legal-procurement
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PERSUIT
PERSUIT is an enterprise SaaS platform that helps corporate legal departments scope, price, select and manage their outside law firms. Founded in 2016 by former DLA Piper partner Jim Delkousis, it runs competitive RFPs, structures alternative fee arrangements, benchmarks rates and - after its 2025 acquisition of Apperio - tracks legal spend from intake through invoice payment. The company built on a simple premise: clients value outcomes, not billable hours.
Jim Delkousis
Jim Delkousis is the founder and CEO of PERSUIT, a New York-based legal technology company that helps corporate legal teams run competitive, transparent processes for hiring outside counsel. A former DLA Piper litigation partner with 25 years in BigLaw, he left the partnership in 2016 to build a platform that shifts legal buying from billable hours toward outcomes and value. PERSUIT now works with Fortune 1000 legal departments and thousands of law firms, and in 2025 expanded into legal spend and matter management by acquiring Apperio.
Priori
Priori is a New York legal technology company that helps in-house legal departments find, hire, and manage outside counsel and flexible legal talent. Through a vetted marketplace, data-driven RFP software, and an AI assistant called Scout, Priori turns the messy, relationship-driven process of buying legal services into something measurable - cutting outside-counsel spend and search time for clients ranging from startups to the Fortune 500.