Persuit

Persuit is a legal technology company that provides an outside counsel management platform, primarily serving corporate legal departments. The platform enables legal teams at large organizations to scope legal matters, receive, and compare competitive proposals from law firms, helping them select the right firm, team, and strategy while optimizing legal spend. Persuit offers AI-powered products, including features like AI Drafts, Smart Scoping for RFPs, and real-time spend tracking. Their AI tools help legal teams quickly identify strengths and weaknesses in law firm proposals, automate drafting, and gain insights into firm performance. The target audience for Persuit’s AI products is in-house legal teams at large corporations seeking to improve efficiency, transparency, and cost-effectiveness in managing outside counsel.

PERSUIT is a platform focused on outside counsel selection and management for legal teams. Its main features and functions include: - Value-Based Engagement: Aligns legal costs with outcomes rather than just effort. - Cost Predictability: Allows real-time monitoring of legal matters to ensure work stays on track, within budget, and meets expectations. - Performance Transparency: Provides real-time insights into law firm performance, pricing benchmarks, and matter outcomes to improve future engagements. - Large Network: Connects users with over 4,000 firms and 500,000 lawyers. - Value-Based Pricing: 83% of proposals on the platform use value-based pricing models. - Real-Time Data: Offers real-time tracking and benchmarking for better decision-making. These features help legal teams manage outside counsel more efficiently and transparently, focusing on value and measurable outcomes rather than just hourly rates.

Persuit is a platform focused on outside counsel selection and management for in-house legal teams. It does not specify support for only one practice area; rather, it is used broadly across various legal practice areas such as Corporate/M&A, Litigation, IP, Employment, Real Estate, Privacy & Data Protection, Regulatory, and more. The platform is designed for large legal teams managing multiple law firms and matters. Key features and functions: - Value-based engagement: Aligns legal spend with outcomes, not just hours worked. - Cost predictability: Real-time monitoring of matters to keep work on track and within budget. - Performance transparency: Provides real-time insights on firm performance, pricing benchmarks, and matter outcomes. - Supports management of thousands of firms and hundreds of thousands of lawyers. - Enables value-based pricing and proposal management. - Used by top global companies for legal spend management and outside counsel optimization. The platform is not limited to a single practice area but is intended for enterprise-level legal operations across all major legal domains.

Persuit is covered under the following security and compliance certifications: - SOC 2 Report (Type II) - ISO/IEC 27001:2022 - CSA STAR - SOC 1 Type 2 There is no explicit mention of HIPAA, GDPR, or CCPA compliance on their Trust Center. For GDPR and CCPA, you may want to review their Privacy Policy or contact them directly for confirmation.

Persuit explicitly states the following about data handling and security: - Data is encrypted in transit (SSL/TLS/HTTPS). - The platform is hosted on Google Cloud, MongoDB, and Qlik, with data centers certified for ISO 27001, PCI, and SOC reports. - Access to client data by employees is restricted and only allowed when necessary (e.g., for troubleshooting). - Access logging is in place for all account sign-ins. - Regular external security audits are performed. - Personal information may be stored outside Australia (e.g., in the US) and outside the EU/UK, with GDPR-compliant safeguards for EU/UK data. - Customers have rights to access, correct, and request deletion of their data, and can object to processing or withdraw consent. - Persuit’s privacy policy does not explicitly mention "no data retention," "client data not used for training," "on-prem deployment," "private cloud," or "customer-managed encryption keys" on its public-facing pages. - The Trust Center provides further documentation (e.g., Data Flow Diagram, Security Whitepaper) and compliance certifications, but access to detailed documents may require customer login or request. No explicit statements were found regarding on-prem deployment, private cloud, customer-managed encryption keys, or use of client data for AI training on the public pages reviewed.