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LexLab at UC Law San Francisco Welcomes its
Spring 2023 Accelerator Program Participants
For Immediate Release
Media Contact:
Drew Amerson
amersond@uchastings.edu
San Francisco (January 26, 2023) – LexLab at UC College of the Law San Francisco (UC Law SF), an innovation hub for transformation in the legal profession, today welcomes its sixth cohort of legal tech startups.
Following the success of its first five cohorts, LexLab has accepted six legal technology startups to participate in the sixth class of their accelerator program. The startups joining this spring represent a diverse selection from the legal tech space.
The Spring 2023 program will culminate in LexLab’s Demo Day on April 20, 2023, which will see the startups pitch to a panel of expert judges and investors.
The startups in the latest cohort are:
Aurelian
Aurelian seeks to democratize access to litigation funding, allowing investors of all kinds the opportunity to invest through tokenized security in a fund style vehicle with exposure to various contingency based case types. By leveraging innovative corporate structures, deep industry knowledge, years of cultivated relationships, and cutting edge technology, Aurelian will open up investment opportunities to a larger pool of potential investors.
BackedMe is on a mission to drive access to resolution with case-by-case diagnosis, conflict assessment and recommendations. BackedMe will serve as an automated ombuds for users and clients, with our chatbot providing neutral insights to each claim. Our goal is to support organizations, businesses and schools with a specialized tool to deal with complaints or disputes in a timely manner.
Briefpoint is a SaaS platform that uses AI to rapidly construct litigation documents that litigators would otherwise have to painstakingly draft by hand. Briefpoint's AI algorithms are specifically trained to eliminate your routine drafting tasks so you can focus on more strategic work - or just make it home for dinner.
The Legal Accountability Project (LAP)
LAP’s mission is to ensure that law clerks have positive clerkship experiences, while extending support and resources to those who do not. LAP fosters beneficial clerkship experiences and diversifies judicial chambers by democratizing information about judges and infusing transparency into the clerkship application process. Through data collection, analysis, programming, and partnerships with law schools and other stakeholders, LAP quantifies the scope of discrimination, harassment, and diversity issues in the courts, and uses the results of its research to craft effective solutions.
Ligalio is a legal document generator for businesses. Currently, it allows entrepreneurs to create high-quality privacy policies for websites and mobile apps quickly.
Paraply
Paraply is a one-stop legal collaboration platform for average consumers. Through AI automation, intuitive design and transparent pricing, we aim to make the legal system more accessible for everyone.
LexLab at UC Hastings Law Announces Its Winner of Demo Day & Pitch Competition
For Immediate Release Media Contact
Norma Juarez
SAN FRANCISCO (April 26, 2022) – LexLab at UC Hastings Law, an innovation hub for the legal profession, hosted its fifth annual legal tech Demo Day this past Thursday. Justice Text, a video evidence management platform used by public defenders and criminal defense attorneys, won the grand prize of $5,000.
LexLab’s Demo Day is an annual showcase of cutting-edge legal technology solutions. In addition to the five companies in LexLab’s accelerator program, three UC Hastings Law students pitched the business ideas they developed over the course of the spring semester. The pitches were judged by a panel of legal tech evangelists and investors, which included Pieter Gunst, co- founder of Legal.io, Olga Mack, CEO of Parley Pro, and Kunoor Chopra, co-founder of Elevate Services.
After winning the grand prize, Devshi Mehrotra, the CEO of Justice Text, talked about the program: “Taking part in LexLab gave me the opportunity to hear directly from inspiring legal- tech operators like Alex Su and Derek Duarte about how to scale sales and marketing efforts as a young organization. I am so grateful to have won the Demo Day grand prize and am excited to continue expanding to criminal justice organizations across the country.”
Case Yak, which uses artificial intelligence to predict the value of personal injury claims, received the second-place prize of $1,000. Kenny Schlagel, the company’s CTO, said: “The LexLab Accelerator was a great way for us to make connections, get feedback and iterate on our early-stage product. We learned a lot from other founders who had been in our shoes and faced some of the same challenges and opportunities, and we're thankful for the experience”
The other startups in LexLab’s 2022 cohort included:
Graphletter, which helps companies meet their data protection and privacy requirements through automated legal reasoning and a collaborative compliance workspace. Graphletter was founded by UC Hastings alum Peter Boaz ’15.
Inkly has built an intelligent contract negotiation platform with attorneys available on- demand. Inkly was co-founded by UC Hastings alum Victor Wang ’15.
Legal Karma is the first easy drag and drop tool to automate any contract.
Before the companies presented, three students from Professor Alice Armitage’s “Legal Tech: How to Build a Startup” pitched their ideas for future businesses. The course focuses on teaching students the principles of design thinking, lean startup, team building, agile development.
Christoph Keese, LL.M. 2022 presented Passat, a “plug and play” method for companies using blockchain technology to seamlessly comply with GDPR when transferring data.
Sasha Madani, J.D. 2023, presented Spot, the Airbnb for parking spots and garages.
Rebecca Siegel. J.D 2022, presented PonyX, a company using private distributed ledger technology to offer a GDPR compliant method to transfer EU personal data.
The judges awarded the best pitch to Rebecca Siegel, who had this to say about her experience: “Although pitching to a panel of entrepreneurs at the end of the class was intimidating, I felt that the class more than prepared me for the questions that were asked! For someone who is interested in working in the emerging companies and venture capital space, it was invaluable for me to gain some experience from the perspective of the new venture.”
