Cases & clients management

Setting up legal cases as structured data

Would everyday work without tedious, repetitive tasks be more pleasant and efficient? The answer is obvious. That is why maintaining the correct data structure is critical because only structured data allows various automation. Legal Plant has built-in mechanisms to support such data structuring. Moreover, they are intuitive and easy to use, making it much more likely to keep things in order.

Analytics and automation can significantly support legal work processes to make them better and more effective. This requires case data to be structured and well classified to enable computer algorithms to identify similar cases, suggest templates, and preprocess documents and case planning, thereby removing unnecessary repetitive work and efforts. This frees up time for real legal analytical work where human brain power and experience is central. As a result, the lawyer's day becomes more interesting and pleasant, which is good for the business and the bill to the client - it's a win-win situation.

Four dimensions

Legal Plant has three main mechanisms for case classification:

  1. industry domain or vertical,
  2. general topic,
  3. category of case

The fourth dimension, which is applicable law, will be implemented shortly.

'Case details'

Based on these dimensions, the Legal Plant engine can get a pretty good understanding of the anatomy of a case and power up a whole lot of smartness! Legal Plant is a process-oriented system where the user and the system in an interactive workflow enrich the case information for each new data entry in a structured way. As much as possible, the system suggests relevant data and choices, and the user accepts and approves to make it an effortless and intuitive process that seems friction-free and seamless to the users.

How it works

When it comes to general topic and case categories, we assign these parameters to each case when creating it. The «add new case» wizard is designed in such a way that the categorization of issues is as easy as possible. Thanks to the fact that the user assigns the general topic and case category in the first step, we can be sure that no new case will be added to the database without these parameters.

The existing pool of topics and categories is an effect of the practical, everyday work of experienced lawyers, resulting from their knowledge and experience.

When we talk about the first dimension, i.e. industry domain or vertical, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. This data is in the company registry brreg.no, which is integrated with Legal Plant. When, in the second step of the adding case wizard, we select a client using the search engine in the Brønnøysundregistrene directory, the information regarding the industry domain of a given company is attached automatically.

The last dimension of the data structure that is yet to be implemented is the applicable law. We plan to implement this functionality in the coming months.

'Success'

Easy to do means well done

Structuring the data collected in Legal Plant is easy to carry out, seamless, and intuitive. It is an easy process that guarantees that all data will be entered correctly - the appropriate user experience of the process ensures that the user will be willing and able to carry it out well. Furthermore, data structured in this way is susceptible to processing with artificial intelligence, which can significantly reduce the hassle associated with the mechanical performance of repetitive activities and help reduce the effort and costs related to legal work.

Articles

Here you will find documentation for the Legal Plant functionalities, a description of the program's feature, and previews of what we plan to do in the future.

Documents management

Adding value to your standard workflows.

The work of a law firm is to a large extent related to processing of documents. This means that the quality of the workflow, ease of use of management tools, and legal team context awareness are the key factors that affect the organization's work. Legal Plant addresses these challenges. The application offers the proper structure, convenient workflow, and the ability to generate repetitive documents from previously prepared templates.

Cases & clients management

All case and client information in one place

Legal work can can be substantially improved by solving problems related to fragmented, unstructured data. Legal Plant allows you to give your data a transparent structure that will enable you to optimize the workflow of a law firm.

Integrations

Legal Plant ties your business systems and data together

The modern digital toolchain consists of many specialized solutions that could be better connected with each other. This creates a threat to both business processes and collected data fragmentation. That is why Legal Plant is a solution focused on seamless integrations by implementing software that allows applications to communicate with each other

Cases & clients management

Out-of-the-box conflict search

Transparency and trust are crucial in any business activity. Still, in the work of a law firm, these factors are of particular importance. That's why Legal Plant has built-in functionality to detect potential conflicts of interest quickly.

Workflow management

Truly end-to-end digital workflow

The dynamics of digital transformation are such that you can no longer think about change in the context of individual tools, but you have to consider it concerning the entire business process within the organization. The result of such thinking in legal practice is Legal Plant, which supports end-to-end digital workflow through appropriate data structuring, division of projects into specific tasks to be performed, and easy delegation of them to individual team members. Digitization of the process also means the possibility of detailed analytics and automation.