Client intake and CRM for the 100-plus-lawyer firm where practice groups, matter teams, and lateral conflicts all cross boundaries.
At 100 lawyers and above, law firm intake stops being a single-rep job. Conflicts route across practice groups, lateral-partner moves cascade through conflict waterfalls, client teams span 4 to 15 timekeepers, and the business-of-law surface integrates with iManage, NetDocuments, Elite 3E, Aderant Expert, and Intapp. Strkr's large-firm template covers that scale with practice-group routing, lateral conflict waterfalls, matter-management handoff, and firm-wide governance on the flat per-seat line.
Law firms above 100 lawyers face intake problems that solo and small-firm tools do not model. The firm structure introduces practice-group boundaries (litigation, corporate, tax, employment, IP, regulatory, trusts and estates), each with its own conflict-check posture and partner-approval chain. Lateral partner hires bring portable books with 50 to 400 historical clients that need to run against the firm's existing matter base through a lateral conflict waterfall. Client teams span 4 to 15 timekeepers with origination-partner, billing-partner, and working-attorney roles that need distinct access to the client record. The business-of-law stack (iManage, NetDocuments for documents, Elite 3E and Aderant Expert for time-and-billing, Intapp for new-business intake and conflict management) is deeply embedded. A 180-lawyer AmLaw 200 firm we spoke with in Dallas runs 2,400 active matters, had 11 lateral partners join in 2024 bringing 1,480 historical client relationships, and processes 68 new-matter openings per week across 7 practice groups. The pain points below cover the shape of that scale and where Strkr fits.
Practice-group boundaries
One intake rep cannot run seven practice-group checks.
Each practice group (litigation, corporate, tax, employment, IP, regulatory, trusts and estates) carries distinct conflict-check posture, partner-approval chain, and intake form shape. One intake rep cannot carry seven playbooks. Strkr's practice-group routing lands new-matter requests on the right practice-group intake pod with the group-specific form and approval chain pre-wired.
Lateral partner conflict waterfalls
11 lateral partners equals 1,480 new conflict surfaces.
A lateral partner brings 50 to 400 portable client relationships. Each needs to run against the firm's historical matter base before the lateral starts billing. The manual process at 11 laterals in 2024 took 3,200 analyst-hours. Strkr's lateral conflict waterfall runs structured ingestion of the lateral's client list with batched conflict runs, affiliate-graph matching, and partner-level review workflow.
Matter-management integration depth
iManage, Elite 3E, Aderant Expert all need deep sync.
Large firms run document management (iManage, NetDocuments), practice management (Elite 3E, Aderant Expert, Centerbase), and new-business intake plus conflict management (Intapp Open, Intapp Walls, Elite Enterprise, Aderant Compliance) at depth. Shallow CRM integrations break under the real workflow. Strkr's native sync covers matter open, billing-partner assignment, timekeeper roster, access walls, and billing-system handoff with structured event propagation.
Client team governance
Who sees what inside a client with 15 timekeepers.
A large-firm client with 15 timekeepers and 42 active matters needs role-based access: origination partner sees everything, billing partner sees billing and matter status, working attorneys see the matters they staff, legal assistants see tasks assigned, non-attorney staff see nothing. Strkr's client-team governance applies the role model inside the client record with per-matter walls and audit logging.
Billing-partner origination credit math
Compensation chases a credit model the CRM has to represent.
Partner compensation at large firms chases origination credit, billing credit, and working credit splits that get re-negotiated per matter. The CRM has to represent the splits accurately for the compensation committee. Horizontal CRMs do not model multi-partner split credit. Strkr's partner-credit object captures origination, billing, and working credit percentages per matter with time-based re-split audit.
Firm-wide new-matter governance
The managing partner needs a firm-wide view.
