This news was published by Law.com International.
The elite Spanish firm ECIJA has acquired Revamp Law, a boutique legal tech consulting firm, furthering an aggressive multiyear expansion and bolstering the firm’s profile in technology services and cybersecurity in Spain and Latin America.
Paul Handal, the founding partner of Revamp Law, joins ECIJA as a partner and will lead the firm’s expanded legal tech division, according to ECIJA.
Founded in 2020, Revamp Law specializes in the implementation of legal technology in Spain and Latin America. Its offering includes tech-based solutions for law-firm internal management, as well as advice and development of technology to help manage cases, such as analysis of contracts and legal documents through artificial intelligence.
In announcing the deal, Alejandro Touriño, managing partner of ECIJA, noted that in recent years law firms have been forced to be increasingly efficient, a situation accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Companies are demanding that their legal firms do more with less,” Touriño said in a statement. “In this scenario, there is a clear need for corporate law firms to digitize and implement technological tools, from blockchain to machine learning or big data, to improve their internal processes in favor of efficiency.”
Handal, a legal technology specialist, practiced for more than 15 years as a corporate lawyer before co-founding Revamp Law. He also worked as an artificial intelligence product manager at Udacity, an online education company based in the United States, according to his LinkedIn profile. He teaches legal tech at IE Law School in Valencia, Spain.
“We are seeing firms investing more aggressively in legal technology,” Handal said in a statement. “However, we see that they need to be able to invest more effectively according to their needs. At ECIJA Tech we are responding to that problem, consolidating ourselves as a one-stop legal tech shop.”
The addition of Revamp Law brings ECIJA to almost 700 professionals and 140 partners globally, of which 86 are in Latin America and 54 in Spain. The firm has been expanding aggressively over the past three years, especially in Latin America, where it has added offices and recruited partners and teams from Big Law rivals.
