The Agile Attorney Podcast


If you’re like a lot of attorneys, one of the more significant sources of overwhelm in your law practice comes from the sheer volume of emails and other communications you have to process in the course of your day. Effective communication is always a hot topic and it plagues law

Ep #13: Taming Email Overwhelm

One of the hardest things to recognize in a law practice is how the default way in which lawyers approach and deliver their work creates barriers to access for everyday people trying to reach that lawyer’s services. So, how do you identify it and what can you do about it?In

Ep #12: Principles for Legal Design with Alexandra Devendra

For this episode, I continue with the theme of quality, specifically how focusing on better quality standards can improve the flow of work in your law practice while creating better outcomes for your clients.Today, I have two specific tools that work beautifully together and amount to a specific type of

Ep #11: The Definition of Done

Policies are those little rules and practices that, when followed, help make sure that you and your team are actually hewing to your values and consistently taking the steps necessary to create the value for your customer that you’ve promised them. If you don’t have any explicit policies, it becomes

Ep #10: Make Policies Explicit

What if the best way to improve the efficiency of your law practice is to not try to improve efficiency at all, but to focus on quality instead? This may sound paradoxical, but focusing on quality, not efficiency, is the key to unlocking more balanced workloads, smoother workflow, increased capacity,

Ep #9: Focus on Quality To Improve Efficiency

In today’s episode, I’m speaking with South Carolina consumer rights attorney and co-author of The Lean Law Firm, Dave Maxfield. Dave joins me today to provide an interesting look into how lawyers can adopt techniques from the Lean methodology to empower and improve their law practices.Lean and Agile share essential DNA,

Ep #8: Building the Lean Law Firm with Dave Maxfield

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