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Guest: Jake Jones Role: Co-founder and COO, Flank LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-jones-b8769b75/ Website: flank.ai This episode is brought to you by Aline. Try Aline's trusted and verified legal AI today for free. Sources mentioned in the episode: * Flank — flank.ai * Insights portal — insights.flank.ai * The Intake (Substack, Flank's team blog) — intakezero.substack.com I spoke with J...

Guest: Brent Farese Role: CEO and Co-Founder, Aline Website: aline.co This episode is brought to you by Aline. Try Aline’s trusted and verified legal AI today for free. I spoke with Brent Farese, CEO and co-founder of Aline, an agentic legal AI platform built exclusively for in-house teams. Brent trained as an IP attorney with a mechanical engineering and computer science background, then worked a...

Is owning the data still the moat in legal AI?I spoke to Sean Fitzpatrick, a senior leader at LexisNexis - one of the largest legal AI companies in the world. Sean Fitzpatrick is CEO of the Global Legal Business at LexisNexis. He has been there for 21 years, growing up through the shifts from digital to cloud to AI, after starting out as a consultant at McKinsey. We discussed:→ Whether 200 billion...

Guest: Andrew Thompson Role: CTO, Orbital LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmatthewthompson/ Website: www.orbital.tech (company) | www.andrewthompson.co (personal blog) This AI platform powered over 200,000 property transactions last year and raised $60M in January to expand even further. I spoke with Andrew Thompson, CTO at Orbital. Andrew previously built the Caffè Nero app, ran produc...

“Crack the chronology, crack the case.” That’s what Gregory Mostyn‘s father - a barrister, then judge for 42 years - was told on his first day in chambers. Decades later, it’s the founding insight behind Wexler. I spoke with Gregory Mostyn, co-founder and CEO of Wexler, the fact intelligence platform now used by huge massive circle firms in their litigation teams. Greg isn’t a lawyer. He grew up w...

I keep hearing about legal AI tools that do the work better. What I haven’t heard, until now, is anyone building the tool that remembers what the work is actually for. In this episode I chat with Dillon Hirandiran, founder and CEO of Counsel (gc.inc) Dillon previously worked in investment banking, then built his first startup during Covid. The experience of navigating legal work as a founder - see...

Cecilia Ziniti’s started as a paralegal at Yahoo in the early 2000s, when Yahoo was competing with Google and the internet was still being shaped by questions about content moderation, trust and safety, and what it meant to serve millions of users. She went to law school, then joined Morrison & Foerster, where she represented big brands like Apple. At Amazon, she was the founding lawyer on Alexa -...

I spoke with Javed Qadrud-Din, co-founder and CTO of General Legal - the AI-native law firm backed by Y Combinator, built to serve growth-stage companies. Javed has been coding since the age of nine. He went to Harvard, detoured into law at Fenwick & West, then decided he’d rather build things than advise on them. He got deep into deep learning in 2014, built what’s been described as the first sem...

I spoke with Ross McNairn, co-founder and CEO of Wordsmith AI, who trained as a lawyer, retrained as a software engineer, and spent over a decade scaling companies like Skyscanner and TravelPerk. When he got early access to OpenAI’s AI tool, he quit his CTO role to get building in legal AI. Wordsmith is built exclusively for in-house teams - connecting legal to the business through AI-powered work...

Ruben Miessen spent years leading the product teams at Tinder and Match Group, where sitting through weekly legal committee meetings helped him develop a deep understanding of the processes that caused bottlenecks and frustrations. Rather than build another generalist legal AI tool, Ruben co-founded LegalFly in 2023 with a laser focus on in-house legal and procurement teams at enterprises in highl...

Alexander founded and led Safe Sign Technologies, a frontier AI startup specialising in Legal LLMs whilst he was training at Allen & Overy. The Cambridge- and MIT-based start-up was acquired in a blockbuster exit by Thomson Reuters in August 2024. In this first episode, I ask Alexander: How he built a successful legal AI company while managing the intense workload of a Magic Circle training co...