EJ Archuleta — founder of an AI-native business law firm.
Former General Counsel, software engineer, and founder of an acquired company. He built Applied Legal so that every lawyer here works with advanced AI, on contracts, disputes, and ongoing counsel.
Business law, practiced with advanced tools.
Companies need two things most from outside counsel: contracts that get done and disputes that get resolved. Applied Legal is built to do both, with a lawyer who knows the tools on every matter.
EJ Archuleta has served as General Counsel at multiple technology companies, as outside counsel, and as a founder. He founded Scanther, which was sold to Advice Interactive Group. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and earned his J.D. in 2010 from Thurgood Marshall School of Law.
He is also a software engineer, and he builds the firm's own systems. In-house, he built the systems that kept commercial agreements moving. That work, carried into the firm, is what lets it read every agreement against a client's positions and prior deals, and review the whole record in a dispute rather than a sample.
The result is senior judgment with deeper preparation behind it, and less time on the bill spent on rote work. A Texas-licensed attorney is accountable for every deliverable. See how we work.
Lawyers who know the tools.
Lawyers at Applied Legal are expected to be fluent in the technology: to use it to read more, check more, and draft faster, and to know where it is wrong. The firm's systems are built in-house, so they fit the way the work is actually done.
The firm intends to grow by adding lawyers who work that way. Whoever handles your matter, the method is the same, and EJ Archuleta remains the responsible attorney.
Counsel from someone who has held the seat and built the tools.
Four things clients get from the way the firm is built.
Practical judgment
Advice calibrated to the business in front of you: which contract terms matter and which are noise, which disputes are worth pursuing, and when a settlement serves the company better than a fight.
Founder perspective
EJ has built and sold a company. He knows a contract is a means to revenue, a dispute is a cost to the business while it lasts, and both need to be handled with the business in mind.
Engineering fluency
A software engineer who builds the firm's own systems. The tools that read a contract against your positions, or a case file in full, are designed by someone who can read the system, not just buy it.
Accountability
A Texas-licensed attorney reviews and signs off on every redline, memo, and letter before it leaves the firm. The tools read and draft; a lawyer is responsible for the work.
How the firm is structured.
- Entity
- Applied Legal is a trade name of Archuleta Partners PLLC.
- Jurisdiction
- Advice on Texas state law, and on federal matters for clients nationwide.
- Specialists
- When a matter needs depth outside the firm's scope, such as tax or securities, or a dispute goes to court, we bring in specialist or litigation counsel and manage the work alongside you. Any such arrangement is disclosed and agreed with you in writing.
- Responsible attorney
- EJ Archuleta, founder and principal attorney.
Tell us what is happening. EJ will reply.
Describe the agreement, the dispute, or the question. EJ reviews each submission and replies to set up a short call.