Mathew Kerbis, The Subscription Attorney
Law Subscribed
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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Jul 10, 2026
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Episodes
(185) Law Firm AI Coworkers + Subscriptions with Thomas Bueler-Faudree of August 10.07.2026 40:44
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 flipping the 80/20 rule in law. Historically, lawyers spent 80% of their time on document analysis and 20% on strategy. Thomas expects that to reverse, with AI handling the heavy data work, lawyers will spend 80% of their time on high-value strategy and client...
(184) Family Law + Subscriptions with Asia Scarlett-Jones of ASJ Law Office 03.07.2026 48:36
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Ditch the billable hour and subscriptions reward efficiency. Asia found that billing by the hour penalized attorneys for being fast and good. Subscription billing lets her charge for expertise, not time, and motivates real efficiency across her whole team. * Tiered p...
(183) Rethinking Law with Automation and Design with AK Raja of Lawgical 26.06.2026 49:05
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Automate what employees hate, not just what’s time-consuming. AK’s core philosophy is to identify the tasks employees despise, like intake calls with distressed, unqualified leads, and automate those first. The goal isn’t just efficiency; it’s preventing burnout. * A...
(182) Integrating AI into Small Law Firms AI with Jennifer Case of Law Tech AI 19.06.2026 45:04
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Lawyers need an AI strategy and policy first. Before adopting any tools, firms must have a written AI policy, even if it simply says no tools are approved yet. Without one, a staff member using an unapproved (non-enterprise) AI tool can cause an ethical breach if cli...
(181) Solo Practice Home Grown AI Solutions with Stephen Polauf of Polauf Law LLC 12.06.2026 48:34
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Going solo requires proving your own value. Stephen emphasizes that attorneys who rely solely on a firm’s name have “borrowed value.” Going out on your own, and actually generating revenue and clients, is the real proof of marketability and professional worth. * Clie...
(180.5) Light Bulb Moments: How Subscription Models and AI Are Rewiring Legal Practice 09.06.2026 54:47
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Ditch hourly billing for subscriptions: Billing by the hour incentivizes inefficiency. Subscription and fixed-fee models align attorney success with client outcomes, rewarding speed and quality rather than time spent. * Sharpen your ax: Constantly grinding without pa...
(180) AI-Native Law Firms with J.P. Mohler of General Legal 05.06.2026 48:07
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI native law firms are built on aligned incentives. The billable hour model actively disincentivizes efficiency. General Legal charges a flat $500 per contract negotiation, so their interests align with the client’s: get the deal done quickly and at high quality. *...
(179.5) 1-on-1 with Mathew Kerbis 02.06.2026 2:09
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(179) How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Lawyering with Ray Brescia, Author of Lawyer 3.0 29.05.2026 54:35
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * We’re at a major inflection point in legal practice. Generative AI represents the second great technological shift in the legal profession (Lawyer 3.0), and unlike previous tools like Westlaw, it’s fully democratized. Clients have access to the same AI tools as lawye...
(178.5) Profit Ready with Practi 26.05.2026 50:40
Here’s my talk with Chelsea Williams of Core Solutions Group for her Profit Ready group about using Practi to get recurring revenue for your law firm. Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Charge for value, not time. * AI makes hourly billing ethically untenable. * Subscriptions work in every practice ar...
(178) Business Law + Subscriptions with Noel Bagwell of Counsel & Clarity 22.05.2026 53:31
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Preventive law is far cheaper than reactive law. Clients who try to DIY their legal needs (using LegalZoom, skipping contracts, etc.) often end up paying twice. Once for the mess they made and again to prevent it from recurring. Hiring a lawyer early and often saves...
(177.5) A Legal Conference Like No Other with Beth Fellner of LegalGeek 19.05.2026 32:24
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * The conference format prioritizes dynamic, non-reusable content : 10-minute TED-style talks force speakers to create fresh material exclusive to LegalGeek, avoiding the stale 30-minute “road show” presentations common at other conferences. * Silent disco headsets are...
(177) Litigation AI & The End of the Billable Hour with Justin McCallon of StrongSuit 15.05.2026 44:20
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI dramatically boosts lawyer productivity . Justin estimates that lawyers using AI tools like StrongSuit can roughly double their output. Attorneys billing $300–$2,000/hour who pay ~$250/month for the tool only need to save one hour per month to break even, but he e...
