Director of Legal @ Malbek | Legal Tech Author and Commentator | Fastcase 50 2022 Honoree | Legal Tech Startup Advisor and Investor

I help legal professionals, legal teams, and technology organizations make sense of legal technology so they can work smarter, deliver stronger outcomes, and lead with confidence in a field that is often noisy, fragmented, and misunderstood.

As General Counsel of Malbek and a long-time educator, author, and advocate, I sit at the intersection of law, technology, and learning. My work centers on translation. I take complex, fast-moving technologies and turn them into clear concepts, practical strategies, and informed decisions that legal professionals can actually use. Whether guiding teams through digital transformation or shaping how legal products are built and adopted, my focus is always on clarity over hype.

Teaching is core to how I operate. I regularly speak to diverse audiences, from military organizations to law firms and in-house legal departments, as well as large professional groups, on AI’s impact on legal work and the responsible, effective use of technology. Across these settings, my goal is the same: to help people understand not just what tools do, but how they change legal work, roles, and judgment.

That same educational mission runs through my writing and publishing. I am the author of The Legal Tech Ecosystem, a foundational guide to understanding the industry and its players, a co-author of CLM for Dummies, and the editor of the Handbook of Legal Tech. I also write regularly, serve as a columnist for Today’s General Counsel, and contribute through podcasts, webinars, and industry forums. Each platform is another way to make legal tech more accessible, grounded, and actionable.

Across every role, my aim is to equip people with the knowledge and confidence to engage with innovation thoughtfully and critically. If you are trying to cut through the legal tech noise, educate your team, modernize how your legal function operates, or build tools that truly serve legal professionals, I help move you from uncertainty to understanding and from learning to execution.

Let’s build what comes next.

Colin Levy

You can't negotiate AI contract provisions if you don't understand how the technology actually works.

The guide walks through it in the context of AI-specific contractual clauses:

What to flag, redlining suggestions, and negotiation suggestions.

Let me know what you think!

I'm Colin S. Levy, General Counsel at Malbek and author of The Legal Tech Ecosystem.

#legaltech #contracts #law #business #learning

Colin S. Levy

General Counsel at Malbek | Author of The Legal Tech Ecosystem | I Help Legal Teams and Tech Companies Navigate AI, Legal Tech, and Digital Enablement

AI Clauses Guide

AI Agents and Your Data: Two Questions You Should Be Asking

As AI agents become more prevalent in legal workflows, I'm noticing a gap in the conversations happening around their adoption. We're discussing capabilities and use cases extensively, but glossing over the practical realities of data management and security.

Two areas deserve sharper focus:

1) Data Handling and Storage
When an AI agent processes your documents, drafts your contracts, or analyzes your matter files, where does that data actually go? How long is it retained? Is it used for model training? These aren't theoretical questions. They're foundational to understanding what you're agreeing to when you deploy these tools.

Most lawyers assume their data stays private and ephemeral. It doesn't always. Different providers take vastly different approaches to data retention, storage locations, and usage rights. Some retain your inputs for 30 days. Others longer. Some use customer data to improve their models unless you explicitly opt out. The terms matter, and they're rarely transparent.

2) Cybersecurity
AI agents typically require broader access than traditional software. They need to read files, access systems, sometimes act on your behalf. That expanded access creates expanded risk.

Are you treating AI agent deployments with the same security rigor you'd apply to any third-party vendor with system access? Validating their security certifications? Understanding their incident response protocols? Reviewing their encryption standards?

I'm optimistic about these tools. Their potential is real. But potential comes with responsibility. 

We need to ask hard questions about data practices and security standards before deployment, not after something goes wrong.

The legal profession has a particular obligation here. We're stewards of confidential client information. 

That duty doesn't evaporate because the technology is new or exciting.

I’m Colin, General Counsel at Malbek, and author of The Legal Tech Ecosystem. 

#legaltech #innovation #law #business #learning

General Counsel at Malbek | Educator Translating Legal Tech And AI Into Practice | Adjunct Professor | Author, The Legal Tech Ecosystem

National Academy of Sciences

Studying health care and medicine related research and science subjects, focusing on the United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries (USTUR). 

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The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is an honorific society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare.

The NAS was signed into being by President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1863, at the height of the Civil War.

🇺🇸 Student / Mental Health Advocate for Veterans of the Manhattan Project

Texas Bar College

🏅 In each year from 2022 to 2024, Amber has been a ranked legal scholar and a member in the Texas Bar College, a professional society of legal scholars who are leaders in the Texas legal community and champions of legal education.

Historically, only about 8% of the licensed attorneys in Texas meet the requirements for membership in the College of the State Bar of Texas.

Our members are committed to high ethical standards and improved training for all legal professionals.