Morris Ratner, UC Hastings Provost & Academic Dean, expanded on the ways in which LexLab is preparing the lawyers of tomorrow: “LexLab has launched graduates who have the skills, tools, and mindset to lean into disruption of the legal services market and, in so doing, to ensure that information and services are efficiently and fairly distributed.”
“After two years of running the accelerator online due to the pandemic, it was wonderful to be able to gather in person for this Demo Day,” said Drew Amerson, Director of LexLab. “We can’t wait to do it again next year!”
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LexLab at UC Hastings Law Welcomes its
Spring 2022 Accelerator Program Participants
For Immediate Release
Media Contact
Norma Juarez
juareznorma@uchastings.edu
SAN FRANCISCO (Jan. 20, 2022) – LexLab at UC Hastings Law, an innovation hub for transformation in the legal profession, today welcomes its fifth cohort of legal tech startups.
Following the success of its first four cohorts, LexLab has accepted five legal tech startups to participate in the fifth class of their accelerator program. The five startups joining this spring represent a diverse selection from the legal tech space.
The Spring 2022 cohort will ultimately participate in LexLab’s Demo Day on April 20th, which will see the startups make pitches to potential investors.
The startups in the latest cohort are:
CaseYak
CaseYak uses artificial intelligence to predict the value of personal injury claims. Our bilingual platform helps injured victims get access to justice by providing a data-driven answer to their most pressing question ("what's my case worth?") and connecting them with local law firms. For lawyers, CaseYak generates more qualified leads and automates first-level client intake.
GraphLetter
Graphletter helps companies meet their data protection and privacy requirements through automated legal reasoning and a collaborative compliance workspace. Built for in-house legal teams, Graphletter offers tools to streamline manual compliance tasks, identify hidden risks, and coordinate remediation steps, all within a simple and intuitive platform.
Inkly
Inkly is building an intelligent contract negotiation platform in your pocket, with attorneys on-demand. We strongly believe that the future of contract negotiations sits in the hands of the non-lawyer, and build tools to enable that future.
JusticeText
JusticeText is building the first centralized infrastructure to store, catalog, analyze, and share video evidence in the criminal justice system. The platform leverages machine learning to improve outcomes for low-income criminal defendants by enabling greater transparency and accountability around police interactions.
Legal Karma
Legal Karma empowers law firms to grow revenue without adding headcount by automating document drafting and building templates of cases at your firm.
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LexLab at UC Hastings Law Welcomes its
Spring 2021 Accelerator Program Participants
For Immediate Release:
Media Contact:
Julia WangSAN FRANCISCO (Jan 12th, 2021) -- LexLab at UC Hastings Law, an innovation hub for transformation in the legal profession, today welcomes its fourth cohort of legal tech startups.
Following the success of its first three cohorts, LexLab has accepted seven legal tech startups to participate in the fourth class of their accelerator program. The seven startups joining this spring represent a diverse selection from the legal tech space.
The Spring 2021 cohort will ultimately participate in LexLab’s Demo Day on April 19th, which will see the startups make pitches to potential investors.
The startups in the latest cohort are:
At Anü we connect founders to law firms. We are committed to making sure underrepresented founders have access to the right legal expertise and advice at pivotal points in their journey. While also helping law firms to take an innovative and inclusive approach to business development.
Jade is an AI-powered customer success platform that helps legal tech companies onboard, retain, and grow. Combining the power of artificial intelligence with in-depth data about how lawyers use software, Jade automatically generates interactive onboarding experiences and customer support for any area of law.
People Clerk helps you navigate the California small claims process. We help you file the lawsuit, serve the other party, and prepare for your hearing day. As part of the process, People Clerk prepares a judge friendly evidence packet that helps you present your case to the judge.
PwrSwitch automates the collection and consolidation of texts and emails between two people, securely saving everything in a sequential time and date stamped searchable PDF. The result is the comprehensive foundation of evidence clients and counsel need to successfully file court orders, charges, assess claims or otherwise negotiate. Good evidence changes everything, and now, for the first time ever, anyone can search, highlight, redact and annotate months or even years of conversations all from one place.
Rain Intelligence LLC is a legal technology startup focused on using data to uncover consumer harm that gives rise to potential class action lawsuits. The company aims to be the first company to discover all potential class actions lawsuits that are discoverable through data sources. They have back tested their software to uncover dozens of past consumer class actions filed between 2017 and 2019, and class action law firms have begun filing class actions discovered through the team’s software.
Trokt’s Thumbprinter is a cybersecurity tool that any size firm can use to permanently protect the authenticity of any file that leaves the firm’s control. Thumbprinting agreements, documents, or files for a client ensures they will always be accepted as valid digital originals, no matter where they are kept or how they are stored, even after the firm no longer retains its copies. For just $1 of hard cost per file, Trokt Thumbprinter permanently protects the work you’ve done for your client from any potential loss, damage, or cyber attack.
YoTengoBot uses AI and machine learning to automate the initial interactions between legal providers and their clients. The automation of these conversations will propel far more legal knowledge and assistance in the world by lowering the cost of services and making legal conversations possible at scale. Our conversational AI speaks English and Spanish and operates on FB messenger, Whatsapp and SMS.
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