This week we talk with Ross Guberman, founder and CEO of BriefCatch, and Heather Rodriguez, the company’s enterprise account executive. Ross built BriefCatch to put the lessons from his books and workshops in front of lawyers while they write. It started as a rules engine that flagged everything from typos to sentence flow. He admits he was
Continue Reading Legal Writing When the First Draft Is Cheap: Ross Guberman and Heather Rodriguez of BriefCatch
For the better part of two years, law firms have been buying just about everything AI. Every vendor I talked to over that time expected renewals and expanded licenses at every firm. Every firm I spoke with said they were licensing widely and would cut back once they figured out what fit. Those two things can’t both be true. So
Continue Reading Firms Bought the AI. Then They Benched KM.
Law firms and legal departments face pressure to adopt AI, yet buying another tool does not answer the hardest question: Which problem needs solving? Dr. Maryam Salehijam, founder and CEO of Andarzi, joins TGIR hosts, Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer, to discuss how legal teams choose between existing systems, new vendors, and tools built for their own workflows.
Continue Reading Legal AI Strategy Beyond the Prompt: Maryam Salehijam on Adoption, ROI, and Building What Works
What happened when I pointed Jev, SALI, and CLOC’s Core 12 at every post we’ve ever writtenI read Nate Jones’s post on Jev, TypeSafe’s new “System One” model, and he described it as an LLM that can only talk in multiple choice. It reads what you give it, you hand it the possible answers, and it picks one and
Continue Reading Teaching a Multiple-Choice Machine to Read 18 Years of 3 Geeks
Paul Lee, co-founder and CEO of Patlytics, joins Greg Lambert to explain how an AI platform built specifically for intellectual property work is changing the patent lifecycle. Patlytics supports workflows spanning patent drafting, prior art analysis, office action responses, portfolio management, litigation readiness, and claim-chart preparation. Lee reports that the company now works with roughly 55 percent of
Continue Reading Patlytics and the Patent AI Race: Paul Lee on USPTO Workflows, Human Judgment, and the AI Dividend
What happens when you separate elite legal talent from the traditional law firm structure? This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Manuel Deó, co-founder and co-CEO of Ambar Partners, about a model designed around senior independent lawyers, flexible capacity, enterprise technology, and client choice. Deó explains why he and co-founder Rosa Espín did not set
Continue Reading Beyond the Law Firm Pyramid: Manuel Deó on Ambar, Fractional Legal Talent, and the Future of Legal Delivery
For millions of people, an everyday legal dispute never justifies the cost of a lawyer or a private mediator, no matter how much the outcome matters to them. Judge Victoria Wood saw that problem over and over during her years on the Napa County Superior Court bench. This week, Wood joins Judicaid Chief Strategy Officer Valerie Clemen to explain how
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What happens when a 40-year-old legal data company decides its employees should start building their own software? This week on we talk with Best Lawyers CEO Phillip Greer and Senior Vice President of Research and Product Strategy Elizabeth Petit about an internal AI transformation that reaches far beyond adding ChatGPT to the corporate toolkit. Best Lawyers is experimenting with generative
Continue Reading From Search Rankings to Vibe Coding: How Best Lawyers Is Rebuilding for the AI Era
In this episode of The Geek in Review, we talk with Patrick Forquer, Chief Revenue Officer at Legora, about legal AI’s move from experimentation into daily legal work. Forquer explains why Legora has invested heavily in legal engineers, lawyers with practice experience who work alongside clients on adoption, workflow design, prompt and context engineering, and change management. The
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It turns out that tech companies don’t sit outside of government as just ordinary vendors. This week on The Geek in Review podcast, we welcome back Texas A&M University School of Law professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba to talk about accountability of Big Tech, AI regulations, government surveillance, and the intertwining of public authority and private tech infrastructure. Bloch-Wehba traced the dependency
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We welcome back Brad Blickstein, CEO at Blickstein Group, to discuss how private equity principles may provide law firms with an alternative approach to profitability, governance, and even long-term growth. Blickstein’s new book, WWPED: What Would Private Equity Do? was written to walk firms through how treating topics like pricing, technology, talent, and client relationships as part of
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Fresh from AALL in Cleveland, Greg reflects on a conference filled with legal information professionals who understand how technology performs under real working conditions. These librarians purchase products, train users, support law schools and courts, and often serve as internal advocates for legal technology. Their expertise makes vendor engagement especially valuable, yet major product announcements were scarce. Marlene balances Greg’s
Continue Reading From AI Personas to Rogue Agents: Rethinking Legal Training, Security, and Value
In this episode of The Geek in Review, Greg Lambert hosts a solo conversation with Triona Buckley, Chief Product Officer at Actionstep, about generative AI’s growing influence on mid-market law firms. Buckley challenges a common assumption about legal AI: faster task completion does not always remove friction. An associate might produce a draft within seconds, only to transfer
Continue Reading AI Is Shifting the Bottleneck: Actionstep’s Triona Buckley on Building Smarter Mid-Market Law Firms
Predictions about artificial intelligence often focus on job losses and shrinking demand for lawyers. Filevine CEO and co-founder Ryan Anderson and product manager John Rizner offer a sharply different forecast. Drawing on the Jevons paradox, they argue greater efficiency will make legal services accessible to more people, encourage deeper legal research, and create work once excluded by cost. AI might
Continue Reading Why AI Will Create More Legal Work, Not Less: Filevine’s Rizner and Anderson on Research, Access, and Human Judgment
What does legal AI value look like once speed stops serving as the headline metric? In this episode of The Geek in Review, Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer speak with Nikki Shaver, co-founder and CEO of Legal Technology Hub and a member of the inaugural Financial Times Law 50. Shaver argues that law firms need to move beyond
Continue Reading Nikki Shaver on Legal AI Strategy, Agentic Governance, and Trusted Judgment