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Elawvate Where trial lawyers learn, share and grow. Founders and podcast co-hosts:Benjamin R. Gideon (Gideon Asen LLC) and Rahul Ravipudi (Panish Shea & Boyle LLP)

Every firm has a few people whose judgment you'd want to clone — and a few whose habits you wouldn't. Sara Cordrey says ...
09/03/2026

Every firm has a few people whose judgment you'd want to clone — and a few whose habits you wouldn't. Sara Cordrey says the design challenge for legal AI is capturing the expertise of your most experienced people without letting everyone else's shortcuts creep in. Built well, a firm's systems reflect its best judgment, not its learning curve.

Gideon Asen LLC

📌 Hear how she thinks about encoding institutional knowledge.



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What if the misses weren't about bad doctors, but about missing information? After seeing gaps in population health data...
09/01/2026

What if the misses weren't about bad doctors, but about missing information? After seeing gaps in population health data at McKinsey, Sara Cordrey realized no one ever had the full patient story in front of them. That pushed her to build software that could make sense of a stack of medical records and surface the details a case turns on.

📌 Hear how a data problem became the idea for a company.



Gideon Asen LLC

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How many inquiries does it take to land one case worth keeping? For selective firms, the answer is a lot — and that real...
08/24/2026

How many inquiries does it take to land one case worth keeping? For selective firms, the answer is a lot — and that reality has to be built into your staffing, not treated as an afterthought. Capacity on the front end is what makes selectivity survivable.

📌 Hear how the team scaled without burning out the staff.



Gideon Asen LLC

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Can you run intake without lawyers? Partly. The phone work, the data entry, the first pass — a trained non-attorney can ...
08/22/2026

Can you run intake without lawyers? Partly. The phone work, the data entry, the first pass — a trained non-attorney can handle all of it. What has to route through an attorney is the judgment call: is this actually a viable claim? Build your funnel around that one hand-off.

📌 Listen for how the firm structures the attorney's role in intake.



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