Article: A 30-year-old lawyer quit Big Law. Days later, she had a term sheet to raise $2.5 million for an AI law firm.

December 2 2025

Logan Brown, a corporate lawyer, left Cooley to launch Soxton, an AI law firm for startups.
Soxton raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding and has served over 270 early-stage companies.
Soxton offers affordable legal services, targeting founders who might otherwise use ChatGPT.

Logan Brown, a 30-year-old corporate lawyer, began the year billing hours at the global law firm Cooley. Now she’s building a tech-first law firm that meets the routine needs of startups, without the Big Law price tag.

Soxton, Brown’s new venture, has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding, Business Insider has learned exclusively.

“I didn’t have a deck. I didn’t have a team,” Brown said.

Instead, she told investors, “I am building the solution for founders. That is not the billable hour.”

Cooley hired Brown straight out of Harvard Law School. She spent about two and a half years working with emerging companies and helping open the firm’s Miami office. In May, she took a risk and left a secure Big Law job to launch her own startup.

Two weeks after her last day, she flew to New York City and dropped in on an event hosted by a fund she had pitched.

There, she met Katie Jacobs Stanton, a venture capitalist who founded Moxxie Ventures and who has held executive roles at Twitter, Google, and Yahoo. Brown gave her the quick version of Soxton on the spot. Moxxie Ventures sent over a term sheet within a week.

“I’ve never moved so fast to invest,” Jacobs Stanton told Business Insider.

Moxxie led the round, with participation from Coalition, Strobe Ventures, Flex, Park Rangers Capital, and Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake.

Unlike the legal software vendor Harvey, Soxton doesn’t sell software to law firms. It offers legal services directly to startups. Brown said the company helps founders tick the boxes at the top of their checklists: incorporation, fundraising, equity issuance, and compliance checks.

Brown said Soxton does not replace a law firm when it comes to nuanced legal work. What it can replace, she says, is the shaky legal advice founders might pull from ChatGPT or another chatbot.

For $20 a month, clients can grab a contract template from Soxton’s library and tweak the language. Most clients request a custom contract reviewed by an attorney, Brown said, with Soxton turning it around in four hours for $100.

While Soxton has been operating in stealth, with only a waitlist on its website, Brown said more than 270 companies — mostly pre-seed startups — have used it so far. Many clients are founders who wouldn’t hire a lawyer so early and would otherwise turn to ChatGPT to ask questions.

https://www.businessinsider.com/soxton-ai-native-law-firm-legal-tech-logan-brown-2025-12