Law Firms
You bill $450 an hour.You collect $340.
Realization rates swing 15-20% between partners. Associates sit on the bench while another group scrambles to staff a matter. Conflicts checks take three days and the client goes elsewhere. We embed with your team, map your entire operation from intake to collection, and deploy AI specialists that close the gaps your practice management reports never surface.
The Problem
Where the money
is going.
Cost
Realization Rate Variance
Partner A records time the same day, bills at full rate, and realizes 93%. Partner B enters time on Friday from memory, loses two hours nobody can reconstruct, then writes down another three at billing review because the total 'feels high.' Same rate card, same clients, same firm. The gap between them is six figures a year. Your billing reports show the write-down. They don't show the time that was never entered.
Process
Matter Staffing & Associate Utilization
A third-year with securities experience sits at 40% utilization while the M&A group across the hall needs exactly that skill set for a deal closing next week. Assignment happens by who the partner knows, not by who's available with the right background. Practice group leaders manage their own bench. Nobody sees utilization across the firm until month-end reports, and by then the matter was staffed with a contractor at twice the cost.
Risk
Client Intake & Conflicts Bottleneck
A referral comes in on Tuesday. The conflicts analyst runs the check, flags three potential hits, and routes them to the general counsel's office for review. By Thursday, two of the three are cleared but the third requires a partner call. The new client needed an answer by Wednesday. They called another firm. Your intake process protects the firm from risk. It also protects competitors from losing business to you.
Knowledge
Institutional Knowledge Trapped in Silos
The appellate brief on that exact issue was written fourteen months ago by an associate who's now in the London office. The regulatory research your client needs was completed last quarter for a different matter. The testifying expert your partner wants to retain has already been retained twice by your firm. Nobody can find any of it. Document management holds the files. It doesn't hold the knowledge of what's in them or when they're relevant again.
How We Work
Three steps. Hands on.
We embed with your team, map your operation, find what no one could see, and deploy specialists that fix it. You get a dedicated team, not a login.
Map
We start with a structured discovery across every practice group and office. Our team interviews managing partners, practice group leaders, associates, paralegals, conflicts analysts, billing coordinators, and legal secretaries. We connect to your practice management, document management, billing, conflicts, and time tracking systems. The result is your Blueprint: a complete, live map of how your firm actually operates, from client intake through matter staffing, work product, billing, and collection.
Uncover
We analyze everything we mapped. Our platform finds the realization gaps between partners that cost hundreds of thousands a year, the staffing mismatches where associates sit idle while contractors get hired, the intake delays where three-day conflicts checks lose winnable business. We validate every finding with your team before acting on it. Not a one-time audit. Always running, always finding more.
Execute
Every finding comes with a concrete plan and a deploy button. We build AI specialists that handle the fix end to end. Flag time entries drifting past 24 hours before they become lost revenue, match available associates to open matters by skill and experience, surface prior work product when a new matter hits the same legal issue. You approve, they run. We stay with you to make sure they deliver.
Example Findings
What Yield typically finds.
Based on a typical mid-market company with $20M–$50M in annual revenue.
Cost
Unrealized Revenue from Time Entries Older Than 48 Hours
$316K/yr
Cost
Contract Attorney Spend Replacing Idle Associates
$182K/yr
Process
Associate Hours Duplicating Existing Memoranda
19 hrs/wk
Risk
New Matters Lost to Multi-Day Conflicts Clearance
27 matters/yr
Knowledge
Prior Briefs and Research Memos Never Resurfaced
3,100+ docs
In Practice
See it work.
From day one.
Week 1
Discovery
We talk to your entire firm.
AI-led conversations with every partner, associate, paralegal, and support staff across all offices and practice groups. Not surveys. Real conversations that capture the workarounds, the staffing shortcuts, the institutional knowledge no practice management system records.
Month 1
Blueprint + First Savings
Your Blueprint is live. Agents are saving money.
A complete, verified map of how your firm works, from new client intake and conflicts clearance through matter staffing, work execution, billing, and collection. The first realization gaps and staffing mismatches are identified. AI specialists are already flagging late time entries and surfacing relevant prior work product.
Ongoing
Continuous Returns
Savings compound. Every quarter.
Yield keeps finding inefficiencies, deploying specialists, and compounding savings. Realization rates tighten as time entry patterns improve. Associate utilization rises as cross-group staffing gets smarter. The platform pays for itself and keeps going.
FAQ
Common questions.
Our conflicts clearance process takes two to three days and we've lost referrals because of it. Can Yield accelerate the intake pipeline?
Yield maps your entire intake workflow from the initial referral through conflicts screening, engagement letter, and matter opening. It identifies the specific bottlenecks: how long each step actually takes, where matters sit waiting for a partner call to clear a potential conflict, and which conflict types resolve routinely versus which ones require real analysis. The specialists then streamline the routing so routine clearances move in hours instead of days, and the conflicts analyst spends her time on the genuine hits rather than the false positives that slow everything down.
We have associates sitting at 40% utilization in one practice group while another group is hiring contract attorneys for the same skill set. Can Yield fix that mismatch?
Yield tracks associate availability, skill set, experience level, and matter requirements across every practice group and office. When the M&A group needs a third-year with securities experience and there's one sitting at 40% utilization in the corporate group across the hall, Yield flags that match in real time. Practice group leaders currently staff from their own bench because they don't see the firm-wide picture. Yield gives them that picture and makes the cross-group staffing recommendation before the hiring manager calls the contract agency.
We bought iManage and invested in a KM initiative three years ago, but lawyers stopped using it within six months. What went wrong and why would this be different?
The iManage KM initiative failed because it required lawyers to tag, categorize, and profile every document they produced. That's extra work with no immediate payoff, so adoption collapsed. Yield takes the opposite approach. It reads what your firm already produces inside iManage, maps the relationships between matters, legal issues, jurisdictions, and experts, and surfaces relevant prior work product automatically when a new matter is opened. No tagging. No profiles. No extra steps for attorneys. The knowledge is already in your DMS. Yield makes it findable without asking anyone to change how they work.
Our realization rates swing 15 to 20 points between partners and the managing partner has tried addressing it in partner meetings for years. Can Yield improve realization without creating partner friction?
Yield doesn't try to change how partners record or bill. It works upstream and downstream of the partner. Upstream, it flags time entries drifting past 24 hours so the associate or secretary can prompt the entry while the work is still fresh. Downstream, it gives billing coordinators the data to question write-downs that don't match the engagement scope. A partner who writes down $8,000 on a matter where the hours match the fee estimate gets a different conversation than one who writes down $8,000 on a matter with genuine scope problems. The partner keeps full billing authority. The people around them just have better information.
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