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Built for legal professionals, the show shares practical insights on leadership, operations, marketing, growth, and firm success.

10/16/2026

❤️ Have Law Firms Forgotten What the Work Is Really About?

“Plaintiff law firms have turned into more of a business than a law firm and I don't know that that always serves the interests of the clients.”

Ryan Wechsler, co-founder of Wechsler & Wechsler, challenges the idea that growth and revenue should be the only measures of a successful law firm.

For Ryan, some things matter beyond the numbers:
❤️ Pride in the work product
⚖️ Fighting hard for clients
🤝 Making a difference in people's lives
🏆 Striving to be the best at what you do

His argument isn't that money doesn't matter. It's that the quality of the work comes first.

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10/15/2026

⚖️ What Does the Insurance Carrier Already Know About You?

A personal injury attorney's reputation can start influencing a case long before anyone steps into a courtroom.

In the latest episode of Trial Lawyer View, Jason Lazarus sits down with Ryan Wechsler, co-founder of Wechsler & Wechsler, for a conversation shaped by Ryan's years on the defense side and his experience now handling litigation.

Ryan saw firsthand how defense firms discussed plaintiff lawyers internally, including which attorneys were aggressive, which ones pushed cases, and which ones had a reputation for settling.

That experience led to a simple but important lesson: carriers are paying attention.
Ryan also shares how he built a growing firm with his wife, why he believes the work at intake affects the outcome at trial, what officiating Division 1 basketball taught him about handling courtroom pressure, and where he believes AI actually adds value in a law firm.

💡 What you'll hear:
✓ How defense firms evaluate the lawyers they face
✓ Why settlement timing can become part of an attorney's reputation
✓ What makes a case more likely to go to trial
✓ Why firm-wide preparation starts at intake
✓ Where AI helps and where Ryan believes firms should pull back

🗣️ “There are some things that transcend money and materiality. Having pride in what you do in the work product that you put out in the lives that you're able to touch and help that transcends money.”

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10/14/2026

🤝 Your Toughest Opponent Might Become Your Biggest Referral Source

“A guy I tried a case against who I fought with for three years I mean we wanted to rip each other's throats out literally he ended up referring a relative to me like after we already went to trial and everything.”

Ryan Wechsler, co-founder of Wechsler & Wechsler, shares a story that says a lot about what reputation really means in litigation.

After three years of fighting a case, the opposing attorney ultimately referred a relative to Ryan.
The lesson:
⚖️ You don't have to agree with opposing counsel to earn their respect.
💪 How you fight matters.
🤝 Professional credibility can outlast a single case.
📣 Your reputation extends beyond the clients you represent.

As Ryan puts it, the goal isn't necessarily to be liked. It's to be respected.

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10/09/2026

💰 Carriers Are Watching When You Fold

“They keep metrics on the plaintiff lawyers about the timing of how they settle and when they settle and for what amount and what kind of a case it is so they kind of get a feel for where you are on that spectrum as an attorney.”

Ryan Wechsler, co-founder of Wechsler & Wechsler, saw these metrics from the defense side. And what carriers learn about a lawyer can directly affect how they approach negotiations.

Here's what he's unpacking:
📈 Settlement timing becomes part of your profile.
👀 Carriers develop a sense of where you fall on the spectrum.
⚖️ A reputation for pushing cases changes the conversation.
💰 The willingness to fight can pay dividends for clients over the long term.

The reputation you build case by case can follow you into the next negotiation.
Coming soon on Trial Lawyer View.

10/07/2026

🛡️ Defense Firms Were Already Rating the Lawyers Across the Table

“And I when I was reading those emails as a young lawyer I already knew I wanted to go to the plaintiff's side and I said I want to be in that group”

Ryan Wechsler, co-founder of Wechsler & Wechsler, spent years on the defense side seeing exactly how defense firms evaluated the lawyers they faced.

What stood out:
👀 Lawyers developed reputations within defense firms.
📊 Those reputations were based on how they handled their cases.
⚖️ The lawyers who were known for pushing cases stood out.
💰 Ryan wanted to be in that group.

Coming soon on Trial Lawyer View.

