In this episode of The Geek in Review, we sit down with Narrative founder John Tertan to talk about law firm pricing, messy data, and why substance matters more than shiny tools. We pick up from our first meeting at the Houston Legal Innovators event, where John had the pricing and KM crowd buzzing, and
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Furlong, Matthews, and Sutherland: Truth Tellers, Rented Land, and 20 Years of the Clawbies
This week on The Geek in Review, we bring together a trio of Canadian legends from the legal web to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Canadian Law Blog Awards, better known as the Clawbies. Steve Matthews of STEM Legal and Slaw.ca, Sarah Sutherland of Parallax Information Consulting and former president and CEO
The Last Ten Percent, Visual Evidence, and Supervised Agents with Jiyun Hyo of Givance
This week we welcome Jiyun Hyo, co-founder and CEO of Givance, for a conversation about moving legal AI past shiny summaries toward verified work product. Jiyun’s path runs from Duke robotics, where layered agents watched other agents, to clinical mental health bots, where confident errors carry human cost. Those lessons shape his view
AI Dividends and Workflow Training: Live with Legora and Harbor at TLTF
We recorded this episode live at the TLTF Summit and the energy in the room made it feel like the perfect place for a conversation about growth, training, and the rapid climb of legal tech. We grabbed our gear, claimed a corner in the podcast room, and pulled in two guests with front row seats
Law Librarians Take the Lead: The Future of AI and Legal Information
In this episode of The Geek in Review, we welcome three powerhouse guests—Cas Laskowski, Taryn Marks, and Kristina (Kris) Niedringhaus—who are charting a bold course for Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Law Libraries. These three recently co-authored a major white paper, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Law Libraries (
Is the Collapse of Robin.AI a One-Off or a Sign of a Legal Tech AI Bubble?
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
Conferences, Catch-ups, and Clio’s Big Swing at Big Law
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
Trust at Scale: Nam Nguyen on How TruthSystems is Building the Framework for Safe AI in Law
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
When Thomson Reuters Met DeepJudge: Law Firms’ AI & KM Platform Moment
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
The Weiss-Washing of BigLaw
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
AI, Billable Hours, and the Great Legal Experiment
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
Data Debt, Diversity, and the Business of Law: A Conversation with BigHand’s Catherine Krow
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
Clio’s Enterprise Play: What BigLaw Should Take Seriously (and What to Watch Closely)
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
Fighting for Your Light: Anusia Gillespie on AI, Legal Innovation, and the Soul Toll of Law
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
Building Consistent AI for Contract Review with LegalOn’s Daniel Lewis
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
The Models Are the Product: Gabe Pereyra on Building an AI Associate and Matter-Centric Workflows
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