Elawvate Podcast
1) Try Good Cases, Be Great Teammates, with Pat Salvi II
The list of wins is long: $363 million on a toxics exposure case; $148 million on a paralysis case, $79 million on a police pursuit case; $75 on a brain injury case. But the philosophy at Salvi, Schos...Show More
2) Gideon Asen Record $25M Med-Mal Verdict, with Ben Gideon and Meryl Poulin
In med-mal cases, the defense often argues that a defendant couldn’t have anticipated a patient’s unusual problem. When a 15-year-old girl died from complications of undiagnosed lymphoma, the plaintif...Show More
3) “Best Of” 2025: A Visit with Inner Circle Legend Charla Aldous
Earlier this year, hosts Ben Gideon and Rahul Ravipudi welcomed a “force of nature” to “Elawvate.” She’s also known as Charla Aldous, founder of Aldous Law. The episode remains one of the podcast’s mo...Show More
4) Truths about Leaving a Firm, with Ben Gideon & Jeff Wright
"Anybody who tells you that leaving a law firm is an easy process is lying to you," says Ben Gideon. To lay out the unvarnished truth, Ben shares his experience leaving a 17-year partnership to launch...Show More
5) When Your Experts Get It Wrong, with Chuck Hehmeyer and Elizabeth Kayatta
“We had to say, ‘Hey, we're going to be honest with you here. For a long time, we had this wrong, and our experts had it wrong.’” That’s the theme that Chuck Hehmeyer and Elizabeth Kayatta emphasized ...Show More
6) Are You Speaking with an Authentic Voice at Trial? With Jeremy D'Amico
Jeremy D'Amico describes how his authentic trial voice transformed difficult facts into compelling narratives that yielded major verdicts: $45 million for a speeding Marine who wasn't wearing his moto...Show More
7) AI that Helps You Work Smarter for Clients, with Will Davis and Ed Kirk
“Occasionally, we will introduce our listeners to a new product that's designed to help trial lawyers do a better job for their clients and their practices,” host Ben Gideon explains as he kicks off t...Show More
8) Winning $27.7 Million from Conservative Jurors, with John Heenan
“It is not easy to get substantial damage awards from Montana jurors,” says John Heenan of Billings-based Heenan & Cook. Yet conservative Montana jurors awarded $27.7 million in his negligence case ag...Show More
9) Defense Timelines vs. Medical Truth w/ Chris Nace & Samantha Peters
Medical records meticulously documented the routine endoscopy that went wrong, ending tragically in the patient’s death. But when Chris Nace and Samantha Peters took the case to trial, they were confr...Show More
10) How Bad Faith Turned $1M into $56M, with Rahul Ravipudi
The jiu-jitsu club had a $1 million insurance policy, but when an instructor accidentally rendered a new student an incomplete quadriplegic, the carrier put its interest above their own insured’s – an...Show More