Priori Legal

Priori Legal is a legal technology company headquartered in New York, New York, founded in 2013 by Basha Rubin and Mirra Levitt, who met as classmates at Yale Law School. The company is privately held and venture-backed, with investors including Eagle Proprietary Investments, Thomson Reuters Ventures, HearstLab and Great Oaks Venture Capital.

Priori Legal began as a marketplace matching small and mid-sized businesses with lawyers, then repositioned in 2016 to serve corporate legal departments buying outside counsel. It raised a 6.3 million US dollar Series A in 2020 backed by Hearst and Orrick's legal technology fund, followed by a 15 million US dollar round in July 2022, and extended beyond matching into Scout, a panel management and law firm relationship tool, and an RFP product for competitive bidding.

Priori Legal at a glance:

• Founded: Founded in 2013 in New York by Basha Rubin and Mirra Levitt, Yale Law School graduates who built one of the few women-founded legal technology firms.
• Headquarters: Headquartered in New York, New York, with a vetted lawyer network spanning all 50 US states and more than 50 countries worldwide.
• Ownership: Privately held and venture-backed; investors include Eagle Proprietary Investments, Thomson Reuters Ventures, HearstLab, Great Oaks Venture Capital and Mindset Ventures.
• Legal Technology Portfolio: Sells Priori, combining a vetted outside counsel marketplace with the Scout panel management platform and an RFP tool for running competitive law firm bids.
• Market Focus: Serves general counsel and legal operations teams at large US enterprises, from Fortune 50 companies to mid-market technology firms, sourcing counsel globally.

What legal teams should know: Priori Legal suits legal departments looking to broaden their outside counsel options or bring discipline to panel management, and it is not a law firm and does not perform the legal work itself. It is a smaller venture-backed company than the suites that bundle panel and spend modules, so buyers should confirm coverage in their key jurisdictions and practice areas.