Ep 281: Eve CEO Jay Madheswaran on Building AI-Native Law Firms for the Plaintiffs’ Bar

Mar 3, 2025

Jay Madheswaran, CEO and co-founder of Eve, an AI platform transforming plaintiffs’ law firms, discusses his journey from Facebook engineer to legal tech innovator. He introduces the concept of 'AI-native law firms,' where AI revolutionizes service delivery, automating tasks like document drafting while adapting to each firm’s unique style. Madheswaran highlights Eve's impressive growth, funding success, and the challenges of building trust with lawyers around AI. The future of specialized legal services powered by AI innovation is also explored.

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INSIGHT

Plaintiffs' Challenges

Plaintiffs' firms, often founder-led, face unique challenges.
They struggle with labor, client retention, marketing, and lead qualification, distinct from defense firms.

ADVICE

Tech, People, and Process

Focus on integrating technology with people and processes.
Address trust and onboarding by solving people and process problems upfront.

ANECDOTE

EVE's Efficiency

One client faced a backlog of 40 complaints due within a week.
EVE helped her complete them, showcasing the platform's efficiency.

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After building his career as an engineer at Facebook and as a venture capitalist at Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jay Madheswaran and his cofounders spotted an opportunity to deploy cutting-edge AI to transform what they saw as an underserved segment of the legal market, launching Eve, an AI platform purpose-built for plaintiffs’ law firms. Eve has quickly gained traction, recently securing a $47 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, and boasting 800% year-over-year growth.

But what makes Eve’s story particularly interesting is its mission to transform traditional plaintiffs’ firms into what Madheswaran calls "AI-native law firms" – where technology does not just automate tasks but fundamentally changes how legal services are delivered, in part by encoding firms’ unique knowledge and processes into intelligent systems.

In today’s episode, Madheswaran joins host Bob Ambrogi to explain his concept of AI-native law firms and describe how Eve's technology can help firms double or triple their caseloads by automating everything from case-intake analysis to document drafting, all while learning to work in each firm's unique voice and style.

He also discusses the challenges of building trust with lawyers around AI and his vision for increasingly specialized legal services in an AI-powered future.

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