Aderant Acquires Virtual Pricing Director to Expand AI Legal Pricing Tools

Aderant has acquired Virtual Pricing Director (VPD), a London-based company that developed an AI-driven pricing platform for law firms. The acquisition combines Aderant’s financial and matter management tools with VPD’s pricing technology and the expertise of founder Richard Burcher.

Founded in 2017, VPD provides a cloud-based platform that uses artificial intelligence, structured logic, and adaptive workflows to help law firms automate and optimize their pricing strategies. The system integrates firm data with pricing models to enable engagement scoping, scenario modeling, and profitability forecasting across various practice management systems.

Aderant stated that VPD will remain available as a standalone product but will be integrated more closely with its existing suite over the next year. The integration will connect pricing intelligence with Aderant’s time and billing, financial management, and analytics capabilities.

The acquisition reflects growing demand among law firms for data-driven pricing and transparency tools as clients increasingly prefer predictable and measurable value-based billing models. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.