From the Legal Trenches to Tech // Nick Coleman // #332

From the Legal Trenches to Tech // MLOps Podcast #332 with Nick Coleman, Attorney/Founder of LexMed.

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// Abstract

Nick Coleman shares his journey from high-volume Social Security disability practice to founding LexMed, a legal tech startup leveraging AI to transform how attorneys handle complex cases. He'll discuss LexMed's dual AI platforms: Hearing Echo, which automates transcription and analysis of disability hearings with speaker identification and critical testimony validation, and ChartVision, which combines human medical abstraction with AI to extract and map medical evidence to disability criteria. Nick will explain how "vibe coding" has dramatically reduced friction between his subject matter expertise and technical implementation, enabling rapid prototyping that preserves legal insights through development. By bridging domain knowledge and technology, LexMed has created solutions that address the real-world challenges he experienced firsthand in his high-volume disability practice, offering valuable lessons for AI implementation in other specialized fields.

// Bio

Nick Coleman is the founder and CEO of LexMed, a legal tech startup applying advanced AI to transform the practice of law. As a Social Security disability attorney with extensive appellate experience, Nick identified critical inefficiencies in legal workflows that technology could solve. LexMed's flagship product, Hearing Echo, leverages speech recognition and natural language processing to automate the transcription and analysis of disability hearing audio, dramatically improving case management for attorneys. Nick holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star, and serves on the Arkansas Bar Artificial Intelligence Task Force. With deep expertise at the intersection of law and technology, Nick is passionate about democratizing access to justice through innovative AI solutions.

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Website: www.lexmed.ai

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Timestamps:

[00:00] Disability Claims Advocacy

[00:29] AI Native Startup

[02:08] Disability Claims Process

[07:56] Tech Journey

[10:52] AI in Document Review

[13:57] Building a Case for Appeal

[19:26] Medical Claims Language Model

[23:37] Tech-Driven Compliance Solutions

[30:31] Claim Prioritization Strategy

[34:57] Wrap up