For law firms

Technology cost reduction for law firms

Many firms run matter management, document management, and time-and-billing software that was added by different partners at different times. A review often finds license overlap and access that is broader than it needs to be.

Common patterns

What often shows up in a law firm's technology stack.

Not every firm has every one of these. These are patterns we commonly see, not a diagnosis of your firm specifically.

01

Matter and document management overlap

It's common for a firm to run a matter-management platform alongside a separate document-management tool, with confidential client files split across both.

02

Software-license overlap

Research, e-signature, and document-review tools are frequently licensed per attorney across several overlapping products, often more than any one attorney actually uses.

03

Role- and matter-based permissions

Firms typically need access to confidential files restricted by role and by matter, and it's common for that access to have grown broader over time as staff changed.

04

Time-and-billing reports assembled by hand

Monthly or quarterly billing summaries are often rebuilt manually from time-and-billing software rather than generated on a schedule.

On privilege

What we do, and do not, claim about attorney-client privilege.

Attorney-client privilege is not automatically preserved by using an on-premise or private system. Privilege depends on the firm's own policies, access controls, and the judgment of legal counsel — technology can support confidentiality, and searching only across approved files with matter-based permissions is part of that support, but it does not substitute for the firm's own privilege practices.

Example scenario

What this can look like for a firm your size.

Example scenario

A 10-person law office

IntraSage Assessment and Implementation
Problem

Wanted AI to search case files faster, but would not risk client records being sent to a cloud AI vendor.

Solution

An IntraSage readiness assessment weighed a small in-office server against an ongoing cloud AI subscription, and moved forward once the numbers favored owning it, with search limited to approved files by matter.

Gain

AI search over their own case files, designed so records stay within infrastructure the firm controls.

Before
$9,600
After
$6,100
Break-even in month 6cheaper than the cloud subscription every month after

Find out what your firm's technology is really costing you.

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