(176.5) Curation and Taste are Your Superpowers 12.05.2026 11:46
Here’s my live talk at Masters AI Conference in Chicago about why Curation and Taste are Your Superpowers in the AI Age. Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 4 takeaways from this episode: * If you use the same AI tools as everyone else with no customization, you’ll sound like everyone else. * Prompting skills matter, but curating what...
(176) Legal 3.0: The Intersection of AI, Law & Business with Ben Chiriboga of reframe.lawyer 08.05.2026 48:31
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 making time-based billing obsolete. What once took 6 hours now takes 6 minutes, and that gap is only widening. Billing by the hour in an AI-powered world means actively underpricing yourself or becoming economically unviable as AI continues to drive execution t...
(175.5) How to Use NotebookLM for Lead Generation 06.05.2026 47:57
In this special episode I share a presentation I gave to Ernie the Attorney’s Inner Circle community on how to use Google’s NotebookLM as a lead generation tool for law firms. I walk through how I built notebook.practi.ai, a public-facing AI knowledge base powered by largely by this very podcast, guest appearances, and written content, and shows how any law firm owner can do the same. Bottom line:...
(175) Legal Ethics in the Age of AI 01.05.2026 1:00:42
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Competency requires using AI tools correctly . Model Rule 1.1 obligates lawyers to be competent in technology they use. Using the wrong tool (e.g., ChatGPT for legal research) isn’t just ineffective — it’s potentially unethical. Use purpose-built, citation-backed too...
(174.5) Get Help with Custom Built Subscription Packages on Practi 29.04.2026 3:53
This week’s episode of Law Subscribed is a little different. Instead of the usual format, it’s a quick, direct walkthrough of something I’ve been building that can help you generate recurring revenue in your practice. It’s called Practi . I partnered with a Google software developer to create a platform that lets law firms set up subscription billing in under 10 minutes. I’ve been using it in my o...
(174) Trademarks + Subscriptions with Jim Hart of Hawthorn Law 24.04.2026 46:16
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Trademark practice is his core focus. Jim transitioned from family law to IP/trademark law over several years, and today ~95% of his practice is trademark-related such as prosecution, office actions, TTAB work, etc. * YouTube has been a major business driver. He star...
(173) AI + Automations for Admin Tasks with Brenda Brusegard 17.04.2026 45:23
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Smarter intake = dramatically more clients. By replacing a generic “contact me” form with a conditional, structured intake form tied to automated, personalized email responses, one immigration firm went from booking 5% of website inquiries to 50%. * Automate the full...
(172) Mastering AI + Subscriptions with Cat Casey of Masters AI Legal 10.04.2026 44:05
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * AI literacy is non-negotiable for all lawyers . You don’t need to be an AI evangelist or know how to code, but every legal professional must understand enough to issue-spot, advise clients on AI risks, and communicate clearly about the technology. Without this baseli...
(171) Live at Techshow: Your AI is in Your Inbox with Josh Dorward of TwinCounsel 03.04.2026 11:07
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * The Rise of the Solo Attorney . Solos will increasingly operate at big-firm levels while keeping their independence, enabled by AI tools that handle the volume of work previously requiring a full team. * Your AI Lives in Your Inbox . TwinCounsel is built around where...
(170) Trademarks + Subscriptions with Sonia Lakhany of 4L Education 27.03.2026 1:15:33
Sign up for Practi , a new platform that helps law firms use subscription billing. Here are the top 5 takeaways from this episode: * Efficiency as entrepreneurial foundation . Sonia disliked the billable hour from day one as an associate because she works fast. Being efficient meant being penalized under hourly billing. That frustration directly drove her to go solo and price on flat fees, proving...
(169.5) Special Announcement for ABA Techshow 2026 In-Person Event and Subscription Law Firm Resources 24.03.2026 4:54
Will you be in Chicago on March 26? Then get one of the last free tickets to the Techshow Happy Hour co-hosted by Practi and August . Want your question to be answered on a future show? Fill out this short survey . Ask your subscription and AI 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 e...
(169) Business of Law Transformations with Justin Ergler 20.03.2026 50:44
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 is a security blanket. Lawyers cling to hourly billing because it’s what they were trained on. The biggest obstacle to AFA adoption isn’t the law firms — it’s clients who demand flat fees, then revert to wanting hourly tracking when they don’t know...
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