Eudia, a Palo Alto-based AI startup, is offering something entirely new: the world’s first AI-augmented law firm. Its end goal is nothing less than the death of the billable hour that, according to CEO Omar Haroun, has run entirely out of control. “Most legal departments have lost control of their budgets and their knowledge,” Haroun said in a press release announcing the launch of Eudia Counsel, which he called “the first AI-native law firm.” He said it was built to help companies regain control of their knowledge.
The company has fought hard behind the scenes to bring this law firm to light, Haroun said in an interview with Fortune at the company’s 2025 Augmented Intelligence Summit in New York. Arizona is the only state in the country where a law firm is not required to be owned by lawyers, he said. Even still, there are technicalities. Eudia is not technically set up as a law firm. Under Arizona’s Alternative Business Structure (ABS) program, it’s set up as a company that is a “provider of a law firm.”
The company is also expanding its access-to-justice initiative, AI for Good, with Haroun telling Fortune that the economics of AI can transform pro bono work, which he sees as “the reason people like me went to law school” in the first place.
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