Texas Legal Scholar 🌟

National Asian Pacific American Bar Association

And I will do it again. 🏄🏻‍♀️🌊🌊🌊

Bankruptcy and Restructuring Committee Member (Volunteer)

Real Estate Committee Member (Volunteer)

Don Liu, a nationally renowned leader and legal counsel for several of the Nation’s most recognized corporations, has made a steadfast, lifelong commitment to ensuring that AANHPI attorneys can thrive and advance to the highest levels of the legal profession. He co-founded NAPABA’s 10X10 Initiative and later the 20X20 Initiative, originally designed as an aspirational “stretch” five-year effort to place 20 AANHPI General Counsels at Fortune 500 companies by 2020. The initiative was so successful that it inspired the current 50X25 Initiative and the development of the Hispanic National Bar Association’s Poder 25 Initiative, for which Don serves as a strategic advisor. Don Liu founded NAPABA’s In-House Counsel (IHC) Network, served as its first chair, spearheaded the creation of NAPABA’s IHC Summit and IHC Mentoring Program and continues to be active in its programs. Under Don's leadership, the IHC Network has assisted countless AANHPI attorneys in gaining greater professional visibility and helped promote countless AANHPI lawyers into senior in-house counsel positions.
 
The NAPABA INSPIRE Award also recognizes Don Liu’s contributions towards improving our community on a national scale. Responding to the overwhelming need to deliver legal services to victims, Don Liu, together with several Asian American leaders within the legal profession, founded the Alliance for Asian American Justice. The Alliance brought together the collective power of both large law firms and legal departments to form a pro bono legal services network dedicated to ensuring that victims of hate would receive the legal assistance that they need. It provided opportunities not only for firms, but also for corporations to join the collective effort opposing anti-Asian hate.  For these reasons and many more, NAPABA is privileged to recognize the incredible work and dedication of Don Liu with the NAPABA INSPIRE Award.

✝️🇰🇷🇺🇸 Asian American Adoptee Network Member (Volunteer)

It’s OKay to be gay. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🇰🇷🇹🇼🇯🇵🇺🇸  Asian American LGBTQ Networks Member (Volunteer)

ABA Forum on Air & Space Law

All activities are NOT endorsements. Opinions are my own.

🇺🇸 Senior Attorney Member

🦋 My Own LinkedIn Page 🌼

🌟 My LinkedIn page generated more than 1.5 million impressions in the year of 2022.

🏡 I build 3D architecture and sims on Sims 4. Search "amberberberry" in the gallery to download my digital art. It's FREE.

👩🏻‍🎨 Digital Artist, Designer, Golfer, Photographer, Singer 主唱 🎶

Minnesota Department of Human Services

🇺🇸 My position was sponsored by the United States Health and Human Services Department, a Federal cabinet level agency which is the oversight agency of the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Responsibilities:
•  Worked in the Children and Family Services Division, Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP).
• Assisted in drafting the Request for Information (RFI) for procurement of the child care assistance program’s electronic attendance records verification system. 
•  Worked on anti-corruption and improving government transparency matters.
•  Researched and analyzed federal and state law changes to ensure state rules reflect and comply with the federal laws. 
•  Drafted new language for Minnesota Rules Chapter 3400.
•  Wrote legal analysis reports on federal and Minnesota state data privacy and practice issues.
•  Reviewed and updated the CCAP policy manual.

United States Government Employee - Children and Family Services Division

University of Minnesota Law School

•  First Chair family law trial student attorney represented three Minnesotans in two Minnesota District Courts for divorce and paternity challenging cases.
•  Counseled clients with real property appraisal, paternity DNA testing procedures, and negotiated settlement agreements for an American veteran husband. 
•  Managed litigation files and documents. 
•  E-filed documents to the courts online E-filing system.
•  Worked with a case team on trial planning and strategies.

Family Law Clinic Class - Student Attorney - First Chair 🏆 Co-Chaired with My Jewish Classmate

🏆 Final Brief submitted to a simulated United States Supreme Court received one of the highest scores.
❤️ First Chair (team lead) on three rounds of oral arguments before the bench, which was hosted by the sitting Justices of the Supreme Court of Minnesota.

First Chair Litigator - Co-Chaired with My Jewish Classmate (Defense Team) - US National Moot Court

🇺🇸 God. Country. Family.

💜 I love using my voice to help victims and survivors.

🦅 A Catholic and a Texan, I love Democracy and Freedom of Speech.

❤️ I am passionate about helping business owners and their families.

🎤 Born and grew up in Xinjiang, China, I love getting my voice heard.

❄️ Educated in Minneapolis, Minnesota, I enjoy skiing and ice skating. 

🌸 LinkedIn is my hobby.

〽️ Minnesota lawyer license sponsored by the State of Minnesota. 

🌟 Texas lawyer license sponsored by the State of Texas. 

🙅🏻‍♀️ NO financial/legal/medical advice here.


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LinkedIn profile designed by Amber Chen for Amber Chen.
Sponsored by the United States of America. 🇺🇸

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