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LawDroid Manifesto Podcast

In LawDroid Manifesto, Tom Martin discusses the intersection of law and artificial intelligence and what it means for the future of our relationship with justice. www.lawdroidmanifesto.com

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42:10

The MagNet Agents: Laura Bingenheimer & Avinash Nair

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2025/10/27

In this episode, I sit down with Laura Bingenheimer and Avinash Nair, co-founders of Magnet Agents, an AI-powered client acquisition platform transforming how lawyers approach business development. Laura shares insights from seven years in legal tech sales, while Avinash explains how AI coding tools enabled him to build sophisticated features as a solo developer. They reveal how their platform serves lawyers across all firm sizes—from large firm BD professionals to partners building practice

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41:31

The Access Champion: Colin Lachance

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2025/10/20

Colin LaChance, principal consultant at PGYA and co-founder of LawKey, shares his journey from running CanLII to democratizing AI education for lawyers. After leading Canada's most-used legal research platform and founding multiple legal tech ventures, Colin now focuses on ensuring hundreds of thousands of solo and small firm lawyers aren't left behind in the AI transformation. He reveals how LawKey uses AI to teach lawyers about AI through hands-on learning, deployable to bar associations for as

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50:02

The Maverick Connector: Bradley Collins

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2025/10/13

Bradley Collins transformed from working on a building site to creating Legal Tech Talk, which grew to 3,100 attendees in just two years. His outsider's perspective on legal innovation offers powerful insights for anyone building something new or driving change. Bradley shares how he convinced global managing partners, chief legal officers, and tech founders to take a chance on a completely new event, why storytelling matters more than numbers, and how the legal industry's pattern of "no firm wants

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47:51

The Regulatory Innovator: Jordan Couch

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2025/10/06

Join Tom Martin as he interviews Jordan Couch, partner at Palace Law, about Washington State's groundbreaking entity-based licensing pilot program. After seven years of regulatory reform work, Jordan reveals how persistence and collaboration transformed an outdated UPL framework into an experimental system that invites innovation. Learn why 85% of people with legal needs go unserved, how Baumol's cost disease explains why legal services cost more while lawyers earn less, and why regulatory

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39:35

The Thoughtful Technologist: Tina Austin

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2025/09/29

Tina Austin, AI ethics advocate and educator at USC and UCLA, shares her innovative approach to teaching critical AI literacy across universities. From her journey through biomedical research to developing the groundbreaking "Unblooms" methodology, Tina demonstrates how educators can prepare students for an AI-enhanced future. Featuring insights on AI bias detection, protein language models, and concerning trends like student AI companionship, this episode reveals how critical evaluation skills

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46:00

The Main Character: Dan Lear

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2025/09/22

Dan Lear's unconventional journey from a family of lawyers to VP of Partnerships at InfoTrack reveals the courage required to abandon traditional legal practice for meaningful innovation. In this compelling conversation, Dan shares how his experience at Microsoft, community building in Seattle, and pivotal role at Avvo shaped his perspective on legal technology leadership. He introduces his concept of a law degree as both "map and floor" - security you willingly abandon to chart your own course

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61:14

The Audacious Innovator: Ed Walters

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2025/09/15

Join LawDroid CEO Tom Martin as he interviews Ed Walters, Chief Strategy Officer at VLEX and co-founder of Fastcase, about building one of legal tech's most successful companies. From growing up in poverty to serving in the White House speechwriting office to co-founding a platform that serves 1.2 million lawyers, Ed's journey demonstrates how mission-driven entrepreneurship can democratize access to justice. Learn about bootstrapping through the dot-com crash, the power of state bar partnerships,

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51:54

The Bridge Builder: Sam Glover

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2025/09/08

Join me as I interview Sam Glover, clinical fellow at Suffolk Law's Legal Innovation Technology Lab and co-founder of Lawyerist, whose journey from State Department childhood to building digital infrastructure demonstrates the power of open-source thinking in legal services.Sam shares his unique perspective on creating sustainable change in the legal profession through the Document Assembly Line Project, which has evolved from pandemic response to reliable infrastructure that courts and legal aid

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53:11

The Legal Polymath: Damien Riehl

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2025/09/02

Join host Tom Martin for an eye-opening conversation with Damien Reel, vLEX solutions champion and legal polymath whose groundbreaking work spans AI, data interoperability, and music copyright law. From small-town North Dakota to federal judicial clerkships and BigLaw litigation, Damien's journey led him to create the Sally data standardization project and copyright 471 billion melodies to protect artists from frivolous lawsuits. Discover how AI can address the 92% of unmet legal needs, why data

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55:18

The AI Translator: Megan Ma

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2025/08/25

Dr. Megan Ma, founding executive director of Stanford's Lift Lab, shares her journey from childhood language fascination to leading groundbreaking legal AI research. From inventing her own dialects as a trilingual child in Toronto to developing empirical benchmarks that compare human lawyers to AI tools, Megan reveals how her work is shaping the future of legal practice and education. She discusses her TurboTax analogy for legal AI adoption, insights from comparing associates to AI using senior

