Legaltech roll of honour

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You know what we think about legaltech.

As an special service, the JC is tracking the legaltechbros he knows about.

This comes, at first, from those enusiastic people at Legal Geek and their “startup map” that they kindly created in 2021, and which is now a dynamic, although somewhat hard to follow, and not fabulously well-updated, online resource.

This gives you the current state of peak inflated expectations, but buries its own fossil record — those legaltech startups which are, for whatever reason, no longer of this earth — in a way which our one won’t. I don’t promise it is accurate, or fair, or up-to-date. If you think your business has been unfairly characterised, let me know.

As we go we are adding new ventures as we find out about them — if you would like yours featured don’t hesitate to drop us a line.

We aim to track a few dynamics:

Failures

Those that have just run out of steam altogether — “👻 as of ~”. Since 2021, that is 42 firms out of the 270 odd on the original list — fifteen percent — have gone tetas arriba in just two years. And that was before the tech winter kicked in.

Acquisitions

Our theory is the industry is desperate for consolidation. We will mark those who have been acquired by a bigger fish thus🦈. With the winter coming, the theory should be that getting hoovered up into a bigger operator, as an alternative to just running out of money altogether, is the smart choice. But good luck with that exit package.

But here is the weird thing: only eleven firms have been acquired. That is a consolidation rate of just two percent per annum. The needed legal consolidation is not happening.

Perhaps this will change as the tech winter sets in.

Dreary business ideas

Where we see it, we have also added snarkish, superficial and no doubt thoroughly unjustified shade, in the form of emojis about the products based on their business name, website presentation and proclivity for meaningless buzzwordery.

Sticking “lex”, “ify” or “ly” in your business name and getting some Java coder from Bucharest you found on UpWork to mocking up a basic html workflow and claiming you have revolutionised contract management is not, any longer, going to cut it. If you have to be an order of magnitude better than your competition to suceed , then the fact that your product does the same thing, and looks exactly the same, as dozens of other offerings on the market ought to tell you something. At least twenty-five firms offer basically the same contract generation and document management service. They will not all survive.

If you don’t believe me, you are welcome to click on the now 300 websites we have painstakingly collated. In fact, you should. It is a sobering realisation of how homogenous, quotidian, and basically dreary this sector is. There are a few outliers, but broadly the applications all do more or less the same things, with few variations.

As we get on we are planning to build the list out to feature the types of businesses these websites represent, but for now just clicking on the links will reveal a jaw-dropping amount of homogeneity. Lots of frustrated associates at across the big law universe all seem to have had the same idea. Who would have thought that legal practitioners would be so conditioned to thinking in exactly the same way as each other?

See also

• Legaltech start-up conference
• Legaltech
• Lexrifyly

So, with feeling:

The JC’s Legaltech Roll of Honour

Key

👻: Defunct as of ~
🦈: Gobbled
🏷️: Name change
🛸: AI/space-aged
🚑: Ambulance chasing
🤓: Smart contracting
🤖: Automation
🔨: Alternative legal services
₿: Blockchain
🖥️: Process management
🖊️: Digital execution
📚: Knowhow/Training/Compliance
🛒: Marketplace/Spend management
🦮: Support for lawyers
🥐: Continental
💩: Buzzword extravaganza
⚖️: Dreary branding
😬: Eeesh
🤡: Oh dear with the branding
🏌️: Join the club: homogenous product

