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 • 209 episodes
Legal Grounds | Conversations on Life, Leadership & Law
Latest Episodes
Legal Grounds | Nikita Lamar on the Connection Between a Firm’s Culture & Its Clients, Learning Curves as Breathing Room, and Meeting Zealousness with Empathy
According to the National Association of Legal Professions, when I graduated from Law School in 1988 only 2.7% of graduating attorneys made the choice to go solo.Looking at those same numbers, it’s easy to track the strength of the econo...
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Legal Grounds | Cyndie Chang On How Having a Group Helps You Find Your Voice, When “No” Can Be A Complete Sentence, & Why Relationships are an Investment, Not a Commodity
With some very rare exceptions, all of us have to have a ‘first job’. This also means we all remember the nervousness that comes with that first day. First month. Even the first year. While it hopef...
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Legal Grounds | Dr. Honey Sheff On How A.D.R. is Reshaping Family Law, Retaining Empathy While Keeping Boundaries, & the Difference Between Being an Advocate and Giving Someone a Voice.
As my producer wrote in the margins of this week’s material, the phrase ‘Collaborative Divorce’ can seem, on its face, like an oxymoron. After all, whether it’s a marriage, partnership, or friendship, the act of separating one’s sel...
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Legal Grounds | Ryan Crittenden On Choosing Your Mentors Intentionally, Playing to Your Strengths, & What It Takes to Create a Team
We talk plenty on this program about how frustrating it can be to try and function under poor leadership. Even if the team is strong, if they don’t know (or worse, understand) their direction, then it will always be an uphill battle. <...
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Legal Grounds | Larry Praeger On Effective Client Communication, How to Leverage Existing Resources, & Navigating the Nuances of Family Law
There are few areas of the practice that I think are quite as “client-facing” as Family Law.This is not to say that clients take a back-seat when it comes to other kinds of legal matters, but it should come as no surprise to a...
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