Why I'm starting a law firm

Over the last year, I watched the legal system nearly destroy my life.

Not metaphorically. Literally.

My parents became involved in an ugly dispute after my father began behaving increasingly erratically. It led to divorce, him abandoning us, and me suddenly finding myself responsible at 22 for supporting my family while multiple legal situations spiraled simultaneously. Around the same time, false claims and cases started appearing around me personally. I lost access to my home and most of my belongings almost overnight.

At the exact same time, the company I had spent years building began collapsing under pressure. A Series A that would have valued the business at nine figures fell apart at the last minute. Our largest customer, worth tens of millions in annual revenue, refused to pay us. Cash tightened quickly. Investors became quieter.

What surprised me most was how small the distance actually is between being perceived as successful and watching large parts of your life destabilize simultaneously.

One moment, you’re being invited into rooms with world leaders, Fortune 500 CEOs, and governments. The next, you’re trying to survive the month while legal invoices arrive faster than answers.

And what shocked me most wasn’t simply that legal services were expensive. Everyone already knows that.

It was how broken the experience felt from the client side.

Simple answers took weeks. Basic coordination required endless emails. Costs felt disconnected from outcomes. Even elite firms often felt fragmented, slow, opaque, and exhausting to navigate.

The deeper I got into it, the more I realized something uncomfortable:

The legal system is survivable largely for people who already understand power, money, leverage, and process.

Everyone else gets crushed by it.

At the same time all of this was happening, AI was becoming extraordinarily capable in real ways. Research. Drafting. Analysis. Negotiation prep. Workflows. Organization. Issue spotting. Large parts of legal work were becoming dramatically faster and more scalable in front of our eyes.

But most legal AI companies are building tools for law firms. We believe the much larger opportunity is rebuilding the law firm itself.

That’s why we started Index Law.

Not because lawyers are going away. Quite the opposite. Great lawyers are incredibly valuable. Judgment is valuable. Strategy is valuable. Negotiation is valuable. But there is no reason clients should continue paying extraordinary amounts of money for avoidable inefficiency.

The thesis behind Index Law is simple: AI handles as much of the operational and analytical workload as possible.

Elite lawyers focus on high-leverage judgment, advocacy, negotiation, and strategy. Clients receive dramatically faster, more transparent, and significantly more affordable outcomes.

Not just “AI replacing lawyers.”

A better law firm.

One designed from the client’s perspective instead of the institution’s.

Over the last few months, we’ve quietly started helping founders, operators, investors, creators, and families across:

• Disputes and litigation strategy
• Contracts and negotiations
• Immigration and relocation
• Company structuring
• Regulatory matters
• High-stakes personal situations

In many cases, we’re able to reduce legal costs materially while improving responsiveness and speed. We’re also experimenting with fixed-fee and success-based pricing because incentives in legal services should be aligned far more closely with outcomes.

We’re still early, but we’re now opening up to a small number of new clients and partners.

If you or your company are:

• Spending heavily on legal fees
• Frustrated with slow or fragmented legal support
• Dealing with a high-stakes dispute or situation
• Scaling internationally
• Navigating fundraising, contracts, employment, regulatory, or strategic issues

Reach out to me directly.

There’s a good chance we can help.

And if nothing else, after everything I experienced over the last year, I want to build a legal firm that feels faster, clearer, more aligned, and more human than the system people are currently forced into.

I don’t think legal services will look the same a decade from now.

We’re building what comes next.