Dossier
Cooley
Coverage of Cooley in the Nexus archive.
- I left Big Law to become an investor, but building an AI firm proved more lucrative. We hit 6 figures in our first 6 months.
Kristina Subbotina transitioned from a corporate startup lawyer at Cooley to founding Lexsy, an AI-powered legal platform for startups. She raised $650K, achieved $372K in revenue with 41 customers, and previously built a $1.3M law firm by sharing legal horror stories on social media.
- A top Silicon Valley law firm wants startup founders to stop asking chatbots to do legal work and use this instead
Cooley, a Silicon Valley law firm, has launched Cooley Go Lab, an AI-powered portal for startups to handle routine legal tasks. The tool, developed with Legora, targets founders in Y Combinator's summer cohort to address common contract issues. It aims to replace chatbots with a structured, law-firm-backed solution for document review and drafting.