# James Lee

> James M. Lee is a Los Angeles trial lawyer, co-founder and CEO of LegalMation, and founding partner of LTL Attorneys. After beginning his career at Morgan Lewis and Quinn Emanuel, he helped build a litigation boutique and turned its need to compete efficiently into LegalMation, a purpose-built platform for automating repetitive litigation, claims, compliance, and regulatory workflows.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at LegalMation
- **Organizations:** LegalMation, LTL Attorneys LLP, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
- **Education:** B.S., cum laude, University of Southern California, J.D.; editor, Stanford Journal of Law & Policy, Stanford Law School, One-week executive program for law-firm managing partners and practice heads, Harvard Law School
- **Known for:** Co-founded LTL Attorneys, a litigation boutique that grew to about 40 lawyers., Co-founded LegalMation and serves as its CEO., Helped develop a litigation workflow that reduced an early complaint-response and discovery task from an estimated six to eight hours to about two minutes.

## Career timeline

- **1997** — Graduated from Stanford Law School and was admitted to practice law in California.
- **Late 1990s** — Began his legal career at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and later practiced at Quinn Emanuel.
- **Early 2000s** — Co-founded LTL Attorneys after roughly five years as a large-firm associate; the boutique later grew to about 40 lawyers.
- **2018** — Launched LegalMation with co-founder Thomas Suh and was associated with the company's National Law Journal Legal A.I. Leader recognition.
- **2019** — Discussed LegalMation's litigation automation approach at Legalweek on the Law Technology Now podcast.
- **2021** — LegalMation was named a National Law Journal Legal Technology Trailblazer.
- **2023** — LegalMation raised a $15 million Series A led by Aquiline Technology Growth.
- **2024** — Outlined the company's domain-specific AI, matter profiling, demand-letter response, and public-interest work on the Emerging Litigation Podcast.

## Achievements

- Co-founded LTL Attorneys, a litigation boutique that grew to about 40 lawyers.
- Co-founded LegalMation and serves as its CEO.
- Helped develop a litigation workflow that reduced an early complaint-response and discovery task from an estimated six to eight hours to about two minutes.
- Led LegalMation through a $15 million Series A financing in 2023.
- LegalMation was recognized as a National Law Journal Legal A.I. Leader in 2018 and Legal Technology Trailblazer in 2021.
- Selected to Southern California Super Lawyers for business litigation in 2021 and 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Super Lawyers lists James M. Lee as selected for Southern California business litigation for 2026.
- **2025-04** — A LegalMation-sourced executive biography continued to list Lee as founder, CEO, and director and as a frequent speaker on legal AI and innovation.
- **2024-06** — Lee appeared on the Emerging Litigation Podcast to discuss LegalMation's origins, domain-specific models, matter profiling, demand responses, and a planned California Appellate Project collaboration.
- **2024-05** — Lee and Thomas Suh discussed LegalMation's expansion toward corporate and insurance workflows and its cautious integration of large language models with Artificial Lawyer.
- **2024-04** — Lee appeared on the American Arbitration Association's AAAi Podcast to discuss AI in legal practice.

## Links

- Website: https://www.legalmation.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-lee-9468b64
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/legalmation

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Last updated: 2026-08-25