About Signal

We were named for the hardest part
of the job.

In any law firm there is an enormous amount of noise – vendors, trends, urgent fires, competing advice. Buried in it is the signal: the few things that actually move the firm forward. Finding it, and acting on it, is the whole job. It’s also where we got our name.

Why we exist

Most firms don’t have a technology problem. They have a noise problem.

Every vendor has an answer before they understand the question. Every conference has a louder trend than the last. Meanwhile the work that actually matters – getting the foundation right, deploying what fits, moving the firm up the curve – gets drowned out. We started Signal to be the people who cut through that: who tell a firm the truth about where it stands and what’s worth doing.

What we believe

Diagnosis before prescription

Nobody should be sold a solution before anyone has honestly measured the problem. We assess first, always.

Advice you can trust because we don't sell the box

We do not resell platforms and we do not take referral fees. We hold deep certifications in the tools law firms run on – that is how we know what fits. Think of us the way a firm thinks of its CPA: a trusted advisor whose only job is your best interest.

Innovation is a process, not a purchase

Buying a tool changes nothing on its own. The value is in the deploying – the unglamorous, expert work of making technology actually take hold.

Who we are

Senior people who have done this before – across firms and across industries

Signal isn’t junior staff learning on your matters. You work with senior technology and security leaders who have run these functions at the firm level and deployed them across legal and beyond. That range matters: in-house teams see one firm’s way of doing things, while we bring the pattern recognition that only comes from doing this many times, in many environments.

Matt Bares

Principal Consultant & CEO

Matt Bares founded Signal Consulting to give law firms senior technology leadership without the enterprise headcount. He serves as fractional CIO and CISO across multiple firms, where he leads security programs, major system moves, and the deployment of AI into real firm workflows.

Devon Herod

Principal Architect

Devon Herod spent a decade in senior leadership positions building infrastructure platforms for law firms before helping start Signal Consulting. He leads the infrastructure and operations teams, including network, core security systems, cloud, and identity services.

Amy Gaffney

Director of Operations

Amy Gaffney built her career in business and HR operations across professional services organizations, focused on process optimization and quality assurance. She runs resourcing, onboarding, contracts, and billing at Signal, and manages the teams that keep client engagements moving.

Todd Baratz

Managing Consultant

Todd Baratz has spent more than twenty years in legal technology, including as CTO at Adaptive Solutions and Senior Director of Technology at Frontline Managed Services. He is fluent in infrastructure technologies and in the business application layer, where he can advise on how a practice runs and then configure the system to match.

Adam Omar Alami

Managing Consultant,
Security Services

Adam Omar Alami leads Signal’s security services and compliance practice, building and running the security posture law firms are expected to uphold. He designs and implements the security and risk management infrastructure and works with firm leadership to ensure it is continually optimized.

Julie Power

Executive Advisor,
Strategic Growth

Julie Power has spent nineteen years in legal technology, leading large-scale data transformation programs for some of the largest firms and corporate legal departments and delivering IT and security services to mid-market firms. At Signal she runs the evaluation and selection process alongside firm leadership.

Greg Ulbrich

Executive Advisor

Greg Ulbrich is an executive advisor to the firms Signal serves, working with firm leadership on technology direction, priorities, and the business case behind them. He brings a career in operations management and process improvement to those conversations.

Bill Power

Executive Advisor, Channel & Carrier Services

Bill Power has spent more than three decades in the technology channel. He co-founded ARG in 1991 and formed The Alliance Partners, a national collective-buying consortium he has led as CEO since 2007. At Signal he handles the carrier, licensing, and vendor agreements behind client environments — sourcing circuits, negotiating terms, and owning renewals with a national consortium’s buying leverage behind him.

Proof

Judged by whether the firm actually improved

Case Study

Built for forward-thinking firms

We work with law firms that invest in technology but don’t have an enterprise IT department to run it — firms serious enough to want a real partner, and pragmatic enough to want one who tells them the truth. If that’s you, we should talk.

Find your signal.

Start with an unbiased assessment of where your firm stands. It’s the clearest first step – and the start of every relationship we build.