Ensure every new hire is billable from day one with Rival, the leading HR software for law firms.
Rival helps clear conflicts, provision ethical walls, and track bar admissions so new hires become billable faster. As the orchestration engine that unites people, processes, and platforms, Rival delivers consistent experiences across every office and employee type — from lateral partners to summer associates to firm operations staff.
Trusted by Am Law 100 Firms
One Connected Lifecycle
Across Every Role and Location
Recruiting for laterals, associates, and firm operations.
- Source and onboard lateral partners and associates with speed that protects PPP and firm reputation
- Run summer associate programs and business-services hiring in one system
- An ATS add-on for staff and business-services roles — built to complement, not replace, your attorney ATS
Onboarding that clears conflicts and gets attorneys billing.
- Automate conflict checks and provision ethical walls as part of the onboarding journey
- Verify bar admissions and complete I-9 and background checks before day one
- Deliver a consistent onboarding experience across every office, so laterals integrate faster
Keep attorneys compliant
and integrated.
- Track bar admissions, MCLE/CLE credits, and renewals
- Customize workflows for lateral integration and cross-office moves with self-service journeys
- Leverage built-in analytics to track compliance and surface risk across offices
Protect the firm
on the way out.
- Revoke system access and update ethical walls the moment a departure is logged
- Recover assets, close compliance tasks, and preserve subject matter knowledge
- Track every step from notice to final day in one auditable workflow
Built for how law firms have to run.
Generic HR tools don’t speak law firm. Rival builds the firm-specific controls into the journey itself.
Conflict-check integration
Clear conflicts as part of onboarding, not after the fact
Ethical wall provisioning
Set up and enforced during onboarding and role changes
Bar admission & MCLE/CLE
Verified, monitored, and renewed automatically
I-9 & background checks
Built into every hire — firm-wide and office-consistent
Rival orchestrates your firm’s HR operations.
Rival connects your HRIS, background-check provider, and conflicts manager into one system of action, so law firm HR operations run on one connected workflow instead of five point solutions.
Onboarding journeys launched across Am Law firms
Orchestration layer for HRIS, conflicts & checks
Office-consistent onboarding
Akin Gump uses Rival Workflow to ensure all new hires are billable on day one.
“Rival helps us be billable on day one. Employees can get into client files and start doing the work that they were hired to do right away.”
Bill Cocolis
Director of Talent Management, Business Services
Wiley Rein LLP
Rival Workflow helps Wiley Rein LLP stakeholders stay aligned on onboarding tasks.
“Previously, we used a manual checklist that would physically be handed to each stakeholder to complete their portion. And as you can imagine, this made it harder to complete tasks simultaneously and was generally less efficient. So now we use Rival for our onboarding process, and that means that everyone, including our internal HR department, as well as other departments such as IT, operations, payroll, they have access to know who's responsible for what.”
Latreese Lovence
Human Resources Coordinator
See how your peers do it.
Rival is the orchestration platform trusted by Am Law firms to onboard laterals, clear conflicts, and get every hire billable faster.
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