Wingman Law puts attorneys in charge of AI casework agents

Wingman Law is building a personal injury practice around attorneys who direct AI agents through the work of a case. The firm has developed its own operating platform to gather evidence, prepare documents and coordinate communications, with actions brought back for attorney approval.

The YC Fall 2026 company's launch is about operating a law firm with that software, rather than selling another application for firms to add to their existing systems. Its founders, Sun Woo Lee and Nicholas Le, are both attorneys with experience building legal technology.

Wingman's premise is that a significant part of a personal injury case involves keeping information moving among clients, medical providers and insurers. The firm wants agents to handle more of that coordination so attorneys can spend more attention on clients and their cases.

Its platform connects calls, text messages, emails and case files. Attorneys can give instructions in plain English, and agents work across cases to prepare the documents and communications needed for the next step. The launch describes the output as ready for attorney approval, a meaningful boundary between preparing an action and independently carrying it out.

That workflow also explains why the founders chose to build their own firm. Software supplied to an outside practice has to fit that practice's systems and processes. Operating the practice gives Wingman more control over how the underlying work is organized, though the company hasn't published comparative data showing faster resolutions or better client outcomes.

Lee has a law degree from Harvard and graduate and undergraduate degrees from Stanford. She previously worked in litigation at Orrick and Fish & Richardson. Her account of the move into personal injury centers on wanting to help injured individuals more directly after working on large commercial disputes.

During law school, Lee says she built and sold $350,000 worth of legal technology. She describes much of that effort as integration work with legacy systems. Wingman is intended to put that engineering effort into a platform the firm's own attorneys can use from the beginning.

Le has worked on more than 700 Bay Area personal injury cases, according to the company, with experience on both the plaintiff and insurance-defense sides. He was also an early employee at StrongSuit, where he helped build litigation software.

The founders' experience is relevant to the product's design, but it doesn't establish how well the new practice will perform. The announcement offers no case-resolution data, settlement comparisons or quantified time savings for Wingman's clients. Its claims about faster progress remain the firm's stated objective.

Wingman works on contingency, collecting attorney fees when it recovers money for a client. Its website identifies its focus as California personal injury, including car accidents, bicycle and scooter crashes, and premises-liability cases.

The near-term business remains grounded in those ordinary cases. The firm's launch asks for introductions to people who need help after an injury in California. Behind that familiar intake process, it is trying to change who does the administrative work between the first call and an attorney's next decision.