The Geek In Review
Welcome to The Geek in Review, where podcast hosts, Marlene Gebauer and Greg Lambert discuss innovation and creativity in legal profession.
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Patlytics and the Patent AI Race: Paul Lee on Human Judgment and the AI Dividend (opens the original)
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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, litigation readiness, and claim-chart preparation. Lee reports that the company now works with roughly 55 percent of the Am Law 100 and hundreds of corporations across technology, biotechnology, pharm
Beyond the Law Firm Pyramid: Manuel Deó on Ambar, Fractional Legal Talent, and the Future of Legal Delivery (opens the original)
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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 client choice. Deó explains why he and co-founder Rosa Espín did not set out to replace Big Law, but instead to address a gap between permanent in-house hiring and traditional outside counsel. At the cen
Judicaid: Bringing AI Mediation to Everyday Legal Problems (opens the original)
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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 Chief Strategy Officer Valerie Clemen to explain how those years led to Judicaid, an AI-assisted mediation platform built to help people resolve everyday disputes before time, expense, and emotion push
From Search Rankings to Vibe Coding: How Best Lawyers Is Rebuilding for the AI Era (opens the original)
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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 far beyond adding ChatGPT to the corporate toolkit. Best Lawyers is experimenting with generative engine optimization, internal agentic systems, vibe coding, and an AI development environment where employ
Patrick Forquer on Legora’s Agentic AI, Legal Engineering, and Consumption-Based Pricing (opens the original)
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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 on adoption, workflow design, prompt and context engineering, and change management. The conversation also explores an emerging career path for lawyers who pair substantive legal knowledge with AI flue
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