Research and data infrastructure for the legal and justice sector.

Legal regulators, professional associations, and public legal information providers hold years of data they aren’t using. It is stored across separate systems and organizational silos, disconnected from how decisions get made, and rarely structured well enough to analyze.

Standpoint has designed the research programs and analytical models used to analyze that data since 2009: survey instruments, causal analysis, and findings reports built to withstand scrutiny from a board, a funder, or a skeptical member. That work increasingly starts with preparing an organization’s data, definitions, and workflows for AI tools. Standpoint has always worked with the minimum data needed to answer the question at hand rather than an organization’s full sensitive record, and that same practice now reduces what has to be exposed, and the liability that comes with it, before AI tools are introduced.

What We Do

Research & Analysis

Survey and instrument design, stakeholder engagement, and causal analysis, delivered as findings reports for boards, executive committees, and member communities.

Context Layer & Data Readiness

Structuring an organization’s data, definitions, and decision workflows into a form that analysis, and the AI tools most organizations already have, can use. Entry-point work for the research that follows.

Delivery, Through AvvyPro

Self-assessment, benchmarking, and ongoing data collection are the kinds of programs that need to run at scale. Standpoint delivers those through AvvyPro, the platform built for that purpose.

Selected Engagements

Law Society of British Columbia

Outside Counsel Cost Analysis

Outside counsel expenditure had increased roughly 100% over two years, with strategic options contested internally. Steve Wilson led a structured cost-benefit analysis using a consequence-table methodology, developed with input from the CEO, CFO, Chief Legal Officer, and departmental managers. Matt Sims managed stakeholder engagement and produced the decision report and executive committee presentation.

Law Society of British Columbia

Complaint Pattern Analysis

Steve Wilson applied Bayesian non-parametric methods to fifteen years of member complaint data, characterizing patterns across firm size, practice type, and career stage, to not only better understand what kinds of complaints happened, but why. Findings informed subsequent program design decisions.

Law Foundation of BC · Family Justice Innovation Lab

Unbundled Legal Services Research

A multi-phase funded research project evaluating unbundled legal services in BC. Matt Sims facilitated a practitioner advisory group, led the client experience model and survey instrument through structured consultation, and deployed data collection through AvvyPro. Phase 1 produced a validated model, a survey instrument, and a research report; a Phase 2 proposal was approved.

North Carolina State Bar · Lawyers Mutual

Cybersecurity Self-Assessment Program

A jurisdiction-wide voluntary self-assessment program for the State Bar’s proactive management-based regulation initiative, co-sponsored by Lawyers Mutual. Matt Sims designed the instrument and delivered it through AvvyPro; 663 lawyers completed the program. Analysis covered objective-level scoring, best-practice gaps, and demographic segmentation, with stakeholder-specific action pathways for the regulator, the insurer, and the membership. The program continues into its next phase.

“We engaged Steve Wilson and Matt Sims of Standpoint Decision Support Inc. to help solve an important organizational challenge that LSBC faced. The work required extensive coordination among different managers and front line service employees. While not lawyers themselves, Steve and Matt quickly became highly knowledgable about many aspects of our regulatory and legal processes. Their professional approach and on-time, on-budget performance were key factors in the ultimate work product, which was supported by the team and successfully utilized in management and Board decision-making. I would not hesitate to recommend them on the basis of this strong performance.”
Timothy E. McGee, QC · Chief Executive Officer, Law Society of British Columbia

Clients

Several of the following organizations have run self-assessment or data collection programs on AvvyPro, the platform Standpoint built to deliver its own research at scale. The instrument design, analysis, and reporting behind those programs are Standpoint engagements.

Law Society of British Columbia

Law Society of Alberta

Law Society of Saskatchewan

Law Society of Manitoba

Supreme Court of Colorado

North Carolina State Bar

Law Foundation of BC

BC Courthouse Libraries

Legal Aid BC

Unbundled Legal Services BC

The People’s Law School

Assoc. of Professional Responsibility Lawyers

Justice Education Society

Team

Matt Sims

Co-founder & Principal

Matt co-founded Standpoint in 2009 and leads client engagement, survey and instrument design, stakeholder reporting, and project management across the firm’s work. His focus has been the design and delivery of research programs for legal regulators and professional associations across Canada and the United States: jurisdiction-wide self-assessment programs, funded multi-phase research projects, and aggregate findings reports for board-level audiences.

Steve Wilson, PhD

Co-founder

Steve co-founded Standpoint in 2009 and has led the firm’s most analytically intensive engagements, including the cost-benefit and complaint pattern analyses for the Law Society of BC above. He maintains an independent practice as a biologist and environmental analyst (EcoLogic Research, 1999–present) and has authored or co-authored more than 250 scientific publications. Steve is a minority shareholder in Standpoint and is brought into engagements where that depth of analysis is called for.