What Lawhive does

Lawhive is a London-headquartered legal technology company that operates an AI-native online legal services marketplace connecting consumers and small businesses with SRA-regulated solicitors at transparent fixed fees, typically priced up to 50% below high-street law firms. Founded in 2021, the company serves more than 30,000 UK clients across Conveyancing, Property, Landlord & Tenant, Divorce, Family, Employment and Immigration matters, and has expanded into the United States where it currently operates in 35 states with a stated plan to cover all 50. As of February 2026, Lawhive reports annualized revenue exceeding $35 million with sevenfold year-over-year growth, a legal workforce of 450+ across the US and UK, and cumulative venture funding above $115 million.

The company's core technology is a proprietary AI legal assistant named "Lawrence," which the firm says surpasses other language models in legal performance and has passed Part 1 of the UK Solicitors Qualifying Examination. Lawrence is embedded in the lawyer-facing platform at platform.lawhive.co.uk, where it automates legal Q&A, document drafting, call summarisation and next-step communication, and supports an AI operating system that handles client intake, qualification, engagement letter generation, billing and case administration across the firm. Revenue is generated through a mix of direct fixed-fee legal services sold via the consumer-facing website, a fee-share model with 300+ consultant solicitors, CILEX lawyers and licensed conveyancers, and revenue from acquired US law firms operating under a regulated Alternative Business Structure (ABS) in Arizona with 150+ lawyers.

Lawhive's go-to-market combines a content-led, SEO-driven direct-to-consumer acquisition model in the UK with a build-through-acquisition strategy in the US, exemplified by the September 2025 acquisition of Woodstock Legal Services (the first UK traditional law firm acquired by an AI business) and the March 2026 opening of a New York office to lead US M&A. The company is backed by institutional investors including GV (Google Ventures), TQ Ventures, Balderton Capital and Jigsaw, alongside strategic individual investors such as Mitch Rales, co-founder of Danaher Corporation, and Premier League footballers Harry Maguire and Reece James.

Name

Lawhive

Legal name

Lawhive Ltd

Website

https://lawhive.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Lawhive is an AI-native online legal services platform that connects consumers and small businesses with SRA-regulated solicitors at transparent fixed fees up to 50% below traditional law firms, operating across the UK and 35 US states with a 450-lawyer network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Fixed-fee Legal Services: Consumer and small-business legal services sold at transparent fixed fees (e.g., uncontested no-fault divorce from £1,032, Section 21 Notice from £199, eviction consultation from £189, residential freehold purchase from £828). Customers pre-pay before case fulfilment.
2. Hourly-billed Legal Services: Alternative billing model where cases can be billed by the hour in addition to the fixed-fee model, with full pricing transparency.
3. Fee-share with Consultant Lawyers: Consultancy model where Lawhive pays consultant solicitors a fee share of billed work after handling sales, qualification, engagement, payment and compliance; lawyers receive payment the same day work is billed.
4. US Acquired Law Firm Revenue: Revenue from US law firms acquired and operated under the Lawhive AI platform (regulated ABS structure in Arizona with over 150 lawyers).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Lawhive operates an AI-native online legal services platform that connects consumers and small businesses with vetted, SRA-regulated solicitors across Conveyancing, Property, Landlord & Tenant, Divorce, Family, Employment, and Immigration on transparent, instant fixed-fee quotes. Its proprietary AI legal assistant 'Lawrence' automates routine legal tasks (drafting, research, call summarisation, communication), and regulated legal services are delivered via Lawhive Legal Ltd in the UK and a US Alternative Business Structure (ABS) in Arizona.

