About

Built by lawyers, for lawyers who think.

LegalSpire was founded in 2023 by two litigators, a state-bar tech ethicist, and a team of engineers who'd spent a decade building search and AI systems at scale.

LegalSpire team

Our story

We started LegalSpire after a single bad week.

Our co-founder Maya had just won a complex commercial arbitration. The next morning, she lost $42,000 of billable work because the time hadn't been logged, and the firm couldn't reconstruct what she'd actually done across four disconnected systems. She quit two weeks later.

We decided no lawyer should spend a Saturday night reconstructing their week in a billing tool. So we built LegalSpire — the platform we wished we'd had. It captures work as it happens, drafts in our voice, and never gives up a single billable minute.

Three years later, more than 600 firms run their practice on LegalSpire. We're still based in Chicago, still cap our enterprise deals at one-week onboarding, and still answer support tickets ourselves on weekends.

What we believe

Five principles we don't compromise on.

Privilege is not negotiable.

Client data never leaves your tenant. AI inference happens in isolated environments with zero retention. Period.

Citations or it didn't happen.

Every AI output points to the document and page that produced it. If we can't show our work, we won't ship it.

Lawyers are the experts.

Our product team is half-lawyers, and every release ships only after a partner-level review. We don't tell lawyers how to practice.

Migration is our problem.

We've migrated firms from Clio, PracticePanther, MyCase, NetDocuments, and iManage. Our migration engineers do it for free.

Predictable pricing.

No per-API-call surprises, no AI overage bills. One per-lawyer rate that includes everything we ship.

We answer the phone.

Every customer has a real human's email and direct line. Our CEO still sits in on monthly office hours for Practice + AI customers.

Leadership

People you'd want on your matter.

Maya Sorensen
Co-founder & CEO

Former commercial litigator at Skadden. JD, Yale Law. Built a documentation practice for three Fortune 50 boards before founding LegalSpire.

Devon Park
Co-founder & CTO

Previously led legal-tech search at a major LMS company. Built retrieval systems trusted by AmLaw 100 firms for discovery review.

Elena Vargas
Head of Trust & Compliance

Former general counsel and ABA Center for Innovation fellow. Authored two of the leading state-bar opinions on AI in legal practice.

2023
Founded · Chicago
76
Team members
14
Jurisdictions live
99
Net promoter score

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