Ignite Alabama - Sparking Innovation & Entrepreneurship In Alabama

Episode 21 of the Ignite Alabama podcast features Sheree Martin's conversation with Jack White, CEO and founder of Book-it Legal, an innovative startup in the legal space. Book-it Legal is a marketplace startup that helps law firms hire law students to do legal research, legal writing and other related work. Jack is a lawyer who spent a few years practicing transactional law with a “big” law firm in Birmingham before starting Book-it Legal, LLC in 2016. Book-it Legal got its first boost through the Alabama Launchpad program when it won $50,000 in funding to push the new company from idea to minimum viable product. Most recently, Book-it Legal was one of 10 startups (out of 100 applicants) selected to make up the first cohort of the Velocity Accelerator Program through the Innovation Depot. The first edition Velocity Accelerator ended in April and I believe applications are still open for the second cohort. Jack’s plans for Book-it Legal, LLC for summer of 2017 are to grow and scale the enterprise. At the time