# Aderant review (2026): is it worth it? > Time, billing and financial software for large law firms Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Aderant sells a suite of business-of-law software for law firms: financial management (Expert Sierra), time capture (iTimekeep), docketing and calendaring (Milana, CompuLaw), billing delivery and recruiting tools. It is a business unit of Roper Technologies and sells to firms through demos and quotes, with no published prices. - **Category:** Law Practice Software - **Made by:** Aderant - **Website:** https://www.aderant.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you're a small firm needing intake and a client portal. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing Aderant's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Financial management:** Expert Sierra covers conflicts checks, client and matter management, work in progress, billing, rates, collections, accounts payable and receivable, general ledger, tax and trust accounting. - **Time entry and billing compliance:** iTimekeep captures time, and Aderant lists outside counsel guideline compliance and eBilling among its products. It cites more than 100,000 monthly active users for time entry. - **Docketing and calendaring:** Milana is a cloud docketing product with a court rules library that the vendor says covers more than 3,000 rule sets and is monitored for changes daily. CompuLaw is a second docketing product. - **People management:** The viRecruit, viEval, viSkills and viLMS+CLE products cover recruiting, evaluations, skills tracking and learning for professional services firms. - **AI features:** Expert Sierra is described as AI-enabled through MADDI on the Stridyn platform. The site also announces Aderant Agents and an integration of iTimekeep with Harvey. ## Good for - Mid-size and large firms that need a finance and billing back office - Firms that want docketing, time capture and recruiting from one vendor ## Worth knowing - No prices are published, and the site routes visitors to a demo request, so costs cannot be compared in advance. - Aderant is aimed at firm operations: it lists Am Law 200 and global firm customers, and is not a small-firm intake and client-portal product. - Several of its products are sold separately, so a firm assembles the set it needs. - The product pages read do not list supported desktop or mobile platforms; Expert Sierra is described as hosted on AWS and mobile-friendly. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Aderant sells separate products for law firm finance, time capture, docketing and billing, aimed at big firms. No price is published and the site routes visitors to a demo, so a small firm will find it oversized. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published, and the site routes visitors to a demo request. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no free trial are listed anywhere on the pages we read. - **Features: C.** Financial management, time entry and billing compliance, docketing and people management. But it's firm operations only, with no intake or client portal, and the products are sold separately. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. A firm assembles and configures the set of products it needs. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only on the listing, with Harvey and Teams as the only integrations named. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Aderant's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among law practice software - Aderant's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 2 of the 35 other law practice software we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on value for money (C, above 6 of 35) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/law-practice ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Aderant you would be making client trust accounts kept the way bar rules require. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 31 of the 35 other law practice software grade higher. - You could make: Time tracking, invoicing, calendar, applicant tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Client trust accounts kept the way bar rules require. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Harvey, Microsoft Teams **Tags:** Time tracking, Invoicing, Trust accounting, Calendar, Applicant tracking, AI features, Reports ## Alternatives - [Tabs3](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tabs3): Legal billing, trust accounting and case management for law firms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aderant-vs-tabs3) - [Centerbase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/centerbase): Practice management, billing and firm accounting for midsize firms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aderant-vs-centerbase) - [TimeSolv](https://toolgpa.com/tools/timesolv): Legal time tracking, billing and trust accounting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aderant-vs-timesolv) - [Clio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clio): Practice management, legal accounting and legal AI for law firms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/aderant-vs-clio) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.aderant.com/ - https://www.aderant.com/about-aderant/ - https://www.aderant.com/solutions-expert-sierra/ - https://www.aderant.com/solutions-milana/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/aderant Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).