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Welcome to the one and only podcast that's more thrilling than a last-minute court adjournment, 'The Successful Barrister! The podcast discusses marketing, management, and life skills for lawyers, which probably won't get you disbarred.

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March 4, 2025

Ep. 32 - Hiring, Firing, and Inspiring: Be a Great Boss

Do you think you’re a great boss? Most of us do, but being a great boss is deceptively difficult and takes practice. Today, Marc and Diana discuss the appropriately titled How to Be a Great Boss by Gino Wickman and René Boer....

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Feb. 18, 2025

Ep. 30 - How to Keep Your Top Talent

In today’s episode of the Successful Barrister, Marc and Diana discuss the Stay Interview, a concept introduced by Richard P. Finnegan. The idea of a stay interview is simple – companies conduct exit interviews to understand ...

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Feb. 4, 2025

Ep. 28 - AI Adoption: Future-Proof Your Firm

Is your firm afraid of AI? Or are you one of the many of firms who have adopted it? While AI has a mixed reputation in the legal industry, it can be extremely useful when applied responsibly. In today’s episode, Marc and Dian...

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April 29, 2025

Ep. 40 - Beyond the Briefs: Business Books Every Lawyer Should Read

Marc’s Top 10 Books, Ten Books for a Better Law Practice (And Business), Ten Books to Grow Your Firm Are you taking business advice from outside of the legal world? In today’s episode, Marc presents his top ten books for grow...

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April 22, 2025

Ep. 39 - Soft Skills, Hard Truths: Emotional Intelligence in Law Firms

Is People Intelligence, Getting Emotional: Improve Your Firm’s EQ Sometimes, the soft skills are the hard skills. While emotional intelligence may seem like a fluffy concept, it can have real benefits in your practice. In thi...

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April 15, 2025

Ep. 38 - Ten Books to Optimize Your Firm

In this episode of the Successful Barrister, Diana Berry presents a list of her top ten book recommendations for law firms. From general business tips to books specific to firms, Diana covers books that have helped her gain a...

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April 8, 2025

Ep. 37 - Sharpening Your Leadership Skills

Are you an effective executive? If you’re not sure, or even if you think you are, you can learn something from this episode of the Successful Barrister. In this conversation, Marc and Diana discuss leadership skills as concep...

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April 1, 2025

Ep. 36 - How To Keep an Employee for Thirty Years

Thirty-Year Working Relationship! How do you retain your top talent? Fostering working relationships that last can be complicated, but Marc has worked with his paralegal Mel for thirty years, so he must be doing something rig...

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March 25, 2025

Ep 35 - Build Your Legacy with the Infinite Game

In some ways, business can feel like a sport – there’s players, strategy, and to an extent, rules to play by to be successful. However, unlike a sport, business is not static; it does not have set p-layers, a set length, or a...

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