Josh White didn’t build a law firm the way most attorneys do. He spent a decade as general counsel on the other side of employment litigation. He studied how outside counsel worked and saw an opportunity most people in the industry were missing.

In March 2024, he launched Laurel Employment Law. A plaintiff’s-only, virtual firm based in California. His team on day one: himself and a 24-year-old college graduate who’d never set foot in a law firm. His first technology investment was not a practice management system. It was Eve.

“We launched with Eve,” White says. “From day one, Eve was part of our tech stack.”

Twenty-four months later, Laurel is the fastest growing plaintiff employment law firm in America, with over 100 employees across five continents and more than 1,500 active clients. That growth started with Eve.

Built, Not Inherited

White built Laurel the way he built businesses. Not the way most firms evolve. He spent a decade growing a $400 million enterprise. He knew how to scale operations. He knew how to hire globally. He did not know how to practice law the old way. That turned out to be an advantage.

“I was not a guy who had been working at a law firm for the last 10 years,” he says. “There’s something missing in the marketplace. From an innovative perspective, a technology perspective, a culture perspective. We decided to start from zero and work our way up.”

Three things power the operation. Technology connects a global team across time zones. A shared services model breaks litigation into stages, each owned by a team trained to do one thing well. Culture keeps everyone moving forward.

Eve runs through all of it.

One Person, One Job, One AI

The shared services model is the engine. Attorneys at Laurel don’t draft discovery. They don’t write demand letters from scratch. They review, revise, and approve. The work product is already built by dedicated teams using Eve, drawn from the full intelligence of every case file.

“You don’t have to have 20 years of litigation experience to be great at drafting discovery,” White says. “Eve is like having a very good senior associate who works at the speed of light with encyclopedic knowledge of every document in your case.”

Every case file grows as the case develops. Documents, transcripts, evidence, discovery responses. All of it flows into Eve. The platform gets smarter in real time. Every team member interacts with that intelligence constantly.

“You can access an encyclopedic knowledge of everything that happens in our case in a blink of an eye,” White says. “You don’t have to keep it all in your head. You just interact with it in real time.”

Demand letters that took two to four hours now take 15 minutes. The draft is done before it reaches the attorney. Accurate. Pulled straight from the case file. Ready to review.

Speed Is the Strategy

Ten days after serving a complaint, Laurel serves full discovery on every defendant. Responses come back months later, full of deficiencies. The meet-and-confer letter hits opposing counsel’s desk the next morning. Twelve pages. Detailed. While the other side asks for extensions, Laurel schedules depositions.

“We just turn on the pain machine,” White says, “and that thing’s not turning off until we make it stop.”

Without Eve, this pace breaks down. White says it plainly. “Without Eve, there’s no way we’d be moving at the pace that we are currently working at.” Eve takes the operational weight off attorneys. They focus on strategy. They stay on the attack.

“Eve doesn’t get tired,” he says. “Eve doesn’t get fatigued. Eve doesn’t get distracted by the World Series. Eve is just there, cranking out work quickly.”

When Non-Lawyers Know the Case

Speed creates leverage. White wants something more from Eve. He wants clients who feel it.

Laurel has a dedicated client experience team. They are not attorneys. They don’t have legal backgrounds. They talk to clients, answer questions, and project competence. Eve makes that possible.

“We infuse them with technology,” White explains. “We give them AI, access to the platform, so they can inform themselves about the case and our strategy. And then they can have those conversations with our clients and leave them filled with confidence.”

The client feels informed. Supported. Certain the case is moving. Because it is. Laurel has more than 700 five-star Google reviews.

The Edge Eve Creates

“We are filled with confidence,” White says. “The way we work is fundamentally different. Our workflows, our speed, our ability to surface case intelligence in real time. Eve makes all of that possible.”

Without Eve, the attorneys would spend hours on tasks that now take minutes. They would hesitate to serve aggressive discovery. They would carry every case file in their heads with no way to surface a fact in seconds.

“We’ve basically eliminated all the busy work,” White says. “And they show up excited, motivated, energized every single day. The things they’re doing are more meaningful, more impactful, more high-value, and frankly, more interesting.”

Advice for Everyone Else

White talks to managing partners regularly. The advice is always the same.

“If you don’t have Eve as part of your tech stack, you’re leaving a huge opportunity on the table.”

The software is step one. Building systems around it is the real work. Eve should not be optional. It should be the starting point.

“You want it built in,” he says, “so that people just have really high-quality, quickly delivered work product ready to review, revise, and approve. The more you can take the thinking out of when to use Eve, the better it will go.”

At Laurel, every complaint and discovery draft starts in Eve. Every piece of work product that leaves the firm has AI built into its origin. That is the foundation.

White had the chance to start that way. No legacy systems. No entrenched habits. No partners to convince. He just started. Eve was there from day one.

When opposing counsel calls to ask how he does it, White keeps his answer short.

“Get used to it.”