Data & analytics for legal
Reporting partners actually trust, on matters that matter
Most law firms run on a mix of practice management exports and partner-curated spreadsheets. A good data partner replaces that with reporting on matter profitability, utilisation, lock-up and client portfolio that the partnership genuinely uses.
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Why it matters
Data & analytics in legal earns its keep when it joins the business together
Partner conversations on profitability, lock-up, WIP and client mix depend on numbers everyone trusts. When the data comes from a hand-built spreadsheet, half the meeting goes on whether the numbers are right.
A clean data layer also underpins the AI work that's already changing review, drafting and research. Without trusted data, AI experiments stay anecdotal.
What the work covers
What data and analytics looks like in a legal business
Practice management reporting joined up
Elite, Aderant, LEAP, Actionstep and others feeding one reporting layer with definitions agreed once.
Matter profitability, utilisation, lock-up
Power BI dashboards the partners read in the same way, with numbers the financial controller signs off.
Client portfolio analytics
Profitability, risk, growth and concentration by client and team, available without ad-hoc work.
Forecasting, capacity and pricing
Resource demand, capacity and pricing modelled from live data, not hindsight.
What needs to be in place
The foundations a legal data partner expects to see
A platform sized for a firm
Microsoft Fabric or similar, sized for the firm rather than enterprise-scale.
Definitions agreed once across partners
Matter margin, utilisation, lock-up and recovery defined with the managing partner and finance in the room.
Data hygiene inside practice management and DMS
Codes, matter types and timesheet discipline tightened so the data has something clean to read.
Reporting ownership inside the firm
COO or finance director owns the numbers, the partner builds and maintains the pipe.
What good looks like
A partner who has done this in legal before saves you the first year of learning
A legal-aware data partner starts with the partner conversation, not the platform. They'll get matter profitability, utilisation and lock-up onto agreed definitions, and turn the spreadsheet pack into Power BI the partnership actually opens.
Partner meetings get sharper, pricing decisions get more disciplined, and the next AI project has a real data layer to plug into.
Outcomes you should expect
- One trusted view of matter profitability and utilisation
- Partner meetings focused on decisions, not number arguments
- Client and team portfolio risk visible without ad-hoc work
- A data foundation AI work can build on
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