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EP 29: Building a Legal Tech Brand with Colin Levy & Innovating the Future of Law - Legal Leaders
Episode Description I spoke with Colin Levy, General Counsel at Malbec, an innovative CLM company. Colin shares his in-house journey, his passion for legal technology, and how he's helping bridge the gap between law and tech. Colin discusses the importance of building a personal brand, embracing AI in the legal industry, and the future of law schools adapting to tech innovations. He also offers insightful advice for new lawyers looking to break into the legal tech world. Tune
Colin Levy
Apr 81 min read
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The Legal Tech Reality Check: Why AI Won't Replace Lawyers—But Will Transform Them - The AI Sidekick: Banishing Legal AI Anxiety
Legal AI adoption requires a strategic, people-first approach that balances technological innovation with practical implementation and organizational readiness. In this episode of The AI Sidekick: Banishing Legal AI Anxiety, host Ryan Heath from Robin AI speaks with Colin Levy, General Counsel at Malbek and author of multiple legal tech publications, to explore how legal teams can effectively integrate AI while maintaining healthy skepticism and focusing on practical outcomes
Colin Levy
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Colin S. Levy Returns - Pioneers and Pathfinders
Today, we talk with a returning guest, Colin S. Levy. Since he last joined us on the podcast, Colin has become general counsel at Malbek. Malbek is a CLM provider that helps large companies manage their entire contracting function, including using AI. In 2023, he released The Legal Tech Ecosystem, a book exploring the evolving legal world and how to leverage technology within it. He also teaches legal tech courses at Albany Law School and is working on a new book aimed at usi
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Apr 81 min read
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AI and Human Judgement
In this guide, I examine how judgment and AI interact in real legal work, arguing that artificial intelligence changes how lawyers process information but not the core value of human decision-making. Drawing on recent studies, I show that AI tools increase speed and sometimes accuracy, yet true judgment still depends on human reasoning, experience, and ethics. I outline what AI does well (document review, research, drafting, data extraction, regulatory monitoring) and explain
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Apr 81 min read
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A Guide to AI Implementation
In this playbook, I present a practical implementation roadmap that helps legal teams move from curiosity about AI and artificial intelligence to disciplined, sustainable use across clearly defined workflows. I begin with a structured needs assessment and prioritization matrix so teams select narrow, high-impact implementation candidates instead of buying generic AI solutions in search of a problem. I then outline how to implement internal AI governance: approved tool lists,
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AI in the Courtroom
In this guide, I explore how AI and artificial intelligence have entered the courtroom, from the first headline-grabbing failures like Mata v. Avianca to the more recent and unsettling episodes where judges themselves relied on AI-generated drafts that smuggled hallucinated facts and citations into judicial opinions. I show how these incidents triggered a wave of standing orders, local rules, and certification requirements that now shape what lawyers must disclose about their
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Apr 82 min read
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A Guide to Legal Tech Resources
In this guide, I offer a curated roadmap to the people, publications, events, and tools that matter most in legal tech and legal technology, helping lawyers cut through noise and focus on resources that move their practice and operations forward. I explain why legal technology is now central to how firms and in-house teams manage documents, contracts, compliance, and risk, and how developments in cloud computing, data analytics, workflow automation, and AI have made technolog
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Apr 82 min read
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AI Agents and Data Handling
In this guide, I explain why AI agents built on artificial intelligence are not ordinary software, showing how autonomous agents decide at runtime which data to access, which tools to invoke, and which actions to take across enterprise systems, creating unpredictable scope and cascading risks that traditional SaaS contracts and security models cannot handle. I highlight how AI agents chain tools and APIs, cross system boundaries, and maintain persistent memory, which complica
Colin Levy
Apr 81 min read
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