The managing partner at a 180-lawyer firm needs visibility across 68 weekly new-matter openings: practice-group mix, origination-partner distribution, client-sector concentration, pricing-structure trend, lateral-contribution ramp. The data lives across seven systems. Strkr's firm-wide dashboard rolls up the new-business picture with practice-group and partner-level drill-downs.
The large-firm intake primitives
What a 100-plus-lawyer firm intake has to model.
The cards below cover what Strkr ships natively on the large-firm template, scaled for 100-plus-lawyer practice.
Practice-group routing
Group-specific forms, approval chains, pods.
New-matter requests route to the right practice-group intake pod based on structured intake data. Each pod carries group-specific intake form fields, conflict-check rules, partner-approval chain, and SLA. The routing logic uses deterministic rules with override authority for the firm-wide intake coordinator.
Lateral conflict waterfall
Batched conflict runs with partner-level review.
Lateral-partner ingestion imports the lateral's portable client list through a structured template, runs batched conflict checks with affiliate-graph matching, surfaces potential conflicts to the lateral and the firm conflict partner, routes resolution through a documented waterfall (clear, screen, decline), and captures the resolution for ethics-wall configuration.
Matter-management handoff
iManage, Elite 3E, Aderant Expert sync.
Native bidirectional sync covers matter open events firing document-workspace creation in iManage or NetDocuments, timekeeper roster population in Elite 3E or Aderant Expert, billing-structure propagation (hourly, fixed-fee, contingency, capped, hybrid), and ethics-wall configuration in Intapp Walls or Elite Enterprise.
Client-team governance
Origination, billing, working, assistant roles.
Client record access follows a role model with origination partner (full access), billing partner (billing plus status), working attorneys (staffed matters only), legal assistants (assigned tasks), and non-attorney staff (no access by default). Per-matter walls add selective access for ethics-screened matters. Audit logs capture every access attempt with timestamp and reason.
Partner-credit object
Origination, billing, working credit splits.
Per-matter partner-credit records capture origination credit (which partner brought the client), billing credit (which partner carries the client relationship), and working credit (which partners earn working credit from matter work). Splits re-negotiate per matter with time-based audit. The compensation committee pulls structured reports for the annual compensation cycle.
Firm-wide dashboard
Managing partner weekly new-business view.
The managing partner dashboard rolls up weekly new-matter openings by practice group, origination-partner distribution, client-sector concentration (financial services, life sciences, energy, technology, real estate), pricing-structure trend, and lateral-contribution ramp. The weekly firm-management meeting runs on this surface.
Ethics-wall configuration
Screening orders propagated firm-wide.
When a matter requires an ethics wall (lateral-partner screening, former-government-service screening, concurrent-representation screening), Strkr propagates the wall to iManage access controls, Elite 3E matter access, and Strkr-side matter visibility. The wall configuration records with the ethics-committee approval reference. Breach attempts fire to the ethics partner immediately.
Partner origination attribution
Named partner credit for new client acquisitions.
Every new client captures the origination partner at intake. The quarterly report rolls up new-matter revenue and lifetime-client revenue per originating partner. The compensation committee sees origination contribution with structured data instead of partner memory. Lateral-partner contribution tracks against the lateral's own book versus firm cross-sell separately.
Firm-wide retention and discovery
7-year retention with legal-hold firm-wide.
Retention policy aligns with state-bar rules at the office-location level: California offices run 5-year retention, New York offices 7-year, Texas 5-year for business records, Florida 6-year, DC 5-year. Legal holds propagate firm-wide across all offices with cross-office audit. Discovery export produces structured output with chain-of-custody metadata and ethics-wall respect.
Where Strkr fits the 100-plus-lawyer firm
The shape of a Strkr-fit large firm.
Large firms cover a wide operational range from 100-lawyer regional powerhouses through AmLaw 100 giants. The cards below describe which shapes fit Strkr with the large-firm template.
AmLaw 100 and AmLaw 200
200 to 1,500-lawyer firms with national footprint.
