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New Era ADR
Dispute resolution platform
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Marketplace
- Legal
- SaaS
- West Loop, Chicago, IL
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Company mission
To help companies and other litigants settle disputes efficiently and affordably, changing the everyday legal game.
Our take
It’s well established that traditional courts and arbitration systems are difficult to navigate, time and admin-intensive, and can run up huge legal fees. In the US alone, the annual cost of litigation is nearly $500 million.
In a bid to make these processes much easier and faster, New Era ADR offers companies, attorneys, and individuals a dispute resolution platform, which connects them with legal professionals and crucially, offers legally-binding decisions.
While the legal industry has been comparatively slow to adapt to the tech revolution, there has been a nascent growth of tech startups in the space of late, many focused on the general public. It looks like New Era ADR, though available for individuals, is geared more heavily towards B2B, which could prove very lucrative.
The platform has already been used by a number of Fortune 1000 companies, which will boost its reputation considerably. Now fresh from a major funding round, the company is preparing for a significant scale up.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Great compensation package
- Meaningful equity stake
- Health, mental health, dental, and vision benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Flex spending accounts
- Remote-first positions (role - dependent)
- Flexible PTO with more company holidays than you’re probably used to (for example: four-day weekends for almost all holidays that fall on a Monday or Friday) because we know that a day off just feels better and more relaxing when you know the whole company also has the day off
Company values
- Human First – We are an ambitious, goal-driven team that prioritizes the health and well-being of our coworkers, our partners, and ourselves. Our policies, employee benefits, and practices are designed to support work-life harmony. We recognize it’s not just a balancing act, but that stability at work, at home, and everywhere in between is essential to our ability to show up in every situation at our best. We also see that stability can’t be achieved through mere policies or processes. We hold ourselves and each other accountable – ensuring our work and actions offer the necessary support and flexibility to tend to commitments in each of these areas of our lives. By holding space for the fluidity of life, we find more flow in our days, benefiting everyone and everything, including our bottom line.
- Advocates for Simplicity – Ease of use, availability, and simplicity are objectives that remain firm in our approach, no matter the challenges we encounter. Dismantling the unnecessary hurdles and complexity of traditional dispute resolution is at the heart of our rooted belief that the law should be accessible to every person at every level of every organization and community. Everything we build is intended to streamline the ADR experience to get to the core of resolving disputes effectively and efficiently.
- Transparency and Integrity – We mean what we say, we do what we say we’ll do, and we do the right thing even when we know no one’s watching. We speak our minds, listen intently, and hold ourselves accountable. Our M.O. is to advance with pure intentions, no hidden agendas or special conditions. We know the availability of crucial information is required for honest collaborations, building trust, and empowering individuals to make big decisions. Transparency and integrity are not only integral to pursuing our mission and meeting our collective goals, but vital to conducting our business with fairness, integrity, and accountability.
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2022
$4.6m
SEED
Apr 2021
$1.7m
SEED
Total funding: $6.3m
Leadership
Colin Williams
(Chairman)Spent 11 years as an attorney at Greenberg Traurig and Butler Snow. Was previously General Counsel at Reverb.com, the high growth marketplace for musical instruments and equipment (acquired by Etsy in 2019 for $275M). Was a Corporate Counsel for ContextMedia, and was in the first cloud computing legal department at Oracle.
Rich Lee
(CEO)Before New Era, served as the General Counsel at Civis Analytics, a data science tech company born out of President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. Was previously SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at FinTech company Livevol (acquired by CBOE Holdings in 2015).
Michelle Tyler
(Head of Operations)Was the Director of Compliance and Legal Operations at Civis Analytics from 2018 to 2021 before co-founding New Era ADR. Spent almost a decade at ICAP Patent Brokerage, including a seven year spell as Head of Organization Operations and Compliance.
Shane Mulrooney
(Head of Growth & Customer Experience)Before New Era, spent two years as a Counsel at Litwin Law Firm. Prior to this they built the legal department at meal-kit delivery company Home Chef, then serving as Vice President and Head of Legal. Home Chef was acquired for $700m by The Kroger Co.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at New Era ADR
- Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, Access, and Success – We are committed to courageous action, doing our best to cultivate a diverse, inclusive, and equitable work environment with unfettered access and opportunities for success. We vow to open our eyes and ears to the good, the bad, and the uncomfortable, and to take tangible steps to champion a broader and richer mindset to face fears and deal with radical truths. We see the value inherent in effectively challenging the status quo to do things that have never been done before. By asking the right questions and listening to each other with respect, we harbor a safe space for self-awareness, self-expression, vulnerability, humility, and transformation.