Type of site | Legal Technology & Services |
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Founded | 2011 |
Headquarters | San Francisco, United States |
Founder(s) | Tony Lai, Pieter Gunst, and Daniel Lo. |
Industry | Internet |
URL | https://www.legal.io |
Legal.io, formerly LawGives, is a technology company for legal organizations and legal networks to match clients to lawyers, legal knowledge, and services.[1] Their aim is to offer legal professionals an affordable legal services.[2]
LawGives was launched in 2012, in conjunction with Mozilla, as an online Q&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]
History
In 2011, LawGives was founded in Stanford, California, 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.[6]
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]
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]
References
- ↑ "LawGives: Uber of the legal profession?". Advocatie. May 21, 2015.
- ↑ "The Future of the Legal Profession Might Be Brighter Than You Think". Forbes. Dec 6, 2015.
- ↑ "LAWGIVES PARTNERS WITH MOZILLA FOR ITS OPEN LEGAL LIBRARY AND MARKETPLACE". Betakit. September 7, 2011.
- ↑ "Legal.io - Our Story". Legal.io. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
- ↑ "The JD Entrepreneurs". Stanford Law School. June 19, 2011.
- ↑ "A Positive Disruption: The Transformation of Law Through Technology". Stanford Lawyer. June 7, 2013.
- ↑ "2015 30 under 30: Law & Policy". Forbes. January 10, 2015. Archived from the original on January 8, 2015.
- ↑ "The Recorder's Best of 2015: Legal Products & Services" (PDF). The Recorder. August 24, 2015.
- ↑ "NYSBA LRIS". NYSBA LRIS. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
- ↑ "Twitch User Support Project". Twitch. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
- ↑ "Iowa Find-A-Lawyer". Iowa Find-A-Lawyer. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
- ↑ "Nebraska Find-a-Lawyer". Nebraska Find-a-Lawyer. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
- ↑ "LeGaL". LeGaL. Retrieved 2017-11-27.