Agile Attorney Podcast

The Agile Attorney podcast teaches legal professionals how to streamline their legal workflows using the principles, practices, and tools of the Kanban Method. Join Accredited Kanban Trainer and award-winning legal operations professional John E. Grant as he shares the keys to implementing effective strategies, practices, and technologies to drive true efficiency in your legal processes. For more information on how John can help you develop an agile mindset and bust through your legal delivery bottlenecks, visit https://agileattorney.com.This is the show for you if you find yourself asking questions like:-How can I make my law practice more efficient?-What is the best way to implement legal project management in my legal workflow?-How can I best leverage technology to improve my legal workflows?-What is the best way to transition my practice to flat fees or other alternative billing structures?-How can I get my legal team to perform better?-How can I better build productized legal services?-What is the best way to increase law firm revenue without adding headcount?

065. Scale Your Practice with a Mesh Management Approach
Apr 15, 2025 – 23:46
064. The Dental Chair Theory of Lawyering
Apr 8, 2025 – 30:40
063. Legal Automation Pitfalls: Are You Meeting Client Needs?
Apr 1, 2025 – 34:33
062. Delegation Pitfalls: When Legal Work Goes Too Deep or Too Wide
Mar 25, 2025 – 28:50
061. Delivering Your Legal Work: Direct Flight or Long Layover?
Mar 18, 2025 – 20:57
060. Practical Uses for Legal AI - No Hype, No Fear with Damien Riehl
Mar 11, 2025 – 48:46
059. Stop Billing and Start Pricing with Jonathan Stark
Mar 4, 2025 – 46:14
058. The Key to Happier Lawyering with Brita Long
Feb 25, 2025 – 47:55
057. Is Your Engagement Agreement Scaring Your Clients?
Feb 18, 2025 – 34:50
056. Less Is More: Why WIP Limits Boost Legal Productivity
Feb 11, 2025 – 28:44
055. Fixing the Client Homework Bottleneck
Feb 4, 2025 – 37:52
054. Action without Action with Tim Lennon
Jan 28, 2025 – 46:08
053. Time Management Strategies You Need: Calendar Blocking and Calendar Bucketing
Jan 21, 2025 – 31:05
052. Making Daily Standups Work in Your Law Practice
Jan 16, 2025 – 35:52
051. Matter Management Meetings Suck. Do This Instead.
Jan 9, 2025 – 30:12
050. Flat Fee Pricing for Lawyers with Elise Buie and Emery Wager
Jan 2, 2025 – 55:22
049. Lessons from Old Hollywood: Why Flat-Fee Legal Work Is Nothing New
Dec 26, 2024 – 20:14
048. The Obvious Switch to Value Pricing with Jonathan Stark
Dec 19, 2024 – 50:28
047. How Kanban Creates Capacity Liquidity in Your Law Firm with Richard Hoare
Dec 12, 2024 – 01:16:30
046. Improving Legal Workflows without New Technology
Dec 5, 2024 – 34:35
045. Agile Access to Justice, Leveraging Process Improvement to Serve the Underserved
Nov 28, 2024 – 40:29
044. Kanban Made Easy: A Lawyer's Guide to Visual Task Management
Nov 21, 2024 – 32:27
043. The Right Way to Incentivize Your Team
Nov 14, 2024 – 30:39
042. Ditch Effective Hourly Rates: How to Calculate Matter-Level Profit
Nov 7, 2024 – 40:45
041. How to Transition From Hourly Billing To Flat Fees, One Phase at a Time
Oct 31, 2024 – 40:40
040. Legal Workflow Management and Matter Management Are Not the Same Thing
Oct 24, 2024 – 26:45
039. Productive With Dollar Signs, with Clarke Ching
Oct 17, 2024 – 43:01
038. Delivering Effective Feedback to Legal Teams
Oct 10, 2024 – 28:01
037. Putting the ‘Flow’ Back into Workflow
Oct 3, 2024 – 28:23
036. What To Do When I’m the Bottleneck with Melissa Shanahan and Ben Hudson
Sep 26, 2024 – 58:38
035. Two Heads Are Better: How Coworking Sessions Can Improve Law Firm Efficiency
Sep 19, 2024 – 27:16
034. Short-Term Efficiency Can Hurt Long-Term Goals
Sep 12, 2024 – 24:51
033. Connecting with Your Clients’ "Why"
Sep 5, 2024 – 20:51
032. Organize Your Law Practice for Business Success with Michael Clarke
Aug 29, 2024 – 42:12
031. Tech Improvement Should Be Step 3. Don’t Skip Steps 1 & 2.
Aug 22, 2024 – 26:53
030. From Solo to CEO: Lessons in Building a People-First Law Firm with Justie Nicol
Aug 15, 2024 – 45:32
029. Getting Team Buy-in for Change
Aug 8, 2024 – 28:47
028. 3 Signs Your Law Practice Is Over Capacity
Aug 1, 2024 – 20:07
027. The Advantages of a First-In, First-Out Policy
Jul 25, 2024 – 23:02
026. Start with What You Do Now
Jul 18, 2024 – 17:21
025. Following Your Law Firm Strategic Plan with Melissa Shanahan
Jul 11, 2024 – 40:27
024. Sticking with Change When Change Gets Hard
Jul 4, 2024 – 16:52
023. Roots of the Lawyer Shortage
Jun 27, 2024 – 22:37
022. How to Write Effective Law Firm Policies
Jun 20, 2024 – 27:09
021. You Can't Scale Your Way Out of a Sustainability Problem
Jun 13, 2024 – 24:20
020. The “Really Check:” Fostering Accountability with Jess Birken & Meghan Heitkamp
Jun 6, 2024 – 28:12
019. Fit for Purpose: Designing Legal Services To Meet Client Needs
May 30, 2024 – 26:19
018. Understanding "Jobs To Be Done" to Unlock Hidden Client Needs
May 23, 2024 – 32:40
017. How Minimum Viable Products Can Improve Efficiency AND Quality
May 16, 2024 – 21:20
016. Aligning Your Firm's People and Systems with Tim Lennon
May 9, 2024 – 41:21

Recent Reviews

Jennie era

Favorite attorney podcast

I listen to a lot of podcasts for attorneys and this is my favorite. It’s extremely helpful and well organized, and John gets right to the point.
SarinaG

Refreshing

Thanks for the show. So nice to hear others discussing these topics.
NPOCounsel

Great to see this in my feed again!

What a treat to see new episodes showing up again. Welcome back, John. Not that I hated having to track you down on other peoples’ podcasts, but it’s great to see you putting out content on your channel again.
crankshaft333

Highly recommended

John Grant is one of my favorite speakers about agile, law practice, and the future of law. Highly recommend this and his agile attorney materials.