Callidus Legal AI just raised $10M in Series A, but this isn’t just a funding round, it’s a signal flare over the old-school legal skyline. Somewhere between depositions and redlines, the team at Callidus Legal AI decided to stop waiting for change and start engineering it. And let’s be clear: this isn’t a startup pretending to know law, this is law insiders rebuilding the system from the neural net up.
Led by CEO and co-founder Justin McCallon, a restructuring and M&A attorney who modernized legal ops at AT&T and DIRECTV, Callidus Legal AI is building litigation’s first real AI copilot. Not a gimmick. Not a chatbot. A real-time, reasoning machine designed to do what lawyers actually need: research with context, drafting with precision, and document review that doesn’t sleep. CTO and co-founder John Bohlmann brings the technical artillery, an AI engineer with a resume built on high-performance software systems. And co-founder Laura Seamon, former General Counsel, is the legal system inside operator, reverse-engineering the inefficiencies from a boardroom vantage point.
Cervin Ventures led this round, with deep support from AI Fund (Andrew Ng), Myriad Venture Partners (Chris Fisher), Tandem Ventures, Active Capital, Capital Factory, and Foley & Lardner via Foley Ventures. And when a consortium of partners from a top-25 U.S. law firm gets behind your vision, you’re not just building product, you’re shifting the ground under the courthouse.
Here’s what $10M in rocket fuel looks like when pointed at a $1T global legal market. Callidus Legal AI tripled recurring revenue in just six months. Over 1,000 lawyers already use it. Litigation workflows that used to take a week now wrap in 10 minutes. Their proprietary database holds over 10 million U.S. legal cases, each enriched with metadata and context. Layer that with an interactive, agentic AI engine and Microsoft Word integration, and suddenly you’re not just in the loop, you’re running it.
This isn’t automation for automation’s sake. It’s intelligence that adapts, reasons, and delivers outputs lawyers can trust. The system doesn’t hallucinate law school answers, it delivers precision, citations, and drafts ready to face opposing counsel. And with U.S. coverage across federal and all 50 states, the legal tech map just got redrawn.
Now they’re scaling up, tripling headcount across California and Texas, deepening their U.S. footprint, and gearing up for international pilots by end of year. Next up: advanced filing workflows and dashboards that show matter-level intelligence like a Bloomberg Terminal for litigation.
