Matters and intake

A matter opens only when it is safe to open

The client is checked, the conflict is decided and the file is set up before anyone records an hour on it, and it closes only when nothing is left owing or held.

A conflict check with its results grouped by party. — A conflict check with its results grouped by party, waiting on the partner's decision.

Who uses it

What each person does with it

Partner: Decides the conflict check with the results in front of them, clears it, clears it against a signed waiver on file, or refuses the work, and the decision is kept with the file for good.
Associate: Opens the matter from its type, adds the parties in their roles and the team, and sees on one dashboard the budget, the next hearing, the deadlines and the work in progress.
Secretary: Adds clients and other parties once, with the duplicate check before saving, and keeps their contacts, addresses and relationships in one register.
Compliance: Sees what KYC the firm holds and what is missing for each client under the firm's own rule, confirms the risk band, and works the list of reviews that are due.

What it does

Matters and intake, in detail

Marked as in the product today or still being built.

One register of parties
In the product
People and organisations with identity numbers encrypted and revealed only on an audited request, relationships and ownership, a duplicate probe before saving and a merge that rewrites every reference.
Know your customer and AML
In the product
What the firm holds and what is missing under its own rule per kind of party, beneficial owners, PEP declarations, source of funds, a risk band the compliance function confirms and reviews refreshed by band.
Conflict checks kept as evidence
In the product
Names alike above the firm's threshold, identity numbers and shared contacts exact, one hop of relationship, and a permanent decision with any waiver on file.
An opening checklist
In the product
Client, type, partner, billing, a decided conflict check, KYC as a warning or a block by the firm's setting, and the engagement letter generated and tracked back signed.
Budgets and stages
In the product
A budget per matter with phase lines and every revision kept, stages per matter type with the time in each, and a report of matters nobody has touched.
Closing that cannot be rushed
In the product
Client money, an open sub matter, a listed hearing, originals still held or an undone required line stop the close; unbilled work and unpaid bills pass only on an audited override.