Alternative legal services provider Elevate has announced that it has secured a deal to acquire US legal work-management platform start-up Lupl.
The Los Angeles-based firm says the deal will help advance its legal work automation capabilities and complement its Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) software and its AI-powered automation layer ELMA.
Lupl is a provider of project management software built specifically for lawyers and legal teams, enabling users to keep documents and legal tasks connected while automating case work.
Liam Brown, chairman and CEO of Elevate, said: “This acquisition is an important next step for Elevate’s software business.
“Lupl has built a category-defining platform, a talented team and a strong customer base that includes some of the world’s leading law firms. Together with ELM and ELMA, Lupl advances our vision for automating legal work by connecting teams and data across matters and workflows.”
Jeff Green, CEO of Lupl, said that law is currently changing and the way “legal work gets managed is changing” simultaneously.
He added: “The days of running legal projects on spreadsheets and Post-it notes are ending. Joining Elevate gives us the scale, resources and reach to define what comes next, and to bring it to many more legal teams.”
Lupl was created in 2020 and has been developed by a trio of international law firms – CMS, Cooley and Rajah & Tann Asia – in what the firm says was a first-of-its-kind open industry platform for legal matter management.
Over time the platform has continued to evolve, becoming one of the first legaltech solutions to integrate with Anthropic’s Claude, Lupl said.
The Lupl deal is the latest in a series of acquisitions by Elevate. Back in February, it purchased US legal recruitment firm Mestel, aiming to strengthen its legal talent business.
In October last year, Elevate agreed to acquire Netherlands-based technology-enabled legal services firm Legadex, to expand its European footprint with its expertise in managed legal services.
This followed a deal in January last year for intellectual property research company Sagacious IP, which serves law firm customers in the US, Europe, China and Japan, as well as legal departments at Fortune 500 companies.
In 2024, Elevate completed two further acquisitions – data and AI consulting and technology services company Redgrave Data and multi-language litigation support business CJK Group.
Other recent legaltech M&A activity includes Boston-based IP software firm Anaqua’s acquisition of US patent risk management provider Unified Patents.
And in late July, legaltech giant Legora announced a deal to takeover UK AI litigation intelligence start-up Wexler, its fifth acquisition this year.
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