Bodhala Named Legal Technology “One to Watch” by Financial Times

An acknowledgment of Bodhala’s status as an industry leader driving change in the Legal Spend category for the Fortune 500.  

NEW YORK (November 19, 2018) – Bodhala, a groundbreaking legal technology platform created by lawyers to transform the half-a-trillion dollar global legal industry, has been recognized as a Financial Times ‘One to Watch’ in Legal Technology for 2019.  This was presented by the Financial Times and RSG Consulting at the 2018 FT/RSG Intelligent Business Forum. It honors Bodhala’s recent achievements and future opportunity in revolutionizing how companies analyze, interpret, and optimize legal spend using AI and machine learning. The award also recognizes the increasing number of companies who see Bodhala as the center of their entire legal technology stack.

Bodhala’s mission is to deliver groundbreaking legal solutions to empower teams to analyze, interpret and optimize outside counsel spend, trailblazing a new era of legal market intelligence with real transparency, real accountability, and real control. Its technology platform analyzes over $12 billion in invoices covering over 30 million billed line-items across 5,000 law firms. These analytics provide companies with a comprehensive understanding of market targets on rates, staffing, and billing precision for the client’s matters, so clients are not just price-takers of firm decisions.  Bodhala empowers its clients with the tools and insights necessary to take the ambiguity out of their legal spend decisions.

Bodhala’s CEO, Raj Goyle, attended the event and remarked: “It is a great honor for the entire Bodhala team. Being FT’s “One To Watch” is a recognition of our hard work developing an innovative platform that provides a comprehensive understanding of companies’ legal spend, enabling them to justify their costs with objective data.  With legal departments being asked to do more with less, Bodhala provides transparency around legal spend and empowers business leaders to make strategic decisions and justify those decisions with confidence.”

This recognition comes on the heels of rapid growth and successful company performance for Bodhala. After a seed round drawn from alumni of Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, the company is on track to grow over 3X this year and again next year.  Working with industry-leading companies across the Fortune 500, the platform has saved clients billions of dollars in three short years.

Bodhala is among good company for Legal Technologies One To Watch including IBM Watson Legal, LawGeex, DataNovo and Nivaura.  Organized by the Financial Times, the event was hosted at DocuSign headquarters in San Francisco on Wednesday, November 14, 2018. Speakers included senior representatives from AB InBev, Nestle, PayPal, Shell, VMware, GlaxoSmithKline, as well as Kira, Exigent, Apttus, KPMG and iManage.

About Financial Times

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About RSG Consulting

RSG Consulting is a research and strategy consultancy, founded in 2001. It specializes in working for professional service firms, with a special focus on ranking and assessing lawyers that dates back to the early 90s. RSG carries out commissioned and independent research on topics that include innovation, the development and future of the profession and emerging legal markets. It helps law firms and legal departments differentiate themselves, through innovation, brand or strategy projects.  For more information visit rsgconsulting.com