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Law Subscribed
by Mathew Kerbis, The Subscription Attorney
Mathew Kerbis interviews attorneys and technologists building for subscription legal services and other innovations within the law. https://linktr.ee/lawsubscribed. www.lawsubscribed.com
Episodes
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(198) Ethical Legal Billing in the AI Era with Susan E. Guthrie of The Practice Playbook
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI is not a search engine. Many lawyers still treat AI like Google, which completely misses its collaborative potential and underwhelms them, like driving a Maserati...
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(197.5) AI-Driven Collapse of the Billable Hour, Part 1
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI compresses the time for legal work but the billable hour penalizes that efficiency, meaning lawyers who adopt AI tools earn less for delivering the same or better...
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(197) General Counsel + Subscriptions with Bill Price of SubscriptionGC
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Bill Price’s ALSP, Subscription GC, charges a flat monthly fee that is cheaper than big law but still premium, aligning incentives around getting things done rather...
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(196) Investing in AI for the Legal Industry with Matt Ober of Social Leverage
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI augments rather than replaces lawyers by handling repetitive document review and data extraction, freeing attorneys to focus on higher-value work that clients...
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(195) How to Manage A Small Law Firm with RJon Robins
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * The billable hour was introduced by the insurance industry in the late 1960s and early 1970s, replacing the value-based and flat fee model lawyers had used for over…
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(194.5) Why Legal Innovation Deserves its Own Oscars with Tom Martin of LawDroid
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Tom Martin’s LawDroid is developing pre-emptive techniques through its Spectral Mind R&D lab to eliminate hallucinations before they reach the user, building on the...
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(194) The Ditching Hourly Guy + The Subscription Attorney Reunite (and How to Go Live on LinkedIn)
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * You can go live on LinkedIn through Zoom by connecting a custom stream URL, but you must wait 30 to 40 seconds for the LinkedIn lag before clicking “Go Live” and...
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(193) Family Law and Estates + Subscriptions with Natalie Thomas of The Legal Joint LLC
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Natalie Thomas chose a trade name (The Legal Joint) instead of her personal name so the firm could eventually be sold or run independently without being tied to her...
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(192.5) Subscription Billing Mechanics and Ethics for Law Firms
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Subscription billing aligns attorney and client incentives by rewarding ongoing value and proactive problem avoidance instead of penalizing efficiency the way the...
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(192) Answer/Generative Engine Optimization with Danny Decker of Spotlight Marketing + Branding
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Being a great lawyer doesn’t automatically attract clients; law firms need strong marketing to bring in the right clients, not just more clients. * Recurring...
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(191.5) Curation and Tase are Your Superpowers Workshop
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Subject matter expertise remains essential because AI only works as well as the knowledge and curation you bring to it. * Gemini Notebook (formerly known as...
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(191) Fractional General Counsel + Subscriptions with Drédeir Roberts of Drédeir Law
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Unexpected setbacks can accelerate your path. Drédeir didn’t pass the bar on the first try, took a contracts manager role to pay the bills, and ended up being…
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(190.5) How to Use Google Workspace for Law Firms
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Gemini Notebook (formerly, Notebook LM) is the standout tool. The speaker calls it “the best value in Google Workspace.” It uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)...
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(190) Startup GC + Subscriptions with Ryan Juliano of Darwin Legal
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Big Law wasn’t the right fit and he knew it early. After starting at Kirkland & Ellis, Ryan realized around the three-year mark that the big law “escalator” didn’t...
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(189.5) How The Subscription Attorney Actually Uses AI Tools
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Treat AI like a brilliant entry-level employee. AI tools are incredibly knowledgeable (having “read everything on the internet”), but they work best when given clear...
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(189) The Future of Law Firm Business and Innovation with Jon Campisi of Centellic
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI is reshaping the legal industry across all levels. From law schools mandating AI courses to federal judges using AI tools, adoption is broad and not limited to...
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(188.5) Human Intelligence Still Matters for AI-Powered Legal Work
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Human intelligence still matters: AI raises the floor for everyone, but curation, taste, and expertise are the irreplaceable human skills that will differentiate you...
