This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Keith Maziarek, founder of Lucratic Method and Bodhi Solutions, about the shifting economics of legal work, AI’s impact on pricing, and why law firms and clients need better commercial conversations. Keith brings more than two decades of experience in pricing, profitability, legal project management, and business-of-law strategy from
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Flatiron Law Group’s Lennie Nuara on Talent-First AI, M&A Workflows, and the Future of Legal Practice
This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Lennie Nuara, co-founder of Flatiron Law Group, about what it means to build a talent-first, AI-powered legal practice. Nuara brings a rare mix of lawyer, technologist, operator, and systems thinker to the conversation, drawing from decades of experience using technology to improve legal work, from early portable computers
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Shadow UX and the Upcoming Fight over Legal Research
I have a prediction that I want to share with you. This is something that I envision happening just a few short weeks from now. I imagine seeing an associate at a law firm doing something that will make every product manager at Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis choke on their morning coffee. She has a contract dispute question. A Real
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Orbital CTO Andrew Thompson on Practice Area AI, Real Estate Law, and the Future of Legal Work
This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Andrew Thompson, CTO of Orbital, about why legal AI built for a specific practice area has a strong claim in a market crowded by general-purpose models. Thompson explains how Orbital focuses on real estate law, using AI, spatial intelligence, and legal workflow design to support transactions involving property
Spoiler Alert: Legal Marketing’s Next Evolution is Agentic and Product-Led –
Earlier this week, I attended the 2026 Legal Marketing Association Annual Conference in New Orleans. By all accounts, it was a success—great energy, strong attendance, and a clear signal that legal marketing is in the middle of a real transformation.
The sessions reflected it: legal operations, client intelligence, AI, change management, video. The conversation in every room was heightened
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Greg Mazares Sr. on AI, E-Discovery, and the Future of Human-Led Legal Services
This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Greg Mazares Sr., CEO of Purpose Legal, about what it takes to lead through one of the most important transition periods in legal services. Drawing on decades of experience across business, litigation support, and e-discovery, Mazares brings a steady, practical view to a market flooded with AI claims and rapid
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The Latest AI Revolution Just Showed Up in Your Word Doc.
I’ll be the first to admit it. Back on February 5th, when Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI fired back with GPT-5.3 Codex on the same day, I was right there geeking out with everyone else. A million-token context window! A model that helped build itself! People were calling it the “Kendrick vs. Drake” of the AI world,
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CounselLink’s Kris Satkunas on Rising Legal Spend, Law Firm Rates, and the Future of Value-Based Pricing
This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Kristina Satkunas of CounselLink about what the numbers are saying in a legal market that still talks about change while clinging hard to old billing habits. Kris discusses the hard data behind outside counsel spend, drawing on CounselLink invoice data and Harbor survey results to compare what legal departments say
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From Document Review to Fact Intelligence, Gregory Mostyn on How Wexler.ai Is Reshaping Litigation
This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Gregory Mostyn, CEO of Wexler.ai, about how his company is building a sharper form of legal AI for litigation. In a market crowded with broad platforms that aim to handle every legal task at once, Mostyn describes Wexler as a focused system built for one of the hardest
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Texas Trailblazers and the Hard Truth About AI in Legal Work
The latest episode of The Geek in Review finds Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer back from Dallas with a sharp, grounded recap of the Texas Trailblazers conference, an event that stayed close to the daily realities of legal work instead of drifting into glossy predictions. Their conversation centers on a legal industry trying to sort out what AI means right
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What I Took Away from Texas Trailblazers
(See Day Two Coverage for the In-House Programs over on The Geek in Review Substack page – GL)Day One of Texas Trailblazers in Dallas had a different tone than most legal tech conferences I attend. The conversations stayed close to the work. Less speculation, more discussion about what people are doing right now, where it is working, and where it
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From Translation to Transformation: Paula Reichenberg on AI, Legal Quality, and the Future of Good Enough
This week we welcome Paula Reichenberg, founder of Neuron, for a sharp and thoughtful conversation about legal translation, artificial intelligence, and what happens when professional expertise collides with tools that look polished but still miss the mark. Paula shares her path from M&A and capital markets law into business school, legal services, machine learning, and finally legal tech
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Anthropic’s Matt Samuels and Den Delimarsky – Claude & MCP: Building the USB-C for the Legal Tech Stack
This week, we sit down with two guests from Anthropic, Matt Samuels, Senior Product Counsel, and Den Delimarsky, a core maintainer of the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. Together, they unpack why MCP is drawing so much attention across the legal industry and why some are calling it the USB-C for AI. For law firms long burdened
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Niki Black on AI Adoption, Billing Pressure, and the Governance Gap in Legal
This week we welcome back Niki Black to unpack the findings from the newly released 2026 Legal Industry Report from 8am The conversation centers on a legal profession moving into a new phase of AI adoption, where individual lawyers are embracing general purpose AI tools at a striking pace, while many firms still lack even basic policies or training. Niki
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Anastasia Boyko on Advisor Mode, Training Lawyers for the Post-Pyramid Firm
Anastasia Boyko joins us this week for a wide-angle conversation about AI adoption, leadership, and the uncomfortable truth behind “we are watching what peer firms do.” A Yale-trained tax lawyer with experience spanning Axiom, legal education, and innovation leadership, Boyko argues that precedent-driven instincts are turning into a liability when the underlying rules of the market are shifting in real
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