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Mathew Kerbis, The Subscription Attorney

Mathew Kerbis interviews attorneys and technologists building for subscription legal services and other innovations within the law. https://linktr.ee/lawsubscribed. www.lawsubscribed.com

  1. 3h ago

    (199) Announcing a New Podcast Network and Call for Guests

    I’m announcing the launch of the Practi Podcast Network, which will feature multiple shows covering why billing time sucks, AI’s impact on billable hours, experts and technology for law firms, and attorneys leaving BigLaw and In-House to start their own firms. If you are a billing convert (or want to be), a legal tech expert or law firm service provider, or a lawyers considering striking out on their own, then I want to have you on one of my new shows. Subscribe to the new show at practipod.com and submit guest appearance requests at this link. __________________________ Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Want your question to be answered on a future show? Fill out this short survey. Have subscription model question? Check out this free resource to ask all of your questions at notebook.practi.ai. Sign up for Paxton, my all-in-one AI legal assistant, helping me with legal research, analysis, drafting, and enhancing existing legal work product. Subscribe to the weekly newsletter to listen from your web browser. Prefer monthly updates? Sign up for the Law Subscribed Monthly Digest on LinkedIn. Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mathew Kerbis’⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ law firm ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscription Attorney LLC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Want to use the subscription model for your law firm? Click here to sign up for a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Get full access to Law Subscribed at www.lawsubscribed.com/subscribe

  2. Oct 23

    (198.5) AI-Driven Collapse of the Billable Hour, Part 2

    Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI is shrinking BigLaw’s workforce needs as firms that once needed a thousand lawyers can operate with far fewer, pushing displaced attorneys to start their own AI-native firms and serve the previously unmet “latent legal market.” * Subscriptions and flat fees solve the unpredictability problem for clients by offering transparent, scope-based pricing that adapts when cases change (e.g., uncontested to contested), giving clients certainty during stressful times while still compensating attorneys fairly. * Scope definition is the single most important factor in setting flat fees, and attorneys must audit a typical matter, itemize every task included and excluded, and price based on client value rather than simply multiplying old hours by old rates. * Clients hate hourly billing and will increasingly choose firms that offer predictable pricing, making flat fees and subscriptions a competitive marketing advantage that builds trust rather than eroding it the way hourly billing does. * Law schools and students must embrace AI now because the traditional legal career ladder is changing, but the core skill of “thinking like a lawyer” remains valuable as a critical-thinking foundation for directing and leveraging AI tools effectively. __________________________ Want your question to be answered on a future show? Fill out this short survey. Have subscription model question? Check out this free resource to ask all of your questions at notebook.practi.ai. Check out Susan Guthrie and Joey Gartner. Sign up for Paxton, my all-in-one AI legal assistant, helping me with legal research, analysis, drafting, and enhancing existing legal work product. Get Connected with SixFifty⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, a business and employment legal document automation tool. Sign up for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Gavel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an automation platform for law firms. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Law Subscribed⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to subscribe to the weekly newsletter to listen from your web browser. Prefer monthly updates? Sign up for the Law Subscribed Monthly Digest on LinkedIn. Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mathew Kerbis’⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ law firm ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscription Attorney LLC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Want to use the subscription model for your law firm? Click here to sign up for a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Get full access to Law Subscribed at www.lawsubscribed.com/subscribe

  3. Oct 16

    (198) Ethical Legal Billing in the AI Era with Susan E. Guthrie of The Practice Playbook

    Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI is not a search engine. Many lawyers still treat AI like Google, which completely misses its collaborative potential and underwhelms them, like driving a Maserati like a Datsun. * The billable hour cannot survive AI efficiency. Clients already know AI can speed up legal work and are pushing back on hourly billing, making alternative fee models a strategic necessity rather than an optional experiment. * Transparent flat fees and subscription pricing build trust with clients. Susan’s consultation conversion rate jumped to over 95% when she proactively discussed flat-fee pricing, because it replaced the adversarial “did you really spend that much time?” dynamic with upfront clarity. * AI hallucinations mirror human memory errors, so verification is the fix for both. Both hosts shared personal stories of confidently recalling wrong event details, illustrating that the solution is the same whether you are a human or an AI: go back to the primary source before answering. * The legal profession is at a major inflection point with no breathing room. AI adoption among lawyers happened faster than any prior technology shift, and practitioners who treat it as an opportunity rather than an existential threat will be the ones who thrive. __________________________ Want your question to be answered on a future show? Fill out this short survey. Have subscription model question? Check out this free resource to ask all of your questions at notebook.practi.ai. Check out Susan’s website. Sign up for Paxton, my all-in-one AI legal assistant, helping me with legal research, analysis, drafting, and enhancing existing legal work product. Get Connected with SixFifty⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, a business and employment legal document automation tool. Sign up for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Gavel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an automation platform for law firms. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Law Subscribed⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to subscribe to the weekly newsletter to listen from your web browser. Prefer monthly updates? Sign up for the Law Subscribed Monthly Digest on LinkedIn. Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mathew Kerbis’⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ law firm ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscription Attorney LLC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Want to use the subscription model for your law firm? Click here to sign up for a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Get full access to Law Subscribed at www.lawsubscribed.com/subscribe

