Ireland | The Founders Programme
Five firms will shape Actionstep in Ireland.
Legal practice management, launching in Ireland. Founding firms shape the rollout – on founders’ terms, locked for three years.
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Many Irish firms are being forced to reconsider the systems their practices have relied on for years.
If you are running a server-based system that is heading for sunset, or a cloud product whose pricing keeps moving, you already know a decision is coming. What makes it hard is not the technology. It is the risk.
The migration you dread.
Decades of matters, precedents and accounts data. The fear is not moving to the cloud – it is what gets broken, lost or upended on the way.
Price rises you did not sign up for.
Too many firms have watched their subscription climb steeply after the ink dried. Once bitten, twice sceptical – and rightly so.
Data that will not carry you forward.
Matters with generic titles, letters copied and pasted from old files. Unstructured data quietly caps your efficiency today and blocks any serious use of AI tomorrow.
Vendors who do not know Ireland.
A global platform is only useful if the people implementing it understand how Irish firms actually practise – and stay in the room after go-live.
None of this means standing still is safe. It means the move has to be done properly, with people who take the risk as seriously as you do.
Your best practice, kept. Your old workarounds, retired.
Actionstep is a cloud legal practice management platform built for midsize firms, on a simple principle: flexibility and choice. You keep what works. You change what does not. Nothing gets thrown upside down on day one.
Migration is staged and deliberate – but it is not a lift and shift. During implementation we work with you to separate the best practice your firm has refined over decades from the workarounds your old system forced on you. The former is captured and reimagined for modern, cloud, AI-ready technology; the latter is retired. The goal is that on day one of go-live your firm hits the ground running on something better, not a copy of the old system in a new window.
One system. Every matter, bill and document.
Everything about a matter, in one place
Case, practice and document management, connected. Fee earners stop hunting across systems and win back the hours lost to admin.
Built for Irish practice
PIAB references, Garda abstracts, statute deadlines, client accounts – captured on the matter, not in someone’s head.
Full legal accounting built in – or bring Xero
Client and office accounts, billing and reporting, designed to support Irish solicitors’ accounting requirements.
The Irish market is moving. The question is whether you move on your terms.
Legacy systems are being sunset, the legal software market is consolidating, and AI is starting to separate firms with structured data from firms without it. Firms facing product sunset, escalating costs or growing data limitations can choose to move deliberately now – or under a future deadline, on a vendor’s timetable.
Founding firms move early instead, and get something no later customer ever will: a hand in shaping how the platform serves Irish practice, and terms that reflect it.
1. Pricing locked for three years
The best commercial terms of our Irish launch – locked for three years. In writing. No year-on-year creep.
2. A hand in shaping the Ireland rollout
Direct input on how the platform serves Irish practice – including how Solicitors Accounts Regulations workflows are configured.
3. A direct line to our senior team
Named access to Actionstep’s solutions and services leadership, with executive sponsorship from UK and EMEA leadership. Your project is one of five, not one of hundreds.
4. A founding community
Quarterly roundtables with the leaders of Ireland’s other founding firms. Peer insight you cannot buy.
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What we ask in return
Why five?
Not a beta. A partnership – with the attention to match.
Proven internationally. Now being adapted with Irish firms.
We are new to Ireland and we won’t pretend otherwise – there are no Irish logos on this page because we have not earned them yet. That is what the Founders Programme is for. What we bring is a platform already trusted by midsize law firms in comparable markets, with data hosted in AWS Dublin, under GDPR.
United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, & New Zealand
5000+ law firms already run on Actionstep, across five common-law markets, including full UK legal accounting.
Built for midsize firms
Designed for owner-led and partner-managed practices, not stripped-down or enterprise-bloated.
An open ecosystem
Xero, NetDocuments, iManage, Microsoft 365 and an open API across the legal stack.
Four calm steps. No leap of faith.
1. Talk
2. Scope
3. Migrate
4. Go live running
“We knew how disruptive these projects can be.
Actionstep ticked every box for us… the project was delivered exactly as promised.”
Rachael Briggs | Owner & Director, Landsmiths Solicitors
The questions solicitors actually ask us.
Five places. Then it’s done.
Register your interest as a Founding Firm or book your Ireland demo. No obligation – the demo is where we prove the specifics.