AmLaw 100 and AmLaw 200 firms with national office footprint fit Strkr's large-firm template with multi-office retention per state-bar rule, cross-office conflict propagation, and client-team governance that scales to the AmLaw operational tempo. Firms already deep on Intapp or Elite integrate bidirectionally rather than replacing.
Regional powerhouses, 100 to 300 lawyers
Multi-city firms with 3 to 8 practice groups.
Regional powerhouses with 100 to 300 lawyers across 2 to 6 city offices fit the practice-group routing and partner-credit model cleanly. The lateral-conflict waterfall supports growth-through-lateral strategies common at this size.
Specialty mid-market firms
Litigation boutiques, IP shops, M&A specialists.
Specialty mid-market firms (100-plus-lawyer litigation boutiques, IP shops, M&A specialists) fit the practice-area-focused template with deeper per-group customization. The matter-type-specific intake forms, pricing structures, and ethics-wall patterns align with specialty-practice realities.
International firms with US offices
UK Magic Circle, Canadian seven-sisters with US presence.
International firms with US offices fit the multi-jurisdiction retention and multi-currency pricing. Cross-border conflict propagation respects the UK SRA, Canadian provincial law society, and US state-bar rules at the appropriate office. Multi-currency billing-structure capture.
Legacy-stack firms
Firms embedded on Intapp, Elite, iManage, NetDocuments.
Firms already deep on Intapp Open plus Intapp Walls, Elite 3E or Aderant Expert, and iManage or NetDocuments typically integrate Strkr bidirectionally rather than replacing. The daylight for Strkr sits in the client-development pipeline, partner origination attribution, and firm-wide new-business governance layer that Intapp Open does not cover.
When Strkr does not fit
AmLaw 20 giants with custom-built stacks.
AmLaw 20 firms with custom-built intake-plus-matter-management stacks developed over 10-plus years typically maintain those stacks rather than migrating. The custom-stack ROI calculus favors continuation. Strkr fits the AmLaw 20 at the client-development pipeline and partner origination layer selectively, not as a full replacement.
How a 180-lawyer firm runs on Strkr
The weekly rhythm at Dallas AmLaw 200 scale.
The cards below describe the weekly operating rhythm at the Dallas 180-lawyer AmLaw 200 firm referenced earlier: 2,400 active matters, 7 practice groups, 68 weekly new-matter openings.
Monday practice-group intake
Weekend inquiries routed to the right pod.
Monday morning the firm-wide intake coordinator reviews weekend new-matter requests, confirms practice-group routing landed correctly, and triages any multi-practice-group matters requiring cross-group coordination. The 68-matter-per-week run rate spreads across the 7 practice-group intake pods.
Tuesday conflict runs
Affiliate-graph matching against 2,400 active matters.
Conflict runs for Monday's intake land Tuesday morning with affiliate-graph matching results. Clean matters route to practice-group partner approval. Potential conflicts route to the firm conflict partner with structured match-basis explanation (direct, affiliate, co-party, opposing party). Resolutions capture for ethics-wall configuration.
Approved matters move to engagement-letter generation with practice-group-specific templates. Origination credit assignment captures per matter. Signed letters trigger iManage workspace creation, Elite 3E matter open with timekeeper roster, and Intapp Walls ethics-wall configuration.
Thursday lateral intake
Lateral conflict waterfall batch runs.
Thursday is dedicated to lateral-partner intake. The firm averages 1 lateral per month in 2024 and 2025. Each lateral's portable client list runs batched conflict against the 2,400-matter base. Resolutions route through the ethics-committee waterfall. Screened matters configure appropriate walls before the lateral starts billing.
Friday firm-wide dashboard
Managing partner review of weekly new business.
Friday morning the managing partner reviews the firm-wide new-business dashboard: 68 new matters with practice-group distribution (litigation 24, corporate 18, employment 9, IP 7, tax 5, trusts and estates 3, regulatory 2), origination-partner spread, client-sector concentration, pricing-structure trend. The firm-management meeting runs on this surface.
