For Pittsburgh Law Firms
One monthly retainer. IT support, websites, automation, training, and smarter tools when they fit, what we do is set by what your firm actually needs. Pace controlled by the hours you book. Client material stays on your firm's servers.
Your associates spend twelve hours on a contract set before a partner ever sees it. Deposition prep means reading thousands of pages by hand. Knowledge from past matters lives in a system nobody can really search. Institutional knowledge walks out the door every time a senior associate leaves.
You've seen what the new tools can do. Your ethics committee or IT director blocked the pilot. They were right to. The off-the-shelf tools store the data on someone else's servers. When you're handling privileged communications and confidential client files, that's the wrong setup, no matter how the vendor's contract reads.
Reed Smith named a Chief AI Officer. K&L Gates won an Innovation Icon for their tech work. Both firms are headquartered in Pittsburgh and recruit from the same talent pool you do. Allen & Overy rolled out smart-drafting tools to all 3,500 of its lawyers firmwide. Harvey raised $200M at an $11B valuation in March 2026, explicitly to scale these tools across law firms.
The mid-AmLaw and regional firms that don't have a credible answer in 2026 are losing on the hiring side first, then on the client side six months later.
Sources: Bloomberg Law · Harvey AI · BTI Consulting Group · A&O Shearman newsroomThe retainer is the container. The work inside it flexes per firm based on what your team actually needs. Some firms get website rebuilds plus training. Some get IT support while a partner figures out their next move. Some get smart-tools work on case files. Same hours, same price, completely different work.
Smart search across your matter files. First-draft contracts your associates edit instead of writing from scratch. Connection to your case management system. Everything runs on your firm's servers, no client data leaves.
Practical training for partners and associates on which tools are safe and useful. Drafting your firm's internal policy on the new tools. Helping the ethics committee evaluate vendor claims.
Help-desk, infrastructure, vendor management, security monitoring. Fractional IT director at the largest tier. Anything that should not eat partner time but currently does.
Firm website rebuild. Client portals. Internal dashboards for partners. Custom intake forms that pre-screen new matters.
Move from old servers to private cloud. Set up the right hardware so the smart tools run on your firm's infrastructure. Identity and access management.
Annual security checks. Patient-data protection if your work touches health. SOC 2 readiness. Incident response planning. Vendor security review.
Practice-group revenue reports. Time-and-billing analytics. Matter profitability. Lateral-recruit dashboards.
Engagement letters generated automatically. Conflict checks streamlined. Matter intake. Client communications and reminders.
Discovery sets the scope. The free 30-minute assessment is where we map your firm's specific gaps to the catalog. The retainer agreement documents what we'll prioritize in your first 90 days. Quarterly review can shift the mix as priorities change.
$250 per hour blended rate. Same rate for both senior operators. The work inside the retainer is set by your firm's needs, pull from any combination of services in the catalog above.
First month is free at any tier. Hours roll over one month max. 30-day walk clause if no shipped work. Firms needing more than 40 hours per month get a custom Enterprise quote.
What the retainer doesn't include: tool usage costs (model inference, software subscriptions), infrastructure costs (hosting, storage, cloud compute), and any third-party tools required for your build. These are billed pass-through at cost, typically $300 to $1,500 per month depending on usage. We design things to keep them predictable.
We look at your current IT setup, where the team's time is going, and the three to five places we'd start. Recommendation on a starting tier with reasoning. You leave with a 90-day plan, yours to keep.
One-page short-form retainer agreement, drafted within 24 hours of the call. Three-page long-form available if your GC wants it. Standard hours-not-rolled-over-past-one-month language.
We start work on day one. By end of month one, your firm has shipped real work, not slide decks. If we miss, you walk. No termination fee.
No client data touches an external server. No outside-system calls. The system runs where your data lives. Privilege is preserved by how it's built, not by a policy you have to enforce.
We build with full activity logs, access records, and matter-by-matter data isolation. Your ethics committee gets the documentation they need to approve, on day one.
Marc Shade, twenty-plus years shipping software for corporate clients. Scott Frederick Laughlin, software and infrastructure. The people you talk to are the people writing the code. No junior labor. No offshoring. No handoff chain.
We're local. Same talent pool, same industry network, same regulatory and client environment your firm operates in. Same time zone for incident response.
Monthly retainer, standard hours-included contract, partner-decidable budget line. No procurement gauntlet. No six-month enterprise software sales cycle.
Risk-averse partners start at Foundation tier. Watch the work prove out for ninety days. Scale to Growth or Enterprise when the value is concrete. Your hours, your pace.
Free 30-minute look at your firm's setup
Thirty minutes, no deck, no slides, no follow-up pitch unless you ask. You walk away with a 90-day plan and a recommended starting tier. Yours to keep regardless of whether we ever work together.
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