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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 better understanding of Marc Whitehead & Associates and her role at…

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April 13, 2025

Promoting Without Preparing: The Hidden Risk in Your Firm

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April 10, 2025

Outsource It: Why Doing It All Is Holding You Back

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April 9, 2025

The Executive’s Guide to Time: Planning, Priorities, and Leadership

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April 8, 2025

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 conceptualized by Peter Drucker in his book The Effective Executive. Importantly, Drucker conceptualizes…

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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 conceptualized by Peter Drucker in his book The Effective Executive. Importantly, Drucker conceptualizes…

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April 6, 2025

The Power of Thinking Ahead: The Decision That Paid Off

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April 3, 2025

Building Your Legal Network: The Power of Paralegals

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April 2, 2025

From Paper to Pixels: The Evolution of Law Practice

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April 1, 2025

How To Keep an Employee for Thirty Years

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 right. On this first-ever guest cohost episode of Successful Barrister, Marc and Mel discuss why Mel stay for…

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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 right. On this first-ever guest cohost episode of Successful Barrister, Marc and Mel discuss why…

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March 30, 2025

Profit vs. Purpose: Do They Have to Be Separate?

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March 27, 2025

Unlock Your Legal Potential: Atticus Workshop Coming Soon!

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March 26, 2025

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 an endpoint. In this episode, Marc and Diana…

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March 26, 2025

The Infinite Mindset: Embracing Change in Leadership

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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 an endpoint. In this episode, Marc and Diana…

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March 23, 2025

Contingency Marketing: Making a Lasting Impact

Watch The Full Episode for more insights: The Successful Barrister - Ep 34 #owner #businessowner #lawfirm #lawyer #barrister Check us out on Spotify or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts, just simply type in "The Successful Barrister Show" 🎙 👉 https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Vohlj2dHbGdyUtUY026b2?si=nkwi7teYRTClfn2_K_SzWg

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March 20, 2025

Marketing That Sticks: What Really Catches Attention

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March 19, 2025

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 firm’s future instead of getting caught up with in the whirlwind of day-to-day…

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March 19, 2025

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. Lots of firms are stuck in the past with their marketing,…

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March 19, 2025

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. They dive into the appropriate balance of friendliness…

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March 19, 2025

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, Paid to Think: A Leader’s Toolkit for Redefining Your…

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March 19, 2025

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 why employees are leaving, but if they had that information before they left, they…

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March 18, 2025

Crafting a Powerful USP: The Promise That Drives Our Brand

Watch The Full Episode for more insights: The Successful Barrister - Ep 34 #owner #businessowner #lawfirm #lawyer #barrister Check us out on Spotify or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts, just simply type in "The Successful Barrister Show" 🎙 👉 https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Vohlj2dHbGdyUtUY026b2?si=nkwi7teYRTClfn2_K_SzWg

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