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

President - inCite LegalTech - Creators of the Legal Tech Pulse Check (Singer of SILLY Song Parodies - at PerfectParody.com)

Redefining Legal Tech Sales with AI-Driven Growth

Full-stack sales leader with 25+ years of experience, specializing in turning disruptive legal technologies into scalable revenue engines. I don't just lead teams; I'm in the trenches, personally closing deals and building the go-to-market strategies that accelerate growth. I'm currently on a contract engagement, helping TermScout scale their sales team and drive growth by leveraging AI and data-driven strategies.

From scaling SaaS startups to driving growth at established Legal Ops platforms, I align sales, marketing, and technology to deliver massive business outcomes. I've worked with top-tier law firms, scale-ups, and innovation labs, using technology as a compass and catalyst for growth.

What I Do Best:

Building & Leading High-Performance Teams: I mentor, lead, and develop sales and business development teams to exceed targets by building a culture of excellence and accountability.

Driving Deal Velocity & Closing: I maintain an active pipeline, personally engaging with key accounts and closing high-value deals to set the standard for the team and ensure we hit our revenue targets.

Creating Go-to-Market Engines: I design and execute GTM strategies that use generative AI and predictive scoring to accelerate deal velocity and close bigger deals faster.

Strategic Growth & Partnerships: I build robust relationships and strategic alliances across the legal industry to expand market share and drive new business opportunities.

Proven Impact & Highlights:

Accelerating Growth at TermScout (Current Engagement): Brought in on a contract basis to lead the sales team and growth strategy, spearheading a new go-to-market initiative that has significantly expanded the sales pipeline and closed key deals.

Drove 75% market share capture at InCite LegalTech by leveraging AI-generated insights and leading key accounts to deliver hyper-personalized proprietary solutions.

Boosted inbound leads by 150% with a viral brand campaign, converting social engagement into a robust sales pipeline.

Authored a definitive guide, Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data, which debuted at Harvard Law School, establishing industry credibility and expanding my professional network.


🏅 Top 10 Global Legal Content Creator – Ranked #10 worldwide for creating impactful LinkedIn content.

🏅  Host of the award-winning “Don’t Suck at AI” Podcast, now a go-to resource for Legal Tech innovation and AI strategy.

🏅  Speaker at Legal Tech events such as LawDroid AI Conference 2025, GoodLawer Summit, and ContractsCon 2025.

John Lindsey

It's different kind of Monday.

If you’ve followed me for a while, you know Monday LinkedIn posts are usually for MUSIC parodies. But today, we decided our house needs quiet.

On Friday we had to say goodbye to Delaney, who served as a service dog for our grandson for nearly 13 years.  Having raised our grandson, we saw firsthand how Delaney became his entire world.

For SEND kids, service dogs are their bridge to the rest of us. Delaney was his bridge... a protector, and a soulmate for nearly his entire life. 

I’ll be back next week with the music. But today, we are finding quiet peace in the memories of a truly "good girl."

#TheMusicWillHave2Wait
#WeWillMissYouDelaney

Contracts just got COOL AS HELL.  Yeah, I said it. ⚖️🔥

For years, we’ve treated contracts like a death sentence....sign it, shove it in a drawer, and pray you never have to look at it again. 

That era is dead.

We’re moving away from "sign and forget" to "data-driven strategy.

I sat down with Lucy Bassli to talk about why contracts are no longer "legal paper"...they are high-octane fuel for your tech stack and your 10-year strategy.

It’s time to stop treating contracts like a chore and start treating them like the business ASSETS they are.

Full conversation in COMMENTS: 👇 

#GetYourContractShitTogether

I’m often asked why I show up on LinkedIn every week. 

This week gave me the best answer possible:  THE PEOPLE.

Following my Monday post about loss, the way this community rallied behind my family was nothing short of powerful. 

Thank you for the comments, the messages, and for holding space for our 'quiet' Monday.

It’s good to be here.

#FeelingTheLove ❤️ 
#TheMusicWillReturnIPromise 🎶

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