Aderant API
No public API surface. Published API terms confirm APIs exist, but there is no developer portal, public documentation, or self-service access; integrations happen through direct partnerships like LawPay. The myAderant portal sits behind a customer login.
Frequently asked questions
Aderant scores F on the API Report Card. No public API surface. Published API terms confirm APIs exist, but there is no developer portal, public documentation, or self-service access; integrations happen through direct partnerships like LawPay. The myAderant portal sits behind a customer login.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
Aderant is a global provider of comprehensive business management software for law firms and professional services firms.
Legal, Primarily for mid-to-large law firms (Am Law 200, Am Law 100) and professional services firms needing enterprise-grade time & billing, financial management, practice management, and compliance tools. Law firms use Aderant daily for attorney timekeeping, matter/case management, billing and invoicing (including LEDES format eBilling), financial reporting, accounts payable/receivable, trust accounting, conflict checking, and deadline/docket management.
Aderant is one of the two dominant legal practice management/billing platforms for large law firms. Over 88% of Am Law 200 firms use Aderant.
Yes, Aderant holds extremely critical law firm operating data including: attorney time entries, client/matter billing data, financial records (AR/AP, trust accounts, general ledger), prebills and invoices, eBilling submissions and statuses, conflict-of-interest data, client contact information, rate cards and fee arrangements, outside counsel guidelines, and deadline/docket data.
~48 years old, founded 1978 (originally as Solution 6 Professional and Enterprise). Acquired by Roper Technologies in 2015. The core Expert product has a legacy, Windows-based architecture.
Limited integration capabilities with third-party software; no public API docs. Users on Reddit complain about inability to automate time entry workflows. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Thomson Reuters Elite (3E), Clio, Smokeball, SurePoint Technologies, Filevine, Litify. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial Aderant API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Aderant data. See the Aderant integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/aderant-api.