10/02/2026

🔎 The One-Minute Test Shim Hirsh Says Every Firm Owner Should Try

A simple question that can expose a serious data visibility problem

💬 “Walk over to any person inside of a firm who actually owns a caseload, who manages a caseload, who's responsible for a caseload. Ask them to pull up a random one of their files. Just scroll and click and ask them where is this case at right now and what needs to be done next?”

In this 100th conversation on Trial Lawyer View, Hirsh shares a remarkably simple way to test whether your firm's case data is actually giving your team the visibility they need.

👀 See whether the status of a case is immediately clear
🧠 Watch for employees relying on memory to explain what's happening
📊 Identify where important information becomes difficult to find
📋 Look beyond intake at what happens after a case is signed

If your team has to remember where a case stands instead of seeing it clearly in the system, that's worth investigating.

And what better episode to put that question to the test than Episode 100?

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09/28/2026

100 Episodes In. And the Questions Are Getting Better.

The 100th episode of Trial Lawyer View takes on a problem that has become increasingly important as technology moves deeper into law firm operations:

What if the technology isn't actually the problem?

Jason Lazarus sits down with Shim Hirsh, Founder of Betterworks, to explore the operational blind spots that can hide millions in lost revenue.

Hirsh draws from his experience managing operations across more than 100,000 active cases at Morgan & Morgan, including one New York firm whose intake conversion problem was costing an estimated $2.5 million in inventory value every year.

And that's just where the conversation starts.

Shim breaks down how to test your firm's data visibility, why cases can become opaque after intake, what firms should ask before buying AI or new software, and why the real work often happens in the interpretation and orchestration layer surrounding the technology.

A few questions this conversation tackles:

📊 Do you actually know your firm's true intake conversion rate?
🔎 Can your team tell you where a random case stands without relying on memory?
⚙️ What happens to information after it enters your systems?
🤖 Are your AI investments tied to measurable outcomes?
💰 Are you solving the underlying problem, or simply buying another tool?

For a milestone episode, we couldn't think of a better conversation than one that asks firms to stop, look at what's actually happening inside their operations, and question the assumptions behind their next technology decision.

🎧 Listen to this special episode now: https://partnerwithsynergy.com/podcast/shim-hirsh/

09/25/2026

Coming Next week, don’t miss this 🌟100th conversation🌟 on Trial Lawyer View.

🏠 Before You Buy a New CMS, Ask One Question

💬 “Switching CMSs is not always the problem. I would urge folks to really think about what is the core problem you're trying to solve.”

In this special episode of Trial Lawyer View, Shim Hirsh, Founder of Betterworks, challenges one of the most common assumptions firms make about technology: that a new platform will fix what isn't working.

The problem may be somewhere else.
🔍 The process behind the platform
📊 The data your team can actually see
⚙️ The habits and workflows built around your software
💡 The problem you're trying to solve in the first place

09/23/2026

🚨 75% of AI Work Isn't Actually AI

💬 “Seventy-five percent of the time that I spend and that our team spends is not on the core intelligence AI feature stuff. It's on what I call the interpretation layer and the orchestration layer, which is system design.”

Shim Hirsh, Founder of Betterworks, explains why the real value of AI isn't simply choosing the right technology. It's figuring out how that technology actually works inside a firm's existing systems.

⚙️ Where AI output actually goes after it's generated
🧩 How firms build the systems around AI that make it useful
📊 Why technology implementation needs to be tied to measurable outcomes
🎯 Why the real value comes from what happens after the technology is delivered

For law firms looking beyond the AI hype and toward measurable results, the orchestration layer may be where the real work begins.

Coming soon on Trial Lawyer View.

09/18/2026

🥃 Confidence, Failure, and Learning the Hard Way

Chris F.N. Rose, Esq. on why making mistakes can become one of the most valuable parts of building something new

💬 “I wake up drunk on confidence every morning like that's just who I am and I think a lot of that comes from just not having been proven wrong enough times and when I do make a mistake I'm able to learn from it.”

Rose shares a candid perspective on confidence, failure, and what happens when you stop letting mistakes define you.

🧠 Confidence can help you take action when others hesitate
📚 Mistakes become valuable when you learn from them
🔄 Being wrong can reveal what needs to change
🚀 A willingness to experiment can create momentum

The goal isn't to avoid every mistake. It's to learn quickly when one happens.

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