AI for Law firms
AI built for how law firms run
Actionstep’s AI – Actionstep Intelligence – doesn’t just practice law, it powers the business of law. When it comes to law firm artificial intelligence, the emergence of these technologies is transforming how legal practices operate on a daily basis.
Actionstep Intelligence is the AI operational and governance system for midsize law firms. It observes, analyzes, and executes across every matter, every billing cycle, every workflow, so your firm captures more of the value it already creates.
The business of law is where AI matters most
AI built for law firms today focuses on the practice of law: drafting, research, summarization. Those capabilities are valuable, but the harder, more durable problem is how a firm runs. Managing matters and billing accurately. Maintaining compliance. Making sound decisions under financial pressure. These are the operational problems that determine whether a firm is profitable, and they are the problems Actionstep Intelligence solves.
Actionstep has spent 20 years inside the operational core of midsize law firms. That is where our AI works proving how AI for law firm operations changes the game.
AI time and revenue capture
AI-driven time and revenue capture that improves financial performance and closes the gap between work done and work billed. It’s AI that maximizes billable hours.
Passively tracks billable activity across Actionstep, Outlook, Word, and other tools, then codes time to matters and drafts bill narratives, so the work that gets done gets billed.
The revenue recovery happens in the background. Your lawyers bill what they earned without a manual timesheet standing between the work and the invoice. Law firms harnessing this AI experience greater profitability.
AI business intelligence – Coming soon
AI-powered intelligence about firm performance and profitability that drives better decision-making. Adopting AI yields deeper insights into law firm operations.
Most firm reporting answers the question ‘what happened?’ Actionstep’s AI business intelligence answers ‘what does it mean and what should we do about it?’ Ask about your firm’s data in plain language and get a sourced, contextual answer about matter profitability, billing trends, realization rates, and team performance.
AI-orchestrated workflow automation – Coming soon
Automation for how your firm operates, Agents execute tasks within the boundaries your administrators define, and every action is logged.
When AI acts inside your firm, you see what it did, who approved it, and what happened next making it safe enough to rely on. Trusting AI-driven solutions is essential for modern law firms.
Why Actionstep’s AI is different
Actionstep’s AI works in the background to automate the busywork, eliminating data friction, and let professionals focus on high-value work to drive profitability.
It delivers business insights, identifies revenue opportunities, and helps your people understand, prioritize, and execute tasks across approved legal, operational, and financial workflows.
Four things distinguish how we are building this.
The system of record
Actionstep sits at the operational core of your firm matters, billing, compliance, workflows, client files. AI tools need to run through a trusted data layer to be genuinely useful. That layer is Actionstep. Other tools must integrate with us, not the other way around.
It works the way your firm works
Actionstep was built on the conviction that software should adapt to the firm. AI in Actionstep is configured to your matter types, your billing structures, your compliance requirements, not a generic template applied to every customer the same way.
The judgement stays with you
Governance is not something we bolt on after the fact, it is how Actionstep’s AI is designed from the start. Your administrators set the boundaries. Your lawyers review before anything is acted on. The firm decides what AI does, and can see exactly what it did.
You’re not locked to today’s models
The AI landscape will look different in two years. Because Actionstep is model-agnostic, your firm moves with it, connecting to better models as they emerge, without rebuilding your operational foundation each time.
Your data. Your control.
Actionstep does not use your firm’s data to train AI models. Your client information, matter history, and billing records are not shared with third-party AI providers in a way that exposes them beyond your firm. This commitment to data privacy is especially important as more law firms use AI systems.
Every AI feature is opt-in. You choose what AI does inside your firm, you see what it has done, and you can audit it. That visibility is in Actionstep, empowering law firms through careful use of AI tools.
AI Integrations
Explore Actionstep’s top AI integrations. These integrations illustrate how AI for law firms is advancing success in the legal sector.
All of this is delivered inside Actionstep — no jumping between tools, no extra risk, and no complexity.
Expertise over hype, focusing on real impact
We’ve established our AI Centre of Excellence to guide our customers on the best use of AI, stay ahead of market developments and curate a roadmap of practical AI features that directly impact operational and financial performance. This ensures law firms are getting the most from AI innovations.
AI that lightens the mental load
With AI handling the work behind the work, your team gets back time for strategy, service, and success.
