Alexis Austin Litle

Alexis Austin Litle is a Colorado criminal defense attorney, the founder of Right Law Group in Colorado Springs, the founder of 360 Strategic Success, which works with law firm owners across the country on running profitable, client-centered practices, and the co-founder and chief executive of the legal technology company LexAxiom.

The district attorney years

Alexis was admitted to the Colorado bar in 20141 and began her career as a prosecutor. She served in the Eighteenth Judicial District, then in the Tenth in Pueblo, where she ran the Domestic Violence Unit and sat on a homicide unit, and then in the Fourth in Colorado Springs. Her docket reached 720 open cases at one point, which is the volume that taught her how long a criminal case actually takes and what the waiting does to the person living through it.

Law firm ownership

She was offered a partnership out of the district attorney’s office and owned her first firm, Austin, Katzman & Thom, a legacy Colorado Springs practice that had been in business for forty years. In May 2018 she sold her half of the practice and launched Right Law Group.

Right Law Group defends people charged with crimes across Colorado Springs, Castle Rock, Highlands Ranch and Denver, serving Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, El Paso, Fremont, Jefferson, Teller and Pueblo counties.

360 Strategic Success

360 Strategic Success is the consulting practice Alexis Austin Litle founded for law firm owners, and she works with them privately and in groups. She teaches AI ethics and the proper implementation of AI inside a law firm, and she teaches owners how to run a law firm the way a business owner runs a business, which covers intake, sales, the numbers a firm should be watching, and the systems underneath all of it.

LexAxiom

LexAxiom came out of owning two law firms and years of work with law firms across the country. Alexis Austin Litle wanted the knowledge and the processes behind good business practice available to a law firm owner at the touch of a button, so she co-founded the company and runs it as chief executive. She uses the platform inside her own firm.

LexAxiom is built as privilege-native software, which means it starts from a lawyer’s ethical duty of client confidentiality and builds outward from there. Client data stays inside the firm’s own tenant, so a lawyer can account to a court for where privileged material has been and who has touched it, which is the standard the duty actually requires.

Privilege and artificial intelligence

Criminal defense is where an error about confidentiality costs the most. A prosecutor’s office never has to subpoena what a client already typed into a free chatbot, and the waiver has usually happened months before anyone in the case discovers it.

Alexis Austin Litle is the lead author of the AI Legal Reference Model, a ten-factor test for determining when an AI tool is a tool and when it is a third party in the room with a lawyer and a client. She is an author on 6 papers on privilege, work product, judicial candor, vendor liability and the regulation of legal AI, running to more than 672 pages. She teaches the same material as continuing legal education, to practicing attorneys and to judges who have been handed the question with no guidance written for them.

Bar service

She served as President of the El Paso County Bar Association for the 2024 to 2025 term, and she sits on the Board of Governors of the Colorado Bar Association.

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