Director of Legal @ Malbek | Legal Tech Author and Commentator | Fastcase 50 2022 Honoree | Legal Tech Startup Advisor and Investor

I help legal professionals, legal teams, and technology organizations make sense of legal technology so they can work smarter, deliver stronger outcomes, and lead with confidence in a field that is often noisy, fragmented, and misunderstood.

As General Counsel of Malbek and a long-time educator, author, and advocate, I sit at the intersection of law, technology, and learning. My work centers on translation. I take complex, fast-moving technologies and turn them into clear concepts, practical strategies, and informed decisions that legal professionals can actually use. Whether guiding teams through digital transformation or shaping how legal products are built and adopted, my focus is always on clarity over hype.

Teaching is core to how I operate. I regularly speak to diverse audiences, from military organizations to law firms and in-house legal departments, as well as large professional groups, on AI’s impact on legal work and the responsible, effective use of technology. Across these settings, my goal is the same: to help people understand not just what tools do, but how they change legal work, roles, and judgment.

That same educational mission runs through my writing and publishing. I am the author of The Legal Tech Ecosystem, a foundational guide to understanding the industry and its players, a co-author of CLM for Dummies, and the editor of the Handbook of Legal Tech. I also write regularly, serve as a columnist for Today’s General Counsel, and contribute through podcasts, webinars, and industry forums. Each platform is another way to make legal tech more accessible, grounded, and actionable.

Across every role, my aim is to equip people with the knowledge and confidence to engage with innovation thoughtfully and critically. If you are trying to cut through the legal tech noise, educate your team, modernize how your legal function operates, or build tools that truly serve legal professionals, I help move you from uncertainty to understanding and from learning to execution.

Let’s build what comes next.

Colin Levy

Legal Writing Coach | Teacher | Writer | Creator, Dear 1L® & Dear Legal Writer | Former BigLaw Litigator (L&E) | Law-Mom

Hi there. 👋  If you want to get better at legal writing, you’ve come to the right place. 

▪️ I offer an original course that I teach over Zoom, both individually and in small monthly cohorts. It’s designed to refresh your grammar fundamentals and teach you how to handle the words and phrases that legal writers tend to get wrong.  You also get a handy editing tool that’s easy to remember and apply, and in the end, you take a roadmap for continued study to keep getting better on your own. 

▪️ I am also available to teach a CLE on legal writing to law firms and other employers.

All my teaching is designed to promote clearer, more concise, and more persuasive writing.

—To get an update on availability and receive more course information, you may sign up here:  http://writinglawtutors.com/courses

—If you would like to receive my free legal writing newsletter, you can subscribe here: https://writinglawtutors.com/newsletter

🔸 WHO AM I? 

A lawyer turned legal writing coach, but a mother and teacher at my core, 
I adore nurturing both new and not-so-new legal writers.

Before doing what I do now, I spent 20 years working in Big Law.  

-I worked for demanding partners in high-stakes, complex, motion-heavy litigation. 

-I wrote briefs, blogs, letters, client alerts, long-form articles, appeals, and everything in between.  

I also served as co-editor for two firm blogs and taught internal CLE’s on legal writing. 

In the process, I got trained by some of the best legal writers in the business.

In 2021, I branched out on my own and formed Writing Law Tutors LLC. Since then, my focus has been on improving the legal writing experience of lawyers and law students everywhere. 

📕 To that end, I have an Amazon best-seller, “Dear 1L: Notes to Nurture a New Legal Writer,” that you can get here: https://amazon.com/dp/B0D726J7RQ🔸 

▪️ For law students: You know me from my Dear 1L letters and my book. I bring the same passion to my coaching sessions. I’d love to help you on your journey to becoming a super-powered legal writer.  

▪️ For pre-law students: Work with me on your law school personal statement. Sign up for my summer cohort to prepare for law school before you start. 

⚓️  My anchor is my family. I am a mother of three girls in their 20s. I am fortunate to have an amazing husband, Matt, a managing partner at Kleinbard in Philadelphia, who helps support my journey. 

CONTACT:  You can reach me through Dear1L.com, or by email at Amanda@Dear1L.com. 

I will look forward to hearing from you!  💌 Amanda

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