rlegaltech / Rankings / Lawyer-founded Rankings Lawyer-founded legal tech.
The top 500 vendors where at least one founder qualified as a lawyer —
confirmed against a public source, ordered by rlegaltech500 rank.
Confirmed lawyer-founded 83 of 500 Confirmed not 26 Unknown 388
Cohort performance
Summing the monthly index score across every vendor in each cohort —
as if each were one firm. Confirmed lawyer-founded
(77 vendors with score history) vs
confirmed not lawyer-founded (26).
Unknowns are excluded from both sides.
Cohort size 77 vs 26 confirmed-not
Combined index score · 2026-07 8,223 avg 107/company · comparison 3,877 (avg 149)
Share of combined score 68.0% cohort share of cohort + comparison total
MoM · 2026-06 → 2026-07 -1.1% comparison +0.7%
lawyer-founded confirmed not per-company average index score · 2025-08 → 2026-07
Cohort method
Per-month sums of each vendor's index score — the same score behind
the rlegaltech500, derived from independent public signals we don't
itemise. Only vendors with
a confirmed lawyer-founded verdict (true or false) are compared —
the 388 unknowns are in neither cohort. The cohorts differ in
size (77 vs 26),
so per-company averages are shown alongside the additive totals; the
chart plots the averages so both lines share one scale.
Excluded for missing score history: spotdraft, disco, lawpath, steno, riverus-umbrella, knowable-insights. Confirmed · 83
Method and honest counts
For each of the rlegaltech500 we looked for public evidence — press
profiles, firm bios, bar records, founder interviews — that a founder
qualified and practised as a lawyer. The result: 83 confirmed
lawyer-founded , 26 confirmed not,
3 where a founder holds a law degree but we found no
practice or bar-admission evidence (not counted above),
and 388 unknown — we found no public founder
record either way. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence: a
vendor missing from this table may well be lawyer-founded. Corrections
with a public source are welcome on
r/legaltech .
Companion list: female-founded legal tech, ranked .