the others who are choosing to stand up rather than turn away. Proving once again that ALPS Insurance puts the "treat" in retreat, they gathered leaders in law from across the country this summer. These sit-down conversations reveal flavors of leadership and legal trends from a variety of perspectives. Cool takes, one scoop at a time, recorded live at the 2026 ALPS Bar Leaders Retreat in Missoula, MT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Navigating Innovation and Ethics: The Future of Law in Montana – 2026 ALPS Bar Leaders Retreat

  Sep 21, 202635 min

  One stretch of eastern Montana spans 75,000 square miles and has just 123 lawyers to cover it, and John Mudd, Executive Director and General Counsel of the State Bar of Montana, sees AI as one of the only realistic ways to close that kind of gap. A fifth-generation Montanan and national speaker on legal ethics and attorney wellness, Mudd lays out what he calls a "soup" of forces converging at once: rising distrust of institutions, a widening access to justice problem, and AI arriving into both at the same time. He points to recent structural shifts in the profession - Montana's newly adopted community justice worker program, modeled after a system Alaska pioneered, and to the broader wave of non-lawyer ownership entering law firms in addition to more immediate risks like attorneys filing briefs built on hallucinated case law. Mudd closes on the message he's carrying into the next year: when everything speeds up at once, the answer isn't panic, it's returning to the bedrock obligations, honesty with the court and loyalty to clients, that don't change no matter what tool is doing the work. Proving once again that ALPS Insurance puts the "treat" in retreat, they gathered leaders in law from across the country this summer. These sit-down conversations reveal flavors of leadership and legal trends from a variety of perspectives. Cool takes, one scoop at a time, recorded live at the 2026 ALPS Bar Leaders Retreat in Missoula, MT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Navigating Change in Wyoming’s Legal Profession – 2026 ALPS Bar Leaders Retreat

  Sep 21, 202634 min

  Some Wyoming counties have two practicing attorneys or fewer, and once you subtract the elected county attorney and public defenders, Alison Gee says there's barely enough left to keep a functioning legal system running. The incoming President of the Wyoming State Bar and a rural general practitioner, Gee describes fielding whatever problem walks through her door, a role she jokingly calls being a "law ninja," and explains how the state has leaned on remote hearings, online filing, and borrowed attorneys to patch gaps like its public defender shortage. She makes a case for moving law firms off local servers and onto cloud-based systems with real security controls, and pushes back on the instinct to let AI shortcut legal research given how easily it hallucinates case law. Gee closes on the balance she's trying to strike as incoming president, bringing Wyoming's legal profession into the future without losing the hands-on judgment that only comes from doing the work the hard way first. Proving once again that ALPS Insurance puts the "treat" in retreat, they gathered leaders in law from across the country this summer. These sit-down conversations reveal flavors of leadership and legal trends from a variety of perspectives. Cool takes, one scoop at a time, recorded live at the 2026 ALPS Bar Leaders Retreat in Missoula, MT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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