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.

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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

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Co-Founder

BA Life Marketing

Turkey's Number one Sales Promotion Agency.  Working with the worlds biggest brands and always delivering campaigns with excellent ROI.

Director

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Chief Gardner

Jameson Legal

Representing best in class Legal tech solutions and opening the world to everyone.

Head of Jameson Legal Tech

Jameson Legal Tech

App4Legal

Legal Tech Expert

Helping innovative legal tech company APP4Legal, a full service practice management solution to grow their customer base worldwide.  App4Legal is a market leading software platform that can transform and increase efficiencies in any legal practice from sole practitioners to 1000+ Partners.  Free demos available, just get in touch to find out more.

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Independent Consultant

Helping various companies  and Law Firms with Sales and Marketing strategies.  Working specifically with sales teams to realise their potential.  Fintech clients include MarketInvoice and Mode Plc, hiring new sales staff and setting forward a robust sales plan and achieving all financial goals.  I have also worked with over 10 different Law firms working with Partners and Senior Associates to set forward sales strategies.  Working in firms including Mishcon de Reya and Cooley, always pushing Partners to achieve their full potential.

Money Debt and Credit Plc

Starting business on my own
Growing it to 175 staff
Turnover when started £0, turnover now £10m +
Successful flotation on AIM
Successful fundraising
Covered every responsibility from Finance to Sales and Marketing
Equity Shareholder 

Joining up with the Chairman of Datalocator after a sale to Promethean Investments we decided to start a business helping people with large consumer debt.  Starting the business on my own with a unique business plan.  Recruiting every member of the team from day one and leading the company ultimately to a successful flotation on AIM.  I was instrumental in every part of the float from the beauty parades at the start to creation of the floatation documentation and ultimately the fundraising.  Since flotation the company has gone from strength to strength and we now employ 175 staff.  The company deals with people who have large un secured debt and helps them reduce their debt levels without borrowing more money.  The company is very Sales orientated and everyone shares in the success when targets are met.  Sitting as a board member on a PLC has also meant I have learnt a great deal about the workings of the city and institutional investors.

Chief Executive

Datalocator Group Ltd

a team of two individuals and growing to over 700
Successfully increasing turnover from £0 to £10m+
Starting a call centre operation in Glasgow
Running a team of 200 individuals
Succesful sale of the company to Promethean Investments for £20m+

I joined Datalocator when there were only two employees, we increased this to over700 and when
the company was sold it had 300 employees.  I started as the Business Development   Manager for the company and after one year we decided that we needed to open our own call centre.  We decided to start this in Glasgow and I was responsible for every part of this operation.  This meant employing 200 individuals setting up the IT and infrastructure.  I was also responsible for all of the new client acquisition.  We worked with over 20 different blue chip clients from Proctor and Gamble to large financial institutions such as MBNA and Capital One.  We decided to outsource part of the operation to India but always maintained a presence in Glasgow. I successfully sold the call centre operation before Datalocator was sold to Promethean Invesments for over £20m.

Sales Director

An energetic business leader with a proven ability to create, inspire and deliver. Experience of start-ups, fast growth, transformation and turnarounds. Great experience in having taken companies through floatations, fund raising, management buy outs and private investor exits.
Excellent relationship builder who nurtures people, numbers and ideas in equal measure. Sharp intellect wrapped up in a relaxed and approachable style that never fails to get the most out of any situation.

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