LawPivot Raises $400,000 Angel Round for Quora-like Confidential Legal Q&A for Companies

SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Valley-based startup LawPivot (http://www.lawpivot.com), the "Quora for legal" that allows companies to confidentially ask legal questions to expert attorneys, has raised a $400,000 angel round.  LawPivot's angel investors include former Apple executive David Austin, V.P. of LinkedIn and former Google executive Deep Nishar, Mayfield Fund Venture Partner Allen Morgan, V.P. of PBworks Chris Yeh, and Nishith Desai, founder of a leading Indian international law firm.

"Companies and lawyers would benefit from our legal Q&A technology that efficiently connects companies to the right legal advice and lawyers they immediately need," stated LawPivot CEO Jay Mandal, formerly the lead mergers and acquisitions lawyer for Apple.  LawPivot is a legal question and answer website where a company can confidentially ask a legal question to multiple, highly qualified lawyers and receive crowdsourced answers for a fraction of the cost.  Through this process, a company also can easily and quickly find the right lawyers for their ongoing legal needs.  "We serve companies, and particularly startups, in the technology industry and related spaces, and we will be expanding to other industries," stated co-founder Nitin Gupta, formerly an intellectual property litigation lawyer.  California companies may try this service for free for a limited time, and this service is free for California licensed lawyers.  For more information and to join LawPivot, please visit LawPivot at: http://www.lawpivot.com.

About LawPivot

On LawPivot's exclusive network, companies can confidentially receive multiple answers to their legal questions from highly qualified lawyers, and can find the right lawyers for all their legal needs.  The Law Pivot Inc. management team consists of the former lead mergers and acquisitions lawyer for Apple Inc. and lawyers who worked at top national law firms.  The company was started in the Silicon Valley to help address the challenges of companies in receiving cost-effective legal advice and finding specialized lawyers for their needs. LawPivot currently is available to all technology companies and lawyers throughout the state of California.

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