350,000 Cases on Eve: Everyone Deserves a Great Lawyer

Mike Dickerson was waiting at a traffic light in Georgia when a commercial truck set off a four-car pileup. Days afterward, a stranger called to say he would sue Mike. Two hip surgeries later, the dad who coached his kids' teams was missing their events and couldn't get out of bed without help. Injured, threatened with a lawsuit, and up against an insurer, he felt cornered.

Then he found Geiger Legal. "We got your back," they told him.

For four years, attorneys Casey Geiger and Chris Brown fought an insurer that argued Mike's injuries were pre-existing and the surgery unnecessary. "It was like the other side was telling me how I felt," Mike recalled. The insurer finally settled just before trial for 15 times its initial offer.

Eve helped Geiger Legal take on a far bigger opponent. In the run-up to trial, they used it to comb through Mike's medical records for any pre-existing injury, outline their cross-examinations, and plan how to tell Mike's story to potential juries. "Eve took away having to do all of the grunt work," Chris said, "so I could focus on those phone calls with Mike."

"I'm not afraid to go against the biggest law firms now," Casey said.

Evening the odds for everyday people

Mike's story isn't rare. About 2.4 million people get injured in the 6 million crashes reported in the U.S. every year, and others are hurt at work, harmed in a hospital, or shorted on their pay.

Most of them go up against an insurer or a company with far more resources, in a system built to favor corporations, not people. The legal AI landscape reflects that imbalance: most of the investment has gone to tools for corporations. We built Eve for plaintiffs, because your case shouldn't be worth less just because the other side has more money.

The fewer resources you have, the more it matters that your lawyer is great. Mike found his by Googling "awesome attorneys in Canton, Georgia," and they took his case. Not everyone gets that lucky: for every 100 serious civil legal problems low-income Americans face, 92 get no help from a lawyer, or not enough, according to the Legal Services Corporation's 2022 Justice Gap study.

Mike knows what the alternative would look like. "If it wasn't for Chris and Casey," he said, "I would probably be buried under a mountain of medical bills."

His case is one of 350,000 that Eve has now been used on, across personal injury, labor and employment, medical malpractice, workers' comp, and Social Security disability. So far, 50,000 of those cases have been resolved, producing more than $3.5 billion in settlements and verdicts.

Making room to say yes

Many personal injury claims are modest on paper, with policy limits (the most an insurer has to pay) of around $25,000 or less. Because plaintiff firms are paid from what a client recovers, a case that size often can't cover the months of work it takes. Even the best firm has only so many hours, but the cases left behind are never small to the people living them.

Eve's job is to carry more of the casework, from intake through trial, until even a modest case is worth taking for any firm that wants it. Casey said that without Eve, his firm would need more staff to review records for the firm's 500-600 cases a year. Other firms have doubled their capacity or grown their caseloads 2.5x with the same teams. The less it costs to work up a case, the more cases a firm can afford to take.

That also changes how lawyers spend their time. Eve frees them, as Chris put it, to "be the best lawyer that they can be." When a firm can say yes to more people, it grows, which is what we want for every plaintiff firm.

Around 1,700 of the 29,000 or so contingency-based plaintiff firms in the country use Eve today. Our revenue has grown 6x in the last twelve months, and cases on Eve are up roughly 75% since June. We're just getting started, with a lot more firms and people still to reach.

The next person who needs a lawyer

Thank you to the firms that trusted us with their cases, and to the team at Eve that builds for them every day. You're the reason we got to 350,000.

Mike is getting back to his life. He's practicing lacrosse with his son, and if his daughter asks for a cartwheel, he's ready. He was surprised to find he still can. He had great lawyers with the care and the tools to stay on his side all the way to the courthouse steps. We want every person who comes after him to have the same.