Privilege isn't a feature. It's the platform.
The big-law DMS market belongs to iManage. The big-law eDiscovery market belongs to Relativity. They've earned those positions and they aren't going anywhere.
The opportunity is everywhere else: the mid-market firm that doesn't need iManage's complexity, the in-house legal department that needs more than M365 + Adobe Sign, the boutique that wants matter-grounded AI without spending a year integrating it. That's the conversation TeamSync was built for.
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What legal teams use TeamSync for.
Matter-grounded AI that the partner trusts.
Generic legal AI hallucinates citations and gets the precedent wrong. Matter-grounded AI is bounded by what's actually in the matter file, with citations the partner can verify, and an audit trail that survives a malpractice review. The first AI deployment that actually changes how a junior associate spends a Wednesday afternoon. → Matter Management Director page
Conflict checks in seconds, not days.
A new matter intake hits the conflicts officer. The current process is a database query, manual review of ambiguous matches, an email to 3 partners. The new matter sits for 2 days. TeamSync runs entity-graph + semantic conflict checks across the matter corpus in seconds, with a defensible audit trail of what was reviewed and what was cleared. → Conflicts Officer page
Litigation hold without the war room.
When the litigation hold notice goes out, the standard process is a frantic week — preservation across 8 systems, custodian interviews, a hold-tracking spreadsheet that someone updates daily. TeamSync's hold lives where the documents live. Preservation in place. Audit chain respects the hold automatically. The hold notice is now a workflow step, not a war room. → eDiscovery Counsel page
Outside-counsel collaboration with full audit.
The matter is shared with 3 outside firms. Documents go back and forth via email. The privilege log is reconstructed at the end of the matter, often inaccurately. TeamSync's external-portal capability gives outside counsel a regulated workspace with full audit, granular permissions, and no email-attachment risk. → Managing Partner page
AI-assisted defensible review.
The privilege review on a 200,000-document corpus is the kind of work that breaks junior associates and partner morale alike. TeamSync's AI-assisted review surface provides predictive coding with the statistical defensibility evidence Federal Rule 26 expects, plus the Merkle-anchored audit ledger that turns the defensibility argument into a one-line proof. → eDiscovery Counsel — AI-assisted review
Where TeamSync fits with the legal stack.
You keep your practice management system (Centerbase, Aderant, Elite, Clio depending on size). You keep your time-and-billing platform. If you're already on iManage or NetDocuments and it's working, keep it. TeamSync's place is where you need matter-grounded AI, modern eDiscovery, and an audit ledger your defensibility argument doesn't have to apologise for.
| Layer | Stays | Layer TeamSync owns |
|---|---|---|
| Practice management | Yes | Matter platform + AI grounding |
| Time and billing | Yes | Document records of record |
| iManage / NetDocuments | Coexist or replace | Modern platform path |
| Relativity / Everlaw | Coexist | Hold + collection at the source |
| Microsoft 365 | Yes | Records discipline + AI grounding |
Compliance, by name.
ABA Model Rules · SRA (UK) · GDPR Article 17 · FRCP Rule 26 · SOC 2 Type II · ISO/IEC 27001:2022 · EU AI Act for AI-assisted review
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Read further.
- Legal use cases — matter AI, conflicts, hold, outside-counsel collaboration, AI-assisted review
- Customer references — anonymised outcomes by use case
- ROI — TCO model and savings categories
- Legal role pages — Conflicts Officer, eDiscovery Counsel, Managing Partner, Matter Management Director, Global Managing Partner
- Where to meet TeamSync — ILTA, Legalweek, ACC, ABA TECHSHOW