As these scenarios demonstrate, not all firms have a standardized method for procuring legal professional services. Fragmented processes result in missed deadlines, out of budget expenditures, project dissatisfaction and wasted resources. This adds up to hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted each year.

Searching and managing legal service providers is time consuming and expensive for many firms. Traditionally, law firms will send e-mails around their firm to gather information about given legal service providers, ie. expert witnesses, court reporters, etc., for large litigation events. This process is extremely time consuming and burdensome because this information is not stored or distributed in an efficient manner or central location.

The Solution:

The business purpose of LawFirmPro's attorney tools is to secure relationships with legal consultants, by providing them with tools that reduce administrative overhead and that result in legal consultants attaining real-time access to proposal requests (RFPs).

LawFirmPro's attorney tools automate the process of RFP creation, posting and document distribution. By providing attorneys with online tools for creating templates for RFPs, it helps firms eliminate many manual steps in the bidding process and increase the overall efficiency of their procurement process.

The primary tool is BidPro. BidPro is a Web-based tool set that provides attorneys with a step-by-step template for creating and posting RFPs and other requests for bids. All posted requests are coded by the buyer and distributed to the LawFirmPro Consultant Network. Some of BidPro's primary features include a step-by-step process to create and post new RFPs, tools to update open RFPs and view a list of legal consultants who have submitted proposals.