The AI Sidebar
The AI Sidebar is a podcast that explores the impact of artificial intelligence on the legal profession. Hosted by Phillip Vaden, it features honest conversations with lawyers and litigation teams about how AI is being used in legal research, drafting, discovery, and practice management. The show provides practical takeaways and real workflows to help legal professionals navigate the future of law with clarity and confidence. Presented by Infotrack.
Episodes
AI, the Unauthorized Practice of Law, and the Future of Legal Fees
The line between legal information and legal advice is disappearing, and AI is the reason. Damien Riehl, a lawyer and technologist at Clio who chairs the Minnesota State Bar Association’s AI Committee, explains why unauthorized practice of law concerns look different in the age of ChatGPT and shares three ways legal aid providers can stay on the right side of the line: sticking to legal informatio
Why Off-the-Shelf AI Tools Aren't Enough for Litigation Teams — Live from ILTACON 2026
Recorded at Concorda's booth in Startup Alley at ILTACON, this conversation with founders Sam Oh and Ke Ma digs into the gap they saw in legal AI tools built mostly for transactional work while litigation teams were left without platforms that understood local court rules, judges' standing orders, and the formatting requirements tied to filing and service. Oh and Ma, both licensed attorneys, walk
Firms Are Growing Revenue With AI, Not Just Cutting Hours — Live from ILTACON 2026
Recorded on the show floor at ILTACON, this conversation with Thomas Bueler-Faudree, founder of August, tackles the question he says he hears most from law firms: does adopting AI mean undercutting your own billable hours. Bueler-Faudree argues that legal work is inelastic, so firms that lower costs with AI tend to win more work rather than less, pointing to case studies of firms doubling revenue
How AI Is Quietly Transforming the Courts
Most conversations about AI and the law focus on attorneys, but the courts themselves are moving fast in ways that get far less attention. Matt Davis, Vice President of Product Development at Tyler Technologies with over 20 years of experience in public sector courts and justice software, breaks down the three major categories where courts are actually deploying AI today: internal chatbots trainin
Legal Tech AI Recap: Google, Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and iManage All Make Their Move
A packed couple of weeks in legal tech coming out of ILTACON 2026 in Nashville, TN. Host Phillip Vaden covers Google's launch of Gemini Enterprise for Legal, Thomson Reuters' new proprietary legal LLM, LexisNexis's shift toward an orchestration layer, and iManage's new platform and partnerships. He closes with a California bill that could restrict attorneys from delegating legal work to generative
Why Legal AI Needs an External Referee — Live from ILTACON 2026
Recorded live at ILTACON 2026, this conversation with Dino Eliopulos, SVP of Innovation at Fulcrum GT, digs into why AI shouldn't be trusted to grade its own work. Eliopulos explains the case for building external systems that audit AI outputs rather than letting the AI evaluate itself, and how that traceability matters when a firm has to defend a disputed bill or explain how an AI-corrected time
How Paralegals Are Becoming the AI Power Users of the Legal Industry
Paralegals have been prompt engineers long before the term existed, and that background is shaping how they're approaching generative AI today. Kristine Custodio Suero, California Paralegal of the Year and paralegal educator at the University of San Diego School of Law, and Kelli Radnothy, a 20-plus year litigation paralegal with the Nevada Attorney General's office and chief ideas officer of KLR
AI Adoption in Law Firms: What's Really Happening Behind the Numbers
Generative AI usage among attorneys jumped from 31% to 69% in a single year, but most law firms still haven't caught up with formal policies or training. Attorney and legal tech columnist Nicole Black, who has covered the intersection of law and technology for two decades, breaks down what's driving that gap and what it means for firms trying to keep pace. She explains why solo and small firms ten
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AI isn’t coming for the legal profession. It’s already changing it. The AI Sidebar cuts through the noise around legal AI and legal technology. Hosted by Phillip Vaden, each episode explores how lawyers and litigation teams are using artificial intelligence in legal research, drafting, discovery, and practice management through honest conversations, real workflows, and practical takeaways you can
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