🤷: Search me

Roll

Abogadea 👻 1/23 🥐
Altis 👻 1/23
Archii 👻 10/23 🏷️🥐🖥️🤖🛸
Atkins-Shield 👻 1/23
BigLegal 👻 1/23
BizBot 👻 10/23 🤖🦮
Case Crunch 👻 1/23
Case hub 👻 1/23
Claimit 👻 2/24 🚑⚖️“Website defunct”
clause 🦈 Docusign🖥️
CloudLegal 🦈 1/23
Complylog 🦈 EuroNext🏷️
Contractinbox 🦈 1/23
ContractsDone 🦈 1/23
Data Boxer 🦈 1/23
Data Solver 🦈 1/23
Datajuristes 🦈 1/23 🥐
Define Legal 🦈 1/23
Defined Terms Checker 🦈 4/24 🖥️🤖
DellaAI 🦈 10/23 Wolters Kluwer🛸
DocGovern 👻 1/23
DocYard 👻 1/23
Easy Quorum 🦈 Wolters Kluwer🦮
Enforcd 🦈 10/23 Waymark TechWaymark Tech📚
Enoron 👻 1/23 😬“Enron with an o”
Flexebos 👻 1/23
Frisk Reports 👻 1/23
Hoxro 👻 4/24 Hoxro🖥️
Law Tech Factory 👻 1/23
Lawers 👻 1/23
LawXero 👻 1/23
LegaleXe 👻 8/24 ⚖️🤡“This Account has been suspended.”
LegalHero 🦈 Lexly
Legaline 👻 4/24 🥐🔨
Legalydocs 👻 1/23
lexoo 🦈 8/24 Kalexius🖥️🤖⚖️🤡
Ligabis 👻 1/23
Listened.to 👻 1/23
Magnus Legal 👻 1/23
MyLegalAdviser 👻 1/23
neopolis 👻 4/24 🖥️
Online Lawyers 👻 1/23
Pingalawyer 👻 1/23
ProAnnexUs 👻 1/23
RFRNZ 👻 1/23 🛸
Route1 👻 1/23
Sibyl 👻 1/23
Sket.io 👻 1/23
Spectr 👻 1/23
synergist 👻 1/23
TagDox 👻 1/23
Teal Legal 👻 10/23 🔨
Teqmine 👻 1/23
Third Way Legal 👻 10/23 🦮🛒
Tiempo 👻 1/23 🏷️
Top3Legal 👻 10/23 🔨🛒
Vaxes 👻 1/23
Votre Robin 👻 1/23 🥐
WeLegal 👻 1/23
WorkShare 🦈 7/19 Litera📚
aatos.app🥐🔨
Access Solicitor🛒
AdaptingLegal🥐🤖
Addalia🥐🖥️🦮“Solutions for the digital customer journey.”
Adviserly🔨🛒⚖️🤡
Ageras🥐🔨🦮
AgileCase🖥️
Alacrity Law🛒
Alyne🏷️🤖💩
amicable🔨🚑😬“The trusted legal service for divorcing and separating couples.”
Amiqus🦮📚
AML Rightsource🏷️🦮😬“Reimagining compliance.”
Annotate🖥️🤖
Apperio🛒
Appjection🥐🔨
Arvesikring🥐🔨🤖
Atomian🖥️🤖🛸
Autto🖥️🤖
Avail🤖🦮🛸
Avokaado🥐🖥️🤡
Avoteca🦮
Avvoka🖥️🤖
Bigle🖥️🤖
BlockchainyourIP🥐🤖₿💩
Bounsel🖥️🤖🤡“CLM software reimagined.” (To be exactly like all other CLM Software, apparently.)
Briefed🔨
BusyLamp🛒
CallALawyer🥐🔨
Capdesk🦮
Case Law Analytics🥐🤖
Casedo🖥️😬“Say goodbye to your ring binders.”
Catylex🤖🤓🤡
Certifydoc🔨🤖🦮₿
ClaimsGate🚑🤡
Clara🖥️🤖
ClauseBase🤖😬“Limitless drafting.”
ClauseMatch🤖📚
Clever Compliance🏷️🦮
Cognitiv+🤖🤓
ComplyCloud🥐🔨📚
ConfirmSign🥐🖥️🖊️
Connect4🖥️🦮⚖️💩
Consult.law🥐🖥️🔨🛒
Contractbook🖥️🤖
Contractpedia🖥️🛒🤓
ContractPodAi🖥️🛸🤓
ContractZen🖥️
Corporify🦮🤡
corsearch🏷️🚑
Courtsdesk🦮🤓
Crafty Counsel🦮🛒📚
CrowdJustice🚑
Dealsign🖥️🖊️🛸
Demander Justice🥐🔨
digura🥐🚑
DinArv🥐🔨
Doc2🖥️🤖🤓
DocJuris🖥️🦮🛒🛸🏌️⚖️💩“The fastest and most accurate way to close deals”
Doctrine🥐🛸
Docue🏷️🥐🖥️
Documendo🥐🖥️🤖
Documentdrafter🏷️
DX🏷️🖥️🤖
Domaine Legal🥐🔨🛒
Donna🖥️🤖
DoNotPay🔨🤖🛸
E3CT🦮📚
eContractHub🖥️⚖️
eEvidence🦮
eGarante🥐🔨⚖️
eJust🥐⚖️
elAbogado🥐🔨🛒🏌️
Enloya🔨🛒🏌️
Eperoto🥐🚑🤓
Exizent🖥️🦮📚🤡
eXperYenz🔨🛒🏌️⚖️🤡
Farewill🔨😬“The UK’s best rated death experts”
FindMyNotary🔨🛒
FindOthers🔨🛒🚑
Fintact🖥️📚
F-LEX🔨⚖️
Fliplet🦮
FromCounsel🛒📚
Gaius🔨⚖️“WE ARE FOCUSED IN MEETING OUR CUSTOMERS’ NEEDS AND CARRYING OUT ITS GOALS AND OBJECTIVES”
