Expert Advice From People Who’ve Actually Done the Work.
We help legal teams find and fix the problems driving up costs and creating risk.
For three decades, we’ve built, run, and sold businesses in legal software, eDiscovery, and technology consulting. We’ve worked alongside in-house teams and outside counsel on high-stakes matters. Our improvements to legal holds, data collection, and document review have saved organizations tens of millions of dollars.
Brian Schrader, Esq.
Brian is an attorney, technologist, and eDiscovery professional with over two decades of experience advising Fortune 500 legal departments on litigation, legal operations, data management, and discovery. He has founded several successful companies in the legal technology space and served as a lead expert on major corporate matters across regulatory, securities, and class-action proceedings.
He advises companies on outside counsel management and controls to reduce spend and mitigate risk. Earlier in his career he worked with the NYSE Enforcement Division and clerked under Justice Charles Ramos of the New York Supreme Court. Brian is licensed to practice law in New York and is admitted to SDNY and EDNY.
Alon Israely, Esq.
Alon is a legal technology, cybersecurity, and legal AI professional with 25+ years of experience building enterprise technology platforms for Global 2000 companies and AmLaw firms. He’s founded and led legal technology companies through growth and acquisition, with deep expertise at the intersection of litigation, eDiscovery, and information governance. He works with corporate legal departments on eDiscovery processes and legal operations, serves as CISO for multiple organizations including, and advises on data privacy, digital forensics, and AI adoption. He’s testified in federal court on digital evidence and AI. He’s licensed to practice law in New York and Washington, is admitted in several federal district courts, and previously held the CISSP certification.
Senior Expertise. Real Experience.
Not consultants who study legal departments. Professionals who have worked inside them.
The LexMateria team has spent decades building legal technology, managing discovery, advising on outside counsel, and working through the operational and risk problems that corporate legal departments face at the matter level.
Our Stellar Support Staff
Our incredible staff allows us to focus on you, the client.
Supporting the founders and other senior experts at the company is a team of experienced professionals with deep backgrounds in litigation support, project management and legal technology.
Client engagements draw on the specific expertise the work requires. That means the people in the room have done this work before, in matters like yours, at organizations like yours.
Our experts have testified in federal and state court about digital evidence, eDiscovery, preservation, and the use of AI.
Not many others have done that.
LexMateria experts have testified in both federal and state courts and in major regulatory and litigation matters on issues of digital evidence, preservation, eDiscovery, information security, and the use of AI by lawyers. When the question of how something was identified preserved, or produced ends up in front of a judge, we have been there with the explanations.
Industry Leadership
A track record of building first, and building things that last.
The LexMateria team has founded and managed several well-known companies in the legal technology and services space and has led the data management component for some of the largest and most complicated litigation and M&A transactions ever.
We pioneered many technology and methods still used in eDiscovery and for M&A transactions and continue to lead today with strategic cost and risk reduction solutions for corporate in-house legal departments.
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First SaaS legal hold and eDiscovery platform. Developed and supported what became the first true SaaS platform for legal hold and eDiscovery — still used today by hundreds of corporate legal departments. -
First Office 365 legal plug-ins. Among the first to release and support Office 365 integrations allowing companies to leverage existing platforms for eDiscovery.
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First light-touch live data collection tool. Released the first tool of its kind for defensible live data collection — used by law firms and corporations for discovery and litigation.
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Large-scale attorney review platform. Created and supported a secure proprietary attorney management platform housing hundreds of attorneys simultaneously for first-line and privileged review.
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TAR and legal analytics leadership. Built and managed a full suite of open-source, commercial, and proprietary analytics technologies — established deep expertise in TAR and related legal analytics before current AI.
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Early grid-computing for legal data processing. Designed and built one of the first distributed grid-computing solutions capable of processing terabytes of legal data per day.
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Early cloud adoption in legal. Among the first to use cloud computing and elastic search technologies to support global eDiscovery workflows.
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Social media investigation tooling. Launched the first self-serve social media investigation tool used by insurance companies and corporate HR departments for early identification of adverse witness activity.
Bring Us One Problem.
A recurring matter. A discovery bill. A hold process. A data problem. An outside counsel issue. A workflow everyone hates. We’ll start there.