Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers

About Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers

Counsel to Counsel is a periodic podcast produced by Stephen Seckler of Seckler Attorney Coaching (www.seckler.com). It addresses important career, marketing, and leadership issues facing attorneys. The target audience is associates, counsel and partners at law firms of all sizes; but the podcast also addresses issues that are relevant to in-house counsel, law students or any lawyer who is looking for career insights inside or outside of the law. Counsel to Counsel is aimed at individual lawyers who are looking to increase their own career satisfaction and build their marketing and leadership skills. The podcast features interviews with leading consultants, career professionals and marketing experts who advise attorneys on careers, marketing, law firm management and related issues. The guests are also a roster of successful attorneys who have found career satisfaction inside and outside the law. Counsel to Counsel is a direct outgrowth of the blog Counsel to Counsel which Stephen Seckler has been publishing since 2005. Since graduating from law school in the late 1980s, Stephen Seckler has been advising lawyers on career and marketing issues and working with a broad mix of law firms and corporate law departments. He began blogging when legal blogging was in its infancy and his blog Counsel to Counsel was named to the ABA Journal's Blawg 100 in 2007 and 2008 (the first two years that list was in existence). Steve has written extensively on career and marketing issues and he has spoken at many law school, law firm and bar association events. He served on the Boston Bar Association's Standing Committee on Work Life Balance and was Vice Chair of the Law Practice Management Section of the Massachusetts Bar Association. He is active in the, the ProVisors business network, sits on the Career Center Board of the American Bar Association, and on the editorial boards of the ABA publications GPSolo and GPSolo eReport. He has been quoted frequently in the legal and business press. Since 2021, he has been named a top coach in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Reader Rankings Awards (#1 or #2 for Business Development Coach, Lawyer Outplacement Service, and Executive Coaching). He is the author of Think Like a Lawyer, Act Like an Entrepreneur (American Bar Association, 2025).

Publisher

Stephen Seckler: attorney career, marketing and leadership coach

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Nov 2019

Latest episode

26 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

64 of 161 episodes have a transcript.

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   26 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 186: Building a Law Practice by Design, Not by Default with Susan Guthrie

   Host [Host Name] interviews Susan Guthrie, a practice-building strategist, about intentionally designing a law practice for greater satisfaction and future success.

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   12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 185: Why Lawyers Resist AI and How Law Firms Can Overcome It, with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

   Host [Host Name] interviews behavioral scientist Dr. Gleb Tsipursky about overcoming lawyers' psychological barriers to AI adoption for successful integration in law firms.

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   27 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 184-Stepping Off the Treadmill: Ginny Johnson on Sabbaticals, Career Transitions, and the Future of Legal Careers

   Host [Host Name] interviews Ginny Johnson, a partner at Outside GC, about her career transition, sabbatical, and the future of legal careers shaped by AI.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 186: Building a Law Practice by Design, Not by Default with Susan Guthrie

Published 26 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You know what it wasn't? Very exciting. It was awful. I was sitting there Got those, you know, contracts that were a foot deep and a highlighter to go through them. So as I said, that only lasted nine months. And then I did start as a divorce attorney, a family law attorney, a pretty traditional litigator because I started 35 years ago, which at that time, I think the at least family law was pretty traditional. and approached from that litigation process structure. But after doing that for about 20 years and realizing that the legal system, although it works well for car accidents and breach of contract and that type of dispute, the litigation system isn't really a great way to restructure families. […]

Who has been a guest on Counsel to Counsel - Career Advice for Lawyers

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Susan Guthrie
• Dr Gleb Tsipursky
• Ginny Johnson
• Shireen Hilal
• Larry Richard

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

243

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

16 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

92

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

85

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