NMBL Technologies

NMBL Technologies is a small Chicago software company formed in 2018 by a group of practising attorneys and technology professionals to build workflow tooling for corporate legal departments. It is privately held, with the technology lawyer Daniel Farris reported in trade press and court filings as its owner, and it has no disclosed institutional investors. The company operates from West Grand Avenue in Chicago and sells a single product.

NMBL has marketed Proxy since its founding, positioning it as a lighter alternative to enterprise legal management suites for in-house teams. In 2022 it entered a distribution alliance with the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, which recruited Farris from K&L Gates to launch a Chicago innovation practice. Bloomberg Law reported in 2025 that the arrangement produced no customer sales over three years and collapsed into competing lawsuits, with NMBL seeking $15 million and the firm counterclaiming.

NMBL Technologies at a glance:

• Founded: Founded in 2018 by a group of attorneys and technology professionals; the technology lawyer Daniel Farris is identified as the owner of the business.
• Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, operating from West Grand Avenue with a small team and no disclosed offices outside the United States.
• Ownership: Founder-owned and privately held, with no announced venture or private equity funding; a subsidiary named LX was created to hold the law firm alliance.
• Legal Technology Portfolio: Sells one product into the corporate legal market, Proxy Legal, a workflow, intake and matter tracking platform marketed at proxylegalapp.com.
• Market Focus: Small and mid-sized in-house legal departments in the United States, sold direct rather than through the law firm channel it previously attempted.

What legal teams should know: NMBL is a very small vendor with one product and no outside funding, so legal teams should diligence its financial footing, support capacity and roadmap before committing. The failed Norton Rose Fulbright alliance and the resulting litigation are matters of public record and worth understanding. The product remains actively marketed and both websites are live.