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

Deal Lawyer | Creator of the "Knowing Something" M&A in a Minute ⏰ Series | Tennis, Reading, Fitness, and Air Force 1s 👟

I’m a leading Chambers & Partners rated mergers and acquisitions (M&A) lawyer. My approach to M&A is to partner with my clients to get their most significant and complex deals done quickly and cost efficiently. 

To do that, I provide creative and actionable legal advice—while having fun along the way too! 

I’ve been doing M&A and advising companies, management teams, and directors for over 25 years and I love my work, my awesome teammates, and my valued clients—after all, you’re the reason I get to do what I do every day! 

My work involves advising global public and private companies, boards of directors, special committees, and senior management in connection with their most significant and challenging matters, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, activist planning and defense, and corporate governance matters.

My clients include a broad range of nationally and internationally recognized public and private companies, as well as financial investors and investment banking firms. 

Although I do a lot of tech-focused deals, my clients are located around the world and are active in a range of industries, including mobile communications, renewable energy, sports and broadcasting, chemicals, emerging technology, financial services, software, manufacturing and metals, education, robotics, information technology, media, and life sciences.

I talk and write about all kinds of corporate law topics, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, venture capital, and corporate governance. I was also a long-time contributing author to the Lexis-Nexis Securities Practice Guide.

I’m a founding faculty member of my firm’s mini-MBA program, an innovative professional development training program designed to orient law firm associates and in-house legal teams to key business and corporate finance concepts that are critical to business success.

Last, but definitely not least, I’m the creator of the “Knowing Something” M&A in a Minute ⏰ series here on LinkedIn. 

If you would like to know more about me and the way I think about deals, follow me on LinkedIn and let’s connect. 

I’m always excited to meet new people who are doing great things. 

So reach out and say hi…I promise you won’t get a bill! 


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