About
Who does the work.
The honest version of that question is: who is actually touching my client’s confidential file, and are they qualified to know when the output is wrong? This page answers it, along with what we commit to and what those commitments cost us.
Raghav R Handa
Founder · Lawyer · Nine years at law and technology
Why a lawyer built a legal support practice.
Every matter carries a layer of work that is necessary, document-heavy and almost never the reason a client hired the firm. It has been priced by the hour for as long as anyone can remember, mostly because nobody ever measured how long it actually takes.
What changed is the cost of producing it. Extraction, classification, summarisation and schema mapping are now tractable, which is what makes a fixed price per unit possible where an hourly rate used to be the only honest answer.
What did not change is that somebody still has to know when the output is wrong. That is the part the category keeps quiet about, and it is the reason this practice is run by a lawyer rather than sold as software. The pipeline is built by someone who understands the work; the work is reviewed by someone qualified to review it.
The record behind that.
Adnah Legal is led by Raghav R Handa, a lawyer who has spent nine years at the intersection of legal practice and technology. He built and led product at one of India's largest legal platforms, and created LexOS, a legal operating system now used by more than 3,000 lawyers across 40+ countries.
The last several years have gone into building AI systems for legal work specifically, which is a different discipline from building them in general, and the difference is most of why this works.
- 9 years
- At the intersection of law and technology
- 3,000+
- Lawyers using LexOS, the system he built
- 40+
- Countries it is used in
- 2023
- Entity registered in India since
How we work
Six commitments, and what each one costs us.
Any provider can promise care. A promise is only worth reading if it costs the person making it something, so each of these says what it costs.
01
A qualified lawyer reviews every deliverable.
Not a sample. Not the exceptions only. Every output is read by someone qualified to know when it is wrong, before it reaches you.
What it costs us
It caps how fast we can grow, because we cannot scale by adding unreviewed throughput.
02
Your files never train a model.
Training is disabled at the account level, we do not use consumer AI products for client material, and access is limited to named individuals under NDA.
What it costs us
We give up the compounding data advantage that providers who are quiet about this are taking.
03
The published price is the price.
Quoted before we start, fixed per unit, and not revised because the job turned out harder than we read it.
What it costs us
When we misjudge a matter, we absorb it rather than send a change order.
04
We say no to deadlines we cannot meet.
If your Thursday is not realistic for the volume, you hear that when you ask, not at 6pm on Thursday.
What it costs us
We lose work we would like to have, to providers willing to say yes and apologise later.
05
We escalate rather than guess.
Where the record is ambiguous or a judgment call belongs to you, it comes back flagged with the question, not smoothed over with confident filler.
What it costs us
You sometimes get questions instead of a finished document, which is slower and more honest.
06
We never contact your client.
Every communication runs through you. We are a support provider to the attorney, and the relationship with the client is yours alone.
What it costs us
We cannot shortcut around you to get an answer faster, even when that would be the quickest route.
The line we don't cross.
This is usually written defensively, in the smallest available type. We would rather put it here, at full size, because a provider who states the boundary clearly is a provider whose risk-committee memo writes itself.
Supervision and scope in full →- We are not a law firm, and we do not practise law in any US jurisdiction.
- We do not give legal advice, to you or to anyone else.
- We form no attorney-client relationship with your client, at any point.
- Every deliverable is a work product for your review, revision and adoption.
- Professional responsibility for the matter stays with you throughout.
- We run a conflicts check before accepting work, and sign an NDA before receiving a single file.
Who sends us work.
74 services across 27 practice areas, but the firms that get the most out of it tend to look like one of these four.
Plaintiff and personal injury firms
Demand packages, medical chronologies, bill summaries and records work, at a cost per case that lets a file be worked up before it is known to be worth it.
See what they send →Litigation boutiques
First-pass review, privilege logs, cite checking and discovery drafting, when the volume outruns the associates available to read it.
See what they send →In-house legal teams
Contract abstraction, DSARs, policy and compliance documentation, where the work is real but the headcount request will not be approved.
See what they send →Volume and fixed-fee practices
Immigration, bankruptcy, real estate and estate planning, where the fee is set by the market and preparation time is the entire margin.
See what they send →How to find out whether we're any good.
Nothing on this page is evidence. It is a claim about ourselves, written by us. Here is the cheapest way to replace it with something better.
01
Ask for a sample in your own format
Tell us the deliverable you want to see. We build it from a public document set, in the format you actually use, and send it back. It costs you nothing and tells you more than a call would.
02
Send one real matter at the published rate
One file, at the number on the rate card, with no minimum and no onboarding. A few hundred dollars buys you a definitive answer about whether the work is any good.
03
Compare it against what it would have cost you
Against the associate hours it would have taken, or the vendor invoice you would otherwise have paid. If the comparison does not hold up, you have lost one matter's fee and learned something.
Where we work.
India
Home base, and where the work is performed. Adnah Legal is a service of Adnah India Consulting LLP, registered in India.
United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Where the firms are. We work to your filing deadlines and your time zone, not ours.
The overnight gap
The time difference is the one thing about being in India that is an advantage: work sent at the end of your day is frequently back at the start of the next one.
Direct
Talk to the person who does the work.
No account manager, no intake queue, no discovery call you have to sit through. Send a matter and it is reviewed by the person named on this page.