CEOTéo Doremus
Berkeley Law grad and former high-stakes litigator with $350M+ in settlements. Translates the complex needs of modern litigators into Advocacy’s product strategy.
Company
Built by litigators.
For litigators.
After years in high-stakes antitrust and securities litigation, our founding team saw the same problem repeatedly — and built the tool they couldn’t find.
Experience30+
Years of combined high-stakes litigation experience across the founding team.
Verdicts & Settlements$350M+
In case verdicts and settlements across the founders’ litigation careers.
Seed Round$3.5M
Seed round led by Relentless, with participation from Relativity and Fenwick & West.
Mission
To ensure that litigation outcomes are determined by legal skill — not by who had the bandwidth to find the right document.
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Art. I — Our Story
The intelligence
lived in their heads.
After years in high-stakes antitrust and securities work, our founders kept running into the same wall. The intelligence they built around a case — every ruling, every deposition contradiction, every strategic insight — lived in their heads.
When associates rotated, it walked out the door. When they tried AI tools to help, the tools didn’t know the case. They started over every time. The outputs looked plausible but couldn’t be trusted for work that goes in front of a judge.
So they built Advocacy. Not to replace attorney judgment — but to make sure that judgment is always working from the full picture. A workspace where case memory compounds, where every document and ruling and deposition becomes reusable intelligence, and where an entire team can work from the same shared understanding of the matter.
The goal isn’t to automate litigation. It’s to make sure the outcome is determined by legal skill — not by who had the bandwidth to find the right document.
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Art. II — Leadership
LeadershipThe team
The team
behind Advocacy.
Litigation credibility first. Engineering pedigree from Meta, Dropbox, and PayPal.
CTOQuincy Babin
Former lead engineer at Meta and Dropbox. Builds the secure, scalable infrastructure behind Advocacy’s document intelligence and litigation workflows.
COOIsabella De Lisi
Former antitrust litigator at Scott+Scott. Manages operations, team scaling, and client implementation for seamless adoption across litigation practice.
Head of GrowthJim Watson
Legal technology sales veteran with deep eDiscovery and litigation support expertise. Leads client partnerships and ensures measurable value for litigation teams.
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Art. III — What We Believe
Principles that
shape the platform.
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Context determines outcomes.
Litigation is a contest over context. Facts are data points. Context is how the judge interprets the record. Everything we build starts from this belief.
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Trust is non-negotiable.
When work goes in front of a judge, accuracy isn’t a nice-to-have. We built Advocacy so that every AI output can be traced to a specific document in the record.
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Augment, never replace.
Advocacy augments attorney judgment. It does not replace it. The platform exists to make sure legal skill determines the outcome — not bandwidth.
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Art. IV — Backed By
Investors and partners who
understand litigation.
Our backers include legal technology leaders, AmLaw 100 firms, and prominent legal scholars from T14 law schools.
Investor 01
Relentless
Lead investor — the seed round was led by Relentless, who back category-defining technology businesses.
Investor 02
RelativityRel Labs
Inaugural cohort of Rel Labs, the early-stage program from the leader in legal data intelligence.
Investor 03
Fenwick & West
Strategic investor and counsel. Brings deep technology-sector legal expertise to the cap table.
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