Conrad and Gyi are live from ABA TECHSHOW 2026 at McCormick Place in Chicago, and they've got a big announcement. Lunch Hour Legal Marketing is going all-in on AI with the debut of Claudia, the podcast's new AI co-host. Trained on the most authoritative legal marketing sources (including this very podcast), backed by private equity from Amazon's Alexa Fund, and equipped with her own proprietary accuracy-testing model... What could possibly go wrong?

The guys break down the news:

Thanks to our sponsors: Thyme, Alps, LexReception, CallRail, and our new sponsors, Lawmatics and Juvo Leads!An additional thank you to the hosts of this week's events, Smokeball and 8AM!

Chapters

0:00 Welcome from ABA TECHSHOW 2026

0:43 Thank You: Smokeball & 8AM

1:54 Why TECHSHOW Is Different

2:42 Big Announcement Coming

3:26 New Format & Weekly Episodes

3:53 Going All-In on AI

4:17 News: Afroman's Civil Rights Case

5:29 News: Meta & Google Social Media Addiction Verdict

6:27 News: Attorney's Social Profiles Hacked

7:29 ALPS Insurance Ad (Read by Claudia)

8:56 Introducing Claudia, AI Co-Host

11:04 What Claudia Does for LHLM

11:19 How Claudia Was Trained

12:37 Hallucinations & Accuracy — How Claudia Handles It

13:35 The Self-Serving Training Problem

14:34 Claudia as Agency Secret Sauce

15:20 Three Firms Per Market — The Business Model

16:02 Claudia's... Unconventional Capabilities

16:56 Things Get Weird

17:22 Budget AI Problems