Built by litigators, adopted by AmLaw firms
Syllo was founded in 2019 by two practicing litigation attorneys, CEO Jeffrey Chivers and COO/CSO Theodore Rostow, both Yale Law lecturers, together with two Carnegie Mellon University engineers; MIT-trained Amy Slagle joined as CTO in 2023. That pedigree shows up in its customer list: Ballard Spahr, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, Mayer Brown, and Outten & Golden are named users, and Quinn Emanuel co-authored a white paper with Syllo on its agentic document-review system.
Ballard Spahr moved to a firm-wide rollout of Syllo's Litigation Agent in August 2026, a genuine signal of enterprise-level trust from a large US firm rather than a pilot that stalled.



