Justin Kan’s Secretive Legal Startup Debuts As A Different Kind of Law Firm
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Last April, reports surfaced that Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur Justin Kan was looking to raise — and then in June did raise — $10 million for an initial round of funding for a startup that would “revolutionize legal services.” The name of the startup was known, Atrium LTS, but little else, except that it would somehow involve software designed to streamline the work of law firms. Today we get the rest of the story, as Kan’s startup officially starts up.
Kan is not a lawyer and has never worked in the legal field. But as a serial entrepreneur, he was a client who became frustrated by the delivery of legal services. Kan founded the live-video platforms Justin.tv and Twitch.tv, selling Twitch to Amazon in 2014 for $970 million. He is now a partner at the venture capital firm Y Combinator.
What is launching today is a law firm, Atriumd LLP, that is separate and apart from Kan’s technology company Atrium LTS, but that is symbiotically connected to it. Atrium’s lawyers will focus exclusively on practicing law, while Atrium LTS (the LTS is for Legal Technology Services) will handle all operations for the firm, even including marketing, and develop and operate software to streamline the firm’s workflows.
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