Benson Varghese has been interviewed plenty of times, but probably never quite like this. In this special episode, his 7-year-old son, Knox, takes over the interviewer’s chair and asks his dad everything from whether he has ever wanted to yell at a judge to whether he has lost a case, been nervous in court, fired an employee, or likes being a lawyer more than being a dad.

Along the way, Benson shares lessons from his career as a prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, and founder and managing partner of Varghese Summersett. The conversation touches on courtroom confidence, credibility, learning from losses, building a law firm, leadership, honesty, and Benson’s path from growing up partly in India to starting his own firm in Texas. But with Knox asking the questions, this is a very different conversation about the person behind the la ...