About Us

Jen Berrent and Richard Perris each spent over two decades at the top of their legal careers. Jen had gone from partner at WilmerHale, leading their New York emerging company practice, to Chief Legal Officer and Chief Operating Officer at WeWork, where her understanding of deals, negotiations, and business operations made her transition from lawyer to COO a natural evolution. Richard brought deep private equity and private credit expertise, having served as General Counsel of CVC where he led legal and compliance teams across both businesses.

When they met, both were asking the same question: Why can't legal work be both exceptional and accessible?

Rather than continuing on traditional legal career paths, they chose to take a big swing. They both shared a relentless optimism about AI's possibilities and a deep respect for the law. Jen's mindset for operationalizing deal flow and Richard's domain knowledge in private markets, is a perfect marriage of knowing how to solve problems and knowing which problems needed solving.

From the beginning, they made unconventional choices. While others in legal AI settled for “good enough,” these lawyers found anything less than 100% accuracy intolerable. They started with complexity—manually analyzing terms of 100 limited partnership agreements. This passion for precision led them to a breakthrough: using multiple AI models together with expert lawyer review to achieve the accuracy that single models alone couldn't deliver.

Today, Covenant is building the first AI-native law firm targeting private market investors— reimagining how legal work gets done from the ground up.

We're curious lawyers obsessed with accuracy and innovation, building tools that deliver law firm quality with an experience clients actually appreciate.