Lawtrades

Est. 2015 HQ United States Employees 43 Funding $11.8M Updated 2026-02-10
Hype Index trajectory2024-04 → 2026-04 · 15 of 25 months
0.33× · DOWN -1.00Fell from 1.33× to 0.33× — researcher interest cooling
0.0×0.5×1.0×1.5×2.0×2024-04: 1.33×2024-06: 1.00×2024-12: 0.33×2025-03: 0.33×2025-05: 0.67×2025-06: 0.50×2025-07: 0.40×2025-08: 0.75×2025-09: 0.50×2025-10: 0.25×2025-11: 0.67×2025-12: 0.33×2026-01: 0.50×2026-02: 0.50×2026-03: 0.33×0.33× nowQ2 24Q3 24Q4 24Q1 25Q2 25Q3 25Q4 25Q1 26Q2 26

How Hype Index is computed · prospect-to-user intent ratio over the 15-month window

What it is Overview

Legal talent marketplace connecting businesses with 2,000+ vetted freelance attorneys, paralegals, and legal ops professionals across 10 countries. Tech-enabled ALSP platform for legal departments to rapidly scale up/down outside legal capacity. Products: on-demand legal staffing, contract-to-hire, managed legal services, Lawtrades AI (contract review, Aug 2025), AI Evals (RLHF legal talent for AI model training). Named customers: DoorDash, Gusto, Pinterest, Yelp, Headspace, Cision, Udemy, Redfin, Cruise, CrowdStrike, Duolingo — 300+ companies (old homepage). Founded 2015, Long Island City NY. Co-founders Raad Ahmed (CEO) + Ashish Walia. Pivoted 2019 from consumer marketplace to mid-market/enterprise legal departments. $6M Series A at $80M valuation (Dec 2021, Business Insider pitch deck article). Total funding ~$11.7M over 5 rounds (Tracxn). $1M monthly revenue record (Aug 2022, GlobeNewsWire). $26.8M earned by freelancers to date. 80,000+ hours of legal work completed. 1 hour avg from position to candidate intro. Profitable in 2023 (Facebook). TechCrunch, Business Insider, Legal Dive, Forbes, GlobeNewsWire coverage. Glassdoor 4.7/5 (22 reviews). ALSP market: $28.5B, 18% CAGR (Thomson Reuters). L Suite partnership. Lawtrades Podcast. Events and webinars.

Company Info

  • Founded: 2015
  • Team size: 11-50 employees
  • Funding: $11.8M
  • HQ: United States
  • Sector: ALSPLegal Marketplace

What We Haven’t Verified

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Integrations 1 platform

Platforms Lawtrades integrates with. Depth — where curated — reflects how native the connection is. Uncurated entries render without a depth dot.

  • Labelbox

Deep — bi-directional API Medium — one-way sync / webhook Shallow — middleware / Zapier-class

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Funding
  • 11.8MTotal funding reported by the TLTF directory · founded 2015 · as crawled 2026-02-09source ↗

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