Legal IT
Independent Legal IT consulting and IT strategy for NZ law firms.
Getting technology right in a law firm is harder than it looks. The software is specialised, the stakes are high, and a lot of the advice out there comes with a vendor relationship attached.
Valley IT provides independent legal IT expertise across practice management software selection, long-term IT strategy, and everything in between. No referral fees, no vendor alignments. If you need honest advice on a technology decision, that's what you'll get.
Practice Management System (PMS) consulting
Independent guidance on PMS selection and migration. No vendor relationships, no referral fees.
How we approach PMS consultingCloud Migration
Tired of legacy legal software? We plan and manage your move to modern cloud platforms.
Legal Software Advice
The legal software landscape is complex and vendors are better at selling than scoping. We give independent advice on what works best for your firm.
Common questions
What is legal IT consulting?
Legal IT consulting is specialist technology advice for law firms. It covers practice management software selection and migration, cloud strategy, legal software evaluation, and long-term IT planning, all applied to the specific workflows, compliance requirements, and software ecosystem of legal practice. Valley IT provides this exclusively for NZ law firms.
Do you have vendor relationships with practice management software providers?
No. Valley IT has no referral arrangements, reseller agreements, or commercial relationships with any practice management software vendor. This means our advice is based solely on what fits your firm's requirements, not on which vendor pays the highest referral fee.
What practice management systems do NZ law firms use?
The most common practice management systems in use by NZ law firms include OneLaw, LEAP, Actionstep, Clio, Infinitylaw, and FilePro. Legacy systems still in use include Affinity and Lawmaster. Each has different strengths around NZ trust accounting compliance, cloud architecture, pricing, and integration with legal software tools. Valley IT evaluates all of them without bias.
How do I know when it's time to move to a new practice management system?
Common indicators include: your current system no longer receiving active development or support (as with legacy systems like Affinity and older versions of Infinitylaw), your team spending significant time on workarounds, a lack of cloud access for remote work, or difficulty integrating with modern tools. Valley IT can assess your current setup and advise on whether migration makes sense and when.
Can you help us migrate from a legacy legal software system?
Yes. Valley IT supports migrations from legacy practice management systems including Affinity, Lawmaster, FilePro, and older Infinitylaw deployments. We manage the IT infrastructure changes that run alongside the software vendor's legal data migration, covering Microsoft 365, network shares, user provisioning, and security, so the migration is coordinated and the firm keeps running throughout.
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