Elevate has acquired Lupl, an AI-native legal project management and workflow automation platform, expanding its software capabilities as law firms and corporate legal departments increase their use of artificial intelligence to manage and perform legal work. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The acquisition adds Lupl’s matter management, collaboration and workflow technology to Elevate’s existing legal software portfolio, including ELM and ELMA. Elevate plans to continue developing Lupl while making the platform available across its global customer base of law departments and law firms.
For Elevate, the transaction reflects a broader shift in legal technology from using AI for individual tasks toward coordinating AI-powered work across entire matters. As lawyers increasingly rely on AI for research, drafting, analysis and other functions, legal organizations also need systems capable of managing the people, data, deadlines and AI tools involved in those workflows.
Lupl is designed around that orchestration challenge. Its platform brings lawyers and AI tools into a common workspace and provides matter management capabilities that work natively with Claude, Harvey and Microsoft Copilot.
“This acquisition is an important next step for Elevate’s software business,” said Liam Brown, chairman and CEO of Elevate. Brown said combining Lupl with ELM and ELMA advances the company’s strategy of automating legal work by connecting teams and data across matters and workflows.
Launched in 2020, Lupl combines agentic AI with task management, collaboration and workflow automation. The company has recently developed capabilities specifically around Claude as it seeks to incorporate AI agents more directly into the management of legal matters.
Law firms use the platform for complex assignments including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, multi-jurisdictional regulatory projects and major disputes. Lupl supports work across the lifecycle of a matter, beginning with intake and scoping and extending through planning, budgeting, task management, deadline tracking, client collaboration and progress reporting.
That range of functionality gives Elevate an additional technology layer for managing legal work rather than focusing solely on automating individual legal tasks. The strategic opportunity is to create a more integrated environment in which lawyers, clients and AI systems can work from the same matter information and workflow.
The acquisition also provides Lupl with additional resources and distribution. Elevate serves law departments and law firms globally, giving Lupl an established channel through which to expand adoption beyond its existing customer base.
“Law is changing, and the way legal work gets managed is changing with it,” said Jeff Green, CEO of Lupl. “The days of running legal projects on spreadsheets and post-it notes are ending.”
Green said joining Elevate gives Lupl additional scale, resources and market reach as the company develops its approach to AI-enabled legal project management.
Lupl was developed with input from international law firms CMS, Cooley and Rajah & Tann Asia. The platform is designed to improve visibility and predictability across legal work by centralizing planning, execution and reporting rather than requiring teams to coordinate matters through disconnected spreadsheets, email and other tools.
The transaction comes as legal technology providers compete to determine how generative and agentic AI will fit into law firm and corporate legal workflows. While AI models can increasingly perform portions of legal work, managing those outputs across complicated matters creates a separate technology requirement around workflow, governance and coordination.
Elevate’s investment thesis centers on combining AI capabilities with legal expertise and operating infrastructure. Adding Lupl strengthens the workflow component of that strategy, giving the company technology for organizing work before, during and after individual AI-powered tasks.
The acquisition could also create opportunities to connect Lupl more closely with Elevate’s existing software products. ELM and ELMA are part of Elevate’s broader effort to use technology and AI to improve how legal organizations manage work, data and business processes.
Elevate said it will continue investing in Lupl’s platform and extend the technology across its customer network. The company did not disclose specific integration timelines or changes to Lupl’s existing operations.
Lupl provides AI-native legal project management technology designed to help legal teams plan matters, coordinate execution and monitor progress in one environment. With its acquisition by Elevate, the platform gains access to a larger legal services and technology organization as both companies pursue the growing market for AI-enabled legal operations.
