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E44 - Building a Law Firm and a Product: LawPro.ai Co-Founder and Zirkin Schmerling Partner, Josh Schmerling
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- Mar 26, 2026
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Zach Abramowitz sits down with Josh Schmerling, partner at Zirkin & Schmerling and co-founder of LawPro.ai, to explore how building technology inside a law firm is reshaping personal injury practice. Josh shares how an internal tool for processing medical records evolved into a broader litigation platform, and what it means to commercialize a product while still running a high-volume plaintiff’s firm. The conversation dives into product-market fit, adoption dynamics, and how tech, combined with private equity, could fundamentally change the competitive landscape of PI law. In this episode: How an internal tool became a market-facing legal tech product The advantages (and tensions) of building software inside a law firm What drives real product-market fit in legal tech Adoption trends across personal injury firms The role of private equity in reshaping the PI ecosystem Learn More: Josh - https://www.lawpro.ai/team/josh-schmerling Zach - https://www.legallydisrupted.com/ Follow Along: Josh - https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-schmerling-287489ab Zach - linkedin.com/in/zachabramowitz