Every week (give or take), I get to be fascinated. Because every week (more or less), I get the opportunity to sit down for a conversation for my LawNext podcast with the people who are changing legal practice — the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law,” as we like to say.

I find each and every one of these conversations fascinating and intriguing. But what really matters is what you, the listeners, think — which guests and topics did you find most interesting.

As I do every year, I’ve compiled two lists here. The first lists the top 15 episodes published during 2024. After that, I list the top 15 episodes of all time, regardless of when they were published. (The first episode of LawNext was posted on July 16, 2018.) In each case, the rankings are based on unique downloads.

The most popular episode this year was an interview with Roger Pilc, legal solutions leader at Epiq Global, on how AI is transforming legal services. Second-most popular was my interview with Michael Lissner, cofounder of The Free Law Project, on how he is working to expand access to legal information.

Interviews with legal tech CEOs were of interest. Not surprisingly, among the most popular episodes was my exclusive interview with Clio CEO Jack Newton following the company’s record $900 million raise. Other CEOs among the top 15 episodes were BriefCatch CEO Ross Guberman, iManage CEO Neil Araujo, Aderant CEO Chris Cartrett, Spellbook CEO Scott Stevenson, Clearbrief CEO Jacqueline Schafer, and The Contract Network CEO Jim Wagner.

Several episodes in 2024 related to generative AI, but one of particular interest was my interview with two of the people leading AI strategy and development at Thomson Reuters, Mike Dahn, head of Westlaw, and Joel Hron, head of AI.

Rounding out the most popular this year were interviews about gen AI in e-discovery, a judicial innovation project, an LLM built for legal, the state of knowledge management, and a project to make all case law available to the public.

Scroll further down to see the most popular episodes of all time. Leading that list were interviews with Ryan Alshak, founder and CEO of Laurel (formerly Time By Ping), and Carolyn Elefant, practice management guru to solo and small firms.

You can also check out the most popular LawNext episodes of 2023, of 2022, of 2021, of 2020 and of 2019.

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Top 15 of 2024

1. Epiq’s Global Legal Solutions Leader Roger Pilc on How AI Is Transforming Legal Services.

2. How The Free Law Project Works to Expand Access to Legal Information, with Cofounder Michael Lissner.

3. CEO Ross Guberman On How BriefCatch Is Expanding Its Mission to Help Legal Professionals Improve their Writing

4. How iManage Is ‘Making Knowledge Work’ for Legal Professionals, with CEO Neil Araujo

5. Is Gen AI the New Paradigm for Technology Assisted Review in E-Discovery? Three Redgrave Scientists Discuss

6. Aderant CEO Chris Cartrett on the Company’s Cloud-First Strategy and New Cloud Platform

7. All About Spellbook’s New AI Agent, Capable of Performing Complex Legal Tasks, with CEO Scott Stevenson

8. Cofounder Jason Tashea on the First Year and Uncertain Future of Georgetown’s First-of-Its-Kind Judicial Innovation Fellowship

9. Exclusive: CEO Jack Newton on Clio’s Record-Setting $900M Raise

10. Thomson Reuters’ AI Strategy for Legal, with Mike Dahn, Head of Westlaw, and Joel Hron, Head of AI

11. All About KL3M, The First LLM Built From Scratch for Legal, with 273 Ventures’ Jillian Bommarito

12. How Clearbrief Helps Lawyers Find the Best Facts to Support their Writing, with Founder Jacqueline Schafer

13. How The Contract Network Is ‘Changing Contracts for Good,’ with Founder and CEO Jim Wagner

14. The State of Knowledge Management and Innovation in Legal, with Patrick DiDomenico and Joshua Fireman

15. The Inside Story of the Caselaw Access Project, with Three of the People Who Made It Happen

Top 15 of All Time

1. As Time By Ping Raises $36.5M, Exclusive Interview with CEO Ryan Alshak.

2. How to Start Your Own Law Firm and Have the Practice You Always Wanted, with Carolyn Elefant.

3. Jonathan Pyle on Why He Developed Docassemble and Made It Open Source.

4. Joshua Schwadron On Pivoting His Legal Tech Company to A Law Firm to Compete with His Former Customers.

5. The State of the E-Discovery Industry, with Doug Austin.

6. How Legal Departments Can Use Data to Drive Smarter Decision-Making, with Jeffrey Solomon of Wolters Kluwer.

7. Pro Bono Net Cofounder Mark O’Brien on Technology As A ‘Force Multiplier’ For Meeting Legal Needs.

8. As LawPay Acquires MyCase, Our Exclusive LawNext Interview with the Two CEOs.

9. Digitally Transforming the Legal Department: A Panel of Top GCs and Experts.

10. Filevine CEO Ryan Anderson on His Company’s $108M Raise and the Future of Practice Management.

11. Kriti Sharma, Chief Product Officer for Legal Tech at Thomson Reuters.

12. From Radical to Trailblazer: How Innovative GC Jeffrey Carr Disrupted the Legal Department, Part 1.

13. Former Tesla Lawyer Laura Frederick on How to Teach Contracting Skills for the Real World.

14. Digitory Legal Founder Catherine Krow on Using Billing Data to Drive Diversity.

15. Carl Malamud on His Three-Plus Decades of Working to Free the Law.

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Bob is a lawyer, veteran legal journalist, and award-winning blogger and podcaster. In 2011, he was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” Earlier in his career, he was editor-in-chief of several legal publications, including The National Law Journal, and editorial director of ALM’s Litigation Services Division.