Build your legal case management.
Organize matter documents, responsible reviewers and source-based task dates.
How to build your legal case management
Describe the job
Organize matter documents, responsible reviewers and source-based task dates.
Review the first version
Choose how the legal operations coordinator records the matter alias and how the qualified matter reviewer reviews the next step.
Refine the views
Ask First to adjust the fields and views for the people who will use the app.
Test before sharing
Walk through the process with a sample record and check who owns the next action.
A legal case management example
A matter task refers to an unverified date from a message.
Legal case management example
- Record
- Legal case management · 01
- Owner
- Legal operations coordinator
Current stage · Legal operations coordinator
Open the matter reference
A matter task refers to an unverified date from a message.
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Open the matter reference
A matter task refers to an unverified date from a message.
- Record:
- Legal case management · 01
- Owner:
- Legal operations coordinator
Check the source
Keep the date unconfirmed until a qualified reviewer checks its authoritative source.
- Stage:
- Review pending
- Owner:
- Qualified matter reviewer
Record the qualified-review handoff
Keep an unverified deadline pending qualified source review.
- Next action:
- Keep an unverified deadline pending qualified source review.
- Owner:
- Practice administrator
What to include in your legal case management
Keep the matter alias in context
Keep matter alias, party reference, document, source deadline, assigned reviewer and task together so the next person can understand the request or record.
When the next step needs a decision
A matter task refers to an unverified date from a message. Keep the date unconfirmed until a qualified reviewer checks its authoritative source.
Keep task visible
Keep an unverified deadline pending qualified source review.
Choose what each person needs
Give the legal operations coordinator a working view and the qualified matter reviewer a review view. Keep matter alias and party reference attached to the decision as the work moves between them.
Questions about legal case management
Start with matter alias, party reference, document, source deadline, assigned reviewer and task. Describe who enters the information and who reviews the next step.