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
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From Search Rankings to Vibe Coding: How Best Lawyers Is Rebuilding for the AI Era
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
Patrick Forquer on Legora’s Agentic AI, Legal Engineering, and Consumption-Based Pricing
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
Who Governs Big Tech? Hannah Bloch-Wehba on AI Regulation, Police Surveillance, and Public Accountability
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
Brad Blickstein on Private Equity Thinking, AI Pricing, and the Law Firm Business Model
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
From AI Personas to Rogue Agents: Rethinking Legal Training, Security, and Value
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
AI Is Shifting the Bottleneck: Actionstep’s Triona Buckley on Building Smarter Mid-Market Law Firms
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
Why AI Will Create More Legal Work, Not Less: Filevine’s Rizner and Anderson on Research, Access, and Human Judgment
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
Nikki Shaver on Legal AI Strategy, Agentic Governance, and Trusted 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
When a Trusted AI Agent Goes Wrong and No One is Watching (Beyond the Model)
[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
Own the Graph: Stephen Costigan on Private AI, Knowledge Infrastructure, and Law Firm Advantage
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
Signals Signals Everywhere A Signal
Signals are the new black
I 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
AALL 2026 Annual Meeting Preview with Foster and Whytock: Leading with Aloha, Legal AI, and the Future of Law Libraries
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
LexisNexis CTO Greg Dickason on Agentic Legal AI, Protégé, Shepard’s Verify, and the Future of Legal Work
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
Legal AI, Trust, and Agents: Joel Hron on Thomson Reuters, Anthropic, and the Future of CoCounsel
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
Bride of the Token Cost Panic
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