For in-house teams: intake from the business, matter tracking, outside counsel spend and reporting to the board.
7 matter management and legal ops products
Listed alphabetically. A listing is not a recommendation, and sponsored placements are labelled. Links go straight to the vendor.
AI-assisted legal spend management and outside counsel review.
Workspace for in-house teams covering matters, contracts, spend and intake.
Matter and spend management for legal departments, from Thomson Reuters.
Enterprise legal management across matters, spend and workflow.
Structured requests for proposal so departments can compare outside counsel pricing.
Matter management and e-billing for legal departments.
Matter management and legal operations reporting for small and mid-sized legal departments.
What is matter management, and how is it different from practice management?
Matter management is the in-house equivalent. Practice management is built around billing clients, which a legal department does not do. Matter management is built around intake from the business, tracking what legal is working on, controlling outside counsel spend, and reporting upward. Buying a firm product for an in-house team is a common and expensive mistake.
When does a legal department need one?
Usually when the general counsel cannot answer a question the board has asked: what is legal working on, what did outside counsel cost, and where is the risk concentrated. A spreadsheet answers that for a team of two and stops working somewhere around five. Legal spend is normally what justifies the purchase, because the savings are measurable.
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