Mark Doble

CEO at Alexi

[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

It’s now been widely reported that @alexi_legal_ai was recently sued by Fastcase/vLex/Clio in US Federal Court.

Their filings contain significant mischaracterizations and factual inaccuracies about Alexi, leading to a lot of confusion in the market.

For the sake of all Alexi stakeholders – especially our incredible team and customers – I need to make it abundantly clear what actually happened and why we're in this situation.

Right from the start of Alexi, our goal was to fully automate the production of research memos: concise, accurate answers to legal questions in a narrative-style format. We were building generative AI at the very beginning of this current Gen AI wave. Anyone that knows anything about us knows this.

In 2021, we entered into a data licensing agreement with Fastcase to get bulk access to a caselaw database that would power our product. The purpose of the license agreement, as stated right on the agreement, was for “Alexsei legal memos” (now Alexi).

Critically, the license also provided an option to purchase the entire backfile of caselaw data, which would remove all restrictions on use. This was an important part of the license that protected the significant engineering effort to build with this data.

By summer '23, we had fully automated the production of research memos with market-leading quality. A huge accomplishment for our team and for which I was awarded a “Fastcase 50” award.

For four years preceding Nov '25, we heard no concerns with our use of the Fastcase data. And while technologies improved, and processes became more and more automated, there has been no meaningful change in our use of the caselaw data: question, retrieval, verification, synthesis, summarization, answer generation.

The folks at Fastcase and vLex had always been fantastic to do business with. Very responsive, helpful, and in my opinion an overall net positive for the industry.

But then Clio bought vLex for $1B, and in diligence they discovered our license agreement and the option to purchase the backfile.

They first tried to get us to remove the purchase option for nothing, but when that failed it was quickly followed up by a demand letter alleging a material breach, then the lawsuit. All in very quick succession.

The thrust of their claim is that we have no right to any commercial uses whatsoever. A very confusing position, one predicated on a tortured reading of the agreement and contradicted by the course of conduct of the parties.

So, here we are. In a position where we have to defend ourselves and fight back. If I thought there was an ounce of wrongdoing on our part, we’d take our medicine and move on quickly. But we have to fight. We have to defend what we know to be true.

We believe an open and competitive legal tech industry is critical to the betterment of law firms and legal services, and we will do everything we can to continue to fight for fair competition. If you’re interested in reviewing our counterclaims, they start at p. 21.

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[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

"𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡." — Oscar Wilde, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑦

Interestingly, a 2010 study out of Stanford (Berger, Sorensen, and Rasmussen) found that for established brands, bad press can have a negative impact on sales by up to 15%.

BUT, for relatively unknown brands, bad press can increase sales by 45%!

[Alexi @alexi_legal_ai]

Legal work is team work.

Alexi now lets multiple lawyers work in one space: shared docs and saved AI outputs across the matter, private chats for individuals.

E.g. One lawyer saves a research memo. Others on the team can build on it instantly.

It’s not just smoother collaboration. It’s how firms gain an edge in the AI era.

#LegalTech #legalinnovation #legalai #privatecloud

[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

AI is fundamentally changing the internet.

In ways that demand dedicated, single tenant, private deployments.

Incumbents built on traditional SaaS cloud architectures will vigorously oppose this inevitable shift because the engineering lift for large legacy code bases is monumental.

Today it’s contrarian. But soon conventional.

[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

I'm excited to announce the launch of @alexi_legal_ai's Private Cloud, a true AI platform trusted by more and more of the world’s top law firms and global legal teams.

Increasingly, law firms are investing in their own AI stack: workflows, datasets, evals, models, and more.

This trend will kill the multi-tenant SaaS model for top law firms.

[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

@Clevy_Law Now they can simply email [email protected] and ask it to summarize the thread and put into a memo and cc all members of their team!! Try it!

[Alexi @alexi_legal_ai]

AI is revolutionizing the legal industry, but how are top firms reacting?

Our comprehensive report breaks down the full story, from the excitement over AI’s potential to the hurdles that still need to be overcome.

Download the report and see what the industry’s biggest players are saying.

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#GenAI #aistats #legaltech #LegalAI #litigation

[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

@adamfodonnell @Zendesk Thanks @adamfodonnell ! Was a fun conversation.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Tariffs are here- avoidable or not. Now, Canada will rise to the occasion. Let's make the most of this moment, fix our internal markets, export resources but also make products with them, streamline everything, and build technology. Everyone wants a strong Canada.

[Alexi @alexi_legal_ai]

It’s no secret that AI is making waves in the legal industry, changing how legal work gets done. From research to strategy, the industry is shifting—fast.

Our CEO, @mkrdoble , breaks down what you need to know about how AI is transforming Toronto’s legal landscape in his article published by GLORY Media.

Read the full article here: https://t.co/KPJsBDThD6

#litigation #ai #AITools #legaltech #law #legalresearch

[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

Weekly product usage at @alexi_legal_ai grew by 22X in 2024… 💪

Up from 5x growth in 2023.

But 2025 will again be way bigger…

We added more customers last week than our biggest month in all of 2024 🔥🔥🔥

[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

Last week @alexi_legal_ai we announced ALR – the most advanced AI system for litigation that exhibits true legal reasoning capabilities for the first time.

And since, hundreds of law firms have signed up or booked a demo.

Now, we’re announcing Alexi Containers. Fully private, self-hosted, and customizable instances of Alexi for large law firms to run entirely within their own cloud ecosystem.

This is a significant milestone for large firms needing to securely and confidently leverage the best AIs for their custom legal workflows, without the burden of building and maintaining increasingly complex systems. 

Given the demand we’re seeing, Alexi Containers is clearly the approach of the future for deploying industry-grade and battle-tested AI systems at scale for the largest law firms in the world.

And Alexi is committed to leading the charge in this domain.

If you’re interested in exploring @alexi_legal_ai for your firm, email https://t.co/ZRxnctapRY

[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

@lawdroid @alexi_legal_ai Thanks Tom!

[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

This is huge. @alexi_legal_ai's biggest, most meaningful launch ever.

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Advanced Legal Reasoning (ALR), a product that truly exhibits legal reasoning capabilities for the first time ever.

This is a significant milestone not just for Alexi, but for the entire legal technology landscape.

[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

@Steven_Lerner Thank you @Steven_Lerner !

[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

@Chris_Bentley Thank you @Chris_Bentley !

[Alexi @alexi_legal_ai]

THIS. IS. BIG.

We’re proud to introduce Advanced Legal Reasoning (ALR)—a revolutionary product set to transform the legal industry by bringing true legal reasoning to litigators for the very first time.

Now with ALR, litigators can rapidly understand the critical elements of their case: the issues, the facts, and the complex interplay of all the relevant details. And so much more.

Be among the first to experience this groundbreaking innovation. Sign up today: https://t.co/ps7awrcn21

#legaltech #litigation #AITools

[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

@NickJRishwain @alexi_legal_ai Thanks Nick!

[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

@scottastevenson @alexi_legal_ai Thanks Scott! No doubt took some inspiration from @SpellbookLegal's fantastic product launch videos.

[Mark Doble @mkrdoble]

@NickJRishwain @alexi_legal_ai Beyond what's in the video above, for now no. But lots coming over the next few weeks.