A lawyer who speaks product.

I’m a lawyer who builds software, and a builder who reads the law. That combination is the whole point of my practice.

I’ve practised law for more than nine years, and almost all of it has been at the edge where technology outruns regulation: data protection as the GDPR rewired products worldwide, crypto through the years when no jurisdiction could agree what a token was, and now AI, where the rules are being written in Brussels, Washington, London and New Delhi while the products ship.

Along the way I started building. I wanted better systems for my own practice, so I made them, first as Notion workspaces and then as products. LawyerOS, a practice management system I built on Notion, is now used by more than 3,000 lawyers across the US, UK, Canada, India and Australia. More recently I’ve worked on MatterOS, an AI practice management tool for solo and small law firms.

Building changed how I advise. I’ve shipped features, handled user data, chosen AI vendors, read their terms at midnight and answered customers’ questions about where their data goes. When a founder tells me what they’re trying to launch, I usually know what the product looks like underneath, and where the legal risk actually lives.

Today my practice, the Law Office of Raghav R Handa, advises founders and product teams on AI governance, data protection, crypto and technology contracts, wherever their users are. I work remotely and across time zones, with a base in New Delhi and a network of local counsel for questions that need them. I keep the practice small and independent on purpose. You work with me directly, and you get advice written for the decision in front of you, not a memo written for the file.

Raghav H.