Legal Services Vendor Evaluation Form

Evaluate Your Legal Services Vendors with Confidence

Finding the right legal partner is critical for businesses of all sizes. Whether you're working with external law firms, corporate counsel, or specialized legal consultants, regular performance evaluations ensure you're getting the quality, transparency, and value you need.

This Legal Services Vendor Evaluation Form helps legal departments, compliance teams, and business leaders systematically assess their legal service providers across the metrics that matter most: case outcome success rates, billing transparency and accuracy, communication responsiveness, and the quality of strategic counsel provided.

Why Use Paperform for Legal Vendor Evaluations?

With Paperform, you can create professional, on-brand evaluation forms that capture detailed feedback from multiple stakeholders. The intuitive interface makes it easy for legal ops teams, general counsel, and department heads to provide structured input without wrestling with clunky survey tools.

Conditional logic lets you tailor follow-up questions based on ratings—if someone flags billing concerns, you can automatically ask for specific examples. Calculations can help you generate weighted scores across different evaluation criteria, making vendor comparisons clearer and more objective.

Once submitted, use Stepper to automatically route evaluation results to vendor management systems, trigger follow-up meetings with underperforming providers, or compile quarterly performance reports across your entire legal vendor roster. Everything stays connected, creating a clean audit trail that supports better vendor relationships and smarter procurement decisions.

Who Benefits from This Template?

This template is ideal for:

• General Counsel and Legal Ops teams managing panels of external counsel
• Procurement and vendor management professionals overseeing legal spend
• Compliance officers ensuring legal vendors meet quality and risk standards
• Business unit leaders who engage legal services and need to provide feedback
• Law firm administrators seeking structured client feedback for internal improvement

Whether you're conducting annual reviews, post-matter evaluations, or quarterly check-ins, this form provides a consistent framework that helps you make data-driven decisions about your legal partnerships while maintaining professional relationships with your counsel.