Bold Lawyer
Bold Lawyer
J.D. Houvener
This podcast is for owners/founders of law firms. The show will have guests on that have their own founders story and can share various topics about the business of law. I hope to uncover how other law firms do their hiring and firing, marketing and advertising, and what vendors they use, how they track performance and so on. My aim as the host is to learn as much as I can from other lawyers and get to know my guests along the way so we can help each other's clients too. 
Bold Lawyer: Len Garza of Garza Business Law
We had a blast with Len Garza of Garza Law based in New Jersey. He unloaded TONS of gold nuggets about his transition from big law to solo practice in 2020 at the peak of COVID. He goes through some amazing breakthroughs he has had as a result of getting solid business coaching on mindset and leadership training. He's set up his firm for success and has developed systems to help him grow. We discuss the fears he had, the cash-flow concerns, and how he was able to overcome them. We wrap up our...
Apr 10, 2024
33 min
Bold Lawyer: Jon Hood of Hood Venture Counsel, P.C.
I had the pleasure of interviewing a star founder, Jon Hood of Hood Venture Counsel. We chatted about his founder's story starting back in Law school, then going in-house and starting his own firm 10 years ago. Jon shares some solid gold nuggets about networking and drops 2-3 current day networking tools for implementing AI in your legal practice. You've gotta check it out!
Mar 5, 2024
32 min
Bold Lawyer: Paul Barrera of North City Law
J.D. and Matt from Bold get the chance to interview Paul Barerra, founder and owner at North City Law based near Seattle, WA. He tells his founder's story which is starts out with a funny twist with this background in financial/tax. He also shares some of his secret sauce with respect to digital marketing and shares how he started up a second location in up-state Anacortes, WA.
Feb 27, 2024
33 min
Bold Lawyer: Patrick Boyd of Boyd Law Group (BLG)
J.D. and Matt interview NY-based Employment Attorney, Patrick Boyd, founder of Boyd Law Group (BLG). He tells us his passionate story about why he got into the law and fell in love with employment law, specifically. He also gives some really sound advice to any new attorney looking to start their career. Patrick also gives some insight as to where his firm is headed in the future and we touch on AI-impacts a bit too.
Feb 14, 2024
32 min
Bold Lawyer: Ben Golden of Bend Golden Consulting, PLLC
J.D. and Matt had the opportunity to interview solo attorney, Ben Golden, to hear his story of his legal career and the advent of his own law practice. We learned that he came form big law, then went in-house for several years, and finally decided to open his own practice on his terms. Find out how in the podcast.
Dec 6, 2023
28 min
Bold Lawyer: Levi Barlavi, Founder of Pacific Health Law Group
J.D. and Matt got an opportunity to interview founder of Pacific Health Law Group, Levi Barlavi, to share his founder's story and let us inside the growth his law firm has had over the past 5-6 years. He also unveils his plans to grow in the coming 5 years and what key moves he made along the way to put him in the niche doctor buy/sell transaction market in the LA area.
Nov 14, 2023
32 min
Bold Attorney: Christopher Brown of NorthStar Law Group
J.D. and Matt talk with Christopher Brown, founder of NorthStar Law Group based in Olympia, WA. Chris lets us in on how he got started on his own and focuses on tax planning, as he has an LLM in taxation law. He offers some really good lessons about how he found ways to create a very systemized and process-based firm that suits his/his client's needs.
Nov 8, 2023
27 min
Bold Lawyer Spotlight: Austin Houvener, Partner of Toschi, Collins, Doyle & Houvener
I had the pleasure of interviewing my brother, Austin Houvener, named partner of CA litigation firm that focuses its work on insurance defense. Austin tells his story as well as a lot of detail about the business of law in a litigation firm.
Nov 1, 2023
32 min
Meet Bold Patents' Consulting Attorneys: Matt Kulseth and Michael Dodd
J.D. gets BOTH of Bold's consulting attorneys on the same show! Meet Michael Dodd, who has the opportunity of meeting with every Bold Patents inventor and Matt Kulseth who helps all Bold inventors with trademark protection. They each share their backgrounds, why they got into law, their educational and professional background. They share what you can expect to get out of a consultation with each of them.
Oct 4, 2023
30 min
Bold California Business Lawyer: Pankaj Raval of Carbon Law Group
J.D. and Matt had the opportunity to interview California business attorney, Pankaj Raval, founder of Carbon Law Group based in LA. We got to hear Pankaj tell his founder's story starting back when he was working in entertainment industry at MTV in law school, to joining an exclusive entertainment law firm and eventually finding his passion working with startups while supporting an incubator in the 2010s. Pankaj gives some great insight to building a remote team as well as some excellent busi...
Sep 20, 2023
29 min
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