Leadership In Law: Growth & Leadership for Law Firm Owners
Leadership In Law™ is the podcast for law firm owners, managing partners, and attorneys who want to build stronger firms and become better leaders.
Hosted by Marilyn Jenkins, founder of Law Marketing Zone® and a digital growth strategist for law firms, each episode brings practical conversations with accomplished attorneys, law firm leaders, and industry experts.
We explore law firm growth, leadership, marketing, AI and legal technology, hiring, culture, client experience, communication, operations, profitability, business development, and the future of legal practice.
If you're building a law firm that can grow without depending on you for every decision, Leadership In Law™ gives you practical ideas, real-world lessons, and proven strategies you can put to work in your firm.
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Episodes
189 episodes
Building a Collaborative, Happy, Multi-Location Firm with Tara Jalali Malek
If your law firm feels busy but brittle, like one missed deadline or one tough personality could tip the whole place into stress, you’re not alone. I’m joined by Tara Jalali Malek, co-owner at Malek + Malek, and a former federal and state prose...
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Why Great Engineering Teams Slow Down and How to Fix It with Thanos Diacakis
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 engineeri...
The Reality of Governmento Overreach & Your First Amendment Rights with Evan Turk
Your divorce, your business, and your online life are not separate anymore and pretending they are can cost you real money. We sit down with Evan Turk, a family law attorney known for complex, high-stakes divorce and asset protection work, to t...
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Preparing Your Business for Investment or Exit with Albert Lin
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 dCar...
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HybridHero to Manage Real Estate Costs with Chris Burke
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 rel...
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The Mental Fitness Advantage: How Lawyers Perform at Their Best With Emily Heird
Your law brain is your livelihood, yet most of us treat it like it can run on fumes forever. Marilyn Jenkins sits down with Emily Heird, a licensed therapist and certified mental performance coach, to reframe attorney stress through a sharper l...
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Improve Client Intake with MyPartnerLab.co with Dr. Merideth Thompson
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, ...
AI Powered Systems & Senior Level Legal Judgement with Brian Elliott
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 cou...
Hidden Fees That Are Hurting Your 401(k) with Paul Sippil
Your law firm may be bleeding retirement dollars without a single obvious warning sign. No invoice. No line item in your operating expenses. Just quiet, recurring 401(k) fees pulled from participant accounts month after month, year after year. ...
Improve Your Negotiations Using The Formula Of The 3 R's with Lynn Price
Negotiation gets painted as pressure, conflict, and “winning” at all costs but that mindset quietly costs law firm owners money, time, and relationships. Marilyn Jenkins sits down with attorney, speaker, and negotiation expert Lynn Price, who h...
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Entity Engineering for AI Visibility with Jason Wade
AI is no longer just a tool people use. It’s becoming the reader that interprets your website, your profiles, and your reputation, then decides whether to cite you, include you, or recommend you as the choice. That’s why this conversation with ...
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Active Listening & Communication for Growth with Arlene Cohen Miller
If your negotiation style “works” but leaves everyone tense, resentful, or exhausted, it’s costing you more than you think. We sit down with Arlene Cohen Miller, an AV Preeminent ® Rated Attorney, ICF-certified professional coach, and CEO of Je...
Three Levels of Connection to Save Your Marriage with Dr. Lee Baucom
Marriages do not usually fall apart in one dramatic moment. More often, they get quietly put on hold while life feels urgent: building a practice, chasing deadlines, raising kids, paying bills, and keeping everything moving. We sit down with Dr...
Changes in the Legal Profession in 50+ Years with Mark C. Zauderer
The fastest way to lose your edge as a lawyer is to shrink your world down to a screen and a timesheet. We sit down with Mark Zauderer, a veteran New York trial and appellate lawyer known for high-stakes business and commercial litigation, to u...
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Private Aviation as a Strategic Business Tool with Dave Coleman
Private aviation is often dismissed as a luxury, but Dave Coleman, president of Coleman Jet Solutions and a pilot with 35 years of experience, explains why many law firms view it as a strategic tool. We discuss how private flying can save time,...
BONUS: The Authority Era: Why AI Is Changing Legal Marketing Forever
For more than twenty years, legal marketing has revolved around one question: Where do I rank?But something fundamental has shifted. Your future clients are no longer typing keywords into a search box and choosing from ten blue...
Virtual Executive Assistants For Business Growth with Gina Cotner
Your calendar is packed, your brain is louder than your inbox, and somehow you’re still the one chasing updates. That’s not a workload problem, it’s an ownership problem. Marilyn Jenkins sits down with Gina Cotner, founder and CEO of Athena Exe...
Community Networking to Grow Your Firm with Anderson Franco
He used to defend insurance companies. Now he helps injured people take them on, with a calm approach that gets results. We sit down with California personal injury attorney Anderson Franco, founder of Anderson Franco Law, to unpack what he lea...
Animal Cruelty's Connection to Domestic Violence & More with Joyce Glass
Animal cruelty is often dismissed as “someone else’s problem,” but it frequently overlaps with violence in the home. Attorney Joyce Glass joins us to discuss the legal and human realities behind cruelty investigations and why they can serve as ...
CopyCatch to Stop eCommerce Infringement Profitably with Alan Li & Nicholas Lee
Copycats do not just steal a product. They steal momentum, cashflow, and confidence. When Alan Li’s e-commerce brand went viral during COVID, hundreds of counterfeit and knockoff listings appeared across Amazon and other marketplaces, undercutt...
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Empathy, Culture, & Strength for a Successful Firm with Megan C. Kiefer
“All-gas no-brakes” sounds like a slogan until you hear what it looks like in real cases. We’re joined by Megan Kiefer, a Louisiana trial attorney known for relentless advocacy, a client-first philosophy, and a courtroom reputation that helps h...
The AND Approach for a fuller life as a Law Firm Owner with Gary Mitchell
If you’re running a law firm that depends on you for every decision, every client relationship, and every late-night “quick task,” you’re not leading a business you’re carrying a bottleneck. Marilyn Jenkins sits down with law firm coach Gary Mi...
Navigating Complex Life Insurance Claims with Stephanie Prestridge
Your family can pay every premium on time and still get a letter that says, “We’re not paying.” That moment is where estate planning meets the hard reality of life insurance claims and it’s exactly what we dig into with Stephanie Prestridge, fo...
Your Intake Costing Your Firm Thousands. Fix It with Sou Bounlutay
You can buy leads all day and still feel like your phone is ringing for someone else. That’s the painful reality behind a stat that should make every law firm owner pause: many firms lose the majority of the clients they already paid to acquire...
From Reactive to Proactive Business Owner with Chris Papin
Your calendar isn't the problem, your priorities are. In this episode, JD/CPA Chris Papin shares practical strategies for law firm owners to take control of their time, align their schedules with business goals, and stop getting stuck in "techn...
