Robert Ambrogi Blog
Voting has now closed and your votes have been tallied to pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to participate as finalists in the ninth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2025, taking place April 2-5 in Chicago.
These 15 finalists will face off in an opening-night pitch competition that is the opening event of TECHSHOW, with the conference’s attendees voting at the conclusion of the pitches to pick the top winners. The first-place winner gets a package of marketing and advertising prizes. All 15 also get to exhibit in a special Startup Alley portion of the TECHSHOW exhibit hall.
In October, we issued the call for entries. From all the entries we received, a panel of judges narrowed the applications down to 26, which we posted on Jan. 9 for you, the readers, to select the final 15.
We received a total of 74,695 votes. Here are the 15 winners in order of their vote tallies. (The descriptions were provided by each company. The full descriptions can be read on the original ballot page.)
Congratulations to all the finalists. To those that did not make the cut, we hope to see you again next year.
1. Legion AI Associate
We are building AI agents that draft discovery and motions for litigation lawyers, allowing lawyers to customize each document in their own voice and generate work product on their own template.
2. Canotera
Canotera provides AI-powered predictive analytics for legal disputes, bringing transparency and efficiency to the legal industry. Using Large Language Models and Geometric Machine Learning, our platform forecasts litigation outcomes at scale. Our explainable predictions help parties, lawyers, funders, and others make informed, data-driven decisions. Our mission: to predict legal dispute outcomes in a clear and impactful way.
3. Case Crafter
In today’s fast-paced world, capturing a jury’s attention is tough. Case Crafter turns case narratives into bite-sized visuals. Our interactive timeline links events with exhibits, helping juries see the big picture and explore details. With a built-in PDF editor, full-text search, offline access, and seamless collaboration across devices, Case Crafter simplifies trial prep and captivates juries. Discover more at casecrafter.com.
4. Midpage
Midpage is an AI-powered legal research platform that helps litigators find cases, organize notes, and create work product – all in one workspace. Unique features, like an AI-powered filtering, help users skim through dozens of cases with more precision and without losing any nuance.
5. CounselVault
Imagine a world where your data is not just secure but impregnable, where efficiency meets compliance in the face of ever-growing cyber threats. Enter CounselVault from Occam’s Ops: an on-premises, AI-driven legal assistant, designed specifically for you.
6. Belt
Belt helps solve the problem of managing teams in remote and hybrid work by using a natural approach to work management and combining meetings and tasks into a unified calendar. Our AI-first approach identifies requests in emails and chats, turning them into tasks and meetings to give visibility into all work. This bottom-up approach helps managers understand hidden bias and whether staff have too much or too little work, providing the insights they need to manage better.
7. Lawft
Lawft is a law practice management platform built from the ground up by attorneys for attorneys to facilitate superior client service, accelerate law firm growth, and improve access to justice. Our mission is to provide law firms with a single solution that offers the efficiency of automated workflows, the power of advanced document assembly, the connection that comes with consistent communication, and the transparency of defined growth metrics.
8. Element Standard
Element Standard transforms case management and client service for litigators with products that align digital processes to real-world workflows. Our flagship product, CONTROLit, uses the Litigation Cartography framework to simplify complex litigation into clear, actionable steps. CONTROLit enhances efficiency, boosts confidence in navigating disputes, and ensures every action aligns with client goals—delivering better outcomes and building lasting trust.
9. AllRize
AllRize is a complete solution for law firms seeking to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and get more business. A complete practice management solution built on Microsoft Dynamics 365, AllRize offers a seamless integration of CRM, marketing, matter management, accounting, and more. AllRize is a SaaS solution powered by Microsoft’s Copilot AI technology, enabling firms to support local and remote users, automate tasks, accelerate productivity, and deliver a better customer experience.
10. Querious
Querious (curious) enhances virtual attorney-client conversations with generative AI. Querious innovates at the heart of legal practice; where trust is earned and business is won. Querious ensures attorneys identify legal issues, uncover key details, and have access to relevant legal content in real-time. It’s simple to adopt — no lengthy implementation or training required. With Querious, attorneys can deliver top-tier advice and unlock revenue opportunities — every single day.
11. Claudio by Loom Analytics
Loom Analytics’ products turn speech into information to power litigation workflows, including e-discovery, deposition and trials. We focus on providing the most accurate results using custom AI models for speech extraction and analysis for each step in the workflow, instead of using general intelligence models, to minimize hallucinations. Given the anticipated increase in A/V evidence in criminal and civil proceedings, and no solution that provides the ability to analyze this evidence at scale, makes Loom Analytics’ products unique.
12. Bot Mediation
Bot Mediation introduces the legal industry’s first AI-powered mediator, transforming dispute resolution to be more accessible, efficient, and fair. The experience mirrors traditional mediation: Parties submit briefs, schedule a session, and log into Bot’s secure platform to negotiate. An AI-trained avatar guides the parties through the mediation effectively and efficiently, enabling parties to settle cases whenever they want, wherever they want, and on their own terms.
13. Legau
Legau is an innovative smart drafting solution leveraging generative AI to reliably and securely support the full document drafting cycle (research, planning, creation, revision) within the software where attorneys normally work (Word and Outlook) and integrated with the systems more often used by the law firms (partners of Microsoft, iManage, and NetDocuments).
14. Lista.io
Lista provides step-by-step workflows for handling employment-based immigration cases. The workflows provide a clear roadmap for case processing and include sample attorney letters, support letters, legal citations, and links to relevant gov’t websites. The Lista workflows were built by the renowned employment-based immigration attorney Catherine Haight and tested over 20+ years of practice in the field.
15. Moxx
Moxx is an all-in-one web application designed for litigators to organize documents and exhibits, collaborate on case strategy, and build an effective digital trial notebook. Its intuitive, customizable user experience allows litigation teams to focus on what matters most – strategy.