AudaciousReimagining what a contract can be in the AI age.
General Legal is building the world’s first AI-native law firm. Where your lawyer takes two weeks and charges $15,000, General Legal takes about an hour and charges $500, same quality, real attorneys on staff. AI takes the first pass; the lawyers do the human part. The team behind Casetext ($650M exit to Thomson Reuters) is back, this time building the firm itself.
Ryan Walker
Math PhD and software engineer; 10+ years in legal tech. Former CTO of Casetext (YC13), acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2023.
Javed Qadrud-Din
Coding since age 9. Harvard Law, then back to engineering, deep learning since 2014, at Casetext and Meta.
J.P. Mohler
Software engineer turned Harvard Law grad. Represented startups & VCs at Cooley and WilmerHale before building.
AI takes the first pass. Lawyers do the human part.
General Legal is starting with negotiating commercial contracts, and will expand quickly from there to other use cases within legal. The team is reimagining what a contract can be in the AI age, a veteran group who’ve been doing deep learning in the legal space since long before ChatGPT.
Legal is broken
Billed by the hour, enormous sums, slow responses, so people who need legal advice don’t get it.
AI-first, human-finished
AI takes the first pass at everything the lawyers do, freeing them to focus on human interaction.
Seasoned operators
Deep learning in legal since well before ChatGPT, starting with contracts, expanding fast.
AI-powered legal, end to end.
An AI-native law firm where lawyers and AI work together to handle commercial contract negotiation and drafting from start to finish. Lawyers are on staff, it’s not a marketplace, delivering high-quality work at a fraction of the cost and time.
Client → AI first pass → lawyer review → return
An experienced lawyer reviews every contract while AI turbocharges their work, replacing the days-or-weeks review cycle with an AI-accelerated one.
Commercial contract negotiation
Reviewing and negotiating day-to-day deals for a fixed $500, with turnaround in 1–3 hours on average.
Long-term vision: become the central repository of all client contracts, enabling bulk renegotiation, market benchmarking, and knowledge extraction across every deal.
The traction speaks for itself.
Zero paid acquisition, all word-of-mouth.
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What they’re hiring for.
Full Stack Software Engineer
- Build out AI-enabled features using an AI-enabled development process
- Be proactive, come up with ideas on how to build the products better
Requirements & nice-to-haves
- 1–2 years of software engineering experience
- Computer Science degree or equivalent
- Eligible to work in the US
- Experience working at a startup
- Experience in the legal tech space
Backed by top-tier investors.
$11.5M raised across pre-seed and seed.
Set new standards for the legal industry.
A ground-floor role on a veteran team using AI to make legal advice accessible. If you move fast, learn quickly, and drive projects to completion, let’s talk.