Emily Logan Stedman, a commercial litigator at Husch Blackwell, is on a mission to move the legal industry beyond the billable hour, and not just for pricing's sake. In this episode, she breaks down how she uses secure legal AI tools to analyze historical time entries and build phased flat fees, strategic counsel subscriptions, and predictable contract review pricing that actually hold up under real litigation uncertainty. Emily also opens up about why she started The Grace Period podcast, how she protects her mental health in a demanding practice area, and why she now sees the billable hour less as a burden and more as a tool she controls rather than one that controls her.

Justin Wales, Chief Legal Officer for Crypto.com, returns to the podcast to discuss his new book, The AI Legal Handbook. He and the host dig into the emerging AI regulatory landscape, liability frameworks for autonomous systems, and copyright questions in machine learning training data. The conversation also covers how generative AI is reshaping legal education and what governance for AGI might require.

April Miller Boise, former Chief Legal Officer at Intel and managing partner at Thompson Hine, unpacks the widening gap between corporate legal departments and outside counsel. She shares lessons from Wall Street M&A, global transformation at Eaton and Intel, and practical AI adoption, plus advice for young lawyers balancing efficiency tools with real skill-building.

Theoretical neuroscientist Vivienne Ming discusses her new book, Robot Proof, examining how professionals can adapt as AI reshapes knowledge work. The conversation covers her Polymarket forecasting research, the "cyborg" model of human-AI collaboration, why endogenous motivation predicts success better than extrinsic incentives, and the challenge elite professions like law face in training junior talent as entry-level tasks become automated.

Microsoft's Head of Legal EMEA on AI's next phase in legal: from prompt engineering to autonomous intent engineering.

In this episode of Technically Legal, veteran patent lawyer Laurence Brown and Partner at the UK-based intellectual property firm EIP discusses the evolving concept of the "AI-native" law firm and how EIP is actively navigating this transition through their hybrid intelligence service, Visser AI.

Tyler Foreman, Vice President of AI at Rocket Lawyer, joins the show to discuss the intersection of artificial intelligence and the legal industry.

In the latest episode, Jamie Tso and Raymond Sun, the founders of LegalQuants, discuss a fundamental shift in the legal profession: the transition from legal engineering to "legal quant" work.

Sabastian Niles, President and Chief Legal Officer at Salesforce, returns to discuss his recent "Open Letter to Law Firms." As the legal industry hits a critical inflection point, Sabastian argues that the era of "AI theater" and small-scale pilots is over.

Ayana Dow discusses the need for regulatory clarity in crypto, the characteristics of decentralized protocols and education on blockchain technology.

Kara Peterson and Richard DiBona, the co-founding team behind legal research platform Descrybe, talk about the app they built to "democratize access to the law."

Nextdoor GC Sophia Contreras Schwartz discusses building a legal department from the ground up and explores the strategic value of hiring Legal Ops early.

Akshay Verma, COO of SpotDraft, joins the Technically Legal Podcast and explores his non-linear journey through the legal industry and why tech cannot fix broken processes.

In this Technically Legal Podcast episode, Donald Beshada CEO of Covalynt explains how it uses data science to combat class action fraud.

Jack Weinberger, co-founder of Ajax, a legal tech app that handles timekeeping for lawyers, shares his unconventional journey from finance to legal tech.