Business advisory

Our clients value how we challenge their thinking and solve their problems, not retrofit solutions

We bring deep expertise and practical experience to help you transform your legal services delivery.

AI Readiness

Empowering your operations using AI

Stuck with a legacy operating model and tech?

Let's change it together.

Want to reduce waste and over-lawyering?

We can show you how.

Overwhelmed by the number of tech platforms out there?

We help you make sense of this.

We provide a holistic, integrated approach, backed by proven capabilities, to drive innovation and deliver exceptional results.

Embrace the future confidently with Cognia as your AI readiness partner

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Legal function of the future

Business-led operating models

Combining client insights with deep operating model expertise, technology & process leadership; together we futureproof your legal function.

Review business goals, barriers, gaps, inefficiencies and performance drivers

Assess talent, task and tech underpinned by data-driven insights

Assess automation and digitisation options

High performing teams, capability development and talent

Design business-aligned operating model

Secure Board and senior stakeholder alignment

Co-create a high level plan aligned to the needs of your business and stakeholders

Determine core vs non-core activity

Identify diverse sourcing options for legal talent

Develop transition plan

Transition management and integration

Process re-engineering and design using Lean, Six Sigma and Agile principles

Migrate legal services into new resourcing and sourcing model

Stakeholder requirements management

Select, implement and integrate digitisation and automation tools

Work with you on transition of your legal operations focusing on talent, tech, task and data-driven insights

Operating model transition

Moving from a cost centre to a business enabler

We deliver enhanced operating models to effectively deploy the right service delivery to drive greater efficiencies, minimise risks and maximise commercial benefits.

Legal technology and data-driven insight

Realising value from technology and data investments

We help you navigate the crowded legal technology landscape and deploy the right solutions to drive automation, delivering cost efficiencies and cost savings.

Assess your in-house digital capability vs what is needed

Identify opportunities for automation and digitisation

(from CLM to AI, ELM to matter management, MI to BI)

Technology solution portfolio development

Technology vendor selection

Create a digital strategy and roadmap tailored for your needs

Digital resourcing, capability development and preparing your team for digitisation

Focus on embedding new ways of working as we support your technology implementation and roll-out

Management information and business intelligence reporting

Technology adoption and value realisation

Making a difference for you

Critical thinking

Bringing practical insight to consider future challenges.

Business outlook

In-house, Big Four and technology expertise focused on you.

Agile approach

Known for responding quickly, being flexible and collaborating to get the right result for you.

Smooth delivery

Project management team dedicated to ensuring your project runs on time and on budget.

Helping you succeed