AI Readiness & Practice Automation Advisory
Your firm is using AI. Is it governed, secure, and working for you?
JurisIT delivers the technology leadership, compliance oversight, and automation capability every law firm needs — and most cannot afford to hire full-time.
The problem your firm is already living with
Five risks that are present in most small and mid-sized law firms — whether or not they are visible to the partners.
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AI is in your firm but not governed.
Fee earners are using ChatGPT, Copilot, and AI drafting tools without a policy, without a data-processing agreement, and without oversight of whether client data is leaving the firm. The Courts and State Law Societies expect firms to manage AI risk. Most do not yet have the framework to do so.
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Your Microsoft 365 subscription is largely unused.
Power Automate, AI Builder, and Copilot are already in your licensing stack. Most firms have activated less than 20% of what they are already paying for.
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Administration is consuming fee-earner time.
In conveyancing, wills, and family law practices, firms typically recover 6–10 hours of administration time per week once core workflows are automated. At a billing rate of $400 per hour, that represents up to $200,000 of recovered billing capacity per year.
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AI-native competitors are entering your market.
Emerging AI-native legal service providers are beginning to operate in Australian practice areas. Fixed-fee, technology-first alternatives to conventional practice are being established with venture backing and advancing quickly.
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Regulatory obligations are tightening.
In addtion to federal and state regulators, courts, PI insurers and the law societies, increasingly expect technology competence and proper governance frameworks. Australian Privacy Act obligations around automated decision-making require documentation that most small firms do not currently have. These are compliance obligations, not optional improvements.
What JurisIT delivers
Six integrated services. One team holding both the CIO and CCO function. No gap between the automation build and the compliance review.
AI Readiness Review (JARI)
Structured assessment across six domains — scored, benchmarked against comparable firms, and delivered as a prioritised action plan within two weeks.
Practice Automation Build
Power Automate workflows for client intake, document generation, deadline tracking, billing nudges, and matter close — built on your existing Microsoft 365 and Clio stack.
Migration to Clio
Full managed migration from LEAP, Smokeball, or Actionstep. Fixed price. Parallel running period included. Staff training on day one.
Fractional CIO
Named technology leadership: Microsoft 365 governance, Clio optimisation, vendor management, security oversight, and a quarterly technology review.
Fractional CCO
Law Society compliance programme, Privacy Act framework, AI governance policy, AML/CTF procedures, and incident response plan.
Combined CIO + CCO
Both functions from $2,400 per month — less than one per cent of the combined salary cost of two full-time senior hires.
Why JurisIT
Five structural characteristics that distinguish us from generic technology providers.
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Legal sector only.
We understand matter types, trust accounting, Law Society obligations, and the workflows of conveyancing, family law, wills, and immigration. Our founder is an admitted solicitor. That context is not something a general IT consultancy can replicate.
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Compliance is built in, not added afterwards.
The same team holds the CIO and CCO function. Every workflow is governance-reviewed before it goes live. There is no handover between the automation team and the compliance team — they are the same people.
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We remain engaged.
Our retainer model means we are accountable for outcomes month after month. Your total time commitment across a full implementation is approximately three hours: a discovery call, a handover session, and a training day.
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Fixed prices. No surprises.
Every service is a fixed-price engagement. No hourly rates. No open-ended proposals. You know precisely what you receive and what it costs before you sign.
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Platform-native.
Everything runs inside your existing Microsoft 365 tenancy and Clio subscription — not a third-party platform requiring new contracts, migration risk, or additional licence fees.
The numbers that matter
Return on investment expressed in terms relevant to a firm of your size.
A firm billing at $400 per hour and recovering six hours of administration time per week recoups the Foundation Pack cost in under twelve weeks. Most firms recover it in under eight.
A combined CIO and CCO from $2,400 per month costs less than one per cent of the combined salary of two senior hires — while the functions exist in your firm regardless of whether they are currently fulfilled.
The AI Readiness Review is priced at $9,000 ex-GST. Most engagements identify efficiency gains exceeding ten times that figure within ninety days of implementation.
Only 19% of Australian law firms have embedded AI into their workflows. Firms that establish systematic processes now are best placed to compete as the market continues to shift.
Services and pricing
All services are fixed-price. No hourly rates. Scope is confirmed before engagement begins.
| Service | Delivery period | Price (ex-GST) | Engagement type |
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| AI Readiness Review (JARI) | 2 weeks | $9,000 fixed | Project |
| Ignition Pack (client intake automation) | 2 days | $2,400 – $3,600 | Project |
| Foundation Pack (full workflow build) | 3–5 days | $5,600 – $8,400 | Project |
| Clio Migration Bundle | 2–3 weeks | From $9,000 | Project |
| Fractional CIO + CCO (combined) | Ongoing | From $2,400/month | Retainer |
Ready to see where your firm stands?
The JurisIT AI Readiness Review is a fixed-fee structured assessment that scores your firm across six domains — Technology, Data Governance, AI Tools, Compliance, Culture, and Policy — and delivers a prioritised action plan. Priced at $9,000 ex-GST. Delivered within two weeks.
Contact us to arrange a discovery call