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The PR Firm That Walked Into the Boardroom
Baretz+Brunelle began by managing what the legal world said. Then it started advising on who to hire, what to buy, how to grow and where AI actually fits. The interesting part is not the expansion. It is how neatly the pieces feed one another.
aosphere sells the legal answer, minus the timesheet
A business born inside Allen & Overy turned recurring legal questions into an annual subscription. Now aosphere is buying the tools to carry those answers into the daily decisions of banks and asset managers.
Opus 2 wants the whole case, from first fact to final hearing
The London legal technology company built its business around the hard work of preparing and running disputes. Its next bet: AI that remembers how the evidence fits together.
Gatekeeper Wants Your Contracts to Stop Renewing Themselves
The vendor-management company connects contracts, supplier risk and spending in one place. Its most persuasive pitch is the money and hours customers say they recovered from work nobody wanted to own.
Agiloft Spent 35 Years Making Contracts Less Awful - Now AI Is Testing Its Best Advantage
The enterprise-software veteran built a business around one unfashionable promise: your contract system should bend to your company. Its next act is to make the paperwork answer back - without letting customization become chaos.
The 153-Year-Old Firm Turning Complexity Into a Team Sport
Morgan Lewis has spent a century and a half learning that the hardest legal problems rarely stay in one lane. Its answer is a global partnership built to make 2,200-plus lawyers behave like one coordinated team.
Patlytics
Patlytics is a New York-based, AI-native software platform built specifically for patent and intellectual property work. It gives corporate IP teams and law firms one system to run the full patent lifecycle - invention harvesting, application drafting, infringement detection, invalidity analysis, claim charts, prosecution, due diligence and portfolio management - replacing the disconnected legacy tools attorneys traditionally stitch together. Founded in 2024 by CEO Paul Lee and CTO Arthur Jen, the company reached roughly $58.5M-$65M in total funding in under two and a half years and counts more than 40% of the Am Law 100 among its users.
Steno
Steno is a Los Angeles-based legal technology company that combines a nationwide network of certified court reporters with purpose-built litigation software and flexible financing. It handles the logistics of depositions and trials - scheduling reporters, videographers and interpreters, running remote proceedings through Steno Connect for Zoom, deferring payment via DelayPay, and analyzing transcripts with its generative-AI tool Transcript Genius - so litigators can focus on their cases instead of the paperwork behind them.
IP Author
IP Author is an AI-powered patent drafting and prosecution platform for corporate patent teams and IP law firms. Founded in 2023 and based in Fremont, California, it unifies invention disclosure, patent drafting, prior art search, and office action responses into a single generative-AI workspace. The company says its tools cut drafting time by 40-60%, generating full applications - claims, specifications, abstracts, and diagrams - in hours instead of days. Customers include Qualcomm, ResMed, Chevron, and Elmos Semiconductor.