Legal

Legal Sector

Improve performance across your law firm: from client intake to billing

Improve fee earner productivity, speed up billing, and increase matter profitability. Delivered end-to-end, with fees tied to results.

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Fix the way the firm operates: end to end

Pace Legal combines assured project delivery, tailored law firm solutions, and a proprietary digital twin to identify, execute, and sustain high-impact measurable improvements in profitability and efficiency.

See firm performance clearly

Our digital twin capability creates a working model of your firm’s operations, economics, and workflows, revealing inefficiencies and high-value opportunities.

It helps leaders understand what is happening today, simulate what could happen next, and track value realization over time.

Deploy proven law firm solutions

Our solutions are built around the operational challenges law firms face repeatedly, including working capital, client onboarding, pricing, resource management, AI enablement, and operating model change.

Each product combines proven methodology, delivery assets, and legal sector expertise to accelerate implementation and shorten the route to measurable value.

Deliver measurable impact

We deliver critical transformation from business case to benefits realization, working alongside partners, fee earners, finance, operations, technology, and business services teams.

From M&A integrations and new business intake to working capital, pricing, data, AI, and operating model change, we help firms deliver the work that matters most.

Built for law firms where growth is creating friction

Operational friction slows firms down, delays billing, affects realization, and leaves value trapped in the business.

Pace Legal helps law firms fix how work flows across the firm, improving profitability, efficiency, and delivery confidence from client intake through to cash collection.

>30%

Efficiency gains in a year. The average? 0.3%.

82%

Targets hit with guaranteed outcomes. Most projects? 50/50.

80%

Client satisfaction. Industry average? Just 58%.

Stop work breaking down between systems

Law firms often re-enter data across intake, risk, finance, and billing systems, creating duplication, errors, and delays.

Pace Legal fixes how data flows, so information is captured once, moves cleanly, and supports faster, more profitable matter delivery.

Remove the hidden drag on billing

Billing is often delayed because information is missing, inconsistent, or spread across systems.

Pace improves how work is managed across the full matter lifecycle, reducing delays, improving accuracy, and helping revenue flow faster.

Fix the gaps between teams

Work moves between fee earners, finance, and support teams, but handoffs often create delays and reduce visibility.

Pace creates clear, consistent workflows so matters move predictably, progress is easier to track, and issues are addressed earlier.

Proven solutions for law firms

Working Capital

Blueprint for Working Capital Management best practice.

Process and data-led approach to change, enabled by tech.

Improve cash flow and billing discipline to reduce lock-up and accelerate collections.

66% reduction in debtor days.

$9.5m in reduced debt.

$125k saved annually in reduced borrowing costs.

Resource Management

Optimizes talent allocation to enhance utilization and profit.

Tech adapted to deliver outcomes, not inefficiency.

Resource Management function that powers the firm’s future.

Recovered $1.6m pa in value leakage from inefficient resource management op model.

If demand for work remained the same, up to 20% utilization uplift achievable from the efficiencies implemented.

Pricing

Improves realization and revenue by aligning pricing strategies to matter complexity, client value, and market positioning.

Enhances pricing consistency and governance through structured frameworks, data insights, and scenario modelling to support partner decision-making.

Federation of firm’s pricing principles supports 25% YoY improvement in net profit margin.

Internal shift in pricing culture sustains a global 5% annual rate increase.

AI Enablement

Process-led approach to surfacing AI use cases that deliver an impactful return.

Transforms law firm operations and the provision of legal services.

True value from AI.

AI Programme leadership focused on RoI and business model reinvention.

AI-powered recurring revenue service line implemented.

Due diligence reduced from days to hours. Fixed price product created.

M&A

M&A due diligence and integration delivery.

Smooths the path to ‘Day 1’ and beyond.

Proven methods reduce disruption, unlock synergies faster, secure bottom line impact.

Leading integration for the biggest transatlantic ($3.7bn) and European ($1bn) combinations in history.

Safeguarding plan for ‘day 1’ deadline and beyond.

Strategic Portfolio Management

Process, frameworks, governance and delivery capability.

Ensures the right project investments are made that support the firm’s goals.

Control and RoI assurance.

Portfolio saves $4.1m in year 1.

Informed decision making, tighter governance, quality assured delivery and benefit realization.

Business Teams Operating Model

Removes inefficiency in back-office processes.

Leverages technology to streamline operations.

Reduces cost, improves scalability. An operation fit for the future.

Average operational efficiency of >26% achieved.

Client and Matter Onboarding

Speeds up onboarding to reduce time to open and bill matters.

Improves compliance with stronger workflows and controls.

Enhances client experience.

Onboarding 31% quicker on average.

Why Pace Legal?

With more than 400 legal sector projects delivered for 25+ global law firms, we combine deep sector expertise, data-led insight, proven delivery methods, and a sharp focus on measurable outcomes.

We do not just recommend change. We help firms identify where value is trapped, deliver the improvements needed to unlock it, and embed the ways of working required to sustain the impact.

We work predominantly with firms in the Am Law 100, and take on others case by case where we’re confident we can deliver measurable results. Our clients trust us with their projects, and we protect that as closely as the outcomes we deliver.