What research duplication costs a mid-size law firm
The work product already exists in most firms. The cost comes from not being able to reach it - and producing the same research twice instead.
Duplication Cost
$344K
Lost annually to research duplication at mid-size law firms
Source: ABA Legal Technology Survey 2025
Research Frequency
12x
Per month, the same research gets done twice at mid-size law firms
Source: ABA Legal Technology Survey 2025
When the same research gets done twice across practice groups
A corporate associate spends three days researching the enforceability of a non-compete clause across three jurisdictions. The memo is thorough, well-sourced, and filed in the matter folder when the deal closes. Six months later a litigation associate starts a new matter involving the same issue in the same jurisdictions. She searches the document management system, finds nothing relevant, and starts the research from scratch.
Neither associate did anything wrong. The memo existed. It just lived in a corporate matter folder that a litigation associate had no reason to open.
The research that took a senior associate three days to complete is sitting in a matter folder that nobody outside that practice group will ever search.
Same research, different team, done twice
A litigation associate spends four hours researching a jurisdictional question. The corporate team resolved the same issue eight months ago on a similar matter. Neither team knew the other's work existed.
The memo that never left the matter folder
A senior associate produced a detailed analysis of a regulatory question during a transaction. The matter closed. The memo stayed in the client folder. Nobody in the firm has opened it since.
New associate, same starting point as the last one
Every lateral hire and new associate starts from scratch, finding the firm's position on common legal questions. The answers exist in past work product. They just have no way to reach it.
This is not a people problem. Associates file their work where they are supposed to. Partners close matters and move on. The way most document management systems are set up, work gets filed under a client name and a matter number. Someone in a different practice group searching for research on the same legal question has no way of knowing that folder exists. The work was already there. Nobody knew where to look.
How Accurez helps your teams find work that already exists
Associates across every practice group ask Accurez in plain language. Accurez searches across everything your firm has indexed and returns the relevant work product with the source document and section shown. A litigation associate searching for research on a jurisdictional question finds the memo the corporate team filed eight months ago. Nobody had to tell her it existed.
Done last quarter. Unknown today.
The research exists in a matter folder nobody outside that practice group had a reason to open.
- Search by client name and matter number
- Miss work product from groups you did not know to search
- Start the same research from scratch
Found once. Findable by everyone.
Every answer comes from your firm's indexed work product, cited and ready to use.
- Ask in plain language across all indexed work product
- Relevant memos and research returned with source shown
- Work done once reaches every team that needs it
Accurez runs on your own servers. Your work product, memos, and matter documents stay in your environment. Nothing leaves your network.
Your work product
Memos and matter documents stay on your servers.
Search
Finds prior work without knowing which matter folder it lives in.
Answer
Written from what your firm has already produced.
Source
The matter document and section it came from.
Verify
Open the original before starting the research again.
Runs where your work product already lives
Accurez does not replace your document management system or your matter workflows. It sits alongside them on your own servers. Your memos, research, and matter documents stay in your environment, and your IT team manages the installation.
Self-hosted
Deployed inside your network, on infrastructure your team operates.
Your work product stays yours
Your documents and the search index never leave your environment.
You choose the AI provider
Cloud or local models, selected to match your firm's privacy rules.
Every answer cites its source
The matter document and section it came from are shown alongside every answer.
Ask it something your team has already researched
Pick any legal question your firm has answered before and ask Accurez for it. See what comes back from your own indexed work product.
