Legal Grounds | Conversations on Life, Leadership & Law
After over three decades in the legal-trenches, Mike Bassett has learned to appreciate two things: good conversation & good coffee.
Legal Grounds is an ongoing series of interviews with the people who are shaping our world - legal or otherwise. Witty, irreverent, & always thoughtful, these brief discussions fall somewhere between “Night Court” & Hopper’s “Nighthawks At The Diner”.
With that in mind, we promise your coffee will still be warm when the podcast is done.
(Legal Grounds was written, recorded, and produced by Dust Devil Press)
Podcasting since 2020 • 218 episodes
Legal Grounds | Conversations on Life, Leadership & Law
Latest Episodes
Legal Grounds | John R. Miles on Leading with Your Feet, Why Your Circumstance Doesn't Define You, & the Nuances of Situational Leadership
As we approach the New Year, it's almost inevitable that we’ll find ourselves taking stock of all that came and went in the year prior. For most of us, this happens because we are trying to pinpoint those things we hope t...
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Legal Grounds | Brent Turman on the Portrayal and Practice of Law, Being Willing to Adjust the Narrative, & the Outsized Impact of Unseen Work.
When someone asks what I ‘do’ for a living, there are times I want to respond with, “I tell stories.” After all, most attorneys spend their time trying to get the “full picture” of what’s happening in a given case, and the best narratives give ...
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Legal Grounds | Nermin Jasani on Why You Can’t Automate Your Way Out of Responsibility, How Humor Builds Trust, & Learning the Economics of Law
For as much as we all joke about the, "kids these days" mentality that every generation seems to have in one form or another, for most of human history this sentiment was often more anecdotalI than anything else. Typically we see yo...
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Legal Grounds | Mark Ross On Moving from Understanding to Empathy, the Masks We Chose to Wear, & Learning About Yourself By Teaching Others
One of the best parts of being an early-bird is that I almost never hit traffic on my way into the office – though living two miles away certainly helps, too. But one thing I do miss about my longer drives to work some days is the t...
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Legal Grounds | Scott Levin on Courtesy as a Prerequisite for Negotiation, Focusing on the Resolution Instead of the Argument, & Finding Grace Despite Our Differences
We all know the question: 'If a tree falls in the forest & no-one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"This kind of thought-experiment came to mind after my conversation this week which left me asking, "If two people are argui...
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