[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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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”
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
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
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
(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
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
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.
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