People

The investors, writers and builders shaping legal tech, and worth following.

Investors

Zach Abramowitz, Author, Legally Disrupted: Former Biglaw lawyer turned entrepreneur who comments on legal tech startups, deals and law firm business models.
Zach Posner, Co-founder and Managing Director, The LegalTech Fund: Co-founded The LegalTech Fund, described as the first VC firm focused only on legal tech, and runs its invitation-only TLTF Summit.

Writers

Nikola Lazarov, Co-founder & CEO, Eilla AI (London, United Kingdom): Runs Eilla, an AI-native M&A advisory in London, builds The Legal Tech Map, and writes the Services as Software newsletter on AI in professional services.
Tom Martin, Founder, LawDroid: Founder of LawDroid who builds, teaches and advises on AI for lawyers, with a focus on access-to-justice tools for legal aid groups.
Nicola Shaver, Co-founder, Legaltech Hub: Former law firm innovation leader who co-created Legaltech Hub, the directory and research service many buyers use to compare legal tech vendors.
Richard Tromans, Founder, Artificial Lawyer: Founder of Artificial Lawyer and chair of the Legal Innovators conferences; his daily coverage and opinion pieces track legal AI and AI-native firms closely.
Robert Ambrogi, Author and host, LawSites / LawNext: Lawyer-journalist who has covered legal tech for decades; LawSites often breaks funding and M&A news, and LawNext has long founder interviews.
Caroline Hill, Editor, Legal IT Insider: Edits Legal IT Insider, the UK trade title known for law firm tech deal coverage and its monthly Orange Rag newsletter.
Jordan Furlong, Legal sector analyst and author: Canadian analyst who writes on how AI and regulation will reshape law firms, lawyer licensing and legal education.
Josh Kubicki, Author, Brainyacts: Writes Brainyacts, a long-running newsletter on applying generative AI to legal work, aimed at practising lawyers.
Zach Abramowitz, Author, Legally Disrupted: Former Biglaw lawyer turned entrepreneur who comments on legal tech startups, deals and law firm business models.
Peter Duffy, Author, Legal Tech Trends, TITANS: Writes Legal Tech Trends, a Substack analysing legal tech and AI market moves for 5,000+ readers.
Greg Lambert, Co-host and blogger, 3 Geeks and a Law Blog / The Geek in Review: Law firm knowledge-management veteran who co-hosts The Geek in Review podcast, with frank takes on legal research and AI tools.
Marlene Gebauer, Co-host and blogger, 3 Geeks and a Law Blog / The Geek in Review: Co-hosts The Geek in Review, interviewing people building and buying legal tech inside firms.
Ken Crutchfield, Guest columnist, LawSites: Long-time legal publishing executive whose LawSites columns analyse data, capital and market structure in legal tech.
Richard Susskind, Author and legal futurist: Has written about technology and the future of lawyers since the 1990s; his books remain the reference point in debates about AI replacing legal work.
Daniel E. Ho, Professor of Law; Director, RegLab, Stanford University (Stanford, United States): Led the Stanford studies that measured hallucination rates in chatbots and in commercial legal research AI, and pushes for public benchmarks.
Megan Ma, Executive Director, Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab (liftlab); CodeX Research Fellow, Stanford Law School (Stanford, United States): Runs Stanford's liftlab, which works with firms and companies on applied legal AI research and evaluation.
Roland Vogl, Executive Director, Stanford CodeX (Stanford, United States): Runs CodeX, Stanford's center for legal informatics, and its annual FutureLaw conference, a fixture of the legal tech calendar.
Margaret Hagan, Executive Director, Legal Design Lab; Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School (Stanford, United States): Leads Stanford's Legal Design Lab, which tests how AI and design can help people with legal problems they face without a lawyer.
Daniel Martin Katz, Professor of Law; Co-founder, 273 Ventures, Illinois Tech - Chicago-Kent College of Law (Chicago, United States): Co-authored the GPT-4 bar exam paper and works on computational law as a professor and as co-founder of a legal AI company.
Bill Henderson, Professor of Law; Editor, Legal Evolution, Indiana University Maurer School of Law: Studies the economics of the legal market and edits Legal Evolution, a long-form blog on how legal services are changing.
David Freeman Engstrom, Professor of Law; Co-Director, Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, Stanford Law School (Stanford, United States): Researches regulation of the legal profession, including court technology and reform of who may deliver legal services.
Julian Nyarko, Professor of Law; Co-Chair, Stanford Law AI Initiative, Stanford Law School (Stanford, United States): Works on empirical and computational legal research and co-chairs Stanford Law's AI Initiative.

