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

You can't negotiate AI contract provisions if you don't understand how the technology actually works.

The guide walks through it in the context of AI-specific contractual clauses:

What to flag, redlining suggestions, and negotiation suggestions.

Let me know what you think!

I'm Colin S. Levy, General Counsel at Malbek and author of The Legal Tech Ecosystem.

#legaltech #contracts #law #business #learning

Colin S. Levy

General Counsel at Malbek | Author of The Legal Tech Ecosystem | I Help Legal Teams and Tech Companies Navigate AI, Legal Tech, and Digital Enablement

AI Clauses Guide

Every time a lawyer asks an AI tool for case support, the tool delivers an answer with complete confidence. 

It formats the citation correctly. It names plausible parties. It describes a holding that tracks the legal issue perfectly. And sometimes, the case does not exist.

The challenge is not the fabricated citation you can catch with a quick database search. 

It is the real case with a subtly misrepresented holding, or the accurate legal principle supported by an invented authority. 

I wrote a guide that breaks this problem apart: 

-What hallucinations are at a technical level.

-Why the architecture of large language models makes them structural rather than fixable. 

-The categories of fabrication that show up in legal work

-How to build verification workflows that account for each one.

AI models are powerful. The outputs still require a lawyer's judgment.

I'm Colin S. Levy, General Counsel at Malbek and author of The Legal Tech Ecosystem.

#legaltech #contracts #law #business #learning

Managing AI Hallucinations Guide

Most legal teams do evaluate AI vendors before signing. The problem is often the evaluation isn't thorough enough.

I wrote a guide that covers the parts of vendor evaluation that standard processes tend to skip: 

Whether the company behind the tool will survive the next funding cycle, what "99% accuracy" actually measures (and what it hides), how to tell if a SOC 2 report is doing real work or just checking a box, and what your regulatory exposure looks like.

It pairs with my earlier guide on contracting with AI vendors. 

That one focuses on the contract. This one focuses on whether you should be entering into one at all.

I’m Colin, General Counsel at Malbek, and author of The Legal Tech Ecosystem. 

#legaltech #innovation #law #business #learning

AI Vendor Due Diligence Guide

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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