Legal.io

Legal.io, formerly LawGives, is a technology company for legal organizations and legal networks to match clients to lawyers, legal knowledge, and services. Their aim is to offer legal professionals an affordable legal services.LawGives was launched in 2012, in conjunction with Mozilla, as an online Q&A forum for legal questions. Since 2015, the technology platform powering LawGives has been offered as legal infrastructure for legal referral networks nationwide, including bar associations and networks organized as legal incubators, under the company name "Legal.io."

In 2011, LawGives was founded in Stanford, California, by Stanford Law School LLM candidates Tony Lai and Pieter Gunst, former lawyers for Herbert Smith and DLA Piper respectively. The two had the idea while working on an LLM project during their time at Stanford Law School.In 2015, co-founder Pieter Gunst was named as one of Forbes 30 under 30 in Law & Policy, and they were recognized as the Best New California Legal Service of 2015 by The Recorder.

Legal.io currently works with the following customers:

The New York State Bar Association

Twitch – California Lawyers for the Arts

The Iowa State Bar Association

The Nebraska State Bar Association

The LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York