Legal Grounds | Conversations on Life, Leadership & Law

About Legal Grounds | Conversations on Life, Leadership & Law

After over three decades in the legal-trenches, Mike Bassett has learned to appreciate two things: good conversation & good coffee. Legal Grounds is an ongoing series of interviews with the people who are shaping our world - legal or otherwise. Witty, irreverent, & always thoughtful, these brief discussions fall somewhere between “Night Court” & Hopper’s “Nighthawks At The Diner”. With that in mind, we promise your coffee will still be warm when the podcast is done. (Legal Grounds was written, recorded, and produced by Dust Devil Press)

Publisher

Mike H. Bassett

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

23 Jun 2020

Latest episode

17 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

4 of 210 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   17 Dec 2025

   Legal Grounds | John R. Miles on Leading with Your Feet, Why Your Circumstance Doesn't Define You, & the Nuances of Situational Leadership

   As we approach the New Year, it's almost inevitable that we’ll find ourselves taking stock of all that came and went in the year prior. For most of us, this happens because we are trying to pinpoint those things we hope to improve on over the next 12 months. But as my guest and I discuss in today's episode, when it comes to leadership, these sorts of ‘self-audits’ tend to focus inward, when sometimes we need to take stock of the people and peers we choose to surround ourselves w...

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   10 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Legal Grounds | Brent Turman on the Portrayal and Practice of Law, Being Willing to Adjust the Narrative, & the Outsized Impact of Unseen Work.

   When someone asks what I ‘do’ for a living, there are times I want to respond with, “I tell stories.” After all, most attorneys spend their time trying to get the “full picture” of what’s happening in a given case, and the best narratives give us just that. Now, unfortunately, somewhere along the way the expression, “telling stories”, became short-hand for “making stuff up”, and since there’s already plenty of jokes about lawyers’ relationship with the truth, my answer is typically a ...

3. 

   12 Nov 2025

   Legal Grounds | Nermin Jasani on Why You Can’t Automate Your Way Out of Responsibility, How Humor Builds Trust, & Learning the Economics of Law

   For as much as we all joke about the, "kids these days" mentality that every generation seems to have in one form or another, for most of human history this sentiment was often more anecdotalI than anything else. Typically we see youth as a combination of 'risky behavior' mixed with 'poor decision-making' - a dangerous cocktail to be certain - but trying something new at ANY stage of life will often look foolish to those on the outside. The question each of us faces, then, i...

Inside a recent episode

Legal Grounds | Brent Turman on the Portrayal and Practice of Law, Being Willing to Adjust the Narrative, & the Outsized Impact of Unseen Work.

Published 10 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] He represents clients ranging from startups to high net worth individuals to fortune fifty companies. For the past six years, Brent has been recognized by his peers as a super -lawyer's rising star for business litigation and was named one of D Magazine's best attorneys under 40. But before his legal career, Brent was an associate operations producer for ESPN and ABC College Football, also producing commercials, industrial videos, in arena entertainment, and music videos for clients throughout North America. Now, Brent pulls from these experiences frequently, giving trial skills presentations across the country, teaching other attorneys about the strategies and tools he has used in the courtroom. […]

Who has been a guest on Legal Grounds | Conversations on Life, Leadership & Law

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• Heidi K Brown
• Breeana Somers
• Suraj Vyas

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

42 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100

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Quality

65

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

82

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