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The latest episode of The Geek in Review finds Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer back from Dallas with a sharp, grounded recap of the Texas Trailblazers conference, an event that stayed close to the daily realities of legal work instead of drifting into glossy predictions. Their conversation centers on a legal industry trying to sort
What I Took Away from Texas Trailblazers
(See Day Two Coverage for the In-House Programs over on The Geek in Review Substack page – GL)
Day One of Texas Trailblazers in Dallas had a different tone than most legal tech conferences I attend. The conversations stayed close to the work. Less speculation, more discussion about what people are doing right now, where
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