Reading buying committees for legal companies

The situation

Legal companies skew buying committees, for a reason specific to them. Legal companies are partnerships that publish partner lists and almost nothing else, and buying committees inherits that. What catches people out on legal companies, buying committees included: practice areas are the real segmentation and they sit in a navigation menu rather than a data field. We keep 1 preconfigured task for buying committees on legal companies, across 1 tool.

Traditional Search Tools

• The bar or law society register, for legal companies. Free, authoritative, and it confirms the firm and its people.
• LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Still the best single source for who works where, and the filters are good. It will not tell you who decides, and it charges per seat.
• Apollo, Cognism or a contact database. Instant coverage at the price of accuracy. Titles go stale fast, and a database that has not seen a company in eight months will confidently give you someone who left.
• Asking your champion. In an active deal this beats every tool listed here and costs one sentence in an email.
• Read the team page and LinkedIn. Most companies under 200 people publish their leadership. Ten minutes on the team page and the LinkedIn people tab gets you a map that is better than anything you can buy.

How we would run it

1. Start with one of legal companies you already know, so a wrong buying committees answer is obvious rather than plausible.
2. Run People Finder across your list of legal companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for buying committees.
3. Read ten rows of buying committees on legal companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.

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• People Finder1 preconfigured task on this page's job.