  4. Oct 9

    (197.5) AI-Driven Collapse of the Billable Hour, Part 1

    Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI compresses the time for legal work but the billable hour penalizes that efficiency, meaning lawyers who adopt AI tools earn less for delivering the same or better results faster. * The billable hour model creates a misalignment of incentives between attorney and client, encouraging unnecessary litigation and opacity rather than speed, value, and trust. * Clients are already demanding AI savings show up in their bills, with 60% of firms reporting client expectations that AI should reduce billed hours, making the shift to alternative fee structures an imminent market pressure rather than a future possibility. * Lawyers remain fully responsible for AI-assisted work product and must maintain human oversight through review, issue spotting, and verification, even as AI handles increasingly substantive tasks like contract analysis and drafting. * Alternative fee models like flat fees and subscriptions open access to the latent legal market, the large segment of potential clients who need legal services but cannot afford unpredictable hourly billing, while also letting lawyers reinvest saved time into growth or personal life. __________________________ Want your question to be answered on a future show? Fill out this short survey. Have subscription model question? Check out this free resource to ask all of your questions at notebook.practi.ai. Check out Susan Guthrie and Joey Gartner. Sign up for Paxton, my all-in-one AI legal assistant, helping me with legal research, analysis, drafting, and enhancing existing legal work product. Get Connected with SixFifty⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, a business and employment legal document automation tool. Sign up for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Gavel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an automation platform for law firms. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Law Subscribed⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to subscribe to the weekly newsletter to listen from your web browser. Prefer monthly updates? Sign up for the Law Subscribed Monthly Digest on LinkedIn. Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mathew Kerbis’⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ law firm ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscription Attorney LLC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Want to use the subscription model for your law firm? Click here to sign up for a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Get full access to Law Subscribed at www.lawsubscribed.com/subscribe

  5. Oct 2

    (197) General Counsel + Subscriptions with Bill Price of SubscriptionGC

    Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Bill Price’s ALSP, Subscription GC, charges a flat monthly fee that is cheaper than big law but still premium, aligning incentives around getting things done rather than billing for time. * By handling repetitive, administrative tasks, AI lets lawyers move up the strategic stack and spend more time on business decisions, relationship-building, and nuanced in-person negotiations that technology cannot replicate. * Bill recommends evaluating whether to maintain your own data and models, whether you can afford the time and money to build, and whether you can keep everything updated and secure, concluding that a platform like Practi was a no-brainer for his needs. * Rather than replacing lawyers, AI and automation will increase demand and create more work, as efficiencies open new markets and opportunities, especially in the subscription legal services space. * Lawyers from both backgrounds are drawn to the flexibility, predictable pricing, and better work-life balance of subscription practices, with some eventually receiving offers from the very clients they serve. __________________________ Want your question to be answered on a future show? Fill out this short survey. Have subscription model question? Check out this free resource to ask all of your questions at notebook.practi.ai. Check out Subscription GC and Teach GC. Sign up for Paxton, my all-in-one AI legal assistant, helping me with legal research, analysis, drafting, and enhancing existing legal work product. Get Connected with SixFifty⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, a business and employment legal document automation tool. Sign up for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Gavel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an automation platform for law firms. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Law Subscribed⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to subscribe to the weekly newsletter to listen from your web browser. Prefer monthly updates? Sign up for the Law Subscribed Monthly Digest on LinkedIn. Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mathew Kerbis’⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ law firm ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscription Attorney LLC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Want to use the subscription model for your law firm? Click here to sign up for a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Get full access to Law Subscribed at www.lawsubscribed.com/subscribe

  6. Sep 25

    (196) Investing in AI for the Legal Industry with Matt Ober of Social Leverage

    Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI augments rather than replaces lawyers by handling repetitive document review and data extraction, freeing attorneys to focus on higher-value work that clients actually want to pay for. * Proprietary data is the key moat for legal tech companies because unlocking a firm’s private, non-public data through AI platforms creates efficiency and competitive advantage that generic tools cannot replicate. * Flat-fee and subscription pricing models are investable and gaining traction, as demonstrated by Social Leverage’s early 2018 investment in Marble/Flare, a technology-powered law firm that charges fixed fees instead of billing by the hour. * Specialized legal AI platforms like Harvey must price carefully to stay sticky enough that law firms do not abandon them for cheaper general-purpose tools like Claude or ChatGPT, which could eventually become good enough for many use cases. * Massive opportunities exist in overlooked legal niches, such as securities class action claims where 75% of eligible claimants never file and billions of dollars go uncollected, showing that niche legal tech can build hundreds of millions in revenue while remaining nearly unknown. __________________________ Want your question to be answered on a future show? Fill out this short survey. Have subscription model question? Check out this free resource to ask all of your questions at notebook.practi.ai. Check out Social Leverage. Sign up for Paxton, my all-in-one AI legal assistant, helping me with legal research, analysis, drafting, and enhancing existing legal work product. Get Connected with SixFifty⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, a business and employment legal document automation tool. Sign up for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Gavel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an automation platform for law firms. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Law Subscribed⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to subscribe to the weekly newsletter to listen from your web browser. Prefer monthly updates? Sign up for the Law Subscribed Monthly Digest on LinkedIn. Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mathew Kerbis’⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ law firm ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscription Attorney LLC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Want to use the subscription model for your law firm? Click here to sign up for a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Get full access to Law Subscribed at www.lawsubscribed.com/subscribe

