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Evaluating Legal Technology: Beyond the Feature List
A framework for assessing legal technology investments that accounts for integration complexity, change management, and long-term total cost of ownership.
August 2026Read
04 / Legal Digital Transformation
Legal Tech Consulting
Choose and roll out the right tools
Vendor-neutral assessment of your workflows, a technology roadmap built around them, and hands-on implementation and adoption support.
Advice plus implementationVendor neutralRoadmap led
The challenge
Legal teams buy technology without a clear view of what will actually fit.
Workflows
Assessed before any tool is chosen
Neutral
Recommendations tied to need and budget
Roadmap
Sequenced and costed
Rollout
Implementation and adoption support
Our perspective
How modern teams approach legal tech consulting
The legal technology market now spans matter management, e-billing, CLM, knowledge, intake and a fast-growing set of GenAI tools. Buying point solutions without a roadmap leads to overlap, shelfware and frustrated attorneys.
We assess your workflows first, then build a technology roadmap around them. Our recommendations are tied to your needs and budget, and because we can also implement, the roadmap turns into a working rollout rather than a slide deck.
Needs to roadmap
We assess workflows and build a technology roadmap around them.
Advice and implementation
We recommend the tools and can implement them.
Vendor neutral
Recommendations tied to your needs and your budget.
How we deliver
Go slow to go fast
We prove the approach on a small sample with you first, then scale. Here is how the work flows, and where AI carries the load versus where our attorneys apply judgement.
19%AI-assisted
Technology where it adds value
An indicative view of how work is shared between AI and our attorneys at each stage. Judgement, protocol and sign-off always stay with people.
AI Attorneys and specialists
- 01
Assess
15% 85%Workflows, pain points, current tools and data mapped.
- 02
Recommend
15% 85%Prioritised roadmap and vendor shortlist.
- 03
Implement
30% 70%Selected tools configured and integrated.
- 04
Support adoption
15% 85%Training, champions and usage tracking.
What you receive
A technology roadmap, a vendor shortlist and a working rollout.
Where it fits best
- Legal department technology strategy
- GenAI tool evaluation
- Matter management and e-billing selection
- Tool rationalisation
Commercials
Pricing that fits the shape of the work
The attorney who scopes your work shares pricing up front. These are the models that typically suit legal tech consulting.
Typical fit
Fixed fee
Best for
Defined projects, such as a CLM assessment or a contract clean-up.
How it is billed
One price for an agreed scope and outcome.
Unit rate with cap
Best for
Variable volume, such as document review or abstraction.
How it is billed
Per document or per contract, with a ceiling on total spend.
Managed team
Best for
Ongoing work, such as platform operations or monitoring.
How it is billed
A monthly fee for a dedicated team, scaled up or down with notice.
Typical fit
Hybrid
Best for
Programmes that mix a project with steady run work.
How it is billed
A fixed fee to build, then a unit rate or team fee to run.
Questions
What clients ask us
No. We are vendor neutral, so recommendations are tied only to your needs and budget.
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