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(188) Employment Law + Subscriptions with Stuart Rudner of Rudner Law
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * The billable hour damages client relationships. Stuart’s core message is that charging by the hour makes clients afraid to pick up the phone, meaning they only call...
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(187.5) AI-Driven Law Practice: Perplexity & Agentic Tools Demo
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Perplexity Enterprise is a cost-effective, secure AI hub for lawyers. At $400/year, it provides SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance while giving access to multiple top...
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(187) How and Why to Switch to the Subscription Model with Arya Firoozmand of Overture
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Subscription model beats fee-splitting for attorney networks. Overture transitioned from taking a fee split on referrals to a $49/month membership, giving attorneys...
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(186) Is it Malpractice to NOT use AI with Marc Hoag of Hoag Law.ai
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Not using AI may soon be malpractice. Marc raised this argument as early as May 2023 in CLEs for the Beverly Hills Bar Association that lawyers who fail to leverage…
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(185.5) Register for The Lawyer's Guide to AI Compliance Session
My Legal Academy invited me to talk about the ethics of AI alongside Lucian Pera and moderated by Michael Smith. I’ll demonstrate my personal AI workflows and how I ensure compliance with Model Rules 1.1 and 1.5 using enterprise-grade tools. Stay tuned for more announcements on LinkedIn as we...
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(185) Law Firm AI Coworkers + Subscriptions with Thomas Bueler-Faudree of August
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI is flipping the 80/20 rule in law. Historically, lawyers spent 80% of their time on document analysis and 20% on strategy. Thomas expects that to reverse, with AI...
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(184) Family Law + Subscriptions with Asia Scarlett-Jones of ASJ Law Office
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Ditch the billable hour and subscriptions reward efficiency. Asia found that billing by the hour penalized attorneys for being fast and good. Subscription billing…
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(183) Rethinking Law with Automation and Design with AK Raja of Lawgical
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Automate what employees hate, not just what’s time-consuming. AK’s core philosophy is to identify the tasks employees despise, like intake calls with distressed,...
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(182) Integrating AI into Small Law Firms AI with Jennifer Case of Law Tech AI
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Lawyers need an AI strategy and policy first. Before adopting any tools, firms must have a written AI policy, even if it simply says no tools are approved yet.…
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(181) Solo Practice Home Grown AI Solutions with Stephen Polauf of Polauf Law LLC
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Going solo requires proving your own value. Stephen emphasizes that attorneys who rely solely on a firm’s name have “borrowed value.” Going out on your own, and...
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(180.5) Light Bulb Moments: How Subscription Models and AI Are Rewiring Legal Practice
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Ditch hourly billing for subscriptions: Billing by the hour incentivizes inefficiency. Subscription and fixed-fee models align attorney success with client outcomes,...
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(180) AI-Native Law Firms with J.P. Mohler of General Legal
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI native law firms are built on aligned incentives. The billable hour model actively disincentivizes efficiency. General Legal charges a flat $500 per contract...
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(179.5) 1-on-1 with Mathew Kerbis
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(179) How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Lawyering with Ray Brescia, Author of Lawyer 3.0
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * We’re at a major inflection point in legal practice. Generative AI represents the second great technological shift in the legal profession (Lawyer 3.0), and unlike...
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(178.5) Profit Ready with Practi
Here’s my talk with Chelsea Williams of Core Solutions Group for her Profit Ready group about using Practi to get recurring revenue for your law firm. Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Charge for...
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(178) Business Law + Subscriptions with Noel Bagwell of Counsel & Clarity
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Preventive law is far cheaper than reactive law. Clients who try to DIY their legal needs (using LegalZoom, skipping contracts, etc.) often end up paying twice. Once...
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(177.5) A Legal Conference Like No Other with Beth Fellner of LegalGeek
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * The conference format prioritizes dynamic, non-reusable content: 10-minute TED-style talks force speakers to create fresh material exclusive to LegalGeek, avoiding…
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(177) Litigation AI & The End of the Billable Hour with Justin McCallon of StrongSuit
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI dramatically boosts lawyer productivity. Justin estimates that lawyers using AI tools like StrongSuit can roughly double their output. Attorneys billing...
