Case Law Search Is Basic, Customized Workflow Construction... Evolving AI Legal Services [Choi Seokjin's Law & Biz]

Surging Revenue Growth for Korean Legaltech Companies

AI-based legal services developed by domestic legal tech companies are experiencing significant growth, driving a structural transformation across the entire legal market. The majority of practicing attorneys in Korea are already using these AI products for tasks such as case law research and drafting documents, and there is a growing trend among law firms to implement proprietary, law-specialized AI systems.

Comprehensive legal tech startup Law&Company is leading the market by operating commercial AI services such as 'Superlawyer' for legal professionals like attorneys and law school students, and 'Bigcase,' an AI-powered integrated legal information platform. Notably, Superlawyer has secured exclusive contracts to supply legal content from Pakyoungsa and Bubmunsa—Korea’s two major legal book publishers—achieving an overwhelming advantage in legal data and delivering high performance through its advanced data utilization technology. The total number of attorneys subscribed to services including Superlawyer accounts for approximately 82% of all practicing lawyers in Korea, with annual recurring revenue for all services amounting to 24.5 billion won.

Elbox operates the AI-powered legal OS 'Elbox', a publishing brand 'Elbox Scala' responsible for legal content such as commentaries and practical handbooks, and 'Elfind', which supports legal case content and attorney search through AI self-diagnosis. As of June, Elbox had 220,000 registered members, with over 1,700 organizations—including the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, Kim & Chang, and Samsung Electronics—actively using its services. Elfind possesses more than 2,500 attorney profiles and data on over 300,000 cases matched with responsible lawyers. Its annual recurring revenue from software-as-a-service subscriptions alone stands at 14.6 billion won.

BHSN, a legal AI company specializing in automating corporate contract and legal work, operates the contract AI platform 'allibee'. The platform supports the entire scope of corporate legal tasks with AI—from reviewing, drafting, and managing contracts to legal information searches and compliance with internal regulations. BHSN has accumulated workflow-building expertise optimized for corporate legal affairs through large-scale legal AI projects with major enterprises and large law firms such as CJ CheilJedang, Hanwha Solutions, AK Chemicals, and Yulchon LLC. The annual recurring revenue for the allibee enterprise business—whose primary clients are large corporations and major law firms—has increased nearly threefold compared to the previous year.

Amicus Lex operates Lawform, a legal AX (AI transformation) platform leading the way in AI transition for corporate legal work. Lawform consists of Lawform Business and Lawform Plan, managing the entire legal management process—ranging from contract drafting, risk analysis, e-signature, contract execution, and litigation management, to legal advisory and finance integration—in a single streamlined workflow. Recently, the company has delivered specialized legal AI agents to clients such as HSAD and Samsung Card, and currently enjoys the trust of 200,000 customers.

A2D2, a legal AI startup automating attorneys’ evidence analysis and document drafting, operates the evidence analysis AI 'IREX'. Leveraging AI to analyze tens of thousands of pages of evidence material and support the preparation of legal briefs, this service converts scanned paper evidence into digital data through optical character recognition (OCR), transforms case financial data, generates case timelines, visualizes personal relationships, assesses evidence strength or weakness, and uncovers inconsistencies in statements to provide attorneys with actionable case insights. Approximately 1,600 users in around 500 law firms and corporate legal departments currently rely on the service, which has analyzed more than 1 million pages of evidence so far.

Modusign, which holds over 70% market share in the cloud-based e-signature sector, offers services such as Modusign e-signature (e-contracts), Cabinet (AI contract management), and Review (AI contract review). The company is expanding beyond contract execution toward an AI-powered contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform. As of July 1, Modusign had 380,000 corporate and institutional members and 11 million users, with its platform being used for over 55 million signatures and documents.

Nefla, an AI legal workflow platform company, operates the 'Nefla Legal Wiki' content platform, which provides free search access to over 20,000 practical wikis written by certified legal professionals—including lawyers, judges, prosecutors, law professors, and legal scholars—as well as to roughly 3.47 million court cases and more than 160,000 statutes. Nefla also provides a content factory service, where AI automatically converts attorneys’ documents, court decisions, and existing blog posts into professional marketing content, and a subscription service that reorganizes law firm content into legal wiki content optimized for the AI search era. By the end of this month, Nefla plans to officially launch the case management AI 'Legal Docs Wise Pro', which automatically analyzes case records without prompt input, structures key issues, evidence, and precedents, and generates drafts of litigation documents such as complaints, answers, briefs, and content-certified letters.

AILingo offers a high-performance AI translation platform based on proprietary technology specialized for the legal and patent fields. Its flagship service, Otran, utilizes Legal OCR technology that allows AI to automatically recognize, refine, and translate scanned PDFs. AI solutions have already been implemented and supplied to Korea’s leading law firms—such as Yulchon LLC, Sejong, HwaWoo, Lee & Ko, and Samsung SDS, SK Group—and to over 30 major corporations and public institutions.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.