Built by litigators, for litigators.
Founded in Little Rock, Arkansas. Tested on real cases. Backed by 25 years of courtroom experience.
Our Story
Legati AI was founded in Little Rock, Arkansas by Joshua Gonzales — a litigation paralegal turned technical founder who spent years buried in the exact problem Legati solves. After reviewing tens of thousands of documents by hand across dozens of cases, Josh built the tool he wished existed: one that reads every page, organizes it, and lets you ask questions with real Bates-cited answers.
Legati partners with construction and complex commercial litigators with over 25 years of courtroom experience. Together, we’re building legal technology that actually works in the real world, tested on real cases, by real attorneys.
The team behind Legati.
Joshua Gonzales
Co-Founder & CEO
Josh is the technical founder of Legati AI. A former litigation paralegal, he experienced firsthand the pain of manually reviewing thousands of documents across complex cases. That experience drove him to build Legati — an AI platform that reads every page, generates narrative summaries, assigns Bates numbers, and lets attorneys search their entire case with natural language.
Joel Hoover
Co-Founder
Joel is a construction and commercial litigation attorney with over 20 years of courtroom experience. At Legati, he advises on how the platform should work for real litigators. Legati was tested and refined on his actual cases.
- Super Lawyers Mid-South (2014–2017)
- Former Adjunct Professor at UA Little Rock
- $11.6M False Claims Act settlement
J. Richard Newland, Jr.
Co-Founder
Richard is an attorney and CPA with over 25 years of experience in construction law. At Legati, he advises on how the platform fits into real litigation workflows and ensures the AI is practical for attorneys.
- Attorney & CPA dual-licensed
- Past Chairman AR Bar Construction Law Section
- Captain US Army
Elizabeth Caldwell
Co-Founder
Elizabeth is a business transactions attorney focused on the construction industry. At Legati, she advises on how the platform serves attorneys beyond litigation, ensuring the AI is useful across practice areas.
Real cases. Real attorneys. Real courtroom experience.
Legati AI partners with construction and complex commercial litigators with over 25 years of courtroom experience. Our attorneys’ real-world caseloads shaped how the product works, from the document indexing workflow to the Deep Search feature.
Every feature in Legati has been tested on real cases with real attorneys. Not a lab experiment. A working tool forged in actual litigation.
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