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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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March 18, 2025

Ep. 34 - A Quick Guide to Marketing

How do you get in front of the right clients? In today’s episode of the Successful Barrister Podcast, Marc and Diana discuss The One Page Marketing Plan as it relates to the marketing strategy of Marc Whitehead & Associates. ...

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March 11, 2025

Ep. 33 - Ten Strategies for Success

Success can be simple. In today’s episode, Marc and Diana offer ten simple strategies that have contributed to Marc’s success for your practice to adopt. From scalability to marketing, these tips will help you plan for your f...

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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. 25, 2025

Ep. 31 - How to Think Like a Leader

As a leader in your firm, you are not paid to get bogged down in the day-to-day tasks of your practice –you are paid to think. This can be difficult for many of us, because thinking is amorphous and unstructured. However, Pai...

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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. 11, 2025

Ep. 29 - Smarter, Faster, Better

Productivity might be even more important than you realize. As Marc describes it, productivity is about buying back your time – it allows you to work faster, make more money, and spend more time living the life you want to li...

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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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Jan. 28, 2025

Ep. 27 - How to be Brilliant in 2025

In this episode of the Successful Barrister, Diana and Marc give you the secrets to being brilliant. While that may sound a little far-fetched, they have the tools to do it; specifically, they are pulling from The Personal MB...

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Jan. 21, 2025

Ep. 26 - Beyond Resolutions: Setting Realistic Goals for Success

In this episode of the Successful Barrister, Diana and Marc discuss one of Marc’s biggest pet peeve: new years resolutions. Most people do not stick to their new years resolutions – they tend to be lofty and ill-defined, and ...

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Jan. 14, 2025

Ep. 25 - Lessons from the Atticus Summit

In this episode of the Successful Barrister, Diana and Marc are reviewing their top takeaways and presentations from the Atticus Summit they recently attended. Focusing on mental and physical health, the summit included a var...

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Jan. 7, 2025

Ep. 24 - Managing Your Focus, Not Your Time

Are you managing your time effectively? In this episode of the Successful Barrister Podcast, Marc and Diana give listeners their guide to managing your time (or focus) more effectively. Time management sets the best firms apa...

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Dec. 31, 2024

Ep. 23 - A Free Marketing Plan for 2025

Marc’s Marketing Plan, A Free Marketing Plan for 2025, Giving the Gift of Marketing Happy Holidays! In the spirit of the season, Marc has a gift for you in today’s mini-episode: a free copy of his marketing plan. He has prese...

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Dec. 24, 2024

Ep. 22 A Gift for You: Let’s Talk Shop!

Marc has a second gift for you! As he has discussed on the podcast, Marc is a coach for Atticus and helps lawyers build successful practices (not prisons). Normally, these courses cost money, but Marc is giving you a freebie ...

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Dec. 17, 2024

Ep. 21 - How to Double Your Revenue

Want to double your revenue? In this episode, Diana and Marc give you the tools to get there. These tools, the eight levers of profitability from the Atticus Double Your Revenue Workshop, are the key ways that your firm can i...

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Dec. 3, 2024

Ep. 19 - Why Attorneys Don't Hire All-Stars

In this episode, Marc Whitehead and Diana Berry discuss my many firms are afraid to hire all-star attorneys and how those firms can face their fears. Firms have three main concerns about all-star attorneys: they are costly, t...

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Nov. 26, 2024

Ep. 18 - Seven Habits of Highly Successful Lawyers

In this episode, Marc Whitehead and Diana Berry discuss the seven habits of highly effective lawyers. Based on the book by Stephen Covey, these habits are tailored to setting your firm up for success. Habits are important bec...

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Nov. 19, 2024

Ep. 17 - Necessary Endings: The Art of Breaking Up

In this episode, Marc Whitehead and Diana Berry discuss the book Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward is a book by Dr. Henry Cloud. Necessary ...

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