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Juristat’s Outside Counsel Scorecard helps in-house teams evaluate law firm performance with customizable, data-driven rankings, so you can make more confident decisions about who represents your company.
Juristat’s Outside Counsel Scorecard helps in-house teams evaluate law firm performance with customizable, data-driven rankings, so you can make more confident decisions about who represents your company.
For many in-house teams, evaluating outside counsel relies on anecdotal feedback, relationships, or limited cost data. Without consistent metrics, comparing firm performance, holding vendors accountable, or aligning spend with business goals is difficult.
Juristat transforms the way legal teams manage outside counsel. The Outside Counsel Scorecard provides customizable, weighted rankings based on allowance rates, office actions, pendency, response time, and more. With this dashboard, in-house leaders can see exactly which firms deliver efficiency, quality, and value, and use that insight to drive smarter decisions and cost savings.
Juristat turns firm performance into actionable intelligence. With the Outside Counsel Scorecard, your team can map the counsel landscape, compare firms where you actually operate, and see who delivers across examiners, classes, and tech centers. The result is stronger partner selection, lower risk, and a prosecution strategy aligned with business goals.
The Scorecard replaces fragmented reviews with an objective, apples-to-apples comparison. Firms are ranked with customizable weights—allowance vs. baseline, office actions, timelines, extensions, response time, interviews and appeals, and cost impact—so you see true efficiency and value in your technologies.
With a complete view, you can act quickly: double down on top performers, realign work from laggards, and set standards everyone can follow. Export proof for leadership and share expectations with firms, turning performance conversations into measurable improvement.
Bring Clarity to Outside Counsel Performance
Benchmark law firm performance across cost, speed, and outcomes to ensure alignment with business goals.
Publish if-then rules for interviews, appeals, continuations, and OA thresholds. Monitor adherence across counsel and course-correct quickly.
Compare your firms across the work that matters to you. View allowance vs. baseline, OAs to allowance, pendency, extensions, interview and appeal usage—by CPC and tech center.
Adjust the weighting across key metrics such as allowance rate, pendency, office actions, rejection rates, and response time to reflect what matters most to your team. Whether cost savings, speed, or quality is the priority, the Scorecard adapts to your goals.
Track prosecution outcomes for every firm you work with and benchmark them against peers. Identify which firms consistently deliver high-quality results and which fall behind, giving you the transparency needed to hold providers accountable for both cost and performance.
Go beyond raw data. Use the Scorecard’s rankings to inform firm selection for new work, strengthen negotiations with objective evidence, and reallocate matters to the firms that provide the greatest value to your organization.
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Juristat’s Outside Counsel Scorecard provides objective, customizable data that supports performance evaluations, helps manage costs, and strengthens the value of your IP partnerships.
Yes. You can weight metrics such as allowance rate, pendency, office actions, and response time to reflect your team’s priorities.
The Scorecard provides clear, objective rankings that help identify top performers, justify rate negotiations, and shift work to firms that deliver the best results.
Absolutely. Flexible filters let you narrow performance data by practice area, filing type, time period, or technology category.
Yes. Your preferences are stored at the user level, so you don’t need to re-enter criteria each time you return to the dashboard.
Don't choose your patent firm based on reputation alone. Take control of your patent strategy with the insights that drive stronger, more cost-effective partnerships. This is a great read for both in-house IP leaders looking to level up their outside counsel relationships and for firms who want to understand how they're being evaluated by clients.
