Both the legal department and the law firm are run like businesses. Each has work to track, documents to keep and bills to send or pay. This Market Segment is about the software that runs them.

Two buyers, two kinds of software: the legal department buys enterprise legal management software to track matters, review outside law firms' bills, manage contracts and run legal holds (Onit, Onit India, Mitratech); the law firm buys practice-management software to record time, send bills, chase payment and store client documents (NetDocuments, Oddr).

The same bill, from both sides. Law firms usually charge by the hour. In America, lawyers record their time in units of six minutes, a tenth of an hour. The firm sends its bill to the client's legal department. The legal department checks every line against its billing rules, called outside counsel guidelines, and disputes whatever breaks them. So the law firm's software writes the bill, and the legal department's software checks it.

The same bill, from both sides: lawyers record their time in units of six minutes, the law firm's software writes the bill, and the legal department's software checks every line against its outside counsel guidelines and disputes whatever breaks them.

The team that runs a legal department's budgets, software and processes is called legal operations, or legal ops. It is the main buyer of enterprise legal management software.

Most of the buyers here are in America. Several of the companies build their software in Pune, Hyderabad and Bengaluru.

Every company named here has posted software engineering jobs in India. Famous companies that don't actively hire software engineers in India are left out.