Oct 21, 2026 · 16 min · 13 segments
After an accident, one wrong move can weaken your case, cost you money, and make an already difficult situation even worse. In this episode of *Sharkpreneur*, Seth Greene interviews Brent Stewart…
Brent StewartGuestSeth GreeneHost
Well, we had a cabin at Seneca Lake and the next door neighbor was a lawyer and I cut his grass and he ended up giving me a riding mower that helped me grow my grass cutting business greatly.

And from then on, I was like, I want to have a job that will allow me to help people and maybe I will give a riding mower to somebody else and help another young kid's business.

And from that point on, I just always wanted to be a lawyer and I just made it happen.
So then after law school, did you start Stuart Law right away? Did you work somewhere else? Tell us a little bit about the journey.

Well, my mom was a school teacher and she had taught these kids as abortuses and they were kind of heavy hitting trial lawyers.

And so my other boss, Dave Jividen, Got me a job with the Guam Attorney General's Office.

I was an assistant prosecutor in that office and worked there for two years before going to Charleston, working there for a couple of years.
And what were you when did you what do you envision the firm becoming when you first opened your doors back in 95? Well, things have changed

I kind of thought I was going to write it out on magnets and yellow pages, and that has now gone totally amok.

But I pictured an individual firm with two or three lawyers, kind of what I had started with in West Virginia.

The whole industry has changed, and I think it's harder to stay – firm if you decide to stay that small.

I'm not sure how big of a growth a law firm should get to, but I know that it had to be more than just one firm.

Well, we had a cabin at Seneca Lake and the next door neighbor was a lawyer and I cut his grass and he ended up giving me a riding mower that helped me grow my grass cutting business greatly.

And from then on, I was like, I want to have a job that will allow me to help people and maybe I will give a riding mower to somebody else and help another young kid's business.

And from that point on, I just always wanted to be a lawyer and I just made it happen.
So then after law school, did you start Stuart Law right away? Did you work somewhere else? Tell us a little bit about the journey.

Well, my mom was a school teacher and she had taught these kids as abortuses and they were kind of heavy hitting trial lawyers.

And so my other boss, Dave Jividen, Got me a job with the Guam Attorney General's Office.

I was an assistant prosecutor in that office and worked there for two years before going to Charleston, working there for a couple of years.
And what were you when did you what do you envision the firm becoming when you first opened your doors back in 95? Well, things have changed

I kind of thought I was going to write it out on magnets and yellow pages, and that has now gone totally amok.

But I pictured an individual firm with two or three lawyers, kind of what I had started with in West Virginia.

The whole industry has changed, and I think it's harder to stay – firm if you decide to stay that small.

I'm not sure how big of a growth a law firm should get to, but I know that it had to be more than just one firm.
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