ANALYSIS: Legal Tech’s Gender Diversity Problem

The legal tech field is growing by selling solutions and challenging lawyers’ status quo. But there’s at least one longstanding problem the industry hasn’t solved: the lack of gender diversity in its ranks.

73 of the 769 companies tagged as “legal tech” in Crunchbase have a female founder. That’s 9.5%.

Of the top 50 companies ranked by funding and designated “legal tech” in Crunchbase, sixteen, or 32%, have a female on the executive management team as of Nov. 21. Seven of those with female management also have a female founder, so only 18% of these non-women-founded companies have appointed a ...