Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast
The Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast covers the startups that develop and sell legal tech products and services. Through interviews with legal tech startup founders, investors, customers and others with an interest in this startup sector, the podcast's host, Charlie Uniman, and his guests will discuss such topics as startup management and startup life, startup investing, marketing and sales, pricing and revenue models and the factors that affect how customers purchase legal tech. In short, the Legal Tech Startup Focus Podcast will focus on just what it takes for legal tech startups to succeed.
Episodes
84 episodes
Strongsuit Shows How Legal AI in Litigation Moves From Chat To Workflow
We sit down in this episode of the LTSF podcast with Justin McCallon, CEO and founder of StrongSuit, to get concrete about what modern litigation AI looks like when it’s built around real attorney workfl...
How ADR Notable Helps Mediators And Arbitrators Run Secure, Efficient Cases
This podcast conversation goes into a corner of the legal industry that quietly runs on trust, process control, and confidentiality: alternative dispute resolution. With this topic on the agenda, it's a pleasure to welcome to the Legal Tech Sta...
How Vable Helps Law Firms Turn News Into Insight and Action
We sit down with Matthew Dickinson, founder and CEO of Vable, (https://www.vable.com) for a wide-ranging look at a problem every lawyer and law firm/in-house knowledge team recognizes: too much content and not enough time. Matthew walks u...
How Emma Legal Turns Data Rooms Into Insight
Deals don’t stall because people are lazy; they stall because the right people can’t see the right risks at the right time. We sit down with Rick van Esch, CEO and co‑founder of Emma Legal (https://www.emma.legal), to unpack how AI-driven playb...
How Legal Tech Startup, Abstract, Turns Laws And Regulations Into Actionable Strategy
Charlie Uniman, your podcast host, and Pat Utz, CEO and co-founder of Abstract (https://www.abstract.us/), explore how Abstract turns legislative and regulatory noise into real-time, client-specific strategy, and why deterministic workflows bea...
How Filevine Turns Legal Work Into Operating Intelligence
What if your legal stack worked like a true operating system—one place for documents, deadlines, tasks, client messages, and billing—and then used that context to power AI that actually helps? We sit down with Michael Anderson, Chief Product Of...
From Copenhagen to Global IP: One Founder's Journey to Fix Patent (and other IP) Renewals
What if missing a payment by one cent could cost a company its billion-dollar patent? This eye-opening conversation with Mads Vibor Jørgensen, CEO and co-founder of PatentRenewal.com (https://www.patentrenewal.com), reveals the hidden complexit...
From Frustration to Innovation: Building a Modern CLM for the AI Era
Matt Lhoumeau never expected to build a contract lifecycle management platform. After being kicked out of his home at 17 when he came out, he built and sold a gaming website, worked for French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and found himself tasked...
Behind the Scenes at Roboro: AI-Powered Legislative Intelligence
Ever wondered how legislative affairs professionals keep track of rapidly changing bills across multiple states? The answer increasingly involves artificial intelligence, and Paul Rava, co-founder of Roboro, is at the forefront of this transfor...
Marveri: Transforming Legal Due Diligence with Artificial Intelligence
What happens when a hardworking corporate lawyer joins forces with an MIT AI researcher? A revolutionary solution to one of the legal profession's most notorious pain points: due diligence. Connor Acle, co-founder and CEO of ...
From Data to Decisions: How Lex Machina Transforms Litigation
What happens when you combine the rigor of legal research with the power of data analytics? In this illuminating conversation with Carla Rydholm, General Manager and Head of Product at Lex Machina, we explore how legal analytics is transforming...
Legal Tech's Boundary-Breaking Veteran - An Interview with Monica Zent
Monica Zent joins us to share her journey as a seven-time founder and legal tech pioneer who has been at the forefront of innovation for nearly three decades. She discusses her evolution from creating some of the earliest ALSPs to investing in ...
Paralegals, Plus Robots: Finch Legal's Recipe for PI Success
What if personal injury attorneys could say "yes" to every promising case that came through their door? That's the problem Finch Legal (https://www.finchlegal.com) is solving with a groundbreaking approach that combines human expertise with AI-...
How Israeli Law Firms Are Reshaping Legal Practice with Legal Tech
Israel's innovation powerhouse isn't just transforming cybersecurity and consumer tech—it's also transforming the delivery of legal services through technological advancement. In this fascinating conversation with Idan Sivan, CTO at Fisher Law ...
AI-Powered Patent Drafting with Deep IP
When you're a patent attorney facing the challenge of creating high-quality patents in half the time you once had, technology isn't just a luxury—it's survival. FX Leduc, co-founder and CEO of DeepIP (https://www.deepip.ai), joins Charlie Unima...
From Paperwork to Productivity: How CaseBlink is Transforming Immigration Law
The immigration legal landscape is shifting dramatically, creating unprecedented challenges for attorneys navigating complex cases under heightened scrutiny. Enter CaseBlink (https://www.caseblink.com), an innovative AI-powered platform transfo...
Venture Capital Meets Legal Tech: A Conversation with Yousuf Khan of Ridge Ventures
What happens when a venture capitalist with CIO experience meets the evolving world of legal technology? Yousuf Khan, Partner at Ridge Ventures (https://ridge.vc), brings a refreshing perspective on what makes legal tech startups truly investab...
Democratizing Fundraising: How SeedLegals is Revolutionizing Startup Fundraising
What if raising capital for your startup could be 10x cheaper and dramatically faster? Anthony Rose, founder and CEO of SeedLegals (https://seedlegals.com), reveals how the SeedLegals platform has revolutionized fundraising for UK startups and ...
Karl Seelbach on Transforming the Legal Landscape with Tech
Introducing the first in a series of podcast episodes from Legal Tech StartUp Focus that feature legal tech power users. Discover the transformative power of legal technology with Karl Seelbach, the visionary litigator who co-founde...
Beyond Generic AI: Luminance's Specialized Approach to Legal Contract Intelligence
Beyond Generic AI: Luminance's Specialized Approach to Legal Contract Intelligence - Episode 65 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- A conversation with Eleanor Lightbody, CEO of Luminance In this episode, recorde...
Ep 64 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- Time, Money, and AI – Ajax’s Mission to Modernize Legal Timekeeping
In this episode of the Legal Tech Startup Focus Podcast, host Charlie Uniman interviews Jack Weinberger, co-founder of Ajax (www.joinajax.com), a cutting-edge AI-powered timekeeping solu...
Building and Scaling Legal Tech: Lessons from Gary Sangha, the CEO of LexCheck During LexCheck's Decade of InnovationLegal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast
In this episode of the Legal Tech Startup Focus podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Gary Senga, the CEO of LexCheck. This company has been at the forefront of legal technology for nearly a decade. We delved into Gary'...
The Damien Riehl Interview - Legal Data, Legal AI, and Thoughts on a Legal Tech Duopoly
In this episode of the Legal Tech Startup Focus podcast, I welcome Damien Riehl, VP, Solutions Champion, at vLex and a leader at SALI (Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry). Damien provided an ...
Episode 61 of the Legal Tech StartUp Focus Podcast -- An Interview with Michael Stych, Co-Founder and CEO of Contend
After Charlie introduces Mike and congratulates him on the recent Time of London article about Contend, Charlie and Mike discuss: Just what it is that Contend (at https://contend.legal) does to provide safe, accessible, and afforda...