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
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[Ed. Note: This is part of an ongoing series at The Geek in Review Substack page. – GL]Leo Huang did not usually come to the twelfth floor, and he never came to it at seven-forty in the morning. So when Cooper looked up from his coffee and found him in the doorway, still in yesterday’s shirt with a laptop
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For law firms, artificial intelligence has often arrived as a choice between speed and control. Stephen Costigan, founder of Atlas AI, argues that choice deserves a rethink. In this episode of The Geek in Review, we speak with Costigan about private legal AI infrastructure, knowledge graphs, and why a firm’s internal work product may become its most valuable
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Signals are the new blackI had the pleasure of attending my first LSSO – Raindance Conference a few weeks ago where at least a half dozen times (I honestly lost count) presenters talked about signals.Last week, I hosted an episode of Harbor’s Legal Soundings Podcast and signals came up.There were the headlines about Kirkland’s AI investment being a signal of
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This week we welcome American Association of Law Libraries leaders Jenny Foster, AALL President for 2025-2026, and Jessica Whytock, AALL Vice President and President-Elect. The conversation offers a preview of the 2026 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, along with a thoughtful look at how the association is supporting legal information professionals during a period of
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In this episode of The Geek in Review, we welcome Greg Dickason, Chief Technology Officer at LexisNexis, for a wide-ranging conversation on agentic legal AI, Lexis+ AI Protégé, and the movement from AI chat toward AI work. Dickason frames the shift through a simple contrast: earlier legal AI answered questions, while agentic workflows take on multi-step assignments, conduct
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In this episode of The Geek in Review, Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer welcome back Joel Hron, Chief Technology Officer at Thomson Reuters, for a timely conversation about the shifting relationship among foundation models, legal content providers, legal tech platforms, and the lawyers trying to make sense of the mess. Recent moves by Anthropic, including Claude’s legal practice
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A few weeks ago I ran the numbers on the token cost panic. I took the scariest figure in legal AI, the finding that agentic workflows burn a thousand times more tokens than a chat query, and followed it all the way down to a dollar amount on a real deal. The panic did not survive the arithmetic. The piece
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This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Abdi Shayesteh, CEO of AltaClaro, and Jeanine Conley Daves, Littler’s New York office managing shareholder, about a different question in the legal AI conversation. Instead of asking whether AI will write the brief, summarize the contract, or replace the junior associate, they focus on whether AI might
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This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Ryan McClead of Sente Advisors about his new book on AI agents, written in collaboration with Claude. McClead explains how a short best practices guide grew into a full book after his work with Claude Cowork revealed something larger than tool tips or prompt advice. The result is part field
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The chatbot era was the warm-up. Your New AI Colleague is a field guide for what comes next.I just spent five weeks writing a book with an AI. Not prompting it and cleaning up the output. Writing with it — the way you write with a co-author. The AI read a bunch of my earlier blog posts, absorbed my voice,
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There is a growing chorus of voices in legal AI telling you to be very, very worried about the cost of tokens. Stanford says agentic AI uses 1,000 times more tokens than a chat query. Bloomberg Law says the subsidies are ending and the meter is about to start. A company called Portal26 just launched an entire product category —
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[Ed. Note: Please welcome University of Texas Law Professor John Greil as our Guest Blogger. – GL]Neal Katyal’s TED Talk detailing the role of AI in the tariffs case has drawn substantial attention in the legal world, including an annotated transcript; Bloomberg Law reporting the “blowback,” and David Lat providing an on-the-record response from Mr. Katyal.
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This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Alex Su and Andy Chagui of Latitude about the shifting economics of law firm talent, the rise of flexible legal staffing, and the pressure AI is placing on traditional leverage models. Su, known across legal circles for his sharp commentary and creative legal industry videos, brings his background as a
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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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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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