Ask HN: Law/Legal SaaS Environment

Yo HN,

I'm working on a little side project that deals with the US federal legal system, specifically federal prosecution and defense.

Just curious if anybody else here works at or has any experience in what the SaaS field looks like, the appetite for Big Law (or boutiques) who deal in federal criminal/civil defense and adopting SaaS solutions, etc.

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I've worked for three legal tech companies over the past few years, and my sense is that there is a swell of lawyers moving away from paper and MS Office and onto both desktop (PC Law, for example) and SaaS (Clio) infrastructures. If you're interested in moving into that space as a provider, be aware that the competition is stiff, AI/ML is finally starting to make inroads in both stand-alone products and as add-ons to existing ones, and while there are a few SaaS offerings that are highly generalized to work with all types of practices, there are at least as many that are designed for a specific type of law, and even only within a specific political region (like a province or state).

There's still a lot of room, but there's a lot of competition.

Sweet thanks for some context. I'm going into a pretty specific niche within federal law, sentencing, so maybe I'll be able to generate some traction.

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