Build your own system

Counsel Universe is modular and fully configurable to meet your team’s evolving needs.

THE MODULES

Use it your way

Disconnected tools only slow you down. Counsel Universe lets you pick only what you need—when you need it—and connect everything into one system that actually works together.

For in-house teams

For law firms

Smarter Engagement

Smarter Engagement

Drive more value from your external engagements, enabling teams to effectively evaluate proposals, negotiate better value, and achieve greater cost certainty.

RFPs & Direct Instructions

Create instructions and RFPs, complete with granular scoping, assumptions and AFA requirements.

Instruction Templates

Matter type-specific reusable templates ensure the right information is being requested from your firms for each instruction.

Proposal Comparison & Scoring

Compare proposals across assumptions, fee types and evaluate them against your scoring criteria.

AI-Supported Negotiations

Use AI to flag discrepancies in assumptions and suggest areas for negotiation.

Matter Benchmarking

Benchmark proposed fees and structures against historic matter data.

Feedback Collection

Capture and analyse feedback about law firm proposals.

For In-house teams

For law firms

Smarter Engagement

Smarter Engagement

Drive more value from your external engagements, enabling teams to effectively evaluate proposals, negotiate better value, and achieve greater cost certainty.

RFPs & Direct Instructions

Create instructions and RFPs, complete with granular scoping, assumptions and AFA requirements.

Instruction Templates

Matter type-specific reusable templates ensure the right information is being requested from your firms for each instruction.

Proposal Comparison & Scoring

Compare proposals across assumptions, fee types and evaluate them against your scoring criteria.

AI-Supported Negotiations

Use AI to flag discrepancies in assumptions and suggest areas for negotiation.

Matter Benchmarking

Benchmark proposed fees and structures against historic matter data.

Feedback Collection

Capture and analyse feedback about law firm proposals.

For in-house teams

For law firms

Smarter Engagement

Smarter Engagement

Drive more value from your external engagements, enabling teams to effectively evaluate proposals, negotiate better value, and achieve greater cost certainty.

RFPs & Direct Instructions

Create instructions and RFPs, complete with granular scoping, assumptions and AFA requirements.

Instruction Templates

Matter type-specific reusable templates ensure the right information is being requested from your firms for each instruction.

Proposal Comparison & Scoring

Compare proposals across assumptions, fee types and evaluate them against your scoring criteria.

AI-Supported Negotiations

Use AI to flag discrepancies in assumptions and suggest areas for negotiation.

Matter Benchmarking

Benchmark proposed fees and structures against historic matter data.

Feedback Collection

Capture and analyse feedback about law firm proposals.

In-house

law firms

Front Door
Manage all legal requests from the business. Analyze volume and distribution to drive better resource allocation, and leverage templates and contract automation to self-serve low-complexity work.
Relationship Management
Gain a 360° view of your relationship with each firm through insights around performance, spend history, prior performance, rates and discounts, and value adds surfaced in a single location.
Smarter Engagement
Simplify the RFP process with standardized templates, AI insights, and benchmarking data, enabling teams to evaluate proposals, negotiate better value, and achieve greater cost certainty.
Matter Management
Maintain control and visibility of all your matters with centralise tasks, updates, and deadlines to enable efficient project workflows, real-time oversight of matters and seamless collaboration with outside counsel.
Financial Management
Streamline financial management with AI tools, automating invoice reviews, tracking scope changes, and simplifying spend management and negotiations.
Document Management
Centralize all documents and up-to-date templates, and enable teams to collaboratively edit, discuss and review work in one place.
Reporting & Matter Intelligence
Generate tailored reports and leverage AI insights to drive data-driven panel management decisions to ensure you get the most value from your law firms.
Knowledge Sharing
Leverage the expertise of your Panel Law Firms and make legal know-how and best practice searchable, and accessible on-demand for the entire legal function.
Platform Integration
Centralize tasks, updates, and deadlines to enable efficient project workflows, real-time oversight of matters and seamless collaboration with outside counsel.

