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Ryan is Principal and CEO at Sente Advisors, a legal technology consultancy helping law firms with innovation strategy, project planning and implementation, prototyping, and technology evaluation.  He has been an evangelist, advocate, consultant, and creative thinker in Legal Technology for more than 2 decades. In 2015, he was named a FastCase 50 recipient, and in 2018, he was elected a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management. In past lives, Ryan was a Legal Tech Strategist, a BigLaw Innovation Architect, a Knowledge Manager, a Systems Analyst, a Help Desk answerer, a Presentation Technologist, a High Fashion Merchandiser, and a Theater Composer.

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You have probably noticed that for the last several years, the 3 Geeks have actually been 4 regular geeks and a slew of occasional contributors.  When Ryan came on as a regular geek, we briefly considered changing the name of the

As a general rule, we don’t mention many law firms by name on this
blog. On the rare occasions that we do, it’s usually because they’ve
done something stupid, or illegal, or they’ve gone out of business and
it’s plastered all over the main stream news sites and the rest of the
blawgosphere. As a

I heard a lot of grumbling from BigLaw attendees at Reinvent Law NY about the consumer legal app commercials sprinkled in and amongst the other presenters.  The easiest and most common target was Shake.

Shake is an app for creating legal contracts on the fly from your phone. You answer a few simple questions,

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During the first week in February every year e-discovery vendors descend on the New York Hilton for E-Discovery Week LegalTech NY.  The rest of the legal technology vendors set up shop in nearby hotels and pilfer attendees away for customer forums and individual demos. It becomes increasingly difficult to find people who admit to coming

Sometime over the last weekend, 3 Geeks surpassed 2 Million pageviews.  That either means that 2 Million people have visited our site once and never returned, a whole bunch of you return fairly regularly, or a few of you are completely obsessed with Greg. 

It’s mostly the middle one, but don’t underestimate the Greg Lambert

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It’s November and that means you have probably noticed that shaving habits among some of the men in your life have become somewhat lax.  No, this is not the result of a Gillette strike or a national shaving cream shortage, it’s Movember.

Every November, men across the globe stop shaving their upper lip to