From Data to Decisions — Measured.Optimized.
The average law firm operates at 37% utilization and 87% realization — leaving hundreds of millions in unrealized value. Fasken Intelligence is the analytics platform that changes that.
Lawyers across 10 offices
Revenue under management
Average industry utilization rate
You Can't Manage What You Can't See
Fasken operates across 10 offices on 4 continents, managing $600M in annual revenue across 20+ practice areas. Yet like most major firms, the data that drives strategic decisions sits in silos.
Billing data in Elite. Time entries in one system. CRM in another. Business development intelligence in spreadsheets. Financial consolidation is a monthly exercise that takes weeks — and the numbers are already stale by the time they arrive.
Meanwhile, clients are demanding more transparency. Alternative fee arrangements require matter-level economics that don't exist. And the firms that figure out analytics first will win the next decade's clients.
The analytics gap is a competitive gap.
Key Challenges
Matter Profitability
With hundreds of active matters across 20+ practice areas and alternative fee arrangements, tracking true profitability at the matter level remains a manual exercise.
Utilization Analytics
Industry average utilization is just 37%. Without real-time visibility into billable vs. non-billable time across 950+ lawyers, optimization is guesswork.
Client Intelligence
Key clients like TD Bank and Teck Resources span multiple practice areas and offices. Cross-selling opportunities and relationship intelligence sit in silos.
The Vision: Unified Legal Intelligence
Every system in Fasken's technology stack generates valuable data. The problem isn't the data — it's that nobody has connected it.
Your Systems
Intelligence Outputs
Two Dimensions of Intelligence
Legal analytics has two faces — one operational, one strategic. Together they transform firm management.
Operational Intelligence
Run the Firm Better
Real-time matter profitability, lawyer utilization, billing pipeline, and resource allocation. The day-to-day intelligence that turns $600M in revenue into $600M in optimized revenue.
Strategic Intelligence
Lead the Market
Practice area strategy, client concentration risk, competitive positioning, and M&A pipeline analytics. The long-range intelligence that wins the next decade of legal market share.
Who Benefits
Seven stakeholder groups, one unified platform. Each has unique pain points — Fasken Intelligence solves them with shared data infrastructure.
Managing Partners
Enterprise SaaSPain Point
Running a $600M firm across 10 offices with no unified view of practice area economics. Compensation decisions rely on spreadsheets and intuition.
Solution
Real-time practice area P&L, partner origination and execution credits, matter profitability dashboards, and scenario modeling for strategic decisions.
Value
Data-driven partnership decisions. Identify which practices to invest in, which to restructure, and where the next $100M in growth comes from.
Chief Financial Officer
Enterprise SaaSPain Point
Consolidating financial data across 10 offices, 3 currencies (CAD, GBP, ZAR), multiple billing systems, and inconsistent time entry practices.
Solution
Unified financial intelligence: WIP aging, A/R trends, realization rates by practice/partner/client, and automated multi-currency consolidation.
Value
From monthly spreadsheet exercises to real-time financial visibility. Identify $12M+ in recoverable WIP and improve realization from 87% to 93%+.
Chief Information Officer
Platform licensePain Point
Siloed data across Elite/Aderant, CRM, document management, time tracking, and business development tools. No single source of truth.
Solution
Data integration layer that connects billing, CRM, HR, and BD systems into a unified analytics platform — without replacing existing tools.
Value
Break down data silos without a rip-and-replace. API-first architecture means faster time-to-insight with lower implementation risk.
Practice Group Leaders
Per-practice modulePain Point
No visibility into individual lawyer utilization, matter economics, or client trends within their practice area. Managing by anecdote.
Solution
Practice-level dashboards: lawyer utilization heatmaps, matter profitability trends, client revenue concentration, and staffing optimization alerts.
Value
Know which lawyers are overloaded vs. underutilized. See which matters are profitable before they close, not months after.
Business Development
BD analytics modulePain Point
League table tracking is manual. RFP win/loss analysis doesn't exist. Cross-selling opportunities between practice areas go undetected.
Solution
Pipeline analytics, league table position tracking, win/loss analysis, and AI-powered cross-selling recommendations based on client relationship mapping.
Value
Move from reactive BD to predictive intelligence. Identify the next client opportunity before the competition does.
Associates & Counsel
Pain Point
84% of firms report underperforming lawyers, but associates lack visibility into their own metrics. Career development is a black box.
