If you’ve ever tried reading through 3,000 pages of medical records to build a personal injury case, you already know, it’s not lawyering, it’s legal masochism. Now imagine doing that 700 times over. Josh Schmerling didn’t imagine it. He lived it. While most firms would’ve hired more paralegals or added another zero to their burnout rate, he and his brother Jeremy Schmerling did something smarter: they built LawPro.ai.
This isn’t another AI startup wrapped in VC jargon. LawPro.ai is an industrial-strength legal intelligence engine, born from real courtroom grit and field-tested inside a firm that scaled from 15 cases to 700 without losing its mind, or its margins. Founded in 2023, the company has been quietly weaponizing artificial intelligence for personal injury firms who are done wasting time on tasks that don’t move cases forward or cash in the door.
And the market’s paying attention. LawPro.ai just closed a fresh Seed round led by Scopus Ventures, with continued backing from The Legal Tech Fund. Bahram Nour-Omid and Zach Posner aren’t just cutting checks, they’re betting on a team that’s reshaping the economics of legal work. This is about speed, accuracy, and the art of not missing a single detail when the stakes are high and the records run long.
LawPro.ai’s tech reads like it was trained by a litigator and raised by a software engineer. Its proprietary AI delivers 98% accuracy parsing medical records, shaving 50+ hours off every case. Firms using it are seeing 30% jumps in case value and 20% increases in volume, without hiring anyone new. And it doesn’t stop there. The new Case Assistant lets lawyers ask complex, clinical questions in plain English, and get instant, source-cited answers. It’s not just AI. It’s legal intuition, automated.
CEO Jeremy Schmerling’s background in high-stakes enterprise sales (Salesforce top 2%, Tableau, Branch, Gartner) brought the kind of go-to-market clarity most startups only dream about. Combine that with Josh Schmerling’s 15 years of courtroom experience and strategic foresight, and you’ve got a founding team that’s not guessing at the problem, they’ve already lived it.
This new funding will fuel growth on all fronts, product, engineering, sales. The hallucination prevention tech they’ve patented? That’s not a gimmick. It’s what happens when you build AI for a profession where being “close enough” doesn’t cut it.
LawPro.ai isn’t disrupting legal tech. It’s building the infrastructure injury law firms actually need. For the firms still doing record review like it’s 1998, LawPro.ai isn’t an option. It’s oxygen.
