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The tables behind Litigation Management

Litigation Management ships with 14 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
14
Features
6, plus shared settings
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Every table, by feature

Matter intake

5 tablesAbout this feature
  • Matters

    Litigation matters from intake through closure.

    Linked to Organizations, Team members, Clients
  • Clients

    Client and counterparty directory for matter intake.

    Linked to Organizations
  • Organizations

    Firm or legal department organizations that own matters.

  • Team members

    Attorneys, coordinators and auditors operating matters.

    Linked to Organizations, Users
  • Conflict reviews

    Conflict checks performed before engagement.

    Linked to Matters

Conflict reviews

4 tablesAbout this feature
  • Conflict reviews

    Conflict checks performed before engagement.

    Linked to Matters
  • Matters

    Litigation matters from intake through closure.

    Linked to Organizations, Team members, Clients
  • Clients

    Client and counterparty directory for matter intake.

    Linked to Organizations
  • Organizations

    Firm or legal department organizations that own matters.

Court deadlines

5 tablesAbout this feature
  • Court deadlines

    Court deadline extensions and verified filing completion.

    Linked to Matters, Organizations
  • Matters

    Litigation matters from intake through closure.

    Linked to Organizations, Team members, Clients
  • Review decisions

    Independent attorney review decisions on frozen revisions.

    Linked to Matters, Team members
  • Operation receipts

    Persisted receipts for every guarded operational action.

    Linked to Matters
  • Organizations

    Firm or legal department organizations that own matters.

Matter activity

4 tablesAbout this feature
  • Matter events

    Dated matter events: hearings, filings, reviews, decisions, communication.

    Linked to Matters
  • Matter deadlines

    Counsel-verified matter deadlines with completion receipts.

    Linked to Matters, Team members
  • Matters

    Litigation matters from intake through closure.

    Linked to Organizations, Team members, Clients
  • Team members

    Attorneys, coordinators and auditors operating matters.

    Linked to Organizations, Users

Documents and productions

4 tablesAbout this feature
  • Legal documents

    Versioned legal documents with privilege status and content hash.

    Linked to Matters
  • Document productions

    Authorized document productions to recipients.

    Linked to Matters, Legal documents
  • Matters

    Litigation matters from intake through closure.

    Linked to Organizations, Team members, Clients
  • Record attachments

    Files and evidence attached to matters.

    Linked to Matters, Team members

Review and evidence

5 tablesAbout this feature
  • Review decisions

    Independent attorney review decisions on frozen revisions.

    Linked to Matters, Team members
  • Operation receipts

    Persisted receipts for every guarded operational action.

    Linked to Matters
  • Record attachments

    Files and evidence attached to matters.

    Linked to Matters, Team members
  • Court deadlines

    Court deadline extensions and verified filing completion.

    Linked to Matters, Organizations
  • Matters

    Litigation matters from intake through closure.

    Linked to Organizations, Team members, Clients

Shared and settings

1 table
  • Users

    Users

    Linked to Users

Keys and references

Matters.record number is the working case reference. Matters.Organization, Matters.Owner and Matters.Counterparty link the owning organization, team member and counterparty. Court deadlines.Parent and matter events.Parent point to the matter. Review decisions.Parent and operation receipts.Parent keep the decision and outcome beside it. Document productions.Document identifies the legal documents record associated with a production. Check the linked revision and hashes when tracing actual content.

Migration order

  1. Organizations and users. Establish organization names, time zones and identities.
  2. Team and parties. Add team members and Clients under the right organization.
  3. Matters. Import case references, counterparties, owners and engagement details.
  4. Case activity. Add conflict reviews, matter events, matter deadlines and court deadlines.
  5. Documents. Add legal documents, record attachments and document productions.
  6. Decisions and results. Reconcile review decisions and operation receipts against the cases they concern.

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