Indian American Harry Khanna Launches Legal Tech Company For Lawyers and Non-lawyers
- He was previously a senior software engineer at the Democratic National Convention.
Harry Khanna, a software engineer turned corporate lawyer, has started a legal tech company called Magistrate. “The company builds the technology to make it possible for lawyers and non-lawyers to collaborate on, test, mix, reason about and generate legal documents,” Khanna wrote in a blog on the company’s website.
According to his LinkedIn page, Khanna was a senior software engineer at the Democratic National Convention (DNC). Before that he worked as an associate at the San Francisco-based law firm Wilson Sonsini and Sullivan & Cromwell in New York.
“I’m excited to announce that I’ve started a legal technology company, Magistrate,” Khanna wrote on LinkedIn. “It’s unfair that smart people can’t use the legal system unless they work at a big company or have a lawyer on retainer. We’re changing that,” he wrote, adding that they are “starting small, initially focused on providing common legal documents to small businesses.”
He has a JD from Columbia Law School, M.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. in Bioengineering from UC San Diego. He is married to Lisa Vedernikova Khanna, director of Strategic Planning at the DNC.