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(176.5) Curation and Taste are Your Superpowers
Here’s my live talk at Masters AI Conference in Chicago about why Curation and Taste are Your Superpowers in the AI Age. Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 4 takeaways from this episode: * If you use the same AI tools as everyone…
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(176) Legal 3.0: The Intersection of AI, Law & Business with Ben Chiriboga of reframe.lawyer
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI is making time-based billing obsolete. What once took 6 hours now takes 6 minutes, and that gap is only widening. Billing by the hour in an AI-powered world means...
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(175.5) How to Use NotebookLM for Lead Generation
In this special episode I share a presentation I gave to Ernie the Attorney’s Inner Circle community on how to use Google’s NotebookLM as a lead generation tool for law firms. I walk through how I built notebook.practi.ai, a public-facing AI knowledge base powered by largely by this very podcast,...
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(175) Legal Ethics in the Age of AI
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Competency requires using AI tools correctly. Model Rule 1.1 obligates lawyers to be competent in technology they use. Using the wrong tool (e.g., ChatGPT for legal...
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(174.5) Get Help with Custom Built Subscription Packages on Practi
This week’s episode of Law Subscribed is a little different. Instead of the usual format, it’s a quick, direct walkthrough of something I’ve been building that can help you generate recurring revenue in your practice. It’s called Practi. I partnered with a Google software developer to create a...
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(174) Trademarks + Subscriptions with Jim Hart of Hawthorn Law
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Trademark practice is his core focus. Jim transitioned from family law to IP/trademark law over several years, and today ~95% of his practice is trademark-related…
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(173) AI + Automations for Admin Tasks with Brenda Brusegard
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Smarter intake = dramatically more clients. By replacing a generic “contact me” form with a conditional, structured intake form tied to automated, personalized email...
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(172) Mastering AI + Subscriptions with Cat Casey of Masters AI Legal
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI literacy is non-negotiable for all lawyers. You don’t need to be an AI evangelist or know how to code, but every legal professional must understand enough to...
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(171) Live at Techshow: Your AI is in Your Inbox with Josh Dorward of TwinCounsel
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * The Rise of the Solo Attorney. Solos will increasingly operate at big-firm levels while keeping their independence, enabled by AI tools that handle the volume of…
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(170) Trademarks + Subscriptions with Sonia Lakhany of 4L Education
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Efficiency as entrepreneurial foundation. Sonia disliked the billable hour from day one as an associate because she works fast. Being efficient meant being penalized...
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(169.5) Special Announcement for ABA Techshow 2026 In-Person Event and Subscription Law Firm Resources
Will you be in Chicago on March 26? Then get one of the last free tickets to the Techshow Happy Hour co-hosted by Practi and August. Want your question to be answered on a future show? Fill out this short survey. Ask your subscription and AI questions at notebook.practi.ai. Sign up for Paxton, my...
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(169) Business of Law Transformations with Justin Ergler
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * The billable hour is a security blanket. Lawyers cling to hourly billing because it’s what they were trained on. The biggest obstacle to AFA adoption isn’t the law...
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(168) Curated Knowledge + Subscriptions with Austin Brittenham of 2nd Chair (Relay)
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Solves the “Shadow Usage” Problem and Protects Privilege: Relay is designed to prevent clients from using consumer-grade AI tools like ChatGPT for legal matters. It...
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(167) Legaltech + Subscriptions with Tom Pfennig of GOLT AI
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI is “Augmented Intelligence” and a Catalyst for Transformation: AI should be viewed as an augmenting tool to enhance legal work, not a “magic box” for perfect...
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(166) Fractional GC + Subscriptions with Rachel Saunders of Saturday Legal
Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: 1. Fractional GC Model Fills a Critical Gap. Rachel discovered the fractional general counsel model while working at PEAK6, where the legal department provided…
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Mathew Kerbis interviews attorneys and technologists building for subscription legal services and other innovations within the law. https://linktr.ee/lawsubscribed.
www.lawsubscribed.com
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