Ep 261 | Bill Reid | Fighting Bullies: The Case for Plaintiffs' Law & Rethinking Legal Careers
The Lawyer Stories Podcast
Benjamin Gold
5.0 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Everything you've been told about being a lawyer might be wrong.
The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 261 features William "Bill" T. Reid, senior founding partner of Reid Collins & Tsai LLP, one of the nation's leading plaintiff-side commercial litigation firms.
Bill is the author of Fighting Bullies: The Case for a Career in Plaintiffs' Law - a bold, straight-talking book that challenges the traditional path pushed by law schools and reframes what it means to build a successful legal career. More than just a career guide, the book is a call to think critically about purpose, impact, and the kind of lawyer you actually want to become.
In this episode, we focus on the ideas behind Fighting Bullies - from the realities of BigLaw and the limitations of the billable hour model, to why plaintiffs' law offers a path that combines meaningful work with real opportunity. Bill shares insights from decades of high-stakes litigation and explains why young lawyers should rethink how they define success.
Bill is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, where he teaches Complex Financial Litigation and continues to mentor the next generation.
This is a conversation about purpose, perspective, and choosing a path that actually aligns with who you are.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Lawyer Stories podcast with host Benny Gold. Lawyer Stories was founded in July 2017 on Instagram and is an expanding global network of lawyers and law students sharing their personal journeys to the noble profession of the practice of law. |
| 0:16.9 | Join us on this podcast as we dig deeper into these stories and hear from lawyers and law students from around the world in all areas of the legal profession. |
| 0:26.0 | Here at lawyer stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story. What's yours? |
| 0:33.9 | Welcome to the Lawyer Stories podcast with Betty Gold. Today we have a special guest and we'll get |
| 0:40.1 | right back to him just in a moment. But first, a message from our partner, Call Rail. How many high value |
| 0:46.2 | cases did you lose in the past year because your firm couldn't respond fast enough? |
| 0:51.6 | 81% of law firms say slow response times cost them business, sometimes nearly a quarter of |
| 0:58.3 | their annual revenue. |
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| 1:08.0 | capture every call, even after hours. |
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| 1:33.9 | and we'll get you started. |
| 1:35.6 | And now back to our very esteemed guest. |
| 1:38.4 | Today we're joined by Bill Reed. |
| 1:41.1 | How are you, sir? |
| 1:42.5 | Great. |
| 1:43.1 | How are you? |
| 1:43.8 | Good, good. So Bill is a senior founding |
| 1:46.6 | partner at Reed Collins and SI, LLP, one of the nation's leading plaintiff side commercial |
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