Chief Innovation Officer, 3 Geeks and a law blog, and The Geek In Review podcast.
Houston, TX
Joined June 2008
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We asked Manuel Deó our crystal ball question: what is the single biggest change coming in how firms operate and work with their clients?
His answer: traditional law firms will stop being the only meaningful unit of legal delivery.
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If you’re going to use AI, at a minimum, put some human effort to remove the slop before sending it out. Here’s a skill that picks out some of the telltale signs of the slop to help you.
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I've lost count of how many times I've heard "SEO is dead" this year. Phillip Greer, the CEO of @BestLawyers , doesn't buy it, and he had the numbers to back that up when Marlene Gebauer and I talked with him this week on The Geek in Review.
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I took the nearly 10k of synthetic data Harvey produced for its synthetic law firm, made it a bit more realistic, and then ran the same test Harvey had conducted on LLMs, directly against Harvey vaults.
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While @WeAreLegora is one of the first to implement consumption-based pricing, they will certainly not be the last. We asked CRO Patrick Forquer how he is coaching his customers to handle this different pricing approach. thegeekinreview.substack.com…
We'll All Be Millionaires by 2031... if we just got rid of that pesky legal system. Signed - Tech Billionaires.
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Here's what's happened so far in 2026 on The Geek in Review Podcast. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, or on our Substack page: thegeekinreview.substack.com…
On this week's episode of The Geek in Review podcast, @gebauerm and I catch up on how AI token costs are bringing back the old Westlaw/Lexis billback thoughts and how we ride out this wave.
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It was great seeing @stephenembryjd at #AALL26 this year. He did a great recap of Judge Micah Smith's keynote. abovethelaw.com/2026/07/aall…
Beyond the Model: The New Baseline
Every hour saved by AI now becomes the new minimum and is absorbed before the worker even feels it.
Read more on my Substack page.
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The most dangerous legal AI agent is the trusted one humming along on yesterday’s outdated rules, with no human there to press the stop button.
Beyond the Model: The Accountability Problem open.substack.com/pub/thegee…
In less than three years parts of your law firm could become Dark Factories. Places where the work is so automated, that there are no people there to need the lights turned on in the room.
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On TGIR this week @nikiblack nailed it. The legal industry is not facing an AI shift alone. It is facing a structural shift in pricing, competition, legal education, and client expectations. The pressure is here now, not later. thegeekinreview.substack.com…