I’ve been thinking about a story that I believe deserves more attention than it’s getting.Robin AI, once positioned as a rising star in legal AI, has missed its funding round, cut a third of its staff, and landed on a distressed sale marketplace. The question isn’t whether this is unfortunate. It’s whether this is a harbinger. (Non-Billable)Is Robin…
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This week on The Geek in Review, Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer sit down to compare notes from a busy conference season. Marlene shares her experience at the American Legal Technology Awards where The Geek in Review was honored for excellence in journalism. She recounts the surreal joy of being recognized among friends and peers in legal tech, including fellow…
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Artificial intelligence has moved fast, but trust has not kept pace. In this episode, Nam Nguyen, co-founder and COO of TruthSystems.ai, joins Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer to unpack what it means to build “trust infrastructure” for AI in law. Nguyen’s background is unusually cross-wired—linguistics, computer science, and applied AI research at Stanford Law—giving him a clear view…
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I’ve been watching the legal-tech landscape for a long time, and this morning’s announcement from Thomson Reuters’ partnership with DeepJudge marks a moment worth pausing over. (DeepJudge) On October 22, 2025, TR disclosed that DeepJudge’s enterprise-search and AI-knowledge-platform capabilities will be integrated into TR’s CoCounsel Legal offering to bring internal-firm knowledge and external content into a unified workflow.
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I threw a bit of a fit on LinkedIn three weeks ago when the KM&I for Legal conference published their speaker list and agenda for this year’s conference, happening today and tomorrow in Manhattan. The issue for me was the inclusion of Brad Karp, Chairman of Paul Weiss, to speak on a panel with some fellow BigLaw chairpersons. If that…
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The promise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in legal practice is seductive: speed up document review, contract drafting, legal research, and thereby shave down hours billed. Yet the reality for many law firms is different. A recent survey by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and Everlaw found that nearly 60% of in-house counsel reported “no noticeable savings yet” from…
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Few people understand the intersection of legal practice, data analytics, and diversity like Catherine Krow, Managing Director of Diversity and Impact Analytics at BigHand. In this episode of The Geek in Review, hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer sit down with Krow to trace her journey from a high-powered trial lawyer to an influential legal tech leader. After…
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Jack Newton knows how to command a stage. ClioCon 2025 opened like a Vegas tech revival, complete with light shows, Clions (Clio employees) marching up to the stage, keynote hype, and a CEO convinced that lawyers are about to enter a “new era of intelligent legal work.” And for the first time, he wasn’t talking to solos and small firms.
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This week we are joined by Anusia Gillespie, Enterprise Lead at vLex and debut novelist, as she shares her unique vantage point on the intersection of legal technology and the human side of law. Anusia traces her journey from commercial real estate finance attorney to global innovation leader, with roles at Harvard, UnitedLex, and Eversheds Sutherland, all driven by…
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Daniel Lewis joins us this week to trace a path from Ravel Law to LexisNexis to LegalOn, with a throughline of data-driven thinking and practical outcomes for lawyers. Stanford roots shaped early work on judicial analytics, then a front-row view inside a global publisher broadened focus to content, guidance, and the daily reality of in-house teams. That experience pointed…
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This week, we talk with Gabe Pereyra, President and co-founder at Harvey, about his path from DeepMind and Google Brain to launching Harvey with Winston Weinberg; how a roommate’s real-world legal workflows met early GPT-4 access and OpenAI backing; why legal emerged as the right domain for large models; and how personal ties to the profession plus a desire to…
Continue Reading The Models Are the Product: Gabe Pereyra on Building an AI Associate and Matter-Centric Workflows

This week we sit down with Suzanne Konstance, Vice-President and General Manager for Legal and Regulatory US at Wolters Kluwer. She outlines how the company supports professionals in highly regulated fields with software and authoritative content. Operations span multiple countries with a deliberately local approach, where teams design solutions for each market. Listeners get a clear view of…
Continue Reading Wolters Kluwer’s Suzanne Konstance on Trust, Compliance, and the Next Phase of Legal AI The Geek in Review Suzanne Konstance

This week we are joined by Patrick DiDomenico and Kevin Klein, two longtime builders of knowledge programs and legal tech gatherings. They walk through the evolution of KM&I for Legal, now entering year three, and the debut of its co-located counterpart, Legal Tech Connect. Both events run in New York on October 22 and 23, with a…
Continue Reading KM&I Meets Legal Tech Connect: Two Tracks, One Community with Patrick DiDomenico and Kevin Klein