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Build vs Buy — Legal Services
Weigh SaaS subscriptions against a custom build for Legal Services — see the multi-year total cost of ownership and which path wins.
What this means for Legal Services
- Document review still eats 40-60% of associate hours on litigation and M&A matters; write-offs at billing time are climbing.
- Billable utilization is stuck in the low 70s — partners suspect time is leaking but no one can prove it without a forensic timekeeping audit.
- Knowledge management is a SharePoint graveyard; the same brief gets researched from scratch every six months because no one can find the prior work product.
Where it pays to act
- AI-assisted document review and privilege logging in litigation and due diligence — measured against partner-reviewed gold sets, not vendor demos.
- Drafting copilots for first-pass briefs, contracts, and discovery responses with mandatory citation verification.
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Total cost of ownership
SaaS total (3yr)
₹19.9 L
Custom build total
₹21.8 L
Difference (cheaper to buy)
₹1.89 L
Breakeven
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What this means
A hybrid path fits best.
For Legal Services, the gap is ₹1.89 L over 3 years — close enough that a hybrid approach (buy core, build differentiating layers) often wins.
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