Elawvate: The Trial Lawyer Podcast
Benjamin Gideon & Rahul Ravipudi
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S6E9 What a Trial Consultant Knows that You Don't, with Jessica Brylo
Trial strategist and consultant Jessica Brylo built her career by shadowing jury selection pioneer David Ball throughout law school and watching videos of a rare 1996 study in which cameras were…
S6E8 The Case We Had to Take: A $6.5M Med Mal Win, with Meryl Poulin and Ben Gideon
Host Ben Gideon invites co-counsel Meryl Poulin to break down their $6.5 million med-mal verdict on behalf of a client who was paralyzed after a 20-hour delay in surgical care for cauda equina…
S6E7 Win Big on Appeal: The Plaintiff's Appellate Playbook, with Deepak Gupta
Washington, D.C.-based Gupta Wessler holds the highest win rate among the top five most active firms practicing before the 6-3 conservative U.S. Supreme Court firms. And they’re large, corporate…
S6E6 You Need to Know This Principle to Pick a Jury, with Bo Fraser
"Bad is stronger than good" is a widely cited principle in social psychology – and one that trial consultant Bo Fraser has built his jury strategy around. “You're not going to win them with, ‘We're…
S6E5 Special Preview: The Entrepreneur’s Top 10, with Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright
Live from Portland, Maine, it’s Ben Gideon and Jeff Wright, the team from Gideon Asen taping a special edition of “Elawvate: Build and Grow Your Law Firm.” Ben and Jeff walk through 10 proven…
S6E4 Win Your Case at Voir Dire, with Todd Schafer
A jury once told Todd Schafer that they had decided the case in his favor before he stood up for opening statement. Why? Todd pulls back the curtain on his success with picking juries in this…
S6E3 Trial Excellence and Effecting Change, with Shanin Specter
Shanin Specter’s $25 million verdict against Boeing last November is just one example of his approach to tort: It’s not just about compensation and deterrence. It’s also about sharing important…
S6E2 View from a Former JAG: Our “National Emergency,” with Margaret Donovan
A former JAG officer and federal prosecutor, Margaret Donovan is now an associate at Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder and proud to promote her firm’s work suing the administration – including in this…
S6E1 Big Law IP Strategy and Activism, with Neel Chatterjee
From running a radio station in undergraduate school to running an “IP litigation ambulance” as a young lawyer to running a platform that fights the Trump administration’s attacks on law firms, Neel…
S5E28 Try Good Cases, Be Great Teammates, with Pat Salvi II
The list of wins is long: $363 million on a toxics exposure case; $148 million on a paralysis case, $79 million on a police pursuit case; $75 on a brain injury case. But the philosophy at Salvi,…
S5E27 Gideon Asen Record $25M Med-Mal Verdict, with Ben Gideon and Meryl Poulin
In med-mal cases, the defense often argues that a defendant couldn’t have anticipated a patient’s unusual problem. When a 15-year-old girl died from complications of undiagnosed lymphoma, the…
S5E26 “Best Of” 2025: A Visit with Inner Circle Legend Charla Aldous
Earlier this year, hosts Ben Gideon and Rahul Ravipudi welcomed a “force of nature” to “Elawvate.” She’s also known as Charla Aldous, founder of Aldous Law. The episode remains one of the podcast’s…
S5E25 Truths about Leaving a Firm, with Ben Gideon & Jeff Wright
"Anybody who tells you that leaving a law firm is an easy process is lying to you," says Ben Gideon. To lay out the unvarnished truth, Ben shares his experience leaving a 17-year partnership to…
S5E24 When Your Experts Get It Wrong, with Chuck Hehmeyer and Elizabeth Kayatta
“We had to say, ‘Hey, we're going to be honest with you here. For a long time, we had this wrong, and our experts had it wrong.’” That’s the theme that Chuck Hehmeyer and Elizabeth Kayatta emphasized…
S5E23 Are You Speaking with an Authentic Voice at Trial? With Jeremy D'Amico
Jeremy D'Amico describes how his authentic trial voice transformed difficult facts into compelling narratives that yielded major verdicts: $45 million for a speeding Marine who wasn't wearing his…
S5E22 AI that Helps You Work Smarter for Clients, with Will Davis and Ed Kirk
“Occasionally, we will introduce our listeners to a new product that's designed to help trial lawyers do a better job for their clients and their practices,” host Ben Gideon explains as he kicks off…
S5E21 Winning $27.7 Million from Conservative Jurors, with John Heenan
“It is not easy to get substantial damage awards from Montana jurors,” says John Heenan of Billings-based Heenan & Cook. Yet conservative Montana jurors awarded $27.7 million in his negligence…
S5E20 Defense Timelines vs. Medical Truth w/ Chris Nace & Samantha Peters
Medical records meticulously documented the routine endoscopy that went wrong, ending tragically in the patient’s death. But when Chris Nace and Samantha Peters took the case to trial, they were…
S5E19 How Bad Faith Turned $1M into $56M, with Rahul Ravipudi
The jiu-jitsu club had a $1 million insurance policy, but when an instructor accidentally rendered a new student an incomplete quadriplegic, the carrier put its interest above their own insured’s –…
S5E18 Special Preview: Decoding EOS to Scale Your Law Firm
Elawvate’s “Build & Grow Your Law Firm” podcast devotes its third episode to EOS, or “entrepreneurial operating system.” Your guide is Megan Piper, a certified EOS implementer who coaches clients…
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