Alternative Legal Service Provider (ALSP)
Axiom is the leading ALSP deploying the top 3%
of legal talent for best-in-class, flexible legal resourcing.
Axiom deploys the right flexible legal talent to support your team on a full-time, part-time, or as-needed basis and effectively manage your engagement from start to finish for up to 50%
less than national law firms.
The breadth & depth of Axiom's legal talent and client satisfaction is unmatched by other Alternative Legal Service Providers:
- Industry-leading 95% client satisfaction rate
- 4,000+ lawyers with Fortune 500 experience
- 1,700+ lawyers with Am Law 200 experience
- In-house experience across 31 industries and 14 practice areas
Trusted by 75% of the Fortune 100
Get in touch
We'll reach out to you and schedule a consultation to discuss potential legal resourcing solutions based on your company priorities, legal team, and legal work.
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- Reduce outside legal spend
- Augment team to handle overflow work
- Handle resource gaps
- Complete a large project or complex initiative
- Access in-depth subject matter knowledge not available in-house
Axiom only hires the top 3% of applicants.
Did you know that 90% of clients rate Axiom lawyers as equal to or better than lawyers from a law firm?
Some of our lawyers and legal professionals
How it works
"We’re starting with, ‘Tell me why Axiom couldn’t do this.’ Only if Axiom isn’t the right choice, then we’ll go somewhere else."
James Turoff
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, The Hershey Company
Axiom FAQ
Axiom is where high-caliber legal talent meets full-service law firm work. We invented the alternative legal services industry 25 years ago and now serve more than 1,500+ legal departments worldwide, including 75% of the Fortune 100, with 95% client satisfaction. Axiom gives small, mid-market, and enterprise clients a single trusted provider who can deliver a full spectrum of legal solutions and services across more than a dozen practice areas and all major industries at up to 50% lower rates than national law firms.
Axiom gives you a single trusted provider who can deliver a broad spectrum of in-house solutions and law firm services you need today. Extending our 25 years of legal services innovation, we've created a new type of law firm with access to thousands of Am Law 100 alumni, all unencumbered by billable hours and the traditional partner pyramid. You now get the best of both worlds: the personal touch, intimate client experience, and rates of a small law firm, with the reach and high quality of Big Law.
We're much more than a talent marketplace. Axiom provides everything from hourly, daily, and weekly secondments to full-service legal support across practice areas and all major industry verticals, at up to 50% lower rates than national law firms. With Axiom, you have a single vendor who can give you a broad spectrum of services that your legal department needs today: partner-level experience at associate rates, plus access to an ecosystem of thousands of vetted legal professionals.
The majority of our lawyers are salaried, W-2 employees of Axiom.
Yes, Axiom has 25 years of experience in remote engagements within the legal industry, supporting the onboarding and management of thousands of remote relationships. We make it easy for you to find business attorneys online.
Tell us about your legal needs and priorities to see relevant legal talent from our bench with the experience you need. We’ll propose a solution that could range from one lawyer focusing on a specific project to a sophisticated, structured team.
Alternative Legal Service Providers FAQ
Alternative legal service providers, commonly known as ALSPs, are companies or entities that offer legal services outside of traditional law firms. These providers often leverage technology, process optimization, and innovative business models to deliver legal solutions to clients. ALSPs may offer a range of services, such as document review, contract management, legal research and writing, e-discovery, compliance support, and other legal tasks.
ALSPs differ from traditional law firms in various ways. While law firms primarily focus on providing legal advice and representation, ALSPs concentrate on offering specific legal support services. Unlike law firms that typically charge hourly rates, ALSPs may offer alternative fee structures, making their services more predictable and cost-effective. Additionally, ALSPs are often more agile in adopting technology and process improvements, leading to greater efficiency in delivering legal solutions.
An ALSP and Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) are two different types of service providers in the legal industry. Each offers unique services and solutions to law firms and in-house legal departments. An ALSP refers to a broader category of companies that provide non-traditional legal services, encompassing a wide range of offerings such as legal technology, e-discovery, contract management, and consulting services. ALSPs are known for their innovative approaches, leveraging technology and process optimization to enhance legal operations and drive efficiency. On the other hand, an LPO usually focuses on outsourcing legal processes and tasks, typically to overseas locations.
Learn More About ALSPs
What is an alternative legal service provider?
An alternative legal service provider, or ALSP, is a company that provides legal services outside of the traditional law firm model. ALSPs emerged in response to the legal industry’s increasing demands for efficiency and cost-effectiveness. ALSPs leverage technology, remote work, process optimization, and innovative business models to deliver efficient legal solutions to businesses.
Alternative legal service providers offer lawyers who have experience in specific practice areas like commercial contracts, M&A, and intellectual property. They can provide support for specific legal tasks such as document review, contract management, legal research and writing, compliance support, e-discovery, and more.
What are the benefits of using alternative legal service providers?
Businesses stand to gain multiple benefits when employing the services of an alternative legal service provider:
- Cost Effectiveness: One of the most compelling reasons businesses turn to ALSPs is the potential for cost savings. By specializing in specific tasks and using technology to enhance productivity, ALSPs typically provide services at a more competitive rate than traditional law firms.
- Flexibility: ALSPs are known for their adaptability in meeting the unique needs of businesses. Their service delivery models are designed to be scalable and customizable, ensuring that the legal solutions provided align closely with the specific requirements of the business, even as those requirements change.
- Risk Management: By providing resources to handle routine or highly specific tasks, ALSPs allow businesses to manage and mitigate risks more effectively. Their focus on resources for specific practice areas ensures that processes are refined and mistakes are minimized.
- Global Reach: Some alternative legal service providers, like Axiom, have an international presence that allows for global reach and the ability of legal talent to handle tasks with multi-national jurisdictions. This is especially beneficial for businesses with global operations, as they can receive consistent services across different regions.
- Wide Range of Experience: Many ALSPs have lawyers with a wide range of deep experience in different practice areas and who have worked with large law firms in the past. Axiom has 14,000+ lawyers and legal professionals with experience in 14 practice areas.
How are ALSPs different from law firms?
Service Focus
ALSPs typically focus on specific, routine, or high-volume legal tasks like contract management, document review, due diligence, compliance, litigation support, and legal research. ALSPs provide lawyers and legal staff to in-house corporate counsels on an as-needed basis.
Law firms offer a broad range of services, primarily focusing on providing legal advice and representation, typically at a higher cost.
Billing Model and Pricing
Alternative legal service providers employ innovative and flexible business models with alternative pricing strategies. At Axiom, you can save significantly on legal costs by only hiring the legal staff you need, when you need it.
Technology
A significant difference between ALSPs and law firms is the utilization of technology. ALSPs heavily leverage technology and remote work to improve efficiency and reduce costs, without sacrificing legal outcomes.
Scalability and Flexibility
ALSPs are highly scalable and flexible. They have the ability to provide talent that can adjust quickly to handle large volumes of work in various practice areas and industries. Law firms are less flexible and often lack the ability to scale for high-volume work.
With a bench of 14,000+ attorneys, Axiom provides unparalleled flexibility and can scale to meet the changing needs of your business. Axiom specializes in high-caliber on-demand legal talent that can help build and oversee a cost-optimized, flexible bench of lawyers designed for the specific needs of any business.