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Recent Episodes

1. As Alex Su Is Named President of Latitude Legal, We Talk about Why AI Is Driving Demand for Flex Talent

   Sep 16, 2026

   Alex Su, newly promoted to President of Latitude Legal, discusses the flexible legal staffing market and how AI is driving demand for experienced lawyers rather than reducing it. Su explains Latitude's model of using former law firm partners and senior in-house counsel as client service representatives, and addresses misconceptions about flex talent as mere contract attorneys. He covers the company's recent growth, including a 52% jump in new client acquisition in the first half of the year, and outlines his vision for the expanding market as law firms and legal departments navigate AI adoption.

2. Casefleet Founder Jeff Kerr on Fact Management in the Age of AI

   Sep 8, 2026

   Jeff Kerr, founder of Casefleet, discusses the evolution of fact-management software for litigators over the past decade and the company's recent launch of Casey, an AI agent that builds case chronologies conversationally. Kerr explains how Casefleet's pre-AI data model proved foundational for AI integration, why the company maintains both classic and AI-enhanced workflows, and how it draws ethical boundaries around agentic AI—allowing research and recommendation but not autonomous action. The conversation covers Casefleet's move back toward e-discovery capabilities and the competitive landscape of litigation tech in the age of generative AI.

3. Why Legal AI Pioneer Pablo Arredondo Is Joining Clio to Build Technology for the Courts

   Sep 1, 2026

   Pablo Arredondo, cofounder of Casetext and architect of early legal AI products including CARA and CoCounsel, announces his new role as Senior Vice President of Judiciary at Clio, where he will lead the company's expansion into court systems. The conversation explores the unique challenges of building AI technology for judges and courts rather than lawyers, including managing the influx of AI-generated filings and ensuring judicial fairness.

4. LexisNexis CTO Greg Dickason On Building Legal AI In Real Time with Customers in Its New Innovation Lab

   Aug 11, 2026

   Greg Dickason, Chief Technology Officer of LexisNexis Legal & Professional, discusses the launch of the company's Customer Innovation Lab in New York City—a physical space where legal professionals, LexisNexis engineers, and AI partners like OpenAI and AWS collaborate to build legal AI in real time. The lab collapses the distance between customers describing problems and engineers building solutions, enabling rapid iteration and prototyping that can move to production within weeks. Dickason explains the lab's first priority on legal drafting, the company's approach to AI models versus frontier models, and his vision for agentic AI reshaping legal workflows.

5. SurePoint's New CEO Jeff Steinberg on the Mandate for Change

   Aug 5, 2026

   Jeff Steinberg, newly appointed CEO of SurePoint Technologies, discusses his mandate for change at the legal tech company, which provides practice management, finance, and growth technology for mid-sized law firms. Steinberg, who founded Redwood Analytics in 2000 and sold it to LexisNexis in 2008, details SurePoint's integration challenges following four acquisitions in four years and outlines his priorities for the first year: understanding customer needs, balancing product stability with agility, and building a robust ecosystem of service and technology partners.

6. From Product to Practice: Why Casetext's Former CTO Has Started An AI Native Law Firm

   Jul 27, 2026

   Ryan Walker, co-founder and CEO of General Legal, an AI-native law firm launched 6 months ago through Y Combinator, discusses why retrofitting AI into traditional law firms won't deliver efficiency gains to clients. Walker, formerly CTO at Casetext where he led development of Co-Counsel, argues that true transformation requires rebuilding law firms from the ground up with AI as the foundation rather than an add-on tool. General Legal has already acquired ~400 clients and operates through a management services organization (MSO) structure that separates the investable tech platform from the licensed law firm entity, enabling non-lawyer ownership while maintaining ethical obligations.

7. Law Democratized: Renee Knake Jefferson on Her Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis

   Jul 20, 2026

   Renee Knake Jefferson, a law professor and author of 'Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis,' discusses the access to justice gap and the role of legal innovation, education, and technology in closing it. The conversation explores whether progress is being made on access to justice, the potential of AI in democratizing legal knowledge, regulatory reform efforts in states like Arizona and Utah, and the obligations of lawyers, law schools, courts, and the judiciary in advancing access to law for all people.

8. Inside Claude for Legal: Anthropic's Mark Pike on AI's Next Frontier in Law

   Jul 6, 2026

   Mark Pike, Associate General Counsel and Product Lead for Claude for Legal at Anthropic, discusses the May 2024 launch of Claude for Legal, a comprehensive suite of 20+ MCP connectors and 12 practice area plug-ins designed to integrate AI into lawyers' existing workflows. Pike traces his unconventional path from Facebook and Slack into product law at Anthropic, explains the technical architecture behind MCP connectors and plug-ins, and addresses key concerns around hallucinations, data privacy, professional responsibility, and access to justice.

9. Legal Research for Everyone: Inside the CourtListener - Claude Partnership

   Jul 1, 2026

   Mike Lissner, executive director and co-founder of the Free Law Project, and Nathan Dahlberg, the organization's AI developer, discuss Anthropic's partnership with CourtListener and the launch of MCP connectors that integrate the free legal research platform directly into Claude. The conversation covers how this integration democratizes access to legal research for self-represented litigants, the implications for established legal research moats, and the broader questions about the future of legal information delivery in an AI-driven environment.

10. Amy Juers and Valerie Chan on Marketing Legal Tech in the Age of AI Search

    Jun 22, 2026

    Amy Juers (CEO, Edge Marketing) and Valerie Chan (CEO, Platform PR) discuss their strategic partnership and the launch of the Trusted Answer Growth System, a framework designed to help legal tech and related companies adapt to AI-driven search and discovery. The conversation explores how generative AI and large language models are fundamentally changing buyer behavior and discovery processes, moving from traditional Google rankings to LLM-powered answer generation. They explain how companies can optimize visibility across owned, earned, and paid channels to ensure they appear as trusted answers when buyers consult AI tools.