Legal.io

Legal.io is a technology company that provides marketplace solutions for legal organizations and legal networks to match clients to lawyers, legal knowledge, and services.[1] Their aim is to offer legal professionals a better way to practice, innovate, and scale the provision of affordable legal services.[2]

LawGives was originally launched in 2012, in conjunction with Mozilla, as an online Q and A forum for legal questions.[3] Since 2015, the technology platform powering LawGives has been offered as legal infrastructure for legal referral networks nationwide, including bar associations and networks organized as legal incubators, under the company name "Legal.io."[4]

Legal.io
Type of site
 Legal Technology & Services
Founded 2011
Headquarters San Francisco, United States
Founder(s) Tony Lai, Pieter Gunst, and Daniel Lo.
Industry Internet
Website https://www.legal.io

History

Legal.io (formerly LawGives) was founded in Stanford, California in 2011 by Stanford Law School LLM candidates Tony Lai and Pieter Gunst,[5] former lawyers for Herbert Smith and DLA Piper respectively. The two had the idea while working on an LLM project during their time at Stanford Law School. They cite their view of the access to justice gap as a technology infrastructure challenge as the motivation behind their mission to offer legal tech solutions.[6]

Legal.io / LawGives has been touted as one of the best emerging companies in the legal technology space. In 2015, Co-Founder Pieter Gunst was named as one of Forbes 30 under 30 in Law & Policy,[7] and they were recognized as the Best New California Legal Service of 2015 by The Recorder.[8]

Current Customers

Legal.io currently works with the following customers:

  • The New York State Bar Association [9]
  • Twitch - California Lawyers for the Arts [10]
  • The Iowa State Bar Association [11]
  • The Nebraska State Bar Association [12]
  • The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York [13]

Access to Justice

The company's focus on the access to justice mission falls in line with similar concerns from other organizations. In 2014, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law published a study exposing that some states have fewer than 1 civil legal aid lawyer per 10,000 residents who rank as poor under federal standards, nearly one quarter of states have no rule to allow court clerks to help people without legal help, and nearly half of state judicial web sites have no information in languages other than English.[14]

Lisa Kaufman, of the Columbia Law School's Human Rights Clinic has stated:

"In the United States, millions of people are forced to go it alone when they're facing a crisis," Kaufman says. "It's a human rights crisis, and the United States is really losing ground with the rest of the world."[15]

References

  1. ↑ "LawGives: Uber of the legal profession?". Advocatie. May 21, 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Future of the Legal Profession Might Be Brighter Than You Think". Forbes. Dec 6, 2015.
  3. ↑ "LAWGIVES PARTNERS WITH MOZILLA FOR ITS OPEN LEGAL LIBRARY AND MARKETPLACE". Betakit. September 7, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Legal.io - Our Story". Legal.io. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
  5. ↑ "The JD Entrepreneurs". Stanford Law School. June 19, 2011.
  6. ↑ "A Positive Disruption: The Transformation of Law Through Technology". Stanford Lawyer. June 7, 2013.
  7. ↑ "2015 30 under 30: Law & Policy". Forbes. January 10, 2015.
  8. ↑ "The Recorder's Best of 2015: Legal Products & Services" (PDF). The Recorder. August 24, 2015.
  9. ↑ "NYSBA LRIS". NYSBA LRIS. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  10. ↑ "Twitch User Support Project". Twitch. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  11. ↑ "Iowa Find-A-Lawyer". Iowa Find-A-Lawyer. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  12. ↑ "Nebraska Find-a-Lawyer". Nebraska Find-a-Lawyer. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  13. ↑ "LeGaL". LeGaL. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  14. ↑ "Rights Advocates See 'Access To Justice' Gap In U.S." NPR. March 10, 2014.
  15. ↑ "Rights Advocates See 'Access To Justice' Gap In U.S." NPR. March 10, 2014.
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