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

I’m the CEO and Co-Founder of In-House Connect. With an audience of 50,000+ in-house counsel, In-House Connect brings a nationwide audience of In-House Counsel senior leaders together through curated live free CLE webinars and valuable networking opportunities. Celebrated for our top-notch programs and engaged audience, IHC enjoys the praise and gratitude of our attendee & sponsors alike!

Looking to get involved with In-House Connect and reach a nationwide audience of thousands of in-house counsel? Let’s connect!

Shai Mehani

200 in-house professionals. One rooftop. The city where it all started. Our biggest event ever! 

In-House Connect began as a small meetup group right here in NYC. Last night, we came back to where it all began.

I looked across that rooftop and saw the full arc — OG's who were part of those early meetups laughing it up with people who just discovered us last month.

There was a moment midway through the night when I tried to find a quiet corner to catch my breath. There wasn't one. Every corner of that rooftop was a conversation. Every group was laughing, swapping stories, and connecting.
The room was loud and that's my favorite (and sometimes least favorite) thing about our mixers 😂

Thank you to every person who showed up and made the night what it was.

And big thanks to our amazing sponsors — Ruli, Checkbox, Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, Chamelio, Filevine, LegalOn Technologies, DLA Piper, Filejet Inc., Wordsmith AI, and last but certainly not least, LawVu! 

Our sponsors are our partners in building this community and none of this happens without them. 🙏 

NYC — we have so much more coming your way. And if you're in another city thinking "we need this here" — drop me a line. 

IHC - coming to a city near you!

CEO + Co-Founder @In-House Connect, I help In-House Counsel Connect w/Peers + Thought Leaders I Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱

Every time I host an In-House Connect mixer, someone asks me the same question: "So what IS In-House Connect? Is this another ACC?"

Short answer: no.

In-House Connect is a free community built specifically for people who work in-house. No dues, no tiers. If you're in-house, everything we do is open to you — fully supported by sponsors who are our partners in fostering community all around the country. The only exception is our on-demand CLE library, which lives behind a paywall — and is a steal at $275/year for all access.

So what makes us different? It's not just the price. It's what it feels like.

Our CLE webinars are fun and engaging. The chat is active — people are networking, dropping their LinkedIn links, asking real questions. It doesn't feel like checking a box. It feels like being in a room full of people who actually care about getting better at this job.

And our mixers? They're loud. Because people are actually talking to each other. GCs, solo counsel, legal ops, fractional leaders — all in the same room, sharing war stories and swapping contacts.

That energy is the thing that's hard to explain until you've been in it. It's more than programming and networking. It's the feeling of walking into a room and realizing — these people get my job.

That's what In-House Connect is. A place where in-house counsel feel like they belong.

If you've been looking for that — come check us out. And if you've attended our events before, let me know by liking this post or dropping a comment!

What is In-House Connect

Miami - In-House Connect and LexisNexis are hosting a networking mixer on March 31st!

Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/eJXm7QsM

As a reminder, this event is FREE for in-house legal professionals and paid for everyone else!

People think they know what in-house counsel do.

They see the redlines. The "no's." The deals that took longer than expected because legal got involved.

What they don't see is everything below the surface.

The strategy calls before big decisions get made. The risks caught early enough that nobody even knows there was a problem. The late-night Slack that starts with "quick legal question" and ends three hours later. The judgment calls that protect revenue, reputation, and the company's future — none of which show up on a dashboard.

In-house counsel aren't the Department of Slow and No. They're the Department of Reason. They're the ultimate Department of YES! And most of what they contribute never gets formally measured.

That work deserves to be recognized, not ignored or marginalized. 

If this resonates, share it with someone in your organization who needs to see it. And if you're in-house — what's one part of your job you wish your company better understood?

#InHouseCounsel #CorporateLaw #InHouseConnect

At the In-House Connect x Davis+Gilbert LLP Product Counselling workshop, with Ariel M. Risinger!

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