  7. Sep 18

    (195) How to Manage A Small Law Firm with RJon Robins

    Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * The billable hour was introduced by the insurance industry in the late 1960s and early 1970s, replacing the value-based and flat fee model lawyers had used for over a thousand years, and it created perverse incentives that harm lawyers, clients, and the profession. * RJon Robins’ company, How to Manage a Small Law Firm, provides fractional C-suite services to over 500 small law firms on a subscription retainer basis, generating roughly $3.5 million per month in recurring revenue and proving the subscription model works at scale. * The billable hour disincentivizes efficiency, collaboration, and collegiality among lawyers by rewarding inefficiency and turning attorneys and their clients into adversaries rather than trusted counselors. * Many lawyers leave mid-size and large firms due to discrimination and start their own practices where they can build businesses on their own terms, often ditching the billable hour for value-based or subscription billing. * AI should be treated like a brilliant but inexperienced junior associate who is great for grunt work and spotting trends, but lawyers must apply their own wisdom and judgment rather than abdicating strategic and values-based decisions to AI. __________________________ Want your question to be answered on a future show? Fill out this short survey. Have subscription model question? Check out this free resource to ask all of your questions at notebook.practi.ai. Check out How to Manage a Small Law Firm and Truth, Lies, Mistakes, or Bullsh*t. Sign up for Paxton, my all-in-one AI legal assistant, helping me with legal research, analysis, drafting, and enhancing existing legal work product. Get Connected with SixFifty⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, a business and employment legal document automation tool. Sign up for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Gavel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an automation platform for law firms. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Law Subscribed⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to subscribe to the weekly newsletter to listen from your web browser. Prefer monthly updates? Sign up for the Law Subscribed Monthly Digest on LinkedIn. Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mathew Kerbis’⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ law firm ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscription Attorney LLC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Want to use the subscription model for your law firm? Click here to sign up for a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Get full access to Law Subscribed at www.lawsubscribed.com/subscribe

  8. Sep 15

    (194.5) Why Legal Innovation Deserves its Own Oscars with Tom Martin of LawDroid

    Sign up for Practi, a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Tom Martin’s LawDroid is developing pre-emptive techniques through its Spectral Mind R&D lab to eliminate hallucinations before they reach the user, building on the success of CiteCheck AI which has already verified over 15,000 citations. * Tom’s upcoming book argues that software alone or services alone is no longer defensible as a business, and the three pillars feed each other to create continuous improvement for legal tech companies. * Both hosts agree that using AI to help students understand complex material faster is valuable, but outsourcing the actual thinking or analysis to AI undermines the educational purpose, and law schools that embrace this distinction give their graduates a competitive edge in the job market. * Dubbed “Law Prom,” the black-tie ceremony at Suffolk Law School on October 25, 2026, honors innovators across ten categories including lifetime achievement, AI, and access to justice, with early bird tickets available through September 15. * The most valuable work lawyers do in an AI-powered world is judgment and discernment, which takes little time to execute but requires years of experience to develop, making it difficult for time-tracking tools to accurately reflect the worth of legal services. __________________________ Want your question to be answered on a future show? Fill out this short survey. Have subscription model question? Check out this free resource to ask all of your questions at notebook.practi.ai. Check out LawDroid and purchase tickets to the American Legal Technology Awards. Sign up for Paxton, my all-in-one AI legal assistant, helping me with legal research, analysis, drafting, and enhancing existing legal work product. Get Connected with SixFifty⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, a business and employment legal document automation tool. Sign up for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Gavel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, an automation platform for law firms. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Law Subscribed⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to subscribe to the weekly newsletter to listen from your web browser. Prefer monthly updates? Sign up for the Law Subscribed Monthly Digest on LinkedIn. Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mathew Kerbis’⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ law firm ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscription Attorney LLC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Want to use the subscription model for your law firm? Click here to sign up for a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Get full access to Law Subscribed at www.lawsubscribed.com/subscribe

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Mathew Kerbis interviews attorneys and technologists building for subscription legal services and other innovations within the law. https://linktr.ee/lawsubscribed. www.lawsubscribed.com

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