PODCAST · business
The Geek In Review
by Greg Lambert & Marlene Gebauer
Welcome to The Geek in Review, where podcast hosts, Marlene Gebauer and Greg Lambert discuss innovation and creativity in legal profession.
Episodes
-
Patlytics and the Patent AI Race: Paul Lee on Human Judgment and the AI Dividend
Paul Lee, co-founder and CEO of Patlytics, joins Greg Lambert to explain how an AI platform built specifically for intellectual property work is changing the patent lifecycle. Patlytics supports workflows spanning patent drafting, prior art analysis, office action responses, portfolio management,...
-
Beyond the Law Firm Pyramid: Manuel Deó on Ambar, Fractional Legal Talent, and the Future of Legal Delivery
What happens when you separate elite legal talent from the traditional law firm structure? This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Manuel Deó, co-founder and co-CEO of Ambar Partners, about a model designed around senior independent lawyers, flexible capacity, enterprise technology, and...
-
Judicaid: Bringing AI Mediation to Everyday Legal Problems
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...
-
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…
more -
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…
more -
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…
more -
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
The Flight Simulator for Lawyers: Abdi Shayesteh and Jeanine Conley Daves on AI, Deliberate Practice, and the Future of Legal Training
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...
-
Ryan McClead on Writing With Claude and What AI Agents Mean for Legal Work
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...
-
Alex Su and Andy Chagui on Flexible Legal Talent, AI Pressure, and the Future of Law Firm Leverage
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…
more -
Keith Maziarek on AI, Pricing, and the New Economics of Legal Work
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...
-
Flatiron Law Group's Lennie Nuara on Talent-First AI, M&A Workflows, and the Future of Legal Practice
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...
-
Orbital CTO Andrew Thompson on Practice Area AI, Real Estate Law, and the Future of Legal Work
This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Andrew Thompson, CTO of Orbital, about why legal AI built for a specific practice area has a strong claim in a market crowded by general-purpose models. Thompson explains how Orbital focuses on real estate law, using AI, spatial intelligence, and…
more -
Greg Mazares Sr. on AI, E-Discovery, and the Future of Human-Led Legal Services
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,...
-
CounselLink’s Kris Satkunas on Rising Legal Spend, Law Firm Rates, and the Future of Value-Based Pricing
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…
more -
From Document Review to Fact Intelligence, Gregory Mostyn on How Wexler.ai Is Reshaping Litigation
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 for...
-
Texas Trailblazers and the Hard Truth About AI in Legal Work
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…
more -
From Translation to Transformation: Paula Reichenberg on AI, Legal Quality, and the Future of Good Enough
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...
-
Anthropic’s Matt Samuels and Den Delimarsky - Claude & MCP: Building the USB-C for the Legal Tech Stack
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...
-
Niki Black on AI Adoption, Billing Pressure, and the Governance Gap in Legal
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...
-
Anastasia Boyko on Advisor Mode, Training Lawyers for the Post-Pyramid Firm
Anastasia Boyko joins us this week for a wide-angle conversation about AI adoption, leadership, and the uncomfortable truth behind “we are watching what peer firms do.” A Yale-trained tax lawyer with experience spanning Axiom, legal education, and innovation leadership, Boyko argues that...
-
Women + AI Summit, Real Talk: Leadership, Learning, and Not Letting “The Trap” Write Your Story
This week we go “talk show mode” for a special episode where Marlene recaps her trip to the Women + AI 2.0 Summit at Vanderbilt Law, hosted by Cat Moon, and shares why the event felt different from the standard conference grind, more energy, more structure, and yes, a DJ. The summit’s core focus...
-
Revenue Leakage, Metadata, and the Post Billable Hour Playbook, Stefan Ciesla of Ayora
The billable hour has survived a lot of threats, from alternative fee arrangements to client procurement, but this episode makes the case that AI changes the pressure level. We open with a blunt assessment, time compresses, clients push back, and the old strategy of “work more to earn more” stops...
