Digital legal work produces the same legal and financial consequences, yet authority is rarely preserved with the same evidentiary discipline.
When authorization is later questioned, what record of proof exists?
Approved work leaves no trace of who approved it.
Senior attorneys spend billable hours reconstructing decisions.
Write-downs absorb disputes that records would have prevented.
Scope creep goes unchallenged because authorization was never captured.
This is the Reconstruction Tax.
Governance stops that tax from accruing.
Your firm is carrying this cost right now. The question is how much.
Use the calculator below to quantify your exposure.
Calculate My Firm's ExposureThe Reconstruction Tax is the cost of proving decisions after execution has already occurred.
It surfaces when the firm is asked to explain who approved a change, when it was approved, and under what authority—during billing review, reporting, audits, or disputes.
Billing entries, approvals, document changes, access actions, and system handoffs execute every day without a complete lineage of who acted, what triggered the action, and under what authority it occurred.
Billing, reporting, and partner compensation continued during an active system transition.
Billing entries, expenses, deposits, and reports were entered in more than one system at the same time. Staff selected which numbers to use when systems disagreed.
Partner compensation was calculated using month-end reports that had not been fully reconciled.
Partners were paid based on those reports. Errors were discovered after compensation was issued.
Correction required reconstructing billing, deposits, and reports while new work continued.
Overpayments were issued and later corrected.
Dominion captures authority at the moment execution occurs.
Dominion is Yavardi's governance platform for law firms. It deploys inside the firm's existing Microsoft environment.
When a consequential action occurs, Dominion preserves the approval that already took place as part of execution.
That record remains available during billing review, audits, and disputes.
Billing systems record what was billed. Document systems record what was saved. Access controls record who can enter.
None of these systems preserve who authorized a decision at execution.
Dominion preserves authority where decisions occur—before execution reaches billing, documents, or access layers.
Authority is preserved at execution. Billing review relies on records rather than memory. Scope questions resolve without escalation. Senior time remains focused on revenue work. Approved work is defended without reconstruction.
Execution continues in the same tools. Authority is preserved when it matters.
Authority capture must exist at the infrastructure layer. It cannot be added through policy or process after the fact.
Schedule a Governance Impact ReviewInitial review conducted at no cost. Findings inform your governance roadmap.
Founder
"I've spent years building enterprise infrastructure for legal operations at national scale. Dominion exists because I kept seeing the same problem: firms had the right tools but no governance over how those tools executed legally consequential work. Yavardi deploys that governance as infrastructure."