1. Law Firms CRM
  2. Data model
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The tables behind Law Firms CRM

Law Firms CRM ships with 10 tables, grouped here by the feature that uses them. Every record your team works with lives in one of them, and you can add fields and tables in Proto.

Tables
10
Features
6
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How the model is organised

Firm and people

Organizations contains operating context; team members connects people to a firm organization and Users.

Clients and prospects

Accounts belongs to Organizations. Opportunities names an account as Counterparty, a team members owner and the firm organization.

Work and decisions

Matter intakes, relationship activities, review decisions, record attachments and operation receipts link to the parent Opportunities record.

Every table, by feature

Client Accounts

3 tablesAbout this feature
  • Accounts

    Prospective and existing clients of the firm.

    Linked to Organizations
  • Organizations

    Law firm organizations and their operating configuration.

  • Team members

    Firm personnel with assigned business roles.

    Linked to Organizations, Users

Opportunity Pipeline

3 tablesAbout this feature
  • Opportunities

    Business development opportunities progressing toward engagement.

    Linked to Organizations, Team members, Accounts
  • Accounts

    Prospective and existing clients of the firm.

    Linked to Organizations
  • Team members

    Firm personnel with assigned business roles.

    Linked to Organizations, Users

Relationship Activities

2 tablesAbout this feature
  • Relationship activities

    Log of calls, meetings, emails and tasks against each opportunity.

    Linked to Opportunities
  • Opportunities

    Business development opportunities progressing toward engagement.

    Linked to Organizations, Team members, Accounts

Matter Intake

3 tablesAbout this feature
  • Matter intakes

    Matter intake requests requiring conflict clearance and engagement acceptance.

    Linked to Opportunities, Organizations
  • Opportunities

    Business development opportunities progressing toward engagement.

    Linked to Organizations, Team members, Accounts
  • Organizations

    Law firm organizations and their operating configuration.

Review and Evidence

4 tablesAbout this feature
  • Review decisions

    Independent review decisions recorded against opportunity revisions.

    Linked to Opportunities, Team members
  • Record attachments

    Evidence files attached to opportunity records.

    Linked to Opportunities, Team members
  • Opportunities

    Business development opportunities progressing toward engagement.

    Linked to Organizations, Team members, Accounts
  • Team members

    Firm personnel with assigned business roles.

    Linked to Organizations, Users

Operations Control

5 tablesAbout this feature
  • Operation receipts

    Durable receipts for guarded operations, keyed for idempotent retry.

    Linked to Opportunities
  • Opportunities

    Business development opportunities progressing toward engagement.

    Linked to Organizations, Team members, Accounts
  • Team members

    Firm personnel with assigned business roles.

    Linked to Organizations, Users
  • Organizations

    Law firm organizations and their operating configuration.

  • Users

    Users

    Linked to Users

Keys and references

Keep account codes, opportunity record numbers and operation keys distinct. The Parent reference on an intake, activity, review decision, attachment or receipt points to the opportunity. Review decisions.source revision identifies the opportunity revision under review; operation receipts.expected revision captures the revision expected by the attempted action. Record attachments.uploaded by and review decisions.Reviewer point to team members.

Migration order

  1. Firm organization and users. Establish Organizations and Users, then connect team members to the correct firm.
  2. Client accounts. Import Accounts with the firm organization and contact context.
  3. Prospect work. Import Opportunities with their owner, counterparty and organization.
  4. Related history. Add relationship activities, matter intakes, review decisions, record attachments and operation receipts against the correct parent opportunity.
  5. Reconcile. Check required references, select values, opportunity revisions and attachment visibility before the team uses the records.

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