Rhetoric exists because legal writing deserves an instrument as precise as the arguments it carries. We're building that instrument.
Legal technology has spent decades forcing lawyers into tools designed for everyone else. Rhetoric starts from a different premise: your work is specific, and your tools should be too.
We believe the best legal writing happens when technology disappears into the background — when the editor understands citations, structure, and revision as natively as you do. That's what we're building: not a platform, but a craft tool.
Every tool imposes its assumptions on its user. Rhetoric's assumption is that you are a lawyer writing law, and everything in the interface follows from that single premise.
We studied how lawyers actually work — the drafting, revising, citing, comparing. Then we built each system to serve those exact workflows. No general-purpose compromises. Every line of code serves the practice of law.
Design Document / Rev 1.0
Mustafa has a J.D. from NYU law school. He practiced law at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP and DLA Piper before switching to software where he has worked on Alexa for Amazon andat BenchIQ.
Hamza is the former V.P. of Product and Engineering at Backpack and has been married to a lawyer for 10 years.