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The Firm That Would Rather Not Be the Story
Hiltzik Strategies is famous for crisis work. The more revealing fact is that most of its work happens before a crisis - in the quiet, deliberate business of deciding which facts deserve the microphone.
Winner & Associates: The quiet business of being believed
A Los Angeles communications firm built its business around the moments when companies have to explain themselves. Its history runs through utility campaigns, airport arguments and a $24,000 monthly minimum.
Relativity Put Legal Discovery in the Cloud. Now It Wants AI at the Counsel Table.
The e-discovery incumbent is folding review, privilege, case strategy and breach response into one governed cloud workspace. The payoff is speed; the price is a careful migration from the server era and a continued need for human judgment.
Expert Institute Put a Price on the Hardest Part of Litigation: Knowing Which Expert to Trust
Lawyers can search a million profiles and still hire the wrong witness. Expert Institute built a managed platform around the mess - then made expert search, medical review, and opposition research purchasable as a case cost.
Celerity Found a Business in the Mess Behind the Meter
Utilities rarely lack data. They lack clean, connected evidence they can trust when a regulator, a wildfire or a courtroom raises the stakes. Celerity built its business in that gap.
FTI Consulting
FTI Consulting built a $3.8 billion business by showing up when the spreadsheet, the courtroom and the evening news all collide. Its advantage is not one famous framework - it is a bench of specialists who can move from evidence to economics to reputation without changing firms.
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.
Eve
Eve is a San Francisco-based legal AI company that builds software for plaintiff-side law firms, automating work across the entire case lifecycle - from intake and case evaluation to medical record summaries, demand letters, discovery, and settlement. In June 2026 it rebranded its platform as EveOS, an AI-native operating system for plaintiff firms. Eve reached a $1 billion+ valuation with a $103 million Series B in September 2025, and serves 450+ firms that have collectively recovered more than $3.5 billion.
Tavrn
Tavrn is a San Francisco-based legal technology company that builds AI agents for personal injury law firms. Its platform automates the slow, manual back office of pre-litigation work - retrieving medical records from providers nationwide, turning dense records into structured medical chronologies, drafting demand letters, running client intake, and surfacing eDiscovery documents. Founded in 2022 by Pedro Paulino and Vitor Vavolizza, Tavrn targets high-volume, contingency-fee firms and pitches itself on measurable ROI: faster record retrieval, sharply reduced review time, and quicker time to settlement. The company raised a $15M Series A led by Left Lane Capital in July 2025.
Page Vault
Page Vault makes legally-defensible web and social media capture software and services for lawyers, investigators, and government agencies. Its browser-based tool and on-demand service preserve websites, social posts, and video as court-admissible evidence - complete with metadata, hashing, and affidavits - while keeping the legal team out of the chain of custody.
Benton Armstrong
Benton Armstrong is CEO of Celerity Consulting, a San Francisco-based risk optimization firm helping electric and gas utilities convert complex data into actionable intelligence. With more than 30 years across PwC and Deloitte — where he led a 1,100-person global discovery team through 8x revenue growth — Armstrong now steers a 180-person consultancy at the intersection of wildfire mitigation, asset risk management, and utility data transformation.