The Renegade Lawyer Podcast

Updated: 17 Jun 2025 • 169 episodes
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I am more convinced than ever that nothing that traditional bar organizations are doing is going to move the needle on the sad stats on lawyer happiness ... The root cause of all lawyers' problems is financial stress. Financial stress holds you back from getting the right people on the bus, running the right systems, and being able to only do work for clients you want to work with. Financial stress keeps you in the office on nights and weekends, often doing work you hate for people you don't like, and doing that work alone. (Yes, you have permission to do only work you like doing and doing it with people you like working with.) The money stress is not because the lawyers are bad lawyers or bad people. In fact, most lawyers are good at the lawyering part and they are good people. The money stress is caused by the general lack of both business skills and an entrepreneurial mindset. Thus, good lawyers who are good people get caught up and slowed down in bringing their gifts to the world. Their families, teams, clients, and communities are not well-served because you can't serve others at your top level when you are constantly worrying about money. We can blame the law schools and the elites of the profession who are running bar organizations, but to blame anyone else for your own woes is a loser's game. It is, in itself, a restrictive, narrow, mindset that will keep you from ever seeing, let alone experiencing, a better future. Lawyers need to be in rooms with other entrepreneurs. They need to hang with people who won't tell you that your dreams are too big or that "they" or "the system "won't allow you to achieve them. They need to be in rooms where people will be in their ear telling them that their dreams are too small. Get in better rooms. That would be the first step. Second step, ignore every piece of advice any general organized bar is giving about how to make your firm or your life better.

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 In Chapter 10 of Renegade Lawyer Marketing (Second Edition), Ben Glass shares one of the most powerful truths in this whole book: your mindset determines your business success. That’s not just feel-good talk—it’s backed by results. In this episode, you’ll hear:Why mindset matters more than tactics in long-term success

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This is Chapter 9 of the free audio edition of Renegade Lawyer Marketing (Second Edition)—only on the Renegade Lawyer Podcast. In this short but important mindset chapter, Ben Glass breaks down new survey data showing how most small firm lawyers spend their time—and what they should be thinking about if they want to gr

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🎧 This is Chapter 8 of the free audio edition of Renegade Lawyer Marketing (Second Edition)—only on the Renegade Lawyer Podcast. In the first edition of the book, Ben Glass claimed that big firms—the “800-pound gorillas”—don’t understand marketing. In this updated chapter, he confesses: he was wrong. Today’s gorillas

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This is Chapter 7 of the free audio edition of Renegade Lawyer Marketing (Second Edition)—only on the Renegade Lawyer Podcast. In Part Two of this eye-opening series, Ben Glass takes you even deeper into the world of shady marketing deals, overpromised results, and expensive lead-gen schemes that cost lawyers thousands

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This is Chapter 6 of the free audio edition of Renegade Lawyer Marketing (Second Edition)—only on the Renegade Lawyer Podcast. What’s the biggest danger to a small law firm? It’s not the bar. It’s not Google. It’s the marketing vultures. In this episode, Ben Glass exposes the shady pitches, scare tactics, and empty pro

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This is Chapter 5 of the free audio edition of Renegade Lawyer Marketing (Second Edition)—only on the Renegade Lawyer Podcast. In this episode, Ben Glass tells the story of how one local bar president tried to shut down his presentation to young lawyers, less than 24 hours before he was scheduled to speak. Why? Because

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