Legal work is procedure made visible: intake, conflicts check, engagement, drafting, review, revision, filing, close. Buyers building legal-reasoning and document models pay a premium for records that show how experienced lawyers move a matter forward. The constraint is privilege, and it shapes everything about what can be licensed.
No dataset needed to start. Current threshold: 20+ desk staff, 3+ years of records, data in 3+ systems.
Every industry has records that are excluded as a class, records that need consent, and records that are clearly yours. These are the ones that come up in legal manifests. Your counsel draws the final line.
Informational only. We do not provide legal, tax, or compliance advice, and we do not decide what your company is permitted to license. Every seller we represent has counsel review the manifest before buyers see it.
Legal records tend to land toward the upper part of the range because buyers pay a premium for expert reasoning, but the privilege and confidentiality screen narrows what can be included. Firms that keep rich precedent libraries and documented internal process do best.
Years of continuous history, outcomes attached, and linkage across systems move the number more than industry does. A manifest tells you where your company actually sits; the estimator is a rough first pass.
The multiplier is one of several published factors behind the estimator. It reflects current buyer demand for this sector's workflows and the usual share of records that survive the rights screen.
Indicative range observed across the market for single-company operational data licenses. Not a quote. Actual value depends on buyer demand, data quality, rights, and exclusivity.
Playbooks, templates, proposals, checklists, process docs.
Client threads, approvals, scheduling, decisions in writing.
Invoices, approvals, exceptions, and how work actually gets done.
Sales and support calls, and how they ended.
Yes, because privilege attaches to client communications and work product, not to the firm's own precedents, playbooks, templates, training materials, and process records. Those are usually the most valuable records anyway. The manifest excludes privileged classes outright, and your ethics counsel reviews the scope before anything goes to market.
Not on its own. Professional conduct rules on confidentiality are broader than privilege, and many jurisdictions require consent or complete removal rather than de-identification. Most legal sellers do not license client communications at all and focus on firm-authored material.
Your own counsel or ethics partner. We help build the manifest and run the process, but we do not give legal advice and we do not decide what a firm is permitted to license. Every legal engagement we take on has the firm's counsel sign off on scope before buyers see anything.
Seven questions. No dataset. First offer in 24 to 48 hours of a complete manifest.
Measured from a complete data manifest. A first offer is a process target, not a guarantee; buyers decide eligibility, price, and terms.