-
Midpage Goes Native: Legal Research Inside Claude and ChatGPT, with Otto von Zastrow
A fresh Anthropic announcement set off a week of market jitters and existential questions: what happens when the big model shops ship “legal productivity” features and the public markets flinch. This week, we bring Otto von Zastrow back for a rapid-response conversation, with a front-row view…
more -
Lawyer 3.0 and the Milkshake Test: Ray Brescia on Legal AI, Client Value, and the Next Wave of Lawyering
Ray Brescia joins The Geek in Review this week to unpack a role with peak academia vibes, Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life at Albany Law School. Greg frames the title as “Chief Curator of Smart People Ideas,” and Ray embraces a “player-coach” approach, coaching faculty…
more -
Sateesh Nori Joins LawDroid: AI Tools for Access to Justice, Housing Court, and Legal Aid
Sateesh Nori joins us on The Geek in Review for an episode that flips the usual legal innovation conversation away from law firm efficiency and toward survival-grade help for people stuck in housing courts and legal aid queues. They open with news from Sateesh himself, he has started a new role...
-
From Legal Aid to LIT Lab: Quinten Steenhuis and the Builder’s Approach to AI
Quinten Steenhuis brings a builder’s mindset to legal innovation, rooted in early Indymedia activism where scavenged hardware became community infrastructure. That scrappy origin story carries through a dozen years of eviction defense at Greater Boston Legal Services, with a steady focus on tools...
-
Tiara Time and Data Center Politics: Vanderbilt’s AI Governance Playbook with Cat Moon and Mark Williams
Cat Moon and Mark Williams return to The Geek in Review wearing two hats, plus one tiara. The conversation starts at Vanderbilt’s inaugural AI Governance Symposium, where “governance” means wildly different things depending on who shows up. Judges, policy folks, technologists, in-house leaders…
more -
Bot Overlords, Deepfakes, and the Weight of the Robe: Judge Scott Schlegel on AI in the Courts
Judge Scott Schlegel of the Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal joins The Geek in Review for a candid, funny, and unflinchingly practical conversation about AI inside the judicial system. Schlegel wears multiple hats, appellate judge, former prosecutor, reform-minded builder, plus a podcaster...
-
Receipts, RAG, and Reboots: Legal Tech’s 2025 Year-End Scorecard with Niki Black and Sarah Glassmeyer
The Geek in Review closes 2025 with Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer welcoming back Sarah Glassmeyer and Niki Black for round two of the annual scorecard, equal parts receipts, reality check, and forward look into 2026. The conversation opens with a heartfelt remembrance of Kim Stein, a beloved…
more -
The Record, Rewired: Verbit and the Next Era of Court Reporting - JP Son and Matan Barak
For decades, “the record” has meant one thing: a text transcript built by skilled stenographers, trusted by courts, and treated as the backbone of due process. In this episode of The Geek in Review, Marlene Gebauer and Greg Lambert sit down with JP Son, Verbit’s Chief Legal Officer, and Matan...
-
Data First, Partner Better. Jennifer McIver on Legal Ops Benchmarks, AI Agents, and Pricing Reality Checks
This week on The Geek in Review, we sit down with Jennifer McIver, Legal Ops and Industry Insights at Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions. We open with Jennifer’s career detour from aspiring forensic pathologist to practicing attorney to legal tech and legal ops leader, sparked by a classic moment of...
-
From Bad Data to Better Deals: John Tertan on Narrative, Pricing, and Law Firm Relationships
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...
-
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…
more -
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...
-
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 to...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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…
more -
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…
more
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to The Geek in Review, where podcast hosts, Marlene Gebauer and Greg Lambert discuss innovation and creativity in legal profession.
HOSTED BY
Greg Lambert & Marlene Gebauer
CATEGORIES
Loading similar podcasts...
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does The Geek In Review have?
The Geek In Review currently has 371 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is The Geek In Review about?
Welcome to The Geek in Review, where podcast hosts, Marlene Gebauer and Greg Lambert discuss innovation and creativity in legal profession.
How often does The Geek In Review release new episodes?
The Geek In Review publishes regularly with 371 episodes available. Check the episode list for the typical release schedule.
Where can I listen to The Geek In Review?
You can listen to The Geek In Review on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts The Geek In Review?
The Geek In Review is created and hosted by Greg Lambert & Marlene Gebauer.
URL copied to clipboard!