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Charon QC Lawcasts: United States and Canadian lawyers
The Charon lawcasts are hosted on Insite Law Magazine. You will be taken to the Insite Law magazine page for each of the podcasts below.
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Lawcast 114: Gerry Riskin, founder of Edge International - Law practice in these recessionary times
Today I’m talking to Gerry Riskin, a Canadian lawyer and Business School graduate with a global reputation.
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Lawcast 93: Judge John L Kane on the war on drugs
Today I am talking to John L. Kane , a senior District Judge in Denver, Colorado, United States. John has very robust views on the War on drugs and the antiquated Rules of Civil Procedure and the extent to which judges have stopped adjudicating in courts in order to meet the Tsunami of data generated in this information age.
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Lawcast 111: US lawyer Dan Harris on China
Today I m talking to Dan Harris, a US lawyer, a co-founder of law firm Harris & Moure in Seattle, Washington and co-author with law firm partner Steve Dickinson of the China Law Blog.
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Lawcast 105: Ron Baker on Value pricing, value billing and the billable hour
Today I am talking to Ronald J. Baker who started his accounting career in 1984 with KPMG Peat Marwick’s Private Business Advisory Services in San Francisco. Today, he is the founder of VeraSage Institute, a think tank dedicated to teaching Value Pricing to professionals around the world
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Lawcast 100: Dan Hull, founder of US law firm Hull McGuire on the credit-crunch, law firms and the future
Welcome to my 100th Podcast interview with movers, shakers, practitioners and pundits from the wonderful world of law… practice and academe.
Today I am talking to Dan Hull, founder of Hull McGuire PC with Julie McGuire. Dan, A litigator and lobbyist with life-long professional ties to Washington, D.C practices in the areas of commercial litigation (primarily U.S. federal courts and ADR abroad), environmental law, employment practices law, and legislative affairs. He is also the founder of the well known and well regarded WhatAbout Clients? Blog which, at weekends turns itself into the WhatAboutParis? Blog.
We talk about The credit-crunch - law firm redundancies - the 'knowledge gap' - the Billable hour v Flat fee controversy and more...
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Lawcast 94: US lawyer Victoria Pynchon on ADR, mediation and settlement in the USA
Today I am talking to Victoria Pynchon, a US lawyer based in Los Angeles, California. She was a commercial litigator and trial attorney for 24 years before shifting her practice from representing clients in court to helping lawyers settle lawsuits hat involve greater risk, expense or time than their clients wish to expend. She this work through Judicate West Dispute Resolution Services, serves as a private judge (arbitrator) for the American Arbitration Association is an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University and blogs at IP ADR and Settle it now. Interestingly Vicky also acts as a sherpa for Blawg Review the international rolling carnival of law bloggers and is on Twitter
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Lawcast 90: Mark Bennett, a criminal defense lawyer from Texas on the jury and the art of advocacy
Today I am talking to Mark Bennett, a lawyer from Houston, Texas who specializes in Criminal defense work. Mark is also the author of the Defending People blog - the art and science of criminal defense trial lawyering.
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Lawcast 89: In conversation with US attorney Cathy Gellis
Today I’m talking to Cathy Gellis, a US attorney from California, author of the Statements of Interest blog and who is also exploring the delights of twitter.
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Lawcast 87: With US lawyer Kevin O’Keefe on Twitter et al.
Today I am talking to US Attorney Kevin O’Keefe. Kevin, CEO of LexBlog, Inc., was a trial lawyer for 17 years. Practicing law in rural Wisconsin, he successfully marketed his own law firm on the Internet in a such a positive way that USA Today said “If O’Keefe isn’t careful, he may wind up giving lawyers a good name. Kevin is also the author of Real Lawyers Have Blogs - a leading source of information on the use of blogs and social media for law firm marketing.
Twitter is the application of 2008 and it looks as if growth will increase in 2009. I’m on Twitter myself and I can tell listeners that Kevin is a serial Twitterer, pumping out tweets on law, information, marketing… with the enthusiasm of a machine gunner in a Cobra attack helicopter.
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Lawcast 84 : Brian Tannebaum, US Attorney on Criminal Defense in Miami, Florida
Today I am talking to Brian Tannebaum a US attorney who practises in Miami, Florida as a criminal defense lawyer. Brian is author of the Criminal Defense blog and has written a short book The Truth about hiring a Criminal Defense lawyer.
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Lawcast 82: With ‘Gideon’ - a US Public Defender….
Today I am talking to the author of the “A Public Defender’ blog who writes under the name of Gideon. For British listeners a quick trip to Wikipedia threw some light on the name Gideon “Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), is a landmark case in United States Supreme Court history.
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Lawcast 81: With US attorney Scott H Greenfield
Today I am talking to US Attorney and Counsellor at Law Scott H. Greenfield. For almost 25 years, Scott Greenfield has represented clients charged with crimes or the targets of investigations in state and federal courts across the United States. Scott is also a prolific blogger - Simple Justice
We cover a few matters relating to practice in the States, a quick look at the recent conviction of O J Simpson and then turn to legal marketing and Twitter.
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Podcast 79: Susan Cartier Liebel on the Solo Practice University in the US
Today I am talking to Susan Cartier Liebel a US Attorney, author of the Build a Solo Practice LLC blog in the States, and founder of the Solo Practice University - a very innovative concept for US lawyers to continue their training under the guidance of experts where their law school left off.
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Lawcast 66: Dan Hull, US Attorney, author of WAC?, on client service and other matters
LLawcast 5: An American lawyer in London. An interview with J Dan Hull, attorney and author of What About Clients?
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