Legal Operating System

Strategy first, then the five areas that decide how a law firm performs: each with published thinking, a tool the firm runs itself, and a delivery kit

DECIDE

Strategy

Develop or review your firm strategy, design the target operating model most suited to delivering your strategy, using proven strategy operating model design and frameworks, modified specifically for modern law firms.

RUN

01

AI & Technology

Assess whether your firm is ready for AI, which tools to buy, how to drive adoption, how to rationalise your technology

02

Operations

Measure how efficiently the firm runs today against peers, then redesign it to optimise processes and AI use

03

Partner pay, structure & talent

Optimal partner rem model, ideal team structure, and how AI can be leveraged effectively. The right model driving the right outcomes for the firm

04

Pricing & commercial models

How to factor in the use of AI in matters and respond to client requests for AI discounts, while defending the value of work that does not incorporate AI

05

M&A & integration

Full process from target assessment, due diligence through deal management, integration and value creation

SPANNING

AI & Operations Readiness Report

Comprehensive diagnostic that measures across all five domains of the LOS · spans all five domains

Seven scored areas drawn from across all five domains and then cross-checked against each other in a way no other single tool can manage

Can be used standalone or complementary to other tools in the LOS · Detailed report whose findings feed directly into delivery playbooks · every report includes anonymous peer benchmark

CHANGE

Transformation

Every finding/recommendation from a diagnostic links to a specific delivery playbook, using Alt-V's transformation methodology

Best practice programme governance is built in · all transformation effort is tied back to the original strategy

CONTROL

Governance

AI Governance Scorecard

One check of how well your AI use is governed, across five clusters; verdict is your weakest cluster, not the average. UK and Australian editions answering what insurers, courts and clients now ask.

  • AI Governance Pack: policy, committee terms of reference, pilot charters, checking protocols
  • AI Policy Generator: builds the four governance documents for your firm

Dual UK and Australian jurisdictions: the UK strand answers the SRA and PII proposal-form questions, the Australian strand tracks the court practice notes (SC Gen 23, Federal Court GPN-AI).