Builders

Nikola Lazarov, Co-founder & CEO, Eilla AI (London, United Kingdom): Runs Eilla, an AI-native M&A advisory in London, builds The Legal Tech Map, and writes the Services as Software newsletter on AI in professional services.
Winston Weinberg, Co-founder and CEO, Harvey: Former O'Melveny litigation associate who co-founded Harvey; his decisions on product and funding set the pace for the whole legal AI market.
Gabriel Pereyra, Co-founder and President, Harvey: Former AI researcher at Meta and Google who co-founded Harvey and leads its technical direction, including its own post-trained models and agent benchmark.
Max Junestrand, Co-founder and CEO, Legora: Runs Legora, the Stockholm-born rival to Harvey that raised a $550m Series E in October 2026; a useful read on how a European legal AI company scales in the US.
Jack Newton, Co-founder and CEO, Clio: Built Clio into the largest practice management platform for small and mid-size firms and bought vLex for $1bn, betting on one system for running a firm and doing research.
Scott Stevenson, Co-founder and CEO, Spellbook: Leads Spellbook, the Canadian AI contract drafting tool that works inside Word, and is a frequent keynote voice on AI for transactional and in-house lawyers.
Eleanor Lightbody, CEO, Luminance (Cambridge, United Kingdom): Runs Cambridge-founded Luminance, which sells AI contract review and negotiation to 700+ organisations and raised a $75m Series C in 2025.
AJ Shankar, Founder and CEO, Everlaw: Founded the cloud eDiscovery platform Everlaw and speaks often on how generative AI changes document review and litigation strategy.
Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO, LexisNexis: Heads one of the two incumbent legal research publishers and struck the LexisNexis-Harvey alliance; his moves show how incumbents plan to defend their content.
Steve Hasker, President and CEO, Thomson Reuters: Runs Thomson Reuters, owner of Westlaw and CoCounsel, and explains why the company is training its own language model for professional work.
Pierre Proner, Co-founder and CEO, Lawhive: Leads Lawhive, a UK and US platform that pairs a regulated law firm with software for consumer and small-business work, and grows partly by buying firms.
Philip Young, Founder and CEO, Garfield.Law: Founded Garfield.Law, the first purely AI-based firm authorised by the SRA, which handles small debt claims for businesses in England and Wales.
Ryan Daniels, Co-founder, Crosby (New York, United States): Co-founded Crosby, a New York AI-first law firm for commercial contracts that charges fixed fees and runs agents under attorney review.
Ryan Walker, Founder, General Legal: Former Casetext CTO who helped build CoCounsel and then left software to start General Legal, an AI-native firm selling finished legal work.
JP Mohler, Co-founder, General Legal: Shares rare hard numbers on AI-native firm economics, from lawyer hours per contract to margins, which makes his interviews worth tracking.
Jay Madheswaran, Co-founder and CEO, Eve: Runs Eve, an AI platform for plaintiff-side firms, and argues that contingency-fee practices are where AI-native law firms will appear first.
John Nay, Founder and CEO, Norm Ai: Built Norm Ai's compliance agents for financial firms and launched Norm Law LLP, a test of whether a software company can run a law firm alongside it.
Jason Boehmig, Co-founder and Executive Chairman, Ironclad; product lead for legal, OpenAI, Ironclad / OpenAI: Ironclad co-founder who joined OpenAI in June 2026 to lead its legal product; a signal of how general AI labs are moving into legal work.
