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…
Saves to your Listen queue, to pick up on another day or another device.
How Flatiron Law Group Builds a New-Model Practice With AI (and How It All Started with a 25-Pound Laptop)
If you think AI will replace deal lawyers, this conversation will change your mind, and it might change how you choose counsel. I sit down with Conrad Everhard and Leonard “Lenny” Nuara from Flatiron Law Group (https://flatironlaw.ai), two former Big Law partners who built a new-model boutique designed for high-end M&A, private equity, venture capital, and technology commercialization without the…
The L Suite -- A Curated Peer Community That Helps GCs Move Faster and Smarter
Most leaders in legal don’t need more written content. They need a trusted room full of peers who’ve already lived the problem and will tell the truth about what actually works. That’s what podcast host Charlie Uniman explores with Greg Raiten, co-founder of The L Suite (https://www.lsuite.co/), an invite-only executive peer collective with communities for senior legal counsel, legal operations…
Purpose-Built AI Tools That Genuinely Help Litigators
Fifteen million pages of litigation documents are not a “busy season” problem. It is a systems problem. We sit down with Tiago Luccini, CTO and co-founder of Theo AI (https://theoai.ai/), and Sarah Johansson, Head of Legal Product, to unpack what it takes to make AI genuinely useful for litigators and in-house legal teams without turning every task into a prompt-writing contest. We walk through…
Email threads, shared drives, and spreadsheets can feel “fine” until you’re coordinating 30 firms, thousands of plaintiffs, and a calendar full of court deadlines that can’t slip. We sit down with Keao Caindec, CEO and co-founder of Clarra (https://clarra.com), to unpack what complex litigation case management really requires and why the biggest pain is often coordination, not just documents. Keao…
You do not need a computer science degree to build something genuinely useful for legal work, but you do need a clear problem and the willingness to experiment. That’s why I invited Matt Pollins (Lupl, https://www.lupl.com/) and Alex Baker (Legal Tech Collective, https://www.legaltechcollective.com) to talk about vibe coding and what it means when software can be built with natural language…
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 workflows. Justin shares how his experience in legal transformation and early gen AI product work shaped StrongSuit’s approach: help litigators from intake through trial with research, drafting, doc…
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 StartUp Focus podcast, Gary Doernhoefer, founder of ADR Notable (https://www.adrnotable.com). Gary brings the perspective of a longtime in-house counsel, to…
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 us through how Vable grew from monitoring law firm content into a SaaS platform built for legal current awareness, helping information professionals and knowledge…
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 playbooks, structured data rooms, and permissioned collaboration can turn due diligence from a slog into a strategic advantage. Rick traces his path from capital…
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 beat agentic dreams for now. Pat shares candid lessons on funding, traction, hiring, and building a product that actually moves the needle. • origins in AI…
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 Officer at Filevine (https://www.filevine.com), to explore how “owning” matter operations unlocks real gains in speed, accuracy, and collaboration without…
