In the latest effort to commercialize back-office functions for law firms, former leaders of distributed law firm Rimon and Am Law 200 firm Stoel Rives went public Monday with a venture they say would free the non-legal operations of law firms from the constraints of legal practice economics.

Founders of Federate Legal Inc. said they’ve identified an unmet need in the vendor ecosystem of small and midsize law firms and Big Law attorneys wishing to spin off their own practices: an integrated back-office service provider for lawyers to outsource their accounting, IT, marketing and other non-legal functions.