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Industry · Legal · UK & Ireland · 20–500 fee-earners

Matters that move. Privilege intact.

Matter intake that doesn't take a week. Contract triage your partners trust. Conveyancing AML that survives a CQS audit. Fractional CISO, SRA-aware managed IT, ISO 27001 readiness - and the change programme that gets you there. We build it into iManage, NetDocuments, Leap, Tikit and Aderant - on-prem when the matter demands it.

WHAT WE'VE SHIPPED IN LEGAL
95%
contract triage accuracy
12 min
per AML file (was 3 days)
2.4 hrs
reclaimed per fee-earner per day
6 wks
Vern pilot to in-production
SRA-aware · Lexcel · CQSSee the case study →
The brief

Six things we hear on every first call with a partner.

We've shipped enough in legal that the brief writes itself. Recognise any?

Matter intake takes a week
"Conflicts, KYC, engagement letter, file open - we lose three days before a fee-earner touches it."
Contract triage burns partner time
"Junior solicitors flag, partners review every one. Same clause, fiftieth time. We can't scale advisory like this."
Conveyancing AML is breaking property
"Source-of-funds eats the cashier team. We're turning away purchases because we can't onboard fast enough."
AI is here, but privilege says no
"I won't put a privileged matter into someone else's training set. So we use nothing - and the trainees use everything."
Time recording leaks revenue
"There's a two-hour gap between what fee-earners record and what they actually did. That's our margin."
Lateral hires bring messy data
"Every senior we recruit arrives with three years of inherited files and no idea what's privileged or what's bin."
We've shipped against every one of these. Most inside 6–10 weeks.
What we ship for legal

Six practices we ship most. Plus whatever you bring us.

Each one outcome-priced, fixed scope, live in weeks. Pick one - or stack several with a fractional exec running point. If your problem isn't here, we'll still scope it.

FLAGSHIP · CONTRACT AI

Contract triage with Vern

Our contract AI reviews against your firm's own clause library and precedents. Flags deviations, drafts redlines, summarises position. Runs in iManage or NetDocs - never leaves your tenant on privileged matters.

95%
clause-match accuracy
From £18k
6-week pilot
INTAKE

Matter intake & conflicts

From client enquiry to file open in hours, not days. Conflicts checked across DMS, time-recording and ledger in one pass. Engagement letters drafted in your house style. Integrates with iManage, NetDocs, Leap, Tikit and Aderant.

3 days → 2 hours
to open a matter
100%
conflicts auditable
AML · CONVEYANCING

Conveyancing & property AML

Amlio in legal mode: ID&V, sanctions and PEP screening, beneficial-ownership unwind on corporate purchases, source-of-funds against bank statements and gift-letter analysis. CQS / SRA-defensible audit trail.

12 min
per file (was 3 days)
98%
first-pass straight-through
DOC AI · ON-PREM READY

Document AI for drafting & due diligence

Internal copilots fine-tuned on your firm's letters, precedents and historical advice. Drafts correspondence, summarises bundles, runs DD checklists. Privileged work runs on-prem or in your private VPC.

2.4 hrs/day
per fee-earner
3 weeks
to live
REVENUE

Time-leakage recovery

Reconcile what fee-earners actually did (DMS activity, emails, calendar, calls) against what they recorded. Surface the gap, narrate it, let the fee-earner accept or reject. Plugs into Carpe Diem, Intapp Time and 3E.

+11%
billable hours captured
6 wks
pilot to firm-wide
CYBER

Fractional CISO & SRA cyber

Ongoing cyber leadership against the SRA's cyber resilience expectations, Lexcel and ISO 27001. We sit alongside the COLP / COFA on board reporting. From £1k/month.

From £1k
per month
Lexcel / SRA
ready
BESPOKE · OUTCOME-PRICED

Don't see your problem on the list?
We build what you need.

The six practices above are what we ship most. They're not all we ship. Bring the actual constraint - bundles too big, DD that misses tail risk, e-billing the GC won't pay - and we'll scope it the same way: fixed fee, fixed timeline, engineer-led, IP yours.

Plugs into your stack

We build into the systems you already run.

No "rip and replace". We integrate with the DMS, practice management, time, e-billing and AML systems UK law firms run as standard.

Don't see yours? Ask us - chances are we've built against it.
iManage
DMS
NetDocuments
DMS
Worldox
DMS
HighQ
DMS
Leap
PRACTICE
Clio
PRACTICE
Actionstep
PRACTICE
Visualfiles
PRACTICE
Tikit
MATTER
Aderant
MATTER
Elite 3E
MATTER
Proclaim
MATTER
Carpe Diem
TIME
Intapp Time
TIME
SmartSearch
AML
+ many more
Featured case

Six weeks. Vern on commercial drafting. Partner hours back where they belong.

140 fee-earnersUK · Manchester & LeedsCommercial & propertyiManage · TikitLive in 6 weeks
THE STARTING POSITION

A 140-fee-earner UK regional firm with strong commercial, real estate and dispute resolution practices. Commercial contract review was eating two partner days a week per team. The firm had trialled three off-the-shelf "legal AI" tools - all three flagged hallucinations on real matters and all three were quietly switched off by the senior partners within a month.

