Still managing legal RFPs with spreadsheets and email?

Unity RFP

Unity RFP transforms outside counsel selection from a disconnected exercise into a strategic, competitive process inside Unity ELM. Compare firms on experience, approach, and price, then carry the selection and agreed terms directly into matters and spend.

Bring consistency to
outside counsel selection

Unity RFP gives legal teams a structured way to manage outside counsel sourcing from initial request through final selection.

Unity RFP helps legal teams:

  • Create RFPs using reusable templates and standardized questionnaires
  • Invite selected firms and manage responses in one process
  • Capture pricing using consistent formats
  • Compare proposals side by side
  • Apply weighted scoring and consistent evaluation criteria
  • Run reverse auctions to support competitive pricing
  • Manage internal reviews, approvals, negotiations, and award decisions
  • Maintain a centralized record of the RFP process

Trusted by leading legal teams worldwide

Transform how legal teams select and manage outside counsel

Outside counsel is one of legal’s largest and most strategic spend categories, but sourcing decisions are often made through fragmented workflows with limited pricing visibility, inconsistent evaluation criteria, and weak auditability.

Unity RFP fixes that by connecting firm selection to the ELM data legal teams already use to manage matters, vendors, invoices, and spend.

Find the Right Counsel for Every Matter

Included with Unity ELM, CounselMatch gives legal teams access to more than 400,000 attorneys and 5,800 law firms from within Unity ELM. Search beyond incumbent firms using detailed intelligence on experience, location, practice area, specialty, firm size, diversity, professional connections, and more. 

With CounselMatch, legal teams can: 

  • Find firms by geography, practice area, specialty, and size  
  • Identify attorneys based on experience, industry, bar admissions, education, and other relevant criteria  
  • Surface existing professional connections between in-house and outside counsel  
  • Evaluate firm stability, demographics, retention, and practice-level experience  
  • Build shared panels and track firms through due diligence, approval, or rejection  
  • Capture case notes and performance ratings for future decisions 

Drive pricing transparency and competitive outcomes

Introduce competitive pressure into the sourcing process with structured bidding and reverse auctions.

Unity RFP helps organizations:

  • Evaluate cost alongside scope and qualifications
  • Let firms submit and refine pricing in a controlled environment
  • Formalize pricing and negotiation within the platform
  • Gain greater visibility into rate structures
  • Improve their ability to manage legal spend

Strengthen governance with a complete system of record

Capture every step of the sourcing process, from vendor responses to final selection, within a single platform.

Unity RFP creates a defensible, auditable record that supports:

  • Compliance
  • Reporting
  • Internal accountability
  • Vendor oversight
  • Financial governance
  • Spend control

Because Unity centralizes legal data and workflows into a single source of truth, teams gain greater control over vendor decisions and financial outcomes.

Connect sourcing decisions to matters and spend

Unlike standalone RFP tools, Unity RFP operates within the same environment used for matter and spend management.

Vendor selections and agreed pricing structures flow directly into downstream workflows, helping legal teams:

  • Reduce data fragmentation
  • Maintain continuity from sourcing through billing
  • Align vendor selection with actual spend
  • Connect sourcing outcomes to matter and vendor performance
  • Strengthen control over outside counsel costs

Built on Unity. Designed for modern legal operations.

Unity RFP is built on the Unity platform, which unifies data, workflows, and intelligence across legal operations.

By consolidating sourcing, vendor management, and spend oversight in a single system, legal teams can scale sourcing processes without adding complexity while maintaining consistency across teams and matters.

Move outside counsel sourcing forward

Unity RFP brings structure, transparency, and control to one of legal operations’ most important financial decisions.

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Unity RFP brings structure, transparency, and control to one of legal operations’ most important financial decisions.