Legal Tech & AI Product Advisory For Vendors, Founders & Product Teams
Building Legal Technology?
Get An Independent View From An Advisor Who Understands The Market
Through Ippolito Advisory, Paul Ippolito provides independent strategic and product advisory to legal technology companies, AI companies, founders and product teams building for the legal profession.
Paul is also a practising solicitor, has run his own law firm Ippolito Lawyers for more than 18 years, has worked across litigation and transactional practices, has a management background, has taught management, still teaches law and AI, is a legal futurist and advises, writes and speaks to lawyers on technology, strategy and the changing business of legal practice.
He understands lawyers, especially solo lawyers and how they work.
That really matters when you are building something you expect lawyers to adopt.
If You Want Paul Ippolito's Professional Opinion, It Is Through A Professional Engagement
Paul is regularly approached by legal technology businesses wanting to demonstrate a product, discuss an idea, obtain feedback or understand where their product may fit within legal practice.
We are happy to consider those approaches.
However, where a vendor is seeking Paul's time, assessment, feedback, strategic thinking or market insight, that work is treated as a professional advisory engagement regardless if it may be relevant to his advisory or own legal practice.
Please rest assured however you get his full and focused attention and independent view of what you are building.
What Paul Ippolito Can Assess
Paul Ippolito can work with products at concept, prototype, pre-launch and post-launch stages.
The session may be used to:
demonstrate a product
pressure-test an idea
explore positioning or adoption issues
discuss how the product fits within real legal practice
examine how lawyers may respond to the proposition
Depending on the engagement, Paul Ippolito can consider:
whether the product solves a problem solo lawyers actually recognise
whether the value proposition makes sense in practice
likely barriers to adoption, trust and willingness to pay
usability from a practising solo lawyer's perspective
positioning and messaging
assumptions about how solo lawyers and solo law firms actually work
overlooked weaknesses, use cases or opportunities
how AI, technology and broader changes in solo legal practice may affect the product
The purpose is simple - to give you an experienced external perspective before the market does.
More Than A Lawyer Looking At Software
Paul's perspective spans legal practice, law firm ownership, legal education, AI and technology, strategic advisory and futures thinking.
He works from Sydney with businesses in Australia and internationally.
Payment buys Paul Ippolito's time, attention and professional judgment as an advisor.
It does not buy an endorsement, testimonial, recommendation or favourable review.
If Paul thinks something is strong, he will tell you.
If he thinks lawyers will struggle to understand it, adopt it or pay for it, he will tell you that too.
That is the point of the engagement.