In-house

law firms

Front Door
Manage all legal requests from the business. Analyze volume and distribution to drive better resource allocation, and leverage templates and contract automation to self-serve low-complexity work.
Relationship Management
Gain a 360° view of your relationship with each firm through insights around performance, spend history, prior performance, rates and discounts, and value adds surfaced in a single location.
Smarter Engagement
Simplify the RFP process with standardized templates, AI insights, and benchmarking data, enabling teams to evaluate proposals, negotiate better value, and achieve greater cost certainty.
Matter Management
Maintain control and visibility of all your matters with centralise tasks, updates, and deadlines to enable efficient project workflows, real-time oversight of matters and seamless collaboration with outside counsel.
Financial Management
Streamline financial management with AI tools, automating invoice reviews, tracking scope changes, and simplifying spend management and negotiations.
Document Management
Centralize all documents and up-to-date templates, and enable teams to collaboratively edit, discuss and review work in one place.
Reporting & Matter Intelligence
Generate tailored reports and leverage AI insights to drive data-driven panel management decisions to ensure you get the most value from your law firms.
Knowledge Sharing
Leverage the expertise of your Panel Law Firms and make legal know-how and best practice searchable, and accessible on-demand for the entire legal function.
Platform Integration
Centralize tasks, updates, and deadlines to enable efficient project workflows, real-time oversight of matters and seamless collaboration with outside counsel.

EXPLORE USE CASES

Built to solve your problems

Panel Firm Management

Gain a complete view of your panel—capabilities, spend, and performance—to ensure the right work goes to the right firms, at the right price.

Learn more

Matter Management

Manage legal work more efficiently from start to finish with financial control and real-time progress.

Learn more

Legal Landing Page

A single jump-off point for legal - connect your lawyers to all their critical data and resources from across other platforms.

Learn more

Coming Soon.

Agentic Legal Workflows

Combine high-quality platform data and curated feature workflows with the intelligence, flexibility and familiarity of your preferred LLM.

Learn more

Coming Soon.

EXPLORE USE CASES

Built to solve your problems

Panel Firm Management
Gain a complete view of your panel—capabilities, spend, and performance—to ensure the right work goes to the right firms, at the right price.
Learn more
Matter Management
manage legal work more efficiently from start to finish with financial control and real-time progress.
Learn more
Legal Landing Page
A single jump-off point for legal - connect your lawyers to all their critical data and resources from across other platforms.
Learn more
Coming Soon.
Agentic Legal Workflows
Combine high-quality platform data and curated feature workflows with the intelligence, flexibility and familiarity of your preferred LLM.
Learn more
Coming Soon.

EXPLORE USE CASES

Built to solve your problems

Panel Firm Management

Gain a complete view of your panel—capabilities, spend, and performance—to ensure the right work goes to the right firms, at the right price.

Learn more

Matter Management

Manage legal work more efficiently from start to finish with financial control and real-time progress.

Learn more

Legal Landing Page

A single jump-off point for legal - connect your lawyers to all their critical data and resources from across other platforms.

Learn more

Coming Soon.

Agentic Legal Workflows

Combine high-quality platform data and curated feature workflows with the intelligence, flexibility and familiarity of your preferred LLM.

Learn more

Coming Soon.

EXPLORE USE CASES

Built to solve your problems

Panel Firm Management
Gain a complete view of your panel—capabilities, spend, and performance—to ensure the right work goes to the right firms, at the right price.
Learn more
Matter Management
manage legal work more efficiently from start to finish with financial control and real-time progress.
Learn more
Legal Landing Page
A single jump-off point for legal - connect your lawyers to all their critical data and resources from across other platforms.
Learn more
Coming Soon.
Agentic Legal Workflows
Combine high-quality platform data and curated feature workflows with the intelligence, flexibility and familiarity of your preferred LLM.
Learn more
Coming Soon.