This tool helps legal professionals identify key connections for business development, recruitment, career advancement and networking within the industry

Modern tool for a successful law firm

Leopard BI (Business Intelligence)

Leopard BI is an advanced platform designed to drive law firm success through innovative law firm business intelligence software tailored specifically for the legal industry. Offering connection tools for business development and hiring, ROI measurement tools to track and enhance success, an M&A tool to identify acquisition targets, and comprehensive trend reports, Leopard BI empowers firms to stay ahead in a competitive landscape.

The Ultimate Legal Industry Analytics Platform

Backed by over twenty years of research data and advanced predictive analytics, it serves as a go-to resource to benchmark performance, predict outcomes, and accelerate growth. With actionable insights on mergers and acquisitions, attorney recruiting, retention, and law firm expansion, Leopard BI delivers accurate and impactful data to law firm leaders, consulting professionals, and corporate counsel. Standing alone in the market, no other platform offers such a comprehensive suite of tools designed exclusively for the business of law.

Tools for Success in Law Firms

Leopard BI comprises a number of predictive analytic tools and reports that provide strategic research and business development opportunities for leaders in the legal profession. Updated twice a week, these reports are imperative for any law firm looking for growth. Since 2002, Leopard Solutions has been a trusted go-to resource for our clients. Request a demo to learn more.

Used by law firms

Law Firm leadership can utilize the Leopard BI tools to track their firm’s performance, benchmark their firm against their competition, and drive law firm sustainability and growth using historical data to predict future law firm success. Individual attorneys can use the connection reports within the platform to find business opportunities as well as information on opposing counsel.

Used by legal recruiters

Recruiters can leverage the Coach’s Corner, which provides tailored scripts to explain why an attorney should or shouldn’t join a firm. They gain insights into which firms are growing, which face hiring challenges, and can identify merger and acquisition targets for firms seeking hyper-growth. Recruiters can also locate practice groups that meet specific needs and assess their fit. The BI Suite reports empower recruiters to work more effectively and efficiently while positioning them as subject matter experts on a wide range of topics.

Used by corporate counsel

Monitor your outside counsel to ensure the law firms are consistent with your company’s strategic goals and initiatives. Track key indicators of law firm health and stability such as attorney growth, retention and gender and ethnic diversity statistics and staffig ratios.

Competitive & Benchmarking Tools

A variety of reports designed to provide law firms data on who their competitions are within particular practice areas and locations based on the number of attorneys and type of work being performed. Law firms can utilize data to benchmark their firm with competitors, comparing firm financials, client representations, and staffing ratios. An analysis is provided to allow law firms to stay ahead of their competition and win more business.

The Merger and Acquisition Tool

Identify possible acquisition targets or merger candidates and let the system access the risk. See More

A new dynamic law firm ranking system that is based on ungameable data. As firms change through the year and quarter to quarter, see their changes in real-time. See More

The best business development tools for attorneys. These five reports allow firms to leverage attorney history for business development, find new client opportunities, and optimize connections for recruiting. See More

How much money are your recruitment practices costing your firm? See the scores for both laterals and entry-level hires and the calculations of the costs involved. See More

The Law Firm Competitive Match Tool enables law firms the ability to quickly identify statistically probable competitors in each practice and office. Law firms can benchmark their competitors based on our Leopard Law Firm Index Score, attorney ROI (success in attorney retention), and Growth Decline metrics. This is the first tool of its kind. See More.

The Law Firm Benchmarking Tool gives law firms of all sizes the ability to benchmark their firm against peer firms utilizing Leopard Solutions’ research in critical areas such as attorney growth/decline, ethnic or gender diversity, law firm financials, RPL (revenue per partner) and PPP (profits per partner), attorney promotions and retention, and more. Law firms can also benchmark themselves against other firms utilizing the Leopard Law Firm Index, a composite ranking of law firms updated twice a week. Learn more.

The Alumni Tracker makes building law firm alumni networks fast and easy. What once took countless hours and was out-of-date the minute you finished is now accessible in just a couple of clicks and is updated twice each week, so you can be sure you have the most up-to-date alumni database. Learn more.

The Coach’s Corner, a first-of-its-kind tool, centralizes all of the rich Leopard Solutions data into talking points – comparing one firm with the candidate’s current firm – helping internal and external legal recruiters shape the narrative surrounding why an attorney should be interested in joining their law firm. Learn more.

The Practice Group Acquisition Tool allows firms to identify specific groups that match their set qualifications and see the potential outcomes based on exclusive Leopard Solutions data. Learn more.

The Leopard Solutions Difference

Leopard BI comprises a number of predictive analytic tools and reports that provide strategic research and business development opportunities for leaders in the legal profession. Updated twice a week, these reports are imperative for any law firm looking for growth.

Leopard Firmscape​

Competitive Intelligence on individual law firms as well as the entire legal market.

Leopard Job Search​

Real-time postings of legal openings. Automatic candidate matching and job analysis.

Leopard In House​

Unmatched law firm business development tool accessing a highly curated in-house database.

Leopard Resources

Hot spot​

Leopard Solutions' legal news aggregator where we look at the latest law firm news from multiple news and press release outlets.

Recruiter directory​

A comprehensive listing of legal recruiters across the United States.

Thought leadership​

Leopard Solutions creates a wide range of legal market research papers and thought leadership studies through the year of well as infographics on industry developments. In addition, we offer monthly webinars on leading issues affecting our clients and product updates/launches.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is the Leopard Law Firm Index different from other law firm ranking systems?

The Leopard Law Firm Index provides unique insight into every firm showing a true picture of the firm’s stability using “ungameable” data. Not based on financials alone, the index is updated twice a week and fluctuates according to market changes, attorney exits, entrances, diversity statistics, and other scored metrics. To learn more about the law firm index please visit our Leopard Law Firm Index resource page.

The Leopard Merger & Acquisition Tool and Report cover business-to-business law firms from five attorneys to thousands of attorneys. Law firms seeking to acquire firms with certain practice areas within specific locations that match their growth strategy can use the Leopard M&A tool to uncover what a potential combination would look like.

Leopard BI includes access to the Leopard Law Firm Index, our unique law firm rating index; the Merger & Acquisition Tool; The ROI Report, a report that shows the return on investment of both entry-level and lateral attorney hires; The Connection Tool, a tool harnessing the power of your attorney connections; among other strategic reports to help law firms plan for the future.

The Leopard ROI Report is a benchmarking tool that measures attorney retention and shows the impact and financial loss of unsuccessful attorney hires. Hiring success is based on five years of continuous employment for partners and three years for associates and counsel.

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Leopard Solutions’ market research, predictive analytics and competitive intelligence tools are designed to arm the legal industry with the data needed to take action in real-time

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