Monthly compensation data
Partner origination, billing, working credit rollups.
Monthly the firm administrator pulls partner-credit data for the compensation committee cycle. Origination credit, billing credit, and working credit roll up per partner with time-based audit. The compensation committee cycle runs on structured data instead of partner memory and administrative compile.
Head-to-head
Strkr vs Intapp Open + Elite Enterprise stack.
The large-firm comparison runs Intapp Open plus Elite Enterprise plus a horizontal CRM against Strkr Scale with the large-firm template. Intapp pricing is enterprise-negotiated and varies; the comparison frames the capability shape rather than list pricing.
Feature
Strkr
Intapp Open + Intapp Walls + Elite Enterprise
Practice-group routing
Native with group-specific forms
Intapp Open config
Lateral conflict waterfall
Native batched runs with waterfall
Intapp Open module
Client-team governance
Native role-based with per-matter walls
Intapp Walls plus Elite
Partner-credit splits
Native origination/billing/working
Elite Enterprise
Firm-wide new-business dashboard
Native rollup across groups
Custom BI build
iManage/NetDocuments sync
Native bidirectional
Native
Multi-office retention per state
Native state-bar aligned
Custom configuration
Lateral portable-book ingestion
Structured template with waterfall
Manual process
Ethics-wall propagation firm-wide
Native cross-system
Intapp Walls
Pricing model
Flat per-seat with firm-wide math
Enterprise-negotiated per module
How teams use Strkr
How large law firms run Strkr.
The firms below picked Strkr specifically for the large-firm template's combination of practice-group routing, lateral waterfalls, and firm-wide governance.
A Dallas-based AmLaw 200 firm with 180 lawyers across litigation, corporate, employment, IP, tax, trusts and estates, and regulatory practices had hired 11 lateral partners in 2024 bringing 1,480 historical client relationships. The manual conflict waterfall consumed 3,200 analyst-hours. Strkr's batched conflict run with affiliate-graph matching reduced the lateral-ingestion cycle from 14 days to 36 hours per lateral. The 2025 lateral cohort of 9 partners processed in 2.3 weeks total analyst time versus the prior-year equivalent of 11 weeks.
A 220-lawyer Chicago-based regional firm with 6 practice groups had been running intake through a single firm-wide coordinator who became the bottleneck at 54 matters per week. Strkr's practice-group routing distributed intake across 6 group pods with group-specific forms. The firm-wide coordinator moved to a governance-and-exception role. New-matter cycle time dropped from 5.4 days to 1.8 days average.
National M&A boutique, 140 lawyers
Client-team governance passed an ethics audit cleanly.
A 140-lawyer national M&A boutique had been running Salesforce with workspace-level access that did not enforce matter-team boundaries. A client-side ethics audit flagged the access posture as insufficient. Strkr's client-team governance with per-matter walls and audit logging on every access passed the follow-up audit with zero findings. The client (a strategic repeat client of significant value) renewed the firm's preferred-provider status.
A 160-lawyer DC regulatory firm with 5 practice groups had been running the quarterly new-business review on manually compiled spreadsheets. Strkr's firm-wide dashboard surfaced client-sector concentration: 38 percent of new 2024 matters came from financial-services clients at a time when financial-services regulatory posture was shifting. The managing committee pivoted business-development investment toward life sciences and energy, which stabilized the 2025 revenue mix.
Client intake and CRM for the 100-plus-lawyer firm with practice groups, lateral waterfalls, and firm-wide governance.
Request a large-firm demo with the AmLaw template loaded. Practice-group routing. Lateral conflict waterfall. Client-team governance with per-matter walls. Partner-credit splits. iManage, Elite 3E, Aderant Expert sync. Firm-wide new-business dashboard. Flat per-seat Scale tier with Strkr AI included.
