Built by litigators, for litigators.
Founded in Little Rock, Arkansas. Tested on real cases. Backed by decades of courtroom experience.
Our Story
Legati AI was founded in Little Rock, Arkansas by Joshua Gonzales. A litigation paralegal turned technical founder who spent years buried in the exact problem Legati solves. After reviewing tens of thousands of documents by hand across dozens of cases, Josh built the tool he wished existed: one that reads every page, organizes it, and lets you ask questions with real Bates-cited answers.
Today Legati partners with construction and complex commercial litigators with decades of courtroom experience, and is now the engine behind Legati Trial Simulations. A simulation system that reads the entire record, runs the trial twice, and tells you what would have flipped the case before you ever step into one.
Together, we’re building legal technology that actually works in the real world. Tested on real cases, by real attorneys.
The Team
The team behind Legati.
Joshua Gonzales
Co-Founder & CEO
Josh is the technical founder of Legati AI. A former litigation paralegal, he experienced firsthand the pain of manually reviewing thousands of documents across complex cases. That experience drove him to build Legati. An AI platform that reads every page, generates narrative summaries, assigns Bates numbers, and lets attorneys search their entire case with natural language.
Joel Hoover
Co-Founder
Joel is a construction and commercial litigation attorney with over 20 years of courtroom experience. At Legati, he advises on how the platform should work for real litigators.
- Super Lawyers Mid-South (2014–2017)
- Former Adjunct Professor at UA Little Rock
- $11.6M False Claims Act settlement
J. Richard Newland, Jr.
Co-Founder & Business Manager
Richard is an attorney and CPA who oversees business operations at Legati. With over 25 years in construction law and dual licensure as both an attorney and CPA, he brings the financial and operational rigor that keeps Legati running.
- Attorney & CPA dual-licensed
- Past Chairman AR Bar Construction Law Section
- Captain US Army
Elizabeth Caldwell
Co-Founder
Elizabeth is a business transactions attorney focused on the construction industry. At Legati, she advises on how the platform serves attorneys beyond litigation, ensuring the AI is useful across practice areas.
Ben Monnette
Trial Simulations
Ben is a former Green Beret and Warrant Officer with over 16 years of experience and eight deployments to the Middle East. His career was spent operating in complex environments where success depended on understanding the human element, identifying patterns, and making decisions under pressure with incomplete information.
At Legati, he advises on Trial Simulations, helping shape how the platform reasons about witness behavior, jury dynamics, and adversarial strategy.
- 16+ years military service
- Eight Middle East deployments
- Expertise in human behavior and pattern recognition
Real cases. Real attorneys. Real courtroom experience.
Legati AI partners with construction and complex commercial litigators with decades of courtroom experience. Our attorneys’ real-world caseloads shaped how the product works, from the document indexing workflow to the Deep Search feature, and now to Trial Simulations.
Every feature in Legati has been tested on real cases with real attorneys. Not a lab experiment. A working tool forged in actual litigation.
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