‘App Store’ for Big Law Hires Davis Polk Legal Tech Advocate

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Big Law-backed Reynen Court, which is creating a platform that acts like an “app store” for law firms, has announced new hires to its executive team.

In a press release, Reynen Court founder and CEO Andrew Klein noted that former Davis Polk & Wardwell attorney and NY Legal Tech Meetup founder Christian Lang will join the company as head of strategy, while Washington state-based lawyer Nancy Norton will become its general counsel.

The new hires join Clifford Chance CIO Paul Greenwood and Latham & Watkins CIO Kenneth Heaps, who serve as nonexecutives on Reynen Court’s board.

The announcement comes a month after Clifford Chance and Latham & Watkins announced they’d invested an undisclosed amount in the company in a Series A financing round.

At the time, Reynen Court said it was aiming to use the new funds to double its head count to 40 employees in 2019. In October, Clifford Chance, Latham & Watkins and 10 other Big Law and Magic Circle firms joined a consortium investing in the legal tech startup.

Ultimately, Reynen Court is focused on helping those consortium law firms find tech-based solutions for their needs while taking advantage of cloud computing, Lang explained. For his part, Lang said he’ll find what the consortium firms’ needs are and pair them with legal tech vendors, acting as a “matchmaker” of sorts.

He added that technology that allows lawyers to focus on meaningful matters that actually require their legal education and expertise should lead to cheaper, better and quicker access to legal services.

“I think the top firms that are in our consortium that have the resources to do this right … once they do these things, there will be a lot of implications for other firms in the market to have better access to legal,” Lang said.

“I think we are on the cusp of what could be a golden age of legal technology that can really improve lawyering and legal advice,” he added.