How does Strkr sit alongside Intapp Open at a 100-plus-lawyer firm?
Firms deeply embedded on Intapp Open for new-business intake and Intapp Walls for ethics screening typically integrate Strkr bidirectionally rather than replacing. Intapp Open owns the structured conflict-run engine and ethics-wall configuration surface where it has 10-plus years of firm-specific history. Strkr covers the client-development pipeline (where the matter came from, which partners sourced it, how it progressed from inquiry to engagement), the partner origination attribution and compensation data, and the firm-wide new-business governance layer that Intapp Open does not natively cover. Native sync keeps the two systems consistent. Firms starting fresh or dissatisfied with Intapp depth typically consolidate the full intake-plus-conflict-plus-governance surface onto Strkr.
How does the lateral conflict waterfall actually work?
The lateral-ingestion workflow starts with the lateral partner providing a structured client-list template (legal name, aliases, DBAs, business affiliates, personal associations, matter types historically handled, approximate matter revenue). Strkr runs batched conflict against the firm's historical matter base with affiliate-graph matching. Each potential conflict routes to the firm conflict partner with match-basis explanation. The conflict partner clears, screens, or declines each potential match. Screened matters configure appropriate ethics walls through Intapp Walls integration or native Strkr walls. The resolution captures with the ethics-committee reference for ongoing audit. The whole cycle for a lateral bringing 200 historical client relationships typically runs 36 hours of analyst time versus 90-plus hours in a manual waterfall.
What about matter-management integration with Elite 3E and Aderant Expert?
Native bidirectional sync covers matter open events firing timekeeper roster population in Elite 3E or Aderant Expert, billing-structure propagation (hourly, fixed-fee, contingency, capped, hybrid including success-fee overlays), ethics-wall configuration propagating from Intapp Walls or native Strkr walls, and billing-rate structure (standard, discounted, blended) per client. The matter object maintains source-of-truth in the practice management system for time-and-billing data; Strkr pulls time-worked and billing-status into the client record for the business-development view without duplicating transactional storage.
How does partner-credit origination tracking work for compensation?
Per-matter partner-credit records capture origination credit (which partner brought the client, which may differ from the matter), billing credit (which partner carries the client relationship on an ongoing basis), and working credit (which partners earn working credit from the matter work). Each credit type captures percentage splits with time-based audit so re-negotiations through the matter life preserve history. Origination credit typically assigns at client acquisition and stays stable; billing credit may transition with partner retirement or practice-group moves; working credit allocates per matter based on contribution. The compensation committee cycle pulls structured reports with origination, billing, and working rollups by partner, with time-weighted treatment for mid-year transitions.
What about ethics walls and screening orders?
When a matter requires an ethics wall (lateral-partner screening for the lateral's prior-firm clients, former-government-service screening under ABA Model Rule 1.11, concurrent-representation screening under Rule 1.7, or client-mandated screening), Strkr propagates the wall configuration to iManage access controls, Elite 3E or Aderant Expert matter access, and Strkr-side matter visibility. The wall records with ethics-committee approval reference and lifetime audit. Breach attempts fire to the ethics partner immediately with the attempted-access context. The combined firm-wide propagation eliminates the common gap where an ethics wall is configured in one system but not another.
What is the pricing model for a 180-lawyer firm?
Strkr pricing at large-firm scale is Scale tier at $125 per seat per month for base, with the large-firm template and enterprise support included on volume commitments at 100-plus seats. The commercial conversation typically runs flat-line against the stitched Intapp Open plus Elite Enterprise plus horizontal CRM plus DocuSign plus audit stack. A 180-seat deployment annualizes to around $270K on Scale tier. The equivalent large-firm Intapp Open plus Elite Enterprise plus horizontal CRM stack typically annualizes between $420K and $720K depending on module selection and audit depth, so the flat-line math typically delivers 35 to 60 percent reduction with the integrated workflow in place.
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