Shashank Bijapur, Co-founder, SpotDraft: Co-founded SpotDraft, a contract management and AI review tool for in-house teams built in India and sold widely in the US.
Phil Saunders, CEO, Relativity: Leads Relativity, the eDiscovery platform that bought document automation company Gavel in 2026 to reach into Word.
Avaneesh Marwaha, CEO, Litera: Returned to lead Litera, the drafting and law firm software group, through its AI rebuild; useful view on how large firm tooling is changing.
Dorna Moini, Founder, Gavel: Built Gavel, a no-code document automation tool used by lawyers to productise services; Relativity acquired it in June 2026.
Jean-Rémi de Maistre, Co-founder and CEO, Jus Mundi: Runs Paris-based Jus Mundi, an AI research platform for international arbitration and public international law.
Tom Martin, Founder, LawDroid: Founder of LawDroid who builds, teaches and advises on AI for lawyers, with a focus on access-to-justice tools for legal aid groups.
Jonathan Petts, Co-founder, Upsolve: Co-founded Upsolve, a nonprofit that helps low-income Americans file for bankruptcy for free, and has challenged unauthorised-practice rules in court.
Nicola Shaver, Co-founder, Legaltech Hub: Former law firm innovation leader who co-created Legaltech Hub, the directory and research service many buyers use to compare legal tech vendors.
Ed Walters, VP, Legal Innovation and Strategy, Clio: Co-founded Fastcase and now shapes Clio's AI and research strategy after the vLex deal; one of legal tech's longest-standing commentators.
Kyle Poe, VP Legal Innovation and Strategy, Legora: Works between Legora and the law firms adopting it, and speaks on what changes inside firms once AI tools are rolled out.
Joe Green, Chief Innovation Officer, Gunderson Dettmer: Leads innovation at a venture-focused US law firm; a keynote speaker at Legal Innovators New York 2026.
Aubrey Bishai, Chief Innovation Officer, Vinson & Elkins: Runs innovation at an Am Law firm and speaks on how large firms choose, build and deploy AI tools.
Ruth Musgrave, Global Head of Knowledge Innovation, Clifford Chance: Leads knowledge innovation at a Magic Circle firm, where AI tools sit on top of precedent and know-how systems.
Silvia LeBlanc, Senior Director, Legal Technology and Innovation, Mayer Brown: Runs legal technology and innovation at a global firm; a practical voice on law firm AI rollouts.
Matthew McConnell, Associate Director of Artificial Intelligence, Practice Innovation, Latham & Watkins: Works on AI inside Latham's practice innovation team, one of the largest firm-side efforts to build and test legal AI.
Rahul Chhabra, Director, Applied AI, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer: Leads applied AI at the transatlantic firm formed by the HSF-Kramer merger.
Lasherelle Morgan, SVP, Legal, AI Innovation and Acceleration, NBCUniversal: Leads AI adoption inside a large media company's legal department; an in-house view of buying and governing legal AI.
Greg Lambert, Co-host and blogger, 3 Geeks and a Law Blog / The Geek in Review: Law firm knowledge-management veteran who co-hosts The Geek in Review podcast, with frank takes on legal research and AI tools.
Marlene Gebauer, Co-host and blogger, 3 Geeks and a Law Blog / The Geek in Review: Co-hosts The Geek in Review, interviewing people building and buying legal tech inside firms.
Daniel Martin Katz, Professor of Law; Co-founder, 273 Ventures, Illinois Tech - Chicago-Kent College of Law (Chicago, United States): Co-authored the GPT-4 bar exam paper and works on computational law as a professor and as co-founder of a legal AI company.

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