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Large law firms are investing heavily in AI, but the billable hour creates a basic conflict: technology makes legal work faster, while the large law firm business model rewards it for taking longer. Pacific Street was built to resolve that conflict, so efficiency lowers our clients’ costs instead of our revenue.
Pacific Street was built differently.
Gareth Rhodes
Founder and Managing Partner
Founded in 2022 by Gareth Rhodes, a Harvard Law graduate and former regulator at the New York Department of Financial Services, Pacific Street grew out of his experience in government, leading law firms, and in-house at a fintech company. He had worked alongside exceptional lawyers and dozens of founders, and saw the same problem from both sides: businesses needed sophisticated legal advice, but too often faced high fees, slow turnaround times, and law firms that struggled to keep pace with them.
Gareth wanted to bring the expertise of lawyers trained at the best law schools and firms to more businesses.
He set out to do it without the costs and constraints of the traditional model. His vision was to build a technology company alongside the law firm, developing AI tools and systems that would make its lawyers more capable, its work faster, and its services increasingly efficient and cost-effective as the technology improved.
That vision became Pacific Street Law and Pacific Street Systems.
The law firm
Pacific Street Law
Senior attorneys from leading law firms, government, and business who understand the companies they serve and know the right questions to ask.
The technology
Pacific Street Systems
Engineers developing the proprietary AI tools and systems that make our lawyers more capable and our work faster and more cost-effective.
Together, Pacific Street Law and Pacific Street Systems provide legal, technology, and business services designed to help modern companies get ahead.
Lawyers and engineers, working side by side.
Today, Pacific Street works with a team of nearly a dozen lawyers and is growing quickly. Senior attorneys from leading law firms, government, and business work closely with the engineers developing the proprietary technology that powers our practice. Since 2022, we've served nearly 100 companies and individuals, putting that combination of legal expertise and technology to work.
2022
Founded in New York
10+
Lawyers on the team
90+
Companies and individuals served
Sophisticated, fast, and priced up front.
We believe legal advice should be sophisticated, fast, and priced up front. Our lawyers understand the businesses they serve, know the right questions to ask, and have the technology to move at their speed. Freed from traditional billable-hour requirements, they can focus on delivering excellent work while passing the efficiencies of AI along to clients.
Technology at every layer. Judgment at the center.
Experience that speaks for itself.
Pacific Street has been with us from day one, and working with them feels like having our own in-house counsel.
Pacific Street guided us through our seed round with a clear sense ofwhat was worth negotiating and what terms needed to fit our businessmodel. They ran comprehensive due diligence on our company tomake sure we were ready to fundraise, which sped up the process.
Pacific Street is our go-to firm for regulatory counseland the day-to-day legal questions that come up as we’vebuilt at the intersection of regulation and innovation.
Pacific Street Law’s deep experience in state licensing, money transmission, fintech and digital assets, trust charters, and much more makes them the law firm you want on your side when you need the legal expertise to put together a licensing application or work with a get-it-done product counsel to help you go to market quickly and compliantly.
Pacific Street knows the nuts and bolts of transactional lawand corporate governance, and they are expert negotiatorswho understand when to hold firm and when to give ground.
Founders need counsel who understands early-stage businesses: counsel who can work fast and think creatively. That is Pacific Street.
Pacific Street represented us in our acquisition — one of the largest crypto B2C security deals to date — and was a key part of the deal, from negotiations to drafting the transaction documents to keeping the process running smoothly.
As part of our investment decision-making process, we’ve turned to Pacific Street to conduct due diligence on many of the companies we evaluate as we trust their legal and regulatory acumen, combined with a deep understanding of how businesses actually work.
Pacific Street advises our portfolio companies on everything from formationand equity issuance to hiring, commercial contracts, and compliance, givingeach one a strong legal foundation to build products and raise their next round.
When you’re building at the forefront of AI and innovation, you need a law firm that knows the issues and can think outside the box. Pacific Street quickly puts together or analyzes complex contracts, and advises us on a range of issues, large and small, on a moment's notice. Pacific Street is responsive and delivers quickly, which is what you need from your law firm when you’re building and moving fast.