Solution
Personal performance dashboards: utilization trends, matter contributions, skill development tracking, and peer benchmarking (anonymized).
Value
Transparency drives engagement. Associates who understand their metrics are 2.3x more likely to hit utilization targets.
Major Clients
Pain Point
Sophisticated clients like TD Bank and Teck Resources demand data-driven matter management, alternative fee arrangements, and predictable costs.
Solution
Client-facing matter dashboards, budget tracking, staffing transparency, and automated status reporting — the modern client experience.
Value
Win and retain sophisticated clients who expect analytics-driven legal service delivery. Turn data transparency into a competitive moat.
The Platform
Four phases, each building on the last. From financial intelligence to firm-wide strategic analytics.
Financial Intelligence
Q1-Q2 2026
Matter profitability dashboards, realization rate tracking, WIP and A/R aging analytics. Real-time visibility into the economics of every engagement.
Talent Optimization
Q2-Q3 2026
Lawyer utilization heatmaps, practice area staffing analytics, workload balancing, and performance benchmarking across all 10 offices.
Client Intelligence
Q3-Q4 2026
Client revenue mapping, cross-selling opportunity scoring, relationship intelligence, and client concentration risk analysis at the firm level.
Strategic Platform
2027+
Partner compensation modeling, league table position tracking, M&A pipeline analytics, and AI-powered practice area strategy recommendations.
Financial Intelligence
Matter profitability dashboards, realization rate tracking, WIP and A/R aging analytics. Real-time visibility into the economics of every engagement.
Talent Optimization
Lawyer utilization heatmaps, practice area staffing analytics, workload balancing, and performance benchmarking across all 10 offices.
Client Intelligence
Client revenue mapping, cross-selling opportunity scoring, relationship intelligence, and client concentration risk analysis at the firm level.
Strategic Platform
Partner compensation modeling, league table position tracking, M&A pipeline analytics, and AI-powered practice area strategy recommendations.
Industry Benchmarks
The firms investing in analytics are pulling ahead. The gap between data-driven and intuition-driven firms is widening every quarter.
Kirkland & Ellis
$7.2BWorld's highest-grossing firm uses proprietary analytics to optimize matter staffing and pricing. Revenue per lawyer: $2.1M — 3x the industry average.
Allen & Overy
40%Invested in Harvey AI and built a dedicated legal operations analytics team. Improved utilization by 40% in practices with real-time dashboards.
Baker McKenzie
24Operates in 24 countries with unified analytics across all offices. Their data platform is a key competitive advantage in cross-border work.
McCarthy Tétrault
FirstFirst major Canadian firm to establish a dedicated legal operations and analytics function. Setting the benchmark Fasken should be exceeding.
No major Canadian law firm has a purpose-built legal analytics platform. The window to lead is now.
Global legal analytics market
Integration Architecture
ALDC connects to existing legal technology — no rip-and-replace. Your systems stay. The intelligence layer sits on top.
Fasken's Technology Ecosystem
10+ enterprise systems generating data that should be connected
Every law firm runs on a fragmented technology stack. Billing, time tracking, CRM, document management, and business development tools each hold a piece of the puzzle. ALDC's integration layer connects them all into a unified analytics platform — without replacing a single system.
Existing Tools
Elite/Aderant, iManage, InterAction, time tracking. The systems your lawyers already use every day.
ALDC Intelligence
Unified analytics, real-time dashboards, AI insights. The intelligence layer that makes your data work together.
Filling the Data Gaps
Matter Economics
Gap: Calculated quarterly, manually
Real-time, automated, matter-level
Utilization Analytics
Gap: Annual review only
Daily heatmaps across all offices
Client Intelligence
Gap: Locked in partner heads
Relationship mapping with cross-sell scoring
Same team, same tools, new intelligence. ALDC's integration layer means Fasken gets analytics without disrupting daily operations.
The Return on Intelligence
Legal analytics isn't a cost center — it's a revenue accelerator. Here's the math for a firm of Fasken's scale.
Revenue Recovery
From current ~87% to 92-95%
Unbilled work-in-progress identification
Efficiency Gains
37% → 43%+ through analytics-driven staffing
Automated reporting replaces manual consolidation
$18-24M annual impact
Projected annual impact
12-15x ROI
Return on investment
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Fasken has the data. ALDC has the platform. Let's build the legal intelligence layer that puts you ahead of the curve.