Founded by former Williams & Connolly litigation partner Sam Davidoff, Align began life building digital binders for litigators. Five years on, the bootstrapped legal tech company is expanding into AI-powered legal research, betting that generative AI has reopened a market it once regarded as saturated. We find out more.

How would you describe your company to a friend?

I’m a former litigator who now makes software for other litigators. Our original product, Align Binders, gives litigators digital binders on their laptops and iPads. Our new product, Align Research, gives litigators an expert AI-based research agent that finds US case law without hallucinations.

We are software development team focused on the LegalTech space. We build enterprise-grade products for law firms and lawyers. Align Binders is a mobile digital binders solution with online/offline capabilities, on-prem, private cloud, and SaaS deployment models, and full MDM support for mobility. Align Research, our newest product, is an agentic AI-based legal research platform that runs a custom legal research pipeline to retrieve cases.

Sam Davidoff, who was then a litigation partner at Williams & Connolly LLP.

Litigators – anyone from solo trial lawyers up through AmLaw100 litigation groups.

We want to continue to expand throughout the litigation market. There are a lot of litigators in the world, and they need good tools (of the AI and non-AI variety).…

Because you read this