LawDroid Manifesto Podcast

38:45

American Legal Tech Awards 2026: Access to Justice Panel

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/10/05

In this special panel recording, moderator Cat Moon sits down with three past American Legal Technology Awards honorees: Sarah Coffey Bowes, Nora Cregan, and Zoe Dolan, to talk through a year of building access to justice technology. From automating California’s clean slate record clearing process, to launching a coordinated intake platform in Maryland, to rethinking how self represented litigants interact with AI, this conversation covers real systems serving real people, along with the funding,

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42:57

The Rebel Esquire: Jen Lee

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/09/28

Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋I’m excited to share with you the 88th episode of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be continuing to interview key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do. I think you’re going to enjoy this one!If you want to understand how a business background, an unconventional career path, and a refusal to accept “that’s not how things are done” can reshape legal aid and private practice alike, you need to listen to this episode. Jen is running a statewide legal

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47:01

The People’s Deputy: Shannon Salter

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/09/21

Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋I’m excited to share with you the 87th episode of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be continuing to interview key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do. I think you’re going to enjoy this one!I’ve known Shannon Salter for years as the Founding Chair of the British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal, Canada’s first online tribunal. She’s always impressed me as one of the smartest, humble, and most effective people that I know. She approaches legal

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40:18

AI Agents Workshop

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/09/15

Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋I’m excited to share with you the 86th episode of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be continuing to interview key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do. I think you’re going to enjoy this one!If you want to understand the real difference between a chatbot and an AI agent, and where the risk actually lives when you hand your files over to one, you need to listen to this episode. Sateesh and I ran this as a live workshop at the third annual LawDroid

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42:15

The Women in AI Panel: Cat, Anastasia, Heidi, Sharon

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/09/08

LawDroid Manifesto brings you conversations with the people rebuilding the legal profession around AI, one honest conversation at a time. In this episode, Kat Moon of Vanderbilt Law School moderates a live panel with Anastasia Boyko, Heidi Brown, and Sharon Crane, unpacking the "women are falling behind in AI" narrative, what real competence with these tools looks like, and the risk of automating the profession's worst habits instead of its best ones. For more, head to www.lawdroidmanifesto.com

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42:07

The Genuine Article: Dyane O’Leary

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2026/08/31

Professor Dyane O'Leary of Suffolk University Law School joins Tom Martin to unpack how legal education is adapting to generative AI, without losing what makes good teaching good. They discuss Suffolk's decade-old Legal Innovation and Technology concentration, why closed-book writing exams are making a comeback, and how students without an established professional voice are learning to use AI tools responsibly. Dyane also shares her path from big-law associate to law professor and what keeps

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53:08

The Curious Engineer: Kevin Keller

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/08/17

Kevin Keller, general counsel of Neurophos, took an unusual path from a small Idaho sawmill town to the center of Silicon Valley’s optical computing frontier. In this episode, he talks about building LQ AI, his fully transparent open source legal assistant, why diversity of thought matters in both human teams and multi-agent AI systems, and what he believes remains uniquely human as AI absorbs more reasoning work. It’s a thoughtful look at curiosity as a career strategy and a life philosophy. For

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47:07

The Principled President: Patrick Palace

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/08/10

Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋I’m excited to share with you the 82nd episode of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be continuing to interview key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do. I think you’re going to enjoy this one!In this episode, I got to talk to my dear friend Patrick Palace. Patrick runs Palace Law in Tacoma, Washington, but he’s also been serving as president of the National Conference of Bar Presidents. In that role, he’s pursued the NCBP Pledge, to preserve the

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43:56

The Lawyer’s Lifeline: Jim Calloway

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/08/03

Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋I’m excited to share with you the 81st episode of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be continuing to interview key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do. I think you’re going to enjoy this one!Jim Calloway is a bit of a legend and I’m so honored he spent some time with me to share his story. He has a natural charisma and affinity for helping people — which he used over his career to help lawyers better understand how they can utilize technology to

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51:25

The Strategic Showman: Zach Abramowitz

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/07/28

Zach Abramowitz has advised law firms, legal departments, and legal tech companies since 2018, and he's watched legal AI adoption up close from the very beginning. In this episode, he explains why so many lawyers had a rocky first experience with AI, why psychology matters as much as capability, and why he believes legal-specific companies, not the big AI labs, will ultimately win the application layer. He also shares an unconventional path through Talmud scholarship and New York stand-up comedy

