Data: Make Your Firm Legible
Data engineering and intelligence built for the way law firms actually work, bringing PMS, DMS, time-recording, billing, HR and CRM together into matter intelligence, profitability insight and operational reporting.
Why This Service Exists
Most firms can tell you what they billed. Far fewer can tell you, without a week of manual work, which matters made money, which clients cost more to serve than they pay, or which teams are carrying write-offs that never reach a partner report.
The data exists. It sits in the practice management system, the document management system, the time-recording tool, the billing platform, the HR system and the CRM, in six different shapes, with six different definitions of "client" and "matter". Every question that crosses two of those systems becomes a manual reconciliation exercise, which is why it only gets asked once a year.
3Rive builds the layer that makes the firm legible: ingestion, warehousing, quality control and visualisation, so partner and operational questions get answered from one governed source rather than six spreadsheets.
How It Helps Clients
- One version of a matter, a client and a fee earner.Master data management resolves the definitional conflicts between systems, so numbers from different reports finally agree.
- Profitability visible at matter level.Cost-to-serve, realisation and write-off appear where decisions are actually made, on the matter and the client relationship.
- Reporting that runs itself.Operational and partner reporting automated out of the pipeline, replacing the monthly manual extract-and-reconcile cycle.
- Built by people who know legal systems.PMS, DMS and time-recording data models have well-known quirks. We have worked with them, which shortens the discovery phase considerably.
- AI-ready by construction.The same governed, documented data estate that powers your dashboards is what any credible AI programme needs underneath it.
What We Build
Data Foundations
- Data warehousing, data lakes and integration architecture.
- ETL/ELT pipelines from PMS, DMS, time-recording and finance systems.
- Data quality, governance and master data management.
Insight and Reporting
- Power BI and Tableau dashboards calibrated to legal operations.
- Matter intelligence, profitability and pricing analytics.
- Operational and partner reporting frameworks.
Analytics and Governance
- Forecasting and benchmarking.
- AI-ready data preparation.
- Data governance, policy and lineage frameworks calibrated to firm scrutiny.
How It Works
Question Definition
We start from the decisions the firm needs to make, then work backwards to the data required, rather than warehousing everything and hoping.
Source Assessment
Review of the PMS, DMS, time-recording, billing, HR and CRM estate, including data quality and the definitional conflicts between systems.
Architecture and Pipeline Build
Warehouse or lake design, ingestion pipelines, and the transformation layer that reconciles matter, client and fee earner across sources.
Quality and Governance
Data quality rules, master data management, lineage documentation and access governance calibrated to firm scrutiny.
Visualisation and Reporting
Power BI or Tableau dashboards built to the questions defined in step one, with partner and operational reporting frameworks around them.
Adoption and Iteration
Rollout to partners and operations teams, with ongoing extension as new questions surface.
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Definition
What is legal data analytics?
Legal Data Analytics
Legal data analytics is the practice of combining data from a law firm's practice management, document management, time-recording, billing, HR and CRM systems into a single governed source, then using it to answer operational and commercial questions. Typical outputs include matter intelligence, profitability and pricing analytics, and automated partner and operational reporting. 3Rive delivers legal data analytics as an engineering service, building the warehousing, ingestion, data quality and visualisation layer, with governance and lineage frameworks calibrated to firm scrutiny.
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Where matter and pricing data commonly breaks down, and what it costs the firm.
Read moreElite 3E Legal Pricing: How to Maximise Your Investment
Getting more analytical value out of a PMS firms already run.
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The shift from retrospective billing data to forward-looking matter economics.
Read moreWhich of your matters actually made money?
If answering that takes more than a minute, the reporting layer is the problem. Let us look at it.