Alyssa Levy works with some of the smallest legal teams Legora serves, and some of the fastest-moving. As a Go-to-market (GTM) Associate on Legora's small and medium-sized business (SMB) team in New York, she works with solo practitioners, boutique law firms, mid-sized firms and in-house legal teams. For many of these teams, the entire legal department is just one lawyer.

Their industries and practice areas vary. What they share is a small, agile team with more work than hours, and a need to move faster. Legora helps them do it.

Many of the teams Alyssa works with assume Legora is built exclusively for larger teams. One question she hears time and again is: “How many seats do we have to buy?”

Her answer is simple.

“You can start with just one,” she says. “There’s no minimum number of seats. We build the package around the team you have today, with room to grow.”

Alyssa Levy's path to small legal teams

Alyssa joined Legora as a business development representative (BDR). Before that, she worked across editorial writing, startup marketing and investing. She studied Organizational Studies and History at the University of Michigan.

As a BDR, her job was to start conversations and earn a few minutes of a busy lawyer's time. Today she runs the full cycle with small and mid-sized teams, from the first call through the trial to signature.

“Being a BDR taught me to respect people's time,” she says. “That matters even more with small teams. The partner at a five-person firm is often also the one handling billing, hiring and the client work.”

What keeps her in SMB is how directly the work lands. “When a small team gets time back, they feel it that same week,” she says. “There's no rollout committee between the product and the person using it.”

What small legal teams get from Legora

Alyssa's clients include boutique law firms, mid-sized firms and lean in-house teams. Many of the in-house teams she works with are one or two lawyers handling requests from across the business.

The work differs from team to team. The constraint is the same: more matters than hours, and no spare headcount to absorb the difference.

“My clients don't have an innovation team or a knowledge management function,” she says. “They want what a large firm has, without the large-firm overhead. Legora gives them that at the size they are today.”

For in-house teams, that often means keeping work in-house that used to go to outside counsel. For boutiques, it means taking on more without adding headcount.

It starts with how teams buy. Legora has no seat minimum and no license floor, so a team can start with one license and grow from there. Legora works with each team directly to find the pricing package that fits its timeline, needs and budget, starting with a short consultation.

How small legal teams move faster

Small teams don't need a long evaluation to know whether something works. Alyssa can usually see it during the trial.

Word Add-in, Skills, playbooks and Tabular Review

“When a team turns on the Word Add-in or starts building Skills, I know Legora is becoming part of how they work,” she says. “Anything where they create something that automates work they do over and over, like a repeatable workflow or a playbook, is a huge value add. When I see a team running thousands of cells in Tabular Review, I know it's working for them.”

In plain terms, the Word Add-in brings Legora into Microsoft Word, Skills are reusable instructions that teach Legora how a team completes a task, a playbook records a team's standards for work it repeats, and Tabular Review runs the same questions across many documents and shows the answers in a table.

For a lean team, a playbook does more than save time. It captures how the team works, so that knowledge doesn't sit with one person.

What customers say

One of the first teams Alyssa signed described the change in their own words: “This product is a game changer for us. Love the interface. We actually are finding ourselves working out of it a lot of times. Just a brand new workflow.”

The same customer also shared a moment of panic: “I had a panic moment when I thought maybe I'd lose the work we'd started on our trial, because we're so deep into it.”

First drafts with the Legora Agent

First drafts are often where small teams feel the difference first. The Legora Agent takes a first draft or a research question and comes back with something to review, rather than a blank page.

“Legora has impressed me across the board, but its new Agent's ability to prepare thorough first drafts from scratch stands out. Best of all, it's only getting better.”

Abbye M. Dalton, Partner, Hartman Simons

How quickly small teams sign

Some teams move faster still. Many have signed after a single call, because they realize the value so quickly.

How to start with Legora

When a small team asks Alyssa where to start, her advice is practical.

1. Start with the work you repeat. “Look at what lands on your desk every week, like the same type of contract or the same questions from the business. That's where a Skill or a playbook pays off first.”

2. Start at the size you are. “You don't need to buy for the team you might be in five years. One license is a normal place to begin.”

3. Test it on the work you actually do. “The trial is where it clicks. The teams that get the most out of it use it on real work from day one.”

4. Ask about support. Legora can provide a layer of subject matter expertise through practice-specific legal engineers, who work with customers from evaluation through rollout and adoption.

5. Ask about security. Legora is GDPR, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certified, holds ISO 42001 certification and provides enterprise-grade encryption as standard. Details are on Legora's security page.

6. Bring up your market early. Legora serves 80+ markets. Share your jurisdiction and working languages in the first conversation, and the team confirms fit, language preference and local support.

What happens after a team signs

For Alyssa, the best part of the job comes after the signature.

She often sees teams that start small add more users over time. Sales and finance teams see the impact directly: they get answers from legal faster, which helps them move business decisions forward.

“Every few weeks, a client shows me a workflow I hadn't thought of,” she says. “A two-person team builds a playbook, and suddenly they're handling work that used to need a bigger team. That's what empowering small teams looks like to me.”

“Legora keeps shipping, and small teams are quick to put what's new to work,” she adds. “They're proof you don't have to be big to work like the best firms in the world.”

Book a short consultation to find the package that fits your team. Questions about seat minimums, pricing or markets? Email contact@legora.com.