Two of the largest tech acquisitions in Israeli history closed within months of each other and, for the lawyers on both sides, it also meant two of the largest document reviews in the country’s history landing on desks at exactly the same time. 

Chambers Global’s 2026 report named Google’s $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity firm Wiz and Palo Alto Networks’ $25 billion purchase of CyberArk as the anchors of a broader surge in tech sector M&A activity in 2025. 

That kind of deal flow doesn’t happen by accident. The country’s legal sector entered a new chapter over a decade ago, when legislation was updated, and the number of international firms with a formal presence in Israel has since nearly doubled. 

Today, Israel has the highest number of lawyers per capita of any country in the world, while the United States has the largest legal services market in the world, generating over $300 billion in annual revenue.

But what remains little known is how deals of that scale generate enormous volumes of documents to review. The firms handling them are all doing it with a legal tech sector that, as numbers show, is still catching up to the scale of the work. 

Technology is supposed to be what closes the gap, but the legal tech industry hasn’t scaled at the same pace as the deals it needs to support. 

The challenges created by increasingly complex legal work are at the heart of what brothers and Altorney co-founders Shimmy and Rachi Messing set out to solve. They built Altorney to help modernize how legal teams handle demanding document reviews and data.

This is important because, as in many industries, not all legal tech tools are created equally. Legal tech that is just “good enough” can lead to missed deadlines, operational bottlenecks and repetition of work. At worst, it can jeopardize the outcome of the case itself. 

Why legal tech can’t afford to miss the mark 

The legal sector is no stranger to tech products. There are already 4,358 companies specializing in legal SaaS around the world, 336 of which........

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