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46:37

The Justice Catalyst: John Grenier

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2025/08/18

John Greiner, founder of Just Tech, shares his three-decade journey from legal services attorney to technology innovator revolutionizing nonprofit legal aid. From growing up in Manhattan to becoming CIO at the nation's largest civil legal services provider, John reveals how thoughtful technology implementation can multiply impact while preserving essential human connections. He discusses the cultural barriers to innovation in legal services, the critical balance between risk management and progress

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53:47

The LegalTech Trailblazer: Richard Granat

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2025/08/11

Richard Granat, CEO of Law Media Labs, shares his extraordinary journey from 1960s civil rights activism to becoming legal technology's most influential pioneer. From helping create the nation's legal services program to founding mylawyer.com and DirectLaw, Richard has spent decades democratizing access to justice through innovative technology. In this candid conversation, he reveals his unique business philosophy of "making money while you sleep," discusses his predictions about AI's disruptive

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51:02

The Justice Revolutionary: Natalie Anne Knowlton

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2025/08/04

Join host Tom Martin for an eye-opening conversation with Natalie Ann Knowlton, Associate Director of Legal Innovation at Stanford Center on the Legal Profession. Discover how regulatory reform is revolutionizing access to justice beyond traditional low-income models.Natalie shares her journey from genocide studies to becoming an unapologetic advocate for legal system reform, including her groundbreaking research on Utah's regulatory sandbox and Arizona's entity regulation. Learn why middle-income

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51:49

The Echo Entrepreneur: Thomas Officer

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2025/07/28

Join Tom Martin as he interviews Thomas Officer, co-founder of Echo AI voice notes app and former legal tech entrepreneur. Thomas shares his remarkable journey from studying law at the University of Edinburgh to building Community Lawyer (acquired by NetDocuments) and ultimately creating innovative AI tools that enhance human creativity. Discover how personal frustrations become breakthrough products, the importance of user research in product development, and why maintaining momentum matters in

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55:00

The TechnoCat: Cat Casey

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2025/07/21

Join Tom Martin as he interviews Cat Casey, Chief Growth Officer at Reveal and the beloved "TechnoCat" of the legal industry. Cat shares her remarkable transformation from studying existential philosophy to becoming one of the most trusted voices in legal AI.In this episode, discover how Cat built her authentic personal brand from scratch, overcame introversion, and found her calling helping legal professionals embrace AI without fear. She reveals why your legal training gives you a natural

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58:19

The Caseway Founder: Alistair Vigier

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2025/07/14

Former Canadian Army special forces candidate Alistair Vigier shares how military discipline shaped his approach to disrupting legal AI. As co-founder of Caseway, he's challenging traditional gatekeepers by making legal research affordable at $49/month versus competitors' $200-300 pricing. Learn about the dramatic CanLII lawsuit over web scraping public court decisions, building custom legal LLMs with UBC, and why he avoids venture capital. Alistair's "think less, do more" philosophy drives

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52:19

The LSC President: Ronald Flagg

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2025/07/07

Join Tom Martin as he interviews Ronald Flagg, President of Legal Services Corporation, about the critical role of civil legal aid in American justice. Ron shares his journey from growing up as the son of Holocaust survivors to leading the nation's largest funder of legal aid programs serving every zip code in America.Discover the shocking reality that 74% of Americans in poverty face civil legal issues annually, yet over 90% receive inadequate assistance. Learn how LSC's potential budget

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63:16

The AI Philosopher: Richard Susskind

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2025/06/30

Professor Richard Susskind, whose four-decade journey in AI and law began with a 1980s doctorate, shares transformative insights on thinking about artificial intelligence beyond current limitations. In this essential episode, Richard explores the critical mindset shifts needed to understand AI's trajectory toward artificial general intelligence, potentially arriving by 2030-2035. Learn to move beyond "not us thinking" and the "AI fallacy" while discovering frameworks for automation, innovation, and

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56:56

The Justice Engineer: Quinten Steenhuis

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2025/06/23

Quinten Steenhuis's journey from legal aid attorney to legal tech innovator reveals how technology can transform access to justice. As co-director of Suffolk Law School's Legal Innovation and Technology Lab, Quinten shares how his 12 years representing tenants led him to create revolutionary tools like Massachusetts Defense for Eviction (MAID). After helping over 1,000 people individually while watching thousands more get turned away, he developed a "legal clinic in a box" approach that transforms

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57:38

The Information Collector: Shellie Reid

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2025/06/16

In this episode, Tom Martin interviews Shellie Reid, Manager of LSNTAP, whose unconventional journey from forensic science to legal technology innovation demonstrates how diverse backgrounds can drive meaningful change in legal services.Shellie shares her remarkable path from rural Alabama through military spouse life across multiple countries to law school at age 49, revealing how these experiences uniquely positioned her to break down silos between corporate legal tech and legal aid communities.At

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