WHAT WE SCOPED (WEEK 1)

A fixed-scope, fixed-fee 6-week Vern pilot at £18k to ship one workflow: commercial contract triage for the real-estate team's standard leases. The deal - if it didn't pass the senior partner's bar, no rollout. If it did, we'd quote a fixed scope for the rest of the commercial practice.

WHAT WE SHIPPED (WEEKS 2–6)

A Vern-based contract reviewer trained on the firm's own clause library, precedents and house style. Every input was grounded in the firm's iManage history - not the open web. Outputs included a clause-by-clause deviation report, suggested redlines, and a confidence score per finding. Every output linked back to the firm's own source documents. Privileged matters ran on a private Azure VPC; everything else used Azure OpenAI with zero retention. Code in their tenant. Full IP transfer at week six.

WHAT CHANGED (POST-LAUNCH)

The real-estate pilot ran for five weeks before the firm signed a £74k rollout across commercial, banking and corporate. Six months in: partner-level review time on standard contracts had dropped 64%. The freed partner hours went to two new advisory mandates the firm previously couldn't take. No hallucinations escaped the reviewer dashboard - the audit trail logged every model call, every source citation, every fee-earner sign-off. The COLP signed it off as Lexcel-compliant in the same quarter.

IMPACT, 6 MONTHS POST-LAUNCH
-64%
partner review time
95%
clause-match accuracy
6 wks
scope to in-production
+2
advisory mandates taken
£0
hallucinations released
Lexcel
COLP-signed

"Three vendors had told us their legal AI was safe. AssurePath were the only ones who built it inside our DMS, on our clause library, and showed us the audit trail before they showed us the demo. That's why we signed."

Managing Partner
140-fee-earner UK regional law firm
Read the full case study (PDF)
Privilege & sovereignty

Three deployment options. All keep privilege intact.

Different matters demand different boundaries. We default to whichever your sensitivity policy requires - and most firms run a mix.

OPTION 1 · ON-PREM
On-premises

Self-hosted Mistral, Llama 3, or a fine-tuned open model on your own hardware. Nothing leaves the firm. The default for criminal defence, family, restructuring and any matter where 'cloud' is a hard no.

  • Self-hosted, your hardware
  • Zero external network egress
  • Suitable for legal-aid & family
MOST COMMON
OPTION 2 · PRIVATE VPC
Private cloud

Azure OpenAI in your tenant or AWS Bedrock with private endpoints, both with zero retention. Data stays in-region, never crosses to a vendor's training set. The most common pattern for commercial work.

  • Azure OpenAI / Bedrock private
  • Zero retention, zero training
  • UK regions by default
OPTION 3 · MANAGED CLOUD
Managed

For low-sensitivity drafting and admin tasks: Azure OpenAI with logged, signed-off prompts. Cheaper, fast, but bounded. We tell you when this is the wrong choice for the matter.

  • Audit-logged prompts
  • Signed-off model versions
  • Cost-efficient for high volume
Compliance

Built for firms regulators watch.

Law firms answer to the SRA, the BSB, the Legal Aid Agency, the ICO and their PI insurers. Everything we ship is built to make those reviews easier, not harder.

SRA-aware
Built around the SRA Standards and Regulations and the SRA's cyber-resilience expectations. Sits cleanly inside Lexcel and CQS.
ISO 27001 advisor
Independent ISO 27001 consultancy. We deliver the ISMS, the SoA, the risk register and sit alongside you in Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits.
Privilege by default
Privileged work runs on-prem or in your private VPC. No client data crosses to a vendor's training set. Source citations on every AI output.
UK data residency
All deployments default to UK regions - Microsoft 365 UK, Azure UK South, AWS eu-west-2. On-premises and private VPC available as standard.
Audit-ready evidence
Every AI decision logs inputs, outputs, model version and reviewer sign-off. CQS, Lexcel and ISO 27001 audit trails ready as standard.
Background-checked staff
Everyone touching client matter is BS 7858 background-checked. DPAs signed before scoping. NDAs as standard.
FAQ

What partners ask first.

Eight questions managing partners, COLPs and IT directors ask on every legal first call.

Yes. A meaningful share of our practice work is for UK law firms 20–500 fee-earners - private client, residential and commercial conveyancing, commercial, dispute resolution, family and specialist boutiques. We've shipped matter intake automation, conflicts unification, contract triage (Vern), conveyancing AML, document AI for drafting and due diligence, and SRA-aware managed IT into iManage, NetDocuments, Leap, Clio, Actionstep, Tikit, Aderant and Elite 3E.

Let's talk legal

Bring the matter.
We'll bring a legal-fluent engineer.

Free 30-minute working session with someone who's shipped this in your sector before. You bring the constraint - matter intake, contract triage, conveyancing AML, on-prem AI, whatever's on fire. We bring a fixed proposal in five working days.