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American startup Bench IQ has developed an artificial intelligence tool designed to predict how judges think and rule, Business Insider reports.
The company recently raised $5.3 million in a seed round led by Battery Ventures and Canadian fund Inovia. Among its backers are also legal tech firms Cooley, Fenwick & West, and Wilson Sonsini.
Bench IQ was founded by Jimo Ovbiagele, Jeffrey Gettleman, and Maxim Isakov. Gettleman spent 17 years as an attorney at Kirkland & Ellis, one of the largest U.S. law firms.
The system relies on a proprietary dataset and large language models to forecast judicial decisions. It analyzes federal court transcripts, though the company does not disclose all its data sources. Attorneys can ask simple questions like: “How has this judge handled emergency motions in the past?” and receive a detailed report within minutes.
Four of the five largest U.S. law firms, according to the Am Law 200, are already among Bench IQ’s clients. Competitors such as LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters offer judicial analytics tools as well, but Ovbiagele argues those services merely provide statistics, while Bench IQ aims to explain the reasoning behind rulings.
Currently, Bench IQ focuses on federal courts, but with its new funding the company plans to expand coverage to state courts and hire more engineers.
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