What if the real keys to professional success were taught neither at law school nor at business school?

That is exactly the wager behind Cheat Code, the Ourama podcast that opens up the regulated professions. Abstract theory stays in the changing room. We talk marketing strategy, business development, profitability, client acquisition and building a genuine personal brand.

Because succeeding as a self-employed professional today is no longer a matter of mastering your field. Lawyers, notaries, chartered accountants, wealth managers: all of them now operate in a fiercely competitive market where the difference is made as much on business ground as on technical legal ground.

Every week, Le Cheat Code hosts leading guests who share, unfiltered and without the corporate language, the techniques, the tools and the mindset that genuinely move the line. Concrete detail, plain speaking, real experience.

At the end of the year, we drew up our ranking of the best podcasts of 2025, measured on downloads and listens. Here is the top 5.

What is the best podcast of 2025 for lawyers and the regulated professions?

The best Cheat Code podcast of 2025 is the episode with Amir N'Gazi, a sports lawyer, voted guest of the year by the listeners. The full top 5 is:

1. Amir N'Gazi: sports law, nerve and a firm launched in the middle of a pandemic
2. François Mazon: from CEO to white-collar crime lawyer at 50
3. Pierre-Louis Roquet and Jimmy Hababou: automation, AI and firm productivity
4. Nicolas Decaudain: the independence revolution in wealth management
5. Charles Jamet: building a firm where excellence and wellbeing move forward together

Every episode takes apart a different entrepreneurial path, but they all tell the same story: how to turn a regulated expertise into a genuine business.

1. Amir N'Gazi and sports law, the top 1 of our best podcast

The wild bet of a fresh graduate

Newly qualified in the middle of lockdown, Amir turned down the roles that did not look like him and chose to start his own firm straight away. His driver comes down to one sentence: "what if I created the opportunity I am looking for myself?" A simple conviction, but a formidably entrepreneurial one.

The LinkedIn post that changed everything

With no elaborate marketing strategy, Amir published a simple LinkedIn post during lockdown. The result went beyond anything he expected: enquiries arrived by the dozen, to the point where his mother took leave to help him handle the flow. Proof, with the figures behind it, that authenticity can weigh more than a large advertising budget.

Sports law, well beyond contracts

The episode also dives into the hidden side of professional sport. Amir cites the striking example of an 18-year-old player whose salary jumps from 2,000 to 75,000 euros a month. His conviction: these young talents need support that is legal, but also human, to turn a lightning career into lasting success.

Amir N'Gazi is the guest you liked most in 2025.

2. François Mazon, from CEO to criminal lawyer at 50

What happens when thirty years at the head of large companies meets white-collar crime? You get a lawyer able to understand his clients from the inside, because he lived their risks before defending them.

This week, Le Cheat Code welcomes François Mazon, partner at MAZON ARNAUD DECONINCK, for an account out of the ordinary: that of a company head who became a lawyer after running large businesses such as Capgemini France.

An unusual path, from the executive committee to the bar

An engineer trained at École Centrale de Paris and at SciencesPo, François Mazon spent thirty years running companies, including Capgemini France. At 50 he went back to study law and qualified in 2013. His aim is clear: putting his experience as a company head at the service of directors exposed to criminal risk.

The rare advantage of having lived the risk from the inside

His strength rests on a detail that changes everything: he personally went through what he now defends. Searches, police custody, workplace accidents, delegations of authority. He knows intimately the pressure company heads live with and knows how to anticipate it rather than endure it.

Sharp expertise in corporate criminal law

His firm works on several fronts:

• Employment crime: accidents, harassment, undeclared work
• Economic crime: corruption, misuse of company assets, fraud, money laundering
• Environmental and consumer crime

Beyond the defence work, François Mazon trains company heads in preventing criminal risk, notably for HEC and the public investment bank. In ten years he has briefed more than 5,000 directors. A well-earned second place.

That is our number 2 podcast.

3. Automation and AI, the real strategic lever for law firms

Artificial intelligence is in every speech in the legal world. Yet in the daily reality of firms it is often under-used, or badly thought through. Pierre-Louis Roquet and Jimmy Hababou, two practitioners at the heart of the subject, share a pragmatic view far from the marketing promises.

The classic mistake: automating with no strategy

First observation: firms do not automate enough, or they automate badly. The most frequent mistake? Automating isolated tasks with no overall view. The right question is not "which task should I automate?" but "which process should I rethink?".

