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The American Bar Association Is a Club, a Classroom and a Constitution for Lawyers
America’s largest voluntary legal network does more than convene lawyers. It trains them, connects them, helps set their ethical baseline and quietly builds parts of the justice system’s operating manual.
Blueshoe
Blueshoe is an AI-native law firm that pairs licensed attorneys with proprietary legal reasoning software to make quality legal help affordable and always-on for individuals and small businesses. Founded in 2025 by Harvard Law graduate Casey O'Grady and MIT-trained engineer Kai Yee Wan, the Y Combinator-backed company started as a legal-reasoning research platform piloted at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia law schools, then extended into a full-stack firm covering employment, housing, consumer, personal injury, and product-liability matters without billable hours.
Mighty
Mighty is a New York technology company using AI to help accident victims value and settle their personal injury claims without necessarily hiring a lawyer. Founded in 2015 by attorney-entrepreneur Joshua Schwadron, the company spent years building software and capital tools for the litigation-finance industry before pivoting to a free, direct-to-consumer AI platform that collects accident records, produces a 'Live Estimate' of a claim's value, and negotiates settlements with insurers - offering claimants a 'third option' between surrendering a third of their payout to a lawyer or negotiating alone.
Joshua Schwadron
Joshua Schwadron is the founder and CEO of Mighty, a New York legal-technology company reworking how injured people navigate the personal injury system. A lawyer turned repeat entrepreneur, he built and sold the consumer marketplace Betterfly, co-founded a litigation-finance firm, then launched Mighty in 2015. He is known for publicly picking a fight with what he calls 'billboard lawyers,' and in 2026 Mighty launched a free, AI-driven platform that values and negotiates car-accident claims directly for consumers.
Rohan Pavuluri
Rohan Pavuluri is the Chief Business Officer at Speechify, the consumer voice-AI app, and the co-founder of Upsolve, the nonprofit whose free online tool has helped low-income Americans erase hundreds of millions of dollars in debt through bankruptcy. A Harvard statistics graduate and Phillips Exeter alum, he built Upsolve out of a Harvard Law access-to-justice lab as an undergraduate, led it as CEO until 2022, and now serves as its volunteer board chair. He is a TED Fellow, a TIME100 Next honoree, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 recognized for arguing that civil rights should be free.
Basha Rubin
Basha Rubin is the CEO and co-founder of Priori, a legal marketplace that uses data instead of firm letterhead to match in-house teams with vetted outside counsel. She started the company in 2013 straight out of Yale Law School with classmate Mirra Levitt, at age 25 and with no business or technology background. A decade later she has raised more than $20 million, built a network spanning the $800 billion legal-services market, and become one of the most recognized voices arguing that how companies buy legal help is broken and fixable.