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The lawyer remains the lawyer
AI can't be a lawyer, but a lawyer can no longer compete without it. The advantage goes to whoever gets the combination right: a strong lawyer using well-implemented AI tools.
About
Codified Counsel is led by Ariel Davis, a senior commercial lawyer who has built and sold legal-technology companies. A lawyer who can build legal processes through technology is rare. The rarity is the point.
Our story
Ariel Davis has practiced law since 2010, and founded his own firm focused on commercial, banking, and employment law.
In 2018 he founded his first legal-technology company, scaling it to eight figures in revenue before exit. Since then he has built multiple companies in the space, leading a fifteen-person product and engineering team. He hasn't theorized about any of this. He's lived both sides, the practice and the technology.
The firms furthest ahead with AI employ legal engineers. So do the vendors selling legal AI tools. Their work is to document the judgment a firm has never written down, then build the AI processes around how it actually practices, so the AI consistently produces work that meets the firm's standard. Codified Counsel is a Legal Engineering Advisory Firm (LEAF). Firms retain us for that work, sometimes alongside their own in-house legal engineering team.
AI agencies are built for tech companies and don't understand how a law firm works. The Big Four sell you a partner, then run the work with a junior team, at budgets only AmLaw 100 can justify. Vendor specialists are tied to their own product. Codified Counsel knows how a law firm actually works, its structure, its processes, its economics. We're built for the mid-market, so you get our full expertise on every engagement, at a budget you can justify. Since we're vendor-neutral, we make sure you implement the tool that best fits your practice.
Ariel is a doctoral candidate in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
What we believe
AI can't be a lawyer, but a lawyer can no longer compete without it. The advantage goes to whoever gets the combination right: a strong lawyer using well-implemented AI tools.
AI only does well what has been spelled out. In most firms, how the work actually gets done lives in the partners’ heads and never on paper, because until now there was no reason to write it down. We set it out first, so what goes into the tool is how the firm really works.
We start from your practice, not a product, so the tool we recommend is right for your firm. And because both the tools and the landscape keep changing, staying neutral with a codified practice keeps you free to move to a better option.
The tools are the same for every firm, and out of the box, they make every firm look the same. Your edge is your own way of practicing; the craft is configuring the tool to magnify that edge, not commoditize it.
Making it work is a technical problem; getting the partnership to adopt it is an economic one. An implementation that ignores how partners get paid dies at the partnership vote, no matter how well it works.
A discovery call is a conversation, not a pitch. Even if we never end up working together, you'll come away with a clearer understanding of your own practice.
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