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Practice Area Definitions: NewLaw

Contract Lifecycle Management

Services that help clients to centralise, automate and monitor the full lifespan of contracts from drafting and negotiation through execution, performance tracking, renewal and archival. CLM vendors provide templates, clause libraries, approval workflows, obligation extraction and integrations to reduce cycle times, mitigate contractual risk and improve reporting and compliance.

Flexible Legal Staffing

Providers that supply temporary, project-based or seconded legal professionals, including lawyers, paralegals and managed review teams, whether for discrete matters or as support during peak workload periods. They combine resource matching, skills management and remote/offshored delivery models to control cost, preserve institutional knowledge and accelerate matter throughput.

Law Firm LPO

Captive Legal Process Outsourcing teams within law firms, which typically perform high-volume, repeatable tasks such as document review, legal research, drafting and knowledge management. These internal LPOs apply standardised processes, quality controls and technology to lower per-unit cost, improve consistency and free the wider firm’s fee-earners to focus on higher-value client work.

Litigation Services

Specialists who provide support in disputes matters through evidence preservation, document review, eDiscovery and litigation analytics. They combine legal project management, digital forensics, managed review teams and courtroom technology to improve defensibility, control costs and optimise outcomes in contentious matters.

Alternative Legal Service Providers

Non-traditional firms that deliver specialised legal work outside the full-service law firm model, spanning LPO, managed services, compliance outsourcing, consultancy and technology-enabled solutions. ALSPs leverage process design, specialist staffing and technology to provide predictable delivery models, efficiency and alternative pricing aligned to client needs.

LawTech Consulting

Advisory firms that help legal teams select, configure and integrate legal technology solutions. Services include needs assessment, vendor selection, implementation support and user training.

LawTech Incubators & Accelerators

Providers of programmes that support legal technology startups through mentorship, technical resources, introductions to clients and legal teams and business development support.

LawTech Business Management

Platforms and service providers focused on the commercial, financial and operational management of legal practices, including time recording, billing, pricing, resource planning, revenue recognition and analytics.

LawTech Compliance & RegTech

Products that automate regulatory monitoring, compliance workflows, risk assessments, transaction screening, reporting and audit trails across jurisdictions. 

LawTech Consumer Services

Digital platforms and applications that deliver legal information, self-service document generation, fixed-fee advice and marketplace access to solicitors for individuals and small businesses.

LawTech eDiscovery & Dispute Resolution

Legal technology products that manage identification, collection, preservation, processing, review and production of electronically stored information for litigation and investigations, and those that support alternative dispute resolution through online platforms.

LawTech Practice Management

Integrated systems that manage day-to-day practice operations, including matter intake, calendaring, document management, client communications, billing and reporting, tailored to law firms or in-house legal team workflows.

LawTech Contract Analysis

Tools and services that apply machine learning and natural language processing techniques to extract clauses, obligations, risk metrics and metadata from individual contracts and large contract portfolios. Providers enable rapid due diligence, automated risk scoring, clause comparison and portfolio analytics to support negotiations, remediation programmes and contract rationalisation.

LawTech Document Automation

Platforms that convert templates and precedent libraries into automated document assembly systems that produce consistent, compliant documents from structured inputs. Document automation products reduce drafting time and errors, enforce approved contract language and integrate with CLM and document management systems.

LawTech Workflow Management & Service Platforms

Platforms that automate legal processes, routing tasks, defining service levels, integrating services and providing visibility and metrics across workflows. These systems enable process standardisation, vendor management and automation of complex legal services.

Legal Transformation Consulting

Strategic advisory services that design and lead in-house legal team change programmes. These consultants advise on operating model redesign, governance, legal process management and process engineering, and sourcing and implementing legal technology. Transformation consultants help General Counsels to lead and manage organisational change within their in-house legal teams, aiming to create efficiency and add value for the wider business.

Company Secretarial

Services that ensure corporate governance and statutory compliance, including maintenance of statutory registers, filing of annual returns and corporate records, board and shareholder meeting administration and regulatory filings across jurisdictions. Company secretarial providers help organisations meet fiduciary and filing obligations, manage director and shareholder communications and mitigate governance and regulatory risk.

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