Frequently Asked Questions

Axiom is a global alternative legal services provider delivering on-demand legal talent, secondments, and AI-enabled legal services to in-house legal departments, supporting both ongoing work and complex legal projects while reducing legal costs and outside counsel spend.

Founded in 2000, Axiom was a pioneer of the alternative legal services category, and today serves 75% of the Fortune 100, with 3,000+ engagements annually across six regions globally.

Axiom provides flexible, on-demand access to a network of 14,000+ lawyers and legal professionals—including 4,000+ with Fortune 500 experience—who directly integrate into in-house legal teams.

Through its Tech+Talent solution, Axiom combines experienced legal professionals with AI-enabled tools to improve efficiency across contract review, M&A diligence, and regulatory compliance.

Axiom is ranked #1 among alternative legal service providers in eight of nine performance categories by a top five global consulting firm, with 92% of clients rating Axiom lawyers as equal to or better than top law firm attorneys, and 96% client satisfaction.

Axiom handles the same complex work teams might send to a law firm, for less, as part of the in-house team.

Axiom helps in-house legal teams add experienced legal talent when they need additional capacity, support in specific practice areas, or help with defined projects. Our lawyers can work alongside your existing team on matters such as commercial contracts, regulatory work, compliance, transactions, and other complex legal needs—on a flexible basis and at costs that can be up to 50% lower than top law firms. 

In-house teams can use Axiom when they need experienced legal talent to handle the same complex work they might otherwise send to a law firm, but at a lower cost and with lawyers who can work as part of their team. Axiom is also a strong alternative to a full-time hire when the need is temporary, project-based, specialized, or uncertain in duration. Companies can add the right legal support when and where they need it, without committing to permanent headcount or traditional law firm rates.

Axiom offers flexible legal engagements tailored to your team’s needs, from a single lawyer to a multidisciplinary team. Engagements can include secondments to fill temporary gaps or add capacity, specialized advice from experienced lawyers for specific matters, and project teams to handle complex legal initiatives. Support can be full or part-time and range from a few weeks to a year or more, giving legal departments the flexibility to scale support up or down as needs change.

Axiom combines experienced legal talent with purpose-built legal AI to help in-house teams get complex legal work done faster and more cost-effectively. Axiom lawyers use AI to accelerate tasks such as contract review and redlining, due diligence, legal research and analysis, document review, and data extraction, while keeping experienced legal professionals in the loop to provide the judgment and oversight the work requires. The result is greater efficiency and lower legal costs without sacrificing human oversight behind the work.

Axiom has access to 14,000+ legal professionals globally.

The majority of our lawyers are salaried, W-2 employees of Axiom. 

We work with companies across nearly every industry, including technology, software, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, and more. 

Axiom is a global alternative legal services provider that helps in-house legal departments access on-demand legal talent, flexible secondments, and AI-enabled legal services. Axiom supports both ongoing legal work and complex projects across major practice areas and industries, with engagement models ranging from hourly, daily, and weekly support to longer-term secondments. Through our global network of thousands of vetted legal professionals, Axiom helps legal teams scale capacity, access specific knowledge, and reduce legal costs and outside counsel spend. 

Axiom has skilled legal professionals across 14 practice areas and 60+ legal areas of focus such as:  

• Artificial Intelligence 
• Commercial Contracts 
• Corporate & Commercial  
• Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
• Energy
• Finance & Capital Markets
• Healthcare & Life Sciences
• Intellectual Property
• Labor and Employment
• Legal Operations
• Litigation
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Commercial Real Estate  
• Regulatory and Compliance

Axiom is not a temp agency but offers flexible solutions to meet the legal staffing needs of modern legal departments. Temp firms are not set up to meet the demands of modern legal departments and focus on high-volume, low-complexity work. Axiom can fulfill the unique, complex legal staffing needs of in-house legal departments, which includes everything from secondments to legal support across 14 practice areas. Learn more about how Axiom compares to legal staffing agencies.

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. 

We deliver highly qualified candidates in as little as 24 hours and can deploy legal talent within a week. For urgent needs, we can deploy legal talent in as little as 48 hours.

Yes. Axiom can help when urgent or unexpected legal work creates an immediate need for extra capacity. We can deliver highly qualified candidates in as little as 24 hours and, for urgent needs, deploy legal talent in as little as 48 hours.

Whether you need support for a sudden transaction, regulatory issue, litigation matter, or workload spike, Axiom can provide experienced legal talent that integrates with your team and workflows quickly.

We partner closely with our clients throughout the lawyer onboarding process and use detailed checklists and methods to ensure our lawyers are effective from day one. 

Axiom lawyers are bound by the same ethical rules governing lawyer-client privilege that all lawyers engaged in the practice of law must follow. To ensure privilege remains in place, specific client legal work is not discussed with Axiom business team members. If required, Axiom can put an NDA in place.

Yes, Axiom maintains professional liability insurance under a standard Lawyers Professional Liability policy. Proof of coverage can be provided upon request.

With 14,000+ lawyers and legal professionals globally with a wide range of experience, Axiom's bench includes both generalists and lawyers focused on specific practice areas, including data privacy, labor and employment, commercial contracts, M&A, and real estate.

In most cases, our lawyers work with one company at a time. However, some lawyers may choose to take on multiple part-time engagements.

Yes, most of our lawyers have extensive in-house and private practice experience managing outside counsel. A significant portion of our lawyers have been in your position, handling projects or internal matters while effectively liaising and managing outside counsel.

Yes. Axiom lawyers are accustomed to integrating into clients’ existing teams, systems, and workflows, whether the engagement is remote, hybrid, or on-site. Depending on your needs, they can work within your preferred contract management, billing, matter management, security, and collaboration tools while following your established processes, policies, and reporting requirements. During onboarding, Axiom works with your team to understand your technology, workflows, and working arrangements so the lawyer can get up to speed quickly and collaborate effectively with your in-house team.

Our current clients include 75% of the Fortune 100, as well as major players in all industries, including 10 of the 20 largest banks in the world, 9 of the 10 largest technology companies in the world, and 19 of the 20 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.

Axiom’s typical hourly rates range from $150 to $350 USD, depending on the legal professional’s practice area and the number of hours you need each week. You’ll receive each candidate’s rate alongside their bio, and that rate includes both the legal professional’s hourly rate and Axiom’s portion. There are no hidden or additional costs.

Axiom gives you partner-level experience at associate rates across practice areas and industries, plus access to an ecosystem of thousands of highly vetted legal professionals—all at up to 50% lower rates than top law firms. 

Axiom billing arrangements are designed to provide both value and spend predictability for our clients. Axiom’s pricing is based on a fixed hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis, which delivers cost certainty to our clients. The price is driven by the lawyer’s rates and depends on the number of days or hours per week the lawyer is working. Our rate is typically 30-50% less than traditional law firms. For questions about custom billing structures, please contact us.

Our secondment pricing is based on two factors: 1) lawyer experience level, skill set, geographic region, and practice area; and 2) engagement structure: reserved flat fee (full-time, part-time) or variable hourly. Contact us for more precise rates and fees.