Product overview

Lawhive operates a single AI-native legal services platform that combines a consumer-facing legal marketplace (lawhive.co.uk) with a lawyer-facing SaaS workbench (platform.lawhive.co.uk), an embedded AI associate called Lawrence that automates routine legal work, and a regulated delivery layer made up of Lawhive Legal Ltd (SRA-regulated, ID 8003766) in the UK, a US ABS in Arizona, and the acquired Woodstock Legal Services firm. The consumer platform routes matters into fixed-fee legal engagements across Conveyancing, Property, Landlord & Tenant, Divorce, Family, Employment, and Immigration, while the lawyer platform uses the Lawrence AI module to draft, communicate, and progress cases end-to-end for a network of 450+ lawyers across the UK and US.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Lawrence: AI-powered legal assistant / AI lawyer used by Lawhive to automate routine legal tasks, answer legal questions, simplify drafting, summarize calls, and assist lawyers in serving clients. Has reportedly passed part one of the UK Solicitors Qualifying Examination.
• Woodstock Legal Services

Products and services

• Lawhive Consumer Platform UK online legal services marketplace that matches consumers and small businesses with vetted, SRA-regulated solicitors across Conveyancing, Property, Landlord & Tenant, Divorce, Family, Employment, and Immigration, on instant fixed-fee quotes advertised as up to 50% cheaper than high-street firms.
• Woodstock Legal Services UK-based consultancy/fee-share law firm specialising in property conveyancing, operating under the Lawhive umbrella as a distinct brand and contributing 50 additional consultants to the firm's solicitor network.
• Lawhive US (Arizona ABS) Lawhive's regulated Alternative Business Structure (ABS) law firm operating in Arizona with 150+ lawyers, serving as the regulatory and operational foundation for US expansion across 35 states with planned coverage of all 50, covering family law, immigration, real estate, civil litigation, and intellectual property.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 50% cheaper than high-street law firms
• +4 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Woodstock Legal ServicesflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerUK fee-share consultancy law firm specialising in property conveyancing, acquired by Lawhive in September 2025 as the first acquisition of a traditional UK law firm by an AI business; brought 50 additional consultants into the network.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• LegalZoom: Direct competitor in online consumer and small-business legal services, offering fixed-fee incorporation, wills, family law and other commoditised legal products. Highly comparable on business model (fixed-fee consumer legal) though historically less focused on AI-native delivery.
• Rocket Lawyer: Online legal services platform offering subscription-based document drafting, attorney matching and fixed-fee legal services to consumers and SMBs. Closely comparable on the consumer/SMB fixed-fee legal model and on the lawyer network/marketplace dynamic.
• Nolo: Long-standing consumer legal information and self-help platform with a directory of attorneys, offering DIY legal products and lawyer matching. Comparable on the consumer-facing legal services and attorney matching business, though less AI-native.

Emerging players

• DoNotPay: AI-first consumer legal app offering automated dispute resolution, subscription cancellations, and small-claims assistance. Overlaps with Lawhive on consumer legal AI and on targeting underserved legal needs, but operates in a different (consumer self-serve) GTM motion.
• Harvey: Generative AI platform built for elite law firms and in-house legal teams. Comparable on the AI-for-lawyers thesis and Lawrence-style domain-specialised legal AI, but targets enterprise law firms rather than consumers and SMBs.
• Spellbook: AI legal assistant for transactional lawyers that drafts and reviews contracts. Comparable on the lawyer-facing AI tool layer that powers Lawhive's Lawrence product, but focused on in-firm legal teams rather than consumer-facing marketplaces.
• Luminance: UK-founded AI legal tech company applying NLP to contract review and document analysis for enterprise legal teams. Comparable on the proprietary AI-for-law thesis and on UK legal AI pedigree, but addresses enterprise rather than consumer legal.

Broad incumbents

• Clio: Leading cloud-based legal practice management SaaS used by tens of thousands of law firms. Comparable on the lawyer-facing workflow tooling that Lawhive's platform.lawhive.co.uk extends, and a credible incumbent that could embed competing AI features.
• Avvo: Legal directory and attorney-matching service owned by Internet Brands. Historically comparable to Lawhive's marketplace/attorney-matching GTM, though operating as a broad incumbent directory rather than a fixed-fee delivery platform.
• Axiom: Alternative legal services provider offering flexible legal talent to in-house legal teams. Comparable as a regulated legal services business challenging traditional law firm delivery, though targeting enterprise rather than consumers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/lawhiveHQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/lawhive.co.uk
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/joinlawhive

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors11 records

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M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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