Great Practice. Great Life. by Atticus
Jun 29, 2026 · 28 min · 10 segments
Some of the best referrals Steve Riley ever received came from the last place most attorneys think to look: opposing counsel. In this solo episode, Steve shares a simple but powerful strategy for…
Some of my best, most profitable cases in my entire career came from attorneys that were once on the other side of the table for me.
I got great cases from attorneys that were rivals that actually turned to referral sources.
And I want to talk to you about one of the most overlooked, flat-out great strategies that I've been teaching and that a lot of people don't embrace.
I'm going to show you how to get real, paying, great referrals from the most unlikely source there is.
That's the person on the other side of your case, your rival attorney, the opposing attorney, the advocate that's really trying to beat you in another case.
Now, I've gotten referrals from opposing counsel, opposing parties, adjusters, and experts in cases.
There was a process to it and it totally changed how I practice, how it made me and our practice and our firm a lot of money.
And today I want to teach it to you so you don't have to go through 10 years of pain and suffering to learn this.
This works whether you're a lawyer or on the team, and frankly, it works about anywhere in life, but I'm really aiming it right now at practicing attorneys who are the core audience here and who are really up to trying to grow their practice and make more money because this is exactly what this strategy does.
I would prefer to have somewhere between 90 minutes to a day because there's lots of nuances, lots of tactics, lots of stories, and lots of techniques.
So I'm going to do my best to give you the top three ideas so you can at least experiment and start working with them in your practice.
Now, if it works for you and you like these, at the end, I'll give you some ways of getting more information about this technique.
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Some of my best, most profitable cases in my entire career came from attorneys that were once on the other side of the table for me.
I got great cases from attorneys that were rivals that actually turned to referral sources.
And I want to talk to you about one of the most overlooked, flat-out great strategies that I've been teaching and that a lot of people don't embrace.
I'm going to show you how to get real, paying, great referrals from the most unlikely source there is.
That's the person on the other side of your case, your rival attorney, the opposing attorney, the advocate that's really trying to beat you in another case.
Now, I've gotten referrals from opposing counsel, opposing parties, adjusters, and experts in cases.
There was a process to it and it totally changed how I practice, how it made me and our practice and our firm a lot of money.
And today I want to teach it to you so you don't have to go through 10 years of pain and suffering to learn this.
This works whether you're a lawyer or on the team, and frankly, it works about anywhere in life, but I'm really aiming it right now at practicing attorneys who are the core audience here and who are really up to trying to grow their practice and make more money because this is exactly what this strategy does.
I would prefer to have somewhere between 90 minutes to a day because there's lots of nuances, lots of tactics, lots of stories, and lots of techniques.
So I'm going to do my best to give you the top three ideas so you can at least experiment and start working with them in your practice.
Now, if it works for you and you like these, at the end, I'll give you some ways of getting more information about this technique.