As technology unleashes its whip and hits hard the innovation benchmarks for the legal industry, Lex Witness brings into the limelight one of the major path-breaking entrepreneurial showcases that have whispered several vows in the industry recently. Watch out for Provakil if you have not as yet. Here’s a brief write up on them and their clapping achievements so far.
Provakil brings the latest in data sciences and management to build a data-driven enterprise that can address different legal industry and justice system use-cases through separate apps, beginning with its highly rated case and practice management for lawyers. The legal sector faces a data problem. The primary data – laws, regulations, cases, court data and forms – is scattered across different places and structured in different ways. This creates a huge problem when one is seeking to use this data in any structured manner. As a result, the systems of law and justice do not function with efficiency, transparency, accountability, and intelligence as they could.
Provakil uses data sciences and technology to address different use-cases through separate apps. Its founders have dealt with challenges in other sectors, notably health, where data needs to be dependably aggregated from different sources, reconciled, and then directed to specific user needs. While they are currently creating solutions focused on practicing lawyers, law firms, and legal departments, they have also executed projects to demonstrate how court data can be utilized to make courts more efficient.
Their significant innovation is in focusing on the data core itself, i.e., the processes and structures to source and manage data in such a way that it is highly usable in different situations. This is noticeably different from players who are focusing on specific solutions, but not building an underlying data architecture that is robust and versatile enough to create integrated solutions that address multiple needs.
In a world of specialists, Provakil understands that data is a specialisation by itself. Provakil can bring a data-driven culture to the legal industry and justice system. While cases have been accessible online for a while, e-court access is now available and listing data is more recently available, bringing the full gamut of data that enhances every aspect of access, practice, and adjudication.
Founded in 2015 by Akshat, a graduate from Symbiosis Law School worked extensively in the Supreme Court under the State Council for Rajasthan.
Pulkit, a graduate from IIT Kharagpur comes in with an extensive technology experience with Sabre and was a part of the founding team of Innovacer – a $250 million valued technology start up from India.
Shashwat, a graduate from IIT Kharagpur was an early employee at OYO and led business development in international geographies. Prior to that he worked with HSBC Bank’s North America Business.
The World Justice Project® (WJP) is an independent, multidisciplinary organization working to advance the rule of law worldwide. Traditionally, the rule of law has been viewed as the domain of lawyers and judges. But everyday issues of safety, rights, justice, and governance affect us all; everyone is a stakeholder in the rule of law. Based on this, WJP’s mutually reinforcing lines of business employ a multi-disciplinary approach through original research and data, an active and global network, and practical, locally-led programs to advance the rule of law worldwide. Provakil was amongst the 30 organizations selected from across the world to participate in the World Justice Challenge 2019 in The Hague in the Netherlands as a recognition of their work in simplifying access to legal data in India.
The Agami Prize is a biennial national prize be awarded to innovations and entrepreneurial initiatives that can exponentially increase quality, effectiveness, access, and inclusion in and around law and justice. Provakil was awarded the first prize among 180+ start-ups evaluated in the industry category in India in the inaugural edition held in Dec 2018. The jury consisted of eminent personalities – Hon’ble Justice Srikrishna – an Indian jurist and a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India, Maja Daruwala – Senior Advisor – and until October 2016 was the 20 year Executive Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), Ritwick Dutta – an Environmental Lawyer & Managing Trustee, Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment, Shalini Prakash – Venture Partner of 500 Startups in India and Pramod Rao, Group General Counsel of ICICI Bank.
Legal needs a new generation of technology tools to improve decision making. Starting with data automation from courts, Provakil’s application parses data from over 7500 courts across the country to make it simple for lawyers to keep track of their cases. It further does workflow automation for Enterprises across different legal processes in litigation, intellectual property, contracts, and compliance. Provakil is trusted by over 5000 lawyers, 150 law firms and 100 corporates. Some of the largest companies and law firms in India including ICICI Bank, Mankind Pharma, P&G, Bajaj Allianz, Edelweiss, Delhi Metro, Election Commission of India use Provakil’s products to manage their in-house legal processes. For more details visit www.provakil.com or write to [email protected]
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