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
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
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
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
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
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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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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, argued with me about word choices, restructured chapters when our argument was
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, argued with me about word choices, restructured chapters when our argument was