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

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Records & Retention Co-op Student

Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Assisted a professor with research on Early Warning Systems & Risk Information Seeking. 

This involved reading literature about building early warning systems and incident reports. 

This experience taught me the detrimental impact that failures in knowledge management can cause.

Graduate Research Assistant

Antarctic Institute of Canada

I wrote a 3000-word chapter for an academic book.

Contributing Writer

MODASTY

I wrote product information (titles, descriptions, URLs) for over 500 products and alternative text for images from over 300 products to allow for organic search appearances and increase site accessibility.

I was also responsible for responding to customer inquiries on Shopify Inbox within 48-hours.

SEO Intern and Customer Service Representative

Huron University

I wrote an article on Environmental Stewardship featuring two alumni and a current Huron student for the Fall 2022 edition of the magazine.

Student Contributor - Huron Alumni Magazine

The Western Gazette

I edited articles according to the Gazette’s journalistic standards.

Copy Intern

Culture Intern

Lightning HR Solutions

I wrote blogs for the company's site on topics relevant to job-seekers as well as small and medium-sized business owners.

Blog Writer

AirOps Database & Automation Consulting

I helped build the company’s blog, did market research on competitors and edited descriptions for YouTube videos.

Marketing Intern

Her Campus Media

I wrote 5 blogs aimed at college and university women on topics related to health, lifestyle and education.

👋🏻 Hi! I’m Holly. I’m a Master of Information student at the University of Toronto focusing on Knowledge Management and Information Management. I’m currently on a co-op term working with legal records at Blake, Cassels and Graydon LLP.

📖 I have an Honours BA in English & Cultural Studies from Huron at Western University. Studying English taught me critical thinking skills, how to communicate effectively orally and in writing, as well as how to develop an understanding of a topic and teach it to others.


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