Khurram's Quorum

Author: Khurram Naik

How elite lawyers make decisions. Traditional legal media focuses on outcomes. But this podcast focuses on operating principles: how lawyers assess risk, build judgment, and choose opportunities.The podcast is a library ambitious lawyers can consult to learn how exceptional lawyers think, and our guests return to document their progress.
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058 Paven Malhotra: betting on technology waves
Wednesday, 2 September, 2026

Paven Malhotra is leading headline-making AI disputes for OpenAI and other tech companies. We discuss how an early bet on 3D-printing as a frontier dispute didn’t pan out, but laid the foundation for his early bet on AI. This episode breaks down the business development skills Paven began honing as a teenager cold-calling for roofing services to understand how lawyers should think about building a practice at the bleeding edge of technology disputes. Paven shares the principles he’s learned in successive cycles of technology disputes for the playbook for how frontier technology disputes unfold in courts. We discuss how to litigate tech disputes when the tech and industry is rapidly being formed.This episode explores how to build a practice and litigate disputes under uncertainty, and find meaning by taking action first and getting clarity later.