Leveraging APIs for Market Intelligence and Driving Revenue, Josh Blandi Published by LMA
on Topics: Legal Data API | Legal Tech | Perspectives
LMA’s site Strategies and Voices recently published an article by Josh Blandi, CEO and Co-founder of UniCourt. The article, Leveraging APIs for Market Intelligence and Driving Revenue, discusses the increasing use of application programming interfaces (APIs) in the legal industry to obtain market intelligence and drive revenue growth. It provides a framework for legal marketing and business development teams to identify, select, and implement API solutions effectively. In it, Josh emphasizes the importance of identifying core business use cases, choosing the right API solution, ensuring a firm-solution fit, smooth implementation, and proving ROI.
Here are the key points highlighted by Josh.
Business Use Case Identification
Before selecting an API solution, it is essential to identify the specific business challenges that the marketing and business development team aims to address by using external data sources. This involves determining core business use cases for legal data to save from future headaches and make proving ROI easier. Three common challenges that outside data can assist with: client litigation tracking and retention, winning client and prospect requests for proposals (RFPs), and identifying cross-selling opportunities
Firm-Solution Fit
After identifying the business challenges, the next step is to select an API solution that fits the specific, high-value problem the firm wants to tackle. Considerations include data coverage, data normalization, and data interoperability.
Smooth Implementations
The article emphasizes the need for a smooth implementation of the chosen API solution. It provides crucial questions to consider and ask potential legal data API providers before finalizing the selection process, such as out-the-box integrations, custom integrations, partner and direct support.
Proving ROI
Finally, the article stresses the importance of proving the ROI on any activity requiring firm resources. It advises legal marketers and business developers to focus on driving revenue and proving ROI by getting quick wins, measuring successes, and looking for opportunities to expand.
The article provides a comprehensive guide for legal marketing and business development teams to leverage APIs effectively for market intelligence and revenue growth. It offers practical advice for choosing, implementing, and proving the value of API solutions in the legal industry.
Read the original article for Josh’s complete explanation and analysis.