The recommended method:

• Identify the tasks that eat time and repeat
• Spot the ones with low legal added value
• Listen to the teams: where there are irritants, there is potential

Three automations that genuinely change the picture

Contrary to received wisdom, these are not futuristic solutions reserved for large firms. Pierre and Jimmy share three automations with immediate impact:

1. Automatic email filing – A daily gain on a task repeated dozens of times a day

2. An AI legal secretary through WhatsApp – Able to draft simple replies, set meetings and sort emails

3. Automatic extraction of exhibits – Every exhibit is collected and filed in a drive with no manual intervention

Spectacular time savings

Pierre-Louis Roquet: Can now assemble a complete litigation file in a day thanks to automation. In advisory work he uses AI for note-taking and structuring. The result: more security, fewer errors, better overall quality.

Jimmy Hababou: Uses AI to challenge his legal strategy and handle up to three times more cases. His warning: "a gap is opening between the lawyers who use AI and those who do not."

Three times more cases, or three times more time?

The real question: what do you do with the time you save?

For Pierre: The time goes back into the client relationship, the quality and the security of the case files. Fewer typos means more satisfied clients means more referrals.

For Jimmy: The time goes into communications, growing the firm and continuous training. He chose to train intensively in order to get better thanks to AI.

That is number 3 in our best podcast list.

4. Nicolas Decaudain, the independence revolution in wealth management

In a sector still largely locked up by the banks and the insurers, Nicolas Decaudain chose the most demanding path: total independence. Co-founder of Prosper Conseil in 2022, he tells the story of building a model that upends the conventions of wealth management.

A firm that owns its independence

Prosper Conseil is today the largest independent wealth management advisory firm in France, with 25 staff. Its singularity: a model 100% free of any banking, insurance or commercial influence.

The principle is radical. Its income rests exclusively on advisory fees, with no commission from partners at all. An approach still rare, since 95% of the profession works differently. That independence allows advice that is free, transparent and entirely aligned with the client's interests.

Nicolas Decaudain, entrepreneur and teacher

Beyond the firm, Nicolas carries a double conviction: independence of advice, and access to financial knowledge for everyone. That idea pushed him to create Avenue des Investisseurs, now a reference in financial education in France.

That initiative informs the wider public about saving, investing and taxation. For him, teaching is not a nice extra, it is a lever of trust and a way of making clients autonomous. A fourth place that rewards a singular view of the profession.

Nicolas Decaudain's podcast is in 4th position.

5. Charles Jamet, building a firm where excellence and wellbeing meet

Can you aim at legal excellence without sacrificing your teams? In a sector known for its demands and, at times, its burnout, Charles Jamet bet that you can. Co-founder of Jaberson Avocats, he gives an episode on company culture as an engine of growth.

A path forged in the largest firms

After more than ten years in leading business firms, where he held management roles in corporate, M&A, private equity and statutory audit, Charles Jamet took a decision in 2017: launch his own firm in Marseille. His ambition fits in one line: proving that legal excellence and wellbeing can feed lasting performance.

A company culture as a pillar of growth

From the start, Jaberson structured everything, from the layout of the offices to human resources, by way of induction paths and working methods. But the real difference is made elsewhere, in the culture that drives the firm:

• Transparency: open communication at every level
• Team spirit: a collective where everyone contributes to the shared success
• Collective ambition: shared goals that pull the whole team upwards

That vision let the firm grow fast and attract talent that shares the same philosophy, creating a genuine virtuous circle.

The keys to a strong employer brand

The episode explores how Jaberson built an attractive employer brand in a sector where keeping talent is a permanent challenge. Charles shares the structuring decisions that made his firm a place where lawyers want to stay and to push themselves. A fifth place that reminds us management has become a competitive advantage in its own right.

Why listen to Le Cheat Code?

Le Cheat Code is Ourama's podcast for legal and regulated professionals who want to go further than their professional expertise alone. We created it to take apart what nobody ever teaches you: how to grow your business, attract clients, automate your processes, build a solid employer brand, negotiate your fees or set up on your own.

Every week our team gives the floor to lawyers, wealth managers, entrepreneurs and experts who share their strategies, their failures and their successes unfiltered. If you are looking for the best podcast of 2025 to grow your firm, you are in the right place.

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