LiveNote

What LiveNote does

LiveNote is a private legal technology company founded in 1994 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, operating in the legal evidence management software and services market. Per its firmographic profile, the company maintains a lean organization of 1-10 employees and has self-positioned as the legal industry's benchmark for evidence management software and services, providing tools used by law firms and legal professionals to manage, present, and process evidence in litigation workflows. The company's primary web presence is at livenote.com, and its narrow specialization targets a defined niche within the broader legal technology stack rather than competing broadly across legal practice software.

In 2005, LiveNote expanded its evidence management capabilities by acquiring RealLegal, broadening its technology base into court reporting and litigation support. The company subsequently raised $3.8 million in growth capital from Partners for Growth in January 2016. The business model is software-based with a sales-led, direct engagement approach typical of niche legal SaaS providers serving professional users. No revenue, customer, or pricing disclosures specific to LiveNote are available in the provided data.

The legal evidence management space in which LiveNote operates is undergoing AI-driven disruption from larger incumbents such as Thomson Reuters, whose Westlaw, CoCounsel, Practical Law, CLEAR, and ONESOURCE platforms have introduced agentic AI, generative AI, and integrated research-drafting-audit workflows to legal professionals. As a 31-year specialist with a sub-10-person team, LiveNote's competitive position hinges on domain depth and long-tenured client relationships rather than scale or AI feature parity.

Name

LiveNote

Legal name

Thomson Reuters

Website

https://livenote.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

LiveNote is a private San Francisco-based legal evidence management software company founded in 1994, serving law firms and legal professionals with benchmark tools for litigation evidence presentation and case preparation. The company operates with 1-10 employees and acquired RealLegal in 2005.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Evidence Management Software

NAICS

Other Legal Services (54119)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

eDiscovery, Litigation Support & Legal Hold (BPAEAPAE)

Keywords

• Legal evidence management
• Court presentation software
• Litigation support tools
• Trial evidence software
• Legal document presentation

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Legal Software Subscriptions: Subscription-based access to legal research platforms including Westlaw, Westlaw Edge, Westlaw Advantage, Practical Law, and CoCounsel Legal. Revenue generated through recurring subscription fees with tiered pricing based on user count and feature access.
2. Tax & Accounting Software: Subscription revenue from tax workflow solutions including ONESOURCE products, CoCounsel Tax, CoCounsel Audit, SafeSend, Guided Assurance, and related tax compliance software.
3. Risk & Fraud Investigation Solutions: Revenue from CLEAR platform products including CLEAR Investigate, CLEAR Adverse Media, CLEAR ID Confirm, and Fraud Detect solutions for compliance and investigative use.
4. Legal & Tax Books: Physical and digital book sales including legal publications, Black's Law Dictionary, ProView e-books, Tax Quickfinder, and audit & accounting titles.
5. Professional Services & Training: Revenue from professional services, product training, ONESOURCE University, and tax/audit professional services for implementation and utilization.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

LiveNote develops and delivers evidence management software and services for the legal industry, providing digital tools that enable attorneys and legal professionals to organize, annotate, and present evidence in courtroom and litigation settings. The platform supports the full evidence-handling workflow from intake to in-trial presentation.

Product overview

Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive platform-plus-modules architecture spanning legal solutions, tax and accounting, global trade and supply chain, and risk and fraud investigations. The core offerings include CoCounsel Legal (AI legal assistant), Westlaw/Westlaw Advantage/Westlaw Edge (legal research platforms), Practical Law (legal guidance resources), and the ONESOURCE tax suite. AI capabilities are embedded across products including CoCounsel Audit, CoCounsel Tax, HighQ, Legal Tracker, CLEAR suite, and Fraud Detect. The platform serves law firms, corporations, government agencies, and tax professionals with solutions for research, drafting, compliance, investigations, and matter management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CoCounsel Legal: AI legal solution for research, analysis, and drafting
• Westlaw
• Westlaw Edge
• Westlaw Advantage
• Practical Law
• HighQ
• Legal Tracker
• CLEAR
• ONESOURCE
• CoCounsel Tax
• CoCounsel Audit

Products and services

• LiveNote Evidence Management Software Legal evidence management software platform enabling lawyers, paralegals, and courtroom personnel to organize, annotate, and digitally present evidence in litigation and courtroom settings. Built for law firms, corporate legal departments, prosecutors, public defenders, and other legal professionals handling trials and depositions.

Quantifiable outcome

• 5x ROI achieved with CoCounsel and Westlaw AI for Justly Prudent civil rights litigation firm
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability11 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• OraclecoreTechnology or IntegrationThomson Reuters offers an end-to-end compliance platform for Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP users, consolidating tax and trade compliance into one platform that reduces complexity while scaling operations.
• Partnership ProgramcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFormal partner program allowing partners to become resellers, find implementation support, and join the Thomson Reuters partner ecosystem for extended distribution and customer reach.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Thomson Reuters: Public legal-tech incumbent whose legal solutions portfolio (Westlaw, CoCounsel, HighQ, Practical Law) increasingly bundles evidence management, matter management, and AI capabilities. Highly relevant as a direct competitor and as the most likely strategic acquirer of a niche asset like LiveNote.
• LexisNexis (RELX): Major legal-research and practice-management vendor that competes with LiveNote in the broader legal workflow stack. Comparable as a large, diversified incumbent with the capital to consolidate specialized legal evidence tools.
• Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory: Large legal and regulatory information and software vendor with practice-management and workflow tools. Relevant as a diversified incumbent that competes for legal-tech spend and could acquire a niche evidence vendor like LiveNote.

Direct peers

• Relativity: eDiscovery and legal-data analytics platform that overlaps with LiveNote's evidence-management footprint. Relativity is the closest direct competitor in the eDiscovery and litigation-support category.
• DISCO: AI-driven eDiscovery and legal technology platform. Direct competitor to LiveNote in cloud-based evidence and document management for litigation teams.
• Everlaw: Cloud-native legal platform spanning litigation, investigations, and evidence review. Direct peer in the legal evidence/document workflow category, with comparable law-firm and government customer base.
• Logikcull: Self-service eDiscovery and evidence review platform targeting similar mid-market and small-firm customers. Direct peer in the legal evidence-review category.
• Nextpoint: Cloud-based eDiscovery and trial-preparation platform with a similar law-firm and litigation focus. Direct peer in evidence handling, cloud review, and trial-readiness tooling.
• Exterro: Legal GRC and eDiscovery software suite serving corporations and law firms. Comparable in legal evidence and document review, with a broader governance and compliance footprint.
• IPRO Tech: Long-standing eDiscovery and litigation support software vendor. Direct peer in the legal evidence management and review space, with overlap in law-firm and corporate customer base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/thomsonreuters
• YouTubeyoutube.com/thomsonreuters
• Facebookfacebook.com/thomsonreuters
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/thomson-reuters
• Instagraminstagram.com/thomsonreuters

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

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

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