Gatekeeper
Genie🛸
Golegal🔨📚
HappyResolution
Henchman🖥️🤖
Hoowla🖥️⚖️
Hunit🛸₿
DiliTrust🏷️🤖🛸⚖️
Ilves🤖🤓
🦈In99🥐🚑
inCase Legal
incaseof.law🔨
Inddubio🥐
Indemniflight🚑
Indemniza.Me🥐🚑
Intapp🖥️🛸
Intelllex🛸📚🤡“Three Ls! Not a typo!”
InTouch🔨
iubel🥐🚑
iusify🖥️⚖️
Juralio🖥️🤓
JuriBlox🔨
Juriosity🛒
JuriPhone🛒
Juro🤖
Just🦮
Just Lab🥐🔨🛸
JustBeagle🛒
Justifit🏷️🥐🔨🛒
Karva🏷️🥐🔨
Kleros🔨🚑😬“A decentralized arbitration service for the disputes of the new economy.”
Knowlex📚⚖️
Kormoon🤖🛸
Kudocs🤖
La Fabrique Juridique🥐🛒
Law Superstore🛒🚑
Lawbite🔨⚖️🤡
LawPanel🖥️🏌️⚖️
Lawyer 365🔨🛒
🦈Lawyer Checker🦮
LawyerlinQ🛒
Le Droit Pour Moi🥐📚
Lean Entries🤖🤓
Legal Monitor🛒
Legal Pigeon🥐🛒🤡
Legalcomplex“Search Trillion of Dollars in Deals in Seconds”
LegalDutch🥐🦮
Legalesign🖥️🖊️⚖️
LegalThings🥐🖥️🤖
Legartis🤖🛸🤓
Legatics🖥️⚖️💩
Legito🖥️🤖
Legly🖥️🤖🛸⚖️🤡
LEX superior🥐📚⚖️
LexDigo🥐⚖️
LexGo🛒💩
LexIQ🥐🔨💩
Lexly⚖️🤡“With cutting-edge technology and a passion for customer experience Lexly is shaping the future of legal services.”
Lexolve🥐🖥️⚖️
LexSnap🛸📚⚖️
LexStep🛒⚖️
Libryo🔨📚
Linkilaw🔨
Logical🖥️🤖🤓
MaitreData🥐🤡
Majoto Lab🖥️📚
MaLegalTech🏷️🥐
MaNewCo🥐🦮
matters.Cloud🖥️🦮
Matters+🖥️
Ment🏷️🤖🤡
Milcontratos🥐🖥️
Mine Arvinger🥐🔨
Subscribo🏷️🖥️🤖🤓
myBarrister🛒🚑
MyDocSafe🖥️🤖
MyNotary🔨
Nalytics🛸🤓
Nemo Jus🥐🤡
Netzbeweis🥐🚑
Nomio🛸🤓📚
nubbius🥐🦮
Oasi🥐🔨🛒
Oathello🦮🤡
Office & Dragons🖥️🤖
Ohalo🛸🤓
Oneflow🖥️🤖
online solution attorney🥐🔨🛒
Onna Technologies🖥️🦮🤓
Ontra🏷️🖥️🔨🛸🤓🏌️💩“AI-powered legal operating system automates mission-critical legal processes across the full fund lifecycle.”
Oratto🔨🛒🤡
Orbital Witness🖥️🦮
Ozmosys📚💩😬🤡“Cutting-Edge Tech to Empower and Streamline Knowledge Services.”
P&K TimeApp🥐🖥️
Panache Software🖥️🦮
PatentProfs🥐🔨
Payink🦮
PersonalData.IO🥐📚
Persuit🛒
Pirical🏷️🔨🦮
PocketLaw🖥️🤖
PolicyStore📚
Post-Quantum🦮⚖️💩“Helping organisations become quantum-safe across their entire digital footprint.”
Precisely🤖🤓
Predictice🥐🦮📚
ProFinda🛒⚖️💩
Punto Neutro🥐🦮😬“Tranquility in your communications.”
PymeLegal🥐⚖️
PythAgoria🛸🤓💩
Quarande🥐🚑
Reclamador🥐🚑
ReviewSolicitors🛒
RightsDD🤓📚
Rosetta Advisor🥐🦮
Ruby Datum🖥️🤓
Scribestar⚖️💩
Scrive🖥️
Seers Group📚
semantha🤖🛸🤓
Senate🖥️🔨🛒
Sharedo🖥️
Signaturit🥐🖥️🖊️
SignRequest🖥️🖊️
singlerulebook.com📚
SnapDragon🛸🚑
SoftLaw🥐🖥️🛸
Solomonic🦮🚑
SomeBuddy📚
Sparqa🔨🛒🛸“Your Digital Lawyer. To help build and protect your business”
StructureFlow🦮📚
Summize🖥️🤖⚖️💩😬“Digital contracting done differently.”
Tabled🖥️🤓⚖️💩
Tenant Compensation🛒🚑
Terminis🥐🖥️
TestaViva🥐🔨
The Link App🦮
The Privacy Compliance Hub📚
Thirdfort🤓📚
ThoughtRiver🤖🛸🤓⚖️
TIQtime🦮
Tirant Analytics🥐🛸🤓
Tonic Works🦮
Trakti🖥️🤖
Trama🚑⚖️
TripleCheck🦮
tuAppbogado🥐🔨🛒
UNAES🥐🔨🛒
Unpaid🥐🚑
Vable📚
ValidatedID🦮⚖️
Validient🦮📚
Valla🚑
VC-EXP Safe💩
Verify🦮📚
Vizlegal🚑
VQ Legal🤖🛸💩
Waymark📚
WillSuite🤖🦮
Winu🥐🚑
XBundle🖥️🚑🤓
Zefort🏷️🥐🖥️🏌️
ZYNYO🖥️🖊️