Workflow
Research & Analysis
The intellectual engine of legal work — finding the law, understanding it, predicting outcomes.
Legal research is where the substance happens. Case law search, statutory interpretation, competitive analysis, and increasingly AI-assisted summarisation and prediction. This workflow spans everything from a junior associate's first Westlaw search to sophisticated litigation analytics predicting judge behaviour and case outcomes.
Sub-workflows
Case law research Statutory / regulatory research Competitive / market analysis Legal analytics (judge, outcome, citation) AI-assisted research & summarisation
Who uses this
Practice areas
Litigation Corporate / M&A IP / Patent All practice areas
Top pain points
What practitioners struggle with. Click through for vendor comparisons.
pp-0039 Legal research costs $400-600/hour in associate time and takes hours of manual digging — searching Westlaw/Lexis, reading irrelevant results, synthesizing case law. Clients increasingly refuse to pay for research hours on invoices. AI can compress a 4-hour research memo into 20 minutes, but most firms have no approved tool 7 vendors pp-0044 Firm has decades of work product — briefs, motions, precedent documents, know-how — locked in DMS folders and SharePoint graveyards nobody can search; the brief the partner drafted 3 years ago is unfindable and institutional knowledge walks out the door when lawyers leave 7 vendors pp-0065 Litigation team needs to know how the assigned judge actually rules — summary judgment, Daubert, claim construction, sentencing — but that intelligence is locked in thousands of unstructured docket entries, so strategy runs on anecdote and a partner's memory 4 vendors pp-0085 Litigation associate searches for case law supporting a specific legal argument but keyword search returns 500+ results, most irrelevant — the actual proposition ('courts have held that X constitutes Y under Z standard') is buried across dozens of cases that happen to contain the same terms but reach different conclusions 4 vendors pp-0032 Trademark clearance search costs $1,500-3,000 through an attorney and takes weeks — startups and small businesses either skip it (risking a cease-and-desist) or use free tools that miss common law marks and state registrations 2 vendors pp-0068 Litigation firm needs to build custom analytics dashboards — track motion success rates by judge, venue, and case type across state and federal courts — but existing tools offer pre-built reports that don't match their specific strategic questions 2 vendors pp-0114 Patent attorney conducting a prior art search for a client's invention spends 2-3 days manually searching USPTO, EPO, and non-patent literature databases — reading hundreds of abstracts, mapping claims to prior art references, and still worrying they missed something in a Chinese or Japanese patent that wasn't translated. The search costs the client $5,000-15,000 and the attorney still can't guarantee completeness 2 vendors pp-0116 Patent prosecution attorney receives an office action and needs to decide whether to fight, amend, or appeal — but has no data on this specific examiner's grant rate, allowance patterns, or appeal success rate, so the strategy decision comes down to gut feel instead of evidence, and a wrong call burns through the client's prosecution budget on a losing strategy 2 vendors pp-0266 Litigation team needs to verify every citation in a 40-page brief before filing — manually checking each case reference against the original source takes a full day, and a single bad citation can result in sanctions or a lost motion 2 vendors pp-0278 IP department managing a portfolio of 500 patents across 12 art units has no systematic way to benchmark their prosecution outcomes — are their allowance rates above or below average? Are they spending more per patent than comparable portfolios? Nobody knows until the annual outside counsel review 2 vendors
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- 2 Salesforce 33 vendors
- 3 SharePoint 31 vendors
- 4 Slack 28 vendors
- 5 Microsoft 365 26 vendors
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- 8 iManage 19 vendors
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