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49:22

State of AI Panel: Tom, Damien, Megan, Joanne

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2026/07/20

Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋I’m excited to share with you episode 79 of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be continuing to interview key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do. I think you’re going to enjoy this one!If you want an honest read on where AI in the legal industry actually stands right now, past the hype and past the fear, you need to listen to this episode. I sat down with three people watching this shift from completely different seats: a researcher testing these

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44:07

The Sharp Cookie: Tifiny Swedensky

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2026/07/06

Tifiny Swedensky spent years inside the Ben Glass and Great Legal Marketing world before founding Sharp Cookie, the fractional CMO practice she runs today for law firms. In this episode of LawDroid Manifesto, she explains why marketing needs an owner, not just a plan, and why the tools promising to replace that owner keep handing firms a to-do list without ever doing the work. Drawing on the Doorman Fallacy and the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, she offers a grounded, practical read on where AI genuinely

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44:28

The Human Co-Creator: Zoe Dolan

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/06/29

Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋I’m excited to share with you the 77th episode of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be continuing to interview key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do. I think you’re going to enjoy this one!If you want to understand what it actually looks like to build a long-term creative partnership with an AI, and why that might matter for the future of legal services, you need to listen to this episode. Zoe is a trial lawyer who has spent years at the frontier

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46:43

The Open-Source Disruptor: Will Chen

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/06/22

Will Chen left a Latham & Watkins associate role to follow his interest in code, and ended up building Mike OSS, an open source tool that does much of what firms pay millions for. In this episode he tells Tom Martin how a glance at his friends' screens convinced him that premium legal AI was far simpler than advertised, why he chose to open source it, and how the launch drew millions of impressions and a sharply divided response from lawyers and engineers alike. They explore static versus active

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50:07

The Stoic Marketer

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/06/15

Search is changing faster than at any point in its history, and most lawyers are betting everything on the one channel that's shifting beneath them. In this episode of LawDroid Manifesto, Tom Martin sits down with Gyi Tsakalakis, Co-founder and President of AttorneySync, to unpack what AI overviews and AI mode really mean for law firm marketing. Gyi's counsel is refreshingly grounded: stop overrelying on Google, build a brand people recognize and trust, and stay skeptical of anyone selling

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37:23

The AI Paralegal: Claire Robinson

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/06/08

Claire Robinson, Chief Product Officer at Upsolve, started her career as a paralegal—answering thousands of questions from low-income Americans navigating bankruptcy. That firsthand experience became the blueprint for Upsolve's AI Paralegal: a context-aware assistant embedded inside the app that guides users through one of the most stressful legal processes of their lives. The tool proved so effective that Upsolve had to pause new signups entirely when demand overwhelmed their team. Claire joins Tom

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40:16

The Purposeful Disruptor: Beau Atkins

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/06/01

Beau Atkins, CEO of Evolve Family Law — Canada's first national family law firm — nearly left the legal profession before deciding to rebuild it from scratch. In this episode, Beau explains how lessons from construction work, behavioral economics, and a philosophy background led him to eliminate the billable hour, apply nudge theory to divorce proceedings, and build a firm designed from day one for access and scale. He also shares how AI tools are enabling his seven-person team to serve clients at a

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47:01

The Grounded Scholar: Daniel Schwarcz

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/05/25

Does using AI make you a worse lawyer? Professor Daniel Schwarcz of the University of Minnesota ran the first randomized controlled trial to find out—and the results surprised even him. In this episode, Daniel breaks down his landmark empirical study of 100 law students, explains what his data actually says about AI and legal reasoning, and brings the rigorous grounding that the AI conversation desperately needs. If you want insight rooted in evidence rather than hype, this is the episode for you

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31:27

Fireside Chat with Ron Flagg

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/05/18

Ron Flagg, President of the Legal Services Corporation, joins Tom Martin for a keynote and fireside chat recorded at the LawDroid AI Conference 2026. Ron makes the case that closing the justice gap — where 92% of the civil legal needs of people in poverty go unmet — requires more than funding or technology alone. It requires a community of innovators building together, intentionally. He shares how LSC's grantee network is embracing AI to expand capacity, discusses findings from LSC's landmark

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41:21

The Not to Distant Future of Dispute Resolution

LawDroid Manifesto Podcast ·

2026/05/11

Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 70th episode of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be continuing to interview key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do. I think you’re going to enjoy this one!If you want to understand how AI is reshaping the future of dispute resolution and why lawyers must be part of building that future, you need to listen to this episode. Bridget is at the forefront of AI-native dispute resolution and brings a uniquely visionary

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