Legaltech software development teams that protect privilege and the billable hour.
Hire dedicated senior legaltech engineers from a staffing partner founded by a four-time founder. We place engineers in the Philippines who build practice management, document automation, e-discovery, and contract software for law firms and legal-technology companies. Pre-vetted, full-time, and ready in as little as 7 days.
- Inc. 5000 honoreefive years running
- 350+ senior engineerson staff, across every stack
- 200+ companies servedsince 2018
- 700+ engineer placementsinto US software teams
Not a dev shop building it for you. Your legaltech team, building with you.
Most legal software development companies quote you a six- or seven-figure fixed-bid project, build it behind a vendor wall, and hand it back. We staff dedicated senior engineers into your team. You own them, manage them, and keep them.
The turnkey vendor model
The big custom-software shops
- Fixed-bid project, scoped up front, priced in the hundreds of thousands
- Engineers walled off behind an account manager
- 30–40% overhead for layers you never meet
- Hand-off at the end, and the knowledge walks out the door
The Full Scale staff-augmentation model
Dedicated engineers, embedded in your team
- $35/hr fully loaded, scale up or down as the roadmap changes
- Engineers in your standups, Slack, repo, and roadmap
- No vendor wall and no PM tax, you manage them directly
- 93%+ retention means the engineers, and the knowledge, stay
Co-founded VinSolutions, the #1 CRM in the auto industry ($150M+ exit), and founded Stackify
Built by a founder who has shipped and sold real software
Full Scale was founded by Matt Watson, a four-time founder and CTO with 20+ years in software engineering. He co-founded VinSolutions, the #1 CRM platform in the auto industry, acquired for around $150 million, and founded Stackify, a developer-tools company he later sold. He also wrote Product Driven, the engineering-leadership method every Full Scale engineer is trained on.
Full Scale exists because Matt kept hitting the same wall as an operator: good products stall when you can't hire and keep good engineers. That is the problem we solve, and it is why we vet for the senior, product-minded engineers most staffing shops never find.
Engineers experienced across the legaltech stack
We don't sell you a pre-built product. We staff engineers who have shipped in these domains before and know where the confidentiality and data-security landmines are.
Practice management
Law firm software development across matter intake, time and billing, calendaring, and trust accounting, built around how a firm actually bills and gets paid.
Case & matter management
Matter workflows, deadline and docket tracking, task assignment, and the audit trail that keeps a case file defensible.
Document automation & e-discovery
Template-driven document generation, clause libraries, redaction, and e-discovery review pipelines over large document sets.
Contract lifecycle management (CLM)
Drafting, review, approval routing, e-signature, obligation tracking, and renewal alerts across the contract lifecycle.
Client portals
Secure client-facing portals for document sharing, status updates, intake forms, and messaging that respects privilege.
Legal analytics
Matter profitability, realization and utilization dashboards, outcome analytics, and reporting on the work that drives revenue.
Engineers who build for confidentiality, not just ship dates
Legal software doesn't forgive a leak. Our engineers have worked inside environments where a data breach is a privilege waiver and an unlogged access is a liability, and they treat security and confidentiality as architecture decisions, not a checkbox at the end.
The legal specialists on our bench
Backend engineers
.NET, Java, Python, Node
Frontend engineers
React, Angular, TypeScript
Document / search
Indexing, OCR, e-discovery
Mobile (client apps)
iOS, Android, Flutter
Data / ML engineers
Legal analytics, NLP
Security engineers
AppSec, access control
DevOps / SRE
Azure, AWS, IaC, uptime
Solutions architects
System & data design
The legal stack our engineers work in
Backend
Frontend
Mobile
Data
Cloud & DevOps
Documents & search
Why most offshore legaltech teams fail, and how to not be one of them
The mistake isn't going offshore. It's hiring the cheapest developer you can find and hoping confidentiality sorts itself out. I call that cheapshoring, and in legal software it's how you end up with a data leak and a privilege problem.
Legal software is unforgiving. You need engineers who understand that a leaked document is a privilege waiver and an unlogged access is a finding. That's a hiring bar, not a rate, which is the whole reason we accept under 3% of applicants and train every engineer on the Product Driven method.
From call to coding in as little as 7 days
- 1Tell us the legaltech roles and stack you need
- 2We match pre-vetted engineers from our bench
- 3You interview and pick your team
- 4They start in your standups, repo, and roadmap
Legal Software Development Services, answered
- Do your engineers understand legal data confidentiality?
- Yes. We staff engineers who have built inside SOC 2-governed environments handling sensitive client data, and they treat attorney-client confidentiality and data security as architecture decisions, not a checkbox.
- Is this a fixed-bid project or a dedicated team?
- A dedicated team. We are a staff augmentation partner, so you get engineers embedded in your team at $35/hr, not a turnkey project quote.
- How fast can a legaltech team start?
- As little as seven days from the first call to engineers in your standups, drawing from a pre-vetted bench.
- Who owns the code and the IP?
- You do, from day one. Our engineers work in your repositories under your process.
Staffing engineering teams across every industry
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