LawNext

Law firms sell experience — but for decades, harnessing and operationalizing that experience has been a largely manual, chaotic process. In this episode, recorded live at the Legal Marketing Association annual conference in New Orleans, host Bob Ambrogi sits down with Jason Noble, president and chief of product strategy at Ikaun, to talk about…

Recorded live at the annual meeting of the Legal Marketing Association in New Orleans, this episode features my conversation with Rachel Shields Williams, president of the LMA and director of client intelligence at Sidley Austin, where she has spent 17 years building out roles at the intersection of marketing, business development, knowledge management and data.…

We don’t usually say this, but for today’s LawNext, you’re going to want to watch the video version, if you can. The audio will be good, but the video will be great. You can find it on YouTube.

Why? Because we’re going to be talking today about vibe coding, and you’re…

Are courts the next frontier for legal AI? Shlomo Klapper, founder and CEO of the AI-driven judicial case-preparation platofrm Learned Hand, believes they are. A former litigator at Quinn Emanuel and law clerk for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Klapper is building what he calls a “reasoning engine” for judges — AI…

E-discovery platforms have gotten great at narrowing millions of documents down to manageable sets. But what happens next — the grueling work of extracting facts, organizing them, and building a reliable case narrative — has remained largely manual. In this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi talks with Daniel Lord-Doyle

For the final installment of our LawNext on Location series, all recorded during my trip to San Francisco, I head across the bay to Oakland, to the headquarters of e-discovery company Everlaw, where I sit down with founder and CEO AJ Shankar for a conversation about technology, AI and being in it…

Continuing my on-location interview tour of San Francisco, I head an hour north to Santa Rosa to sit down with Nathan Walter, cofounder and CEO of Briefpoint, over a bottle of red wine at Paradise Ridge Winery, a spot literally around the corner from Nathan’s house, sitting on the edge of the…

As I continue my LawNext on Location series – all recorded live in the San Francisco area at locations of each guest’s choosing – he sits down with Pablo Arredondo at his home in Tiburon, a quaint Marin County town with a history stretching from Mexican land grants to naval outposts to a southern railway…

While I am visiting San Francisco for two weeks, I am sitting down for conversations with legal tech innovators and entrepreneurs “in their natural habitats” – places in the Bay Area they consider special. Today, in the first in this series, I sit down for lunch with Alex Su, chief revenue officer at Latitude…

In this episode of LawNext, we talk with Ryan Anderson, co-founder and CEO of Filevine, and Sona Sulakian, former CEO and co-founder of Pincites, about Filevine’s acquisition of the AI-powered contract redlining company. The deal, which closed in December, marks Filevine’s second major AI acquisition of the year. Even more notably for this traditionally litigation-focused…

Gabriel Pereyra and Winston Weinberg started legal AI company Harvey in 2022 as roommates in a San Francisco apartment. Pereyra had been working on AI research at Meta and Google, while Weinberg was a first-year litigation associate at O’Melveny & Myers. Today, they still share that same apartment, but their…

In the last in a series of interviews recorded during the ClioCon conference in Boston in October 2025, we bring you a doubleheader – two interviews with two of the legal tech company’s key executives. 

In the first, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi speaks with Reagan Attle,…