Legal
The matter file
Opening it, searching for conflicts, and what you are still chasing
- Matter trackerThe files you have open, who is responsible, and where each has got to.
- Matter date listThe dates you were given on a file, and who gave you each one.
- Matter intake checklistThe opening steps, who is doing each, and which are actually done.
- Conflict check logWhat was searched, by whom, when, and the outcome in your own words.
- Document request trackerWhat was asked for on a file, who is collecting it, and what went out.
- Statement collection logWhose statement you are waiting on, how far it got, and where the signed one is.
- Evidence transfer logWhich item moved, between which labels, when — and where the real custody record is.
- Legal hold trackerWhat is being preserved, who was told, and whether it has been released.
- Contract review trackerWhich documents are with which reviewer, and where each got to.
- Client communication logThat a call, letter or meeting happened, and what has to happen next.
- Counsel instruction logWho was instructed, when, what category of material went, and where the bundle is.
- Matter file closure checklistThe closing steps, who is doing each, and which are actually done.
What the matter file covers in Legal
Opening it, searching for conflicts, and what you are still chasing. That is the job The matter file does inside CompliMaint Legal, and it holds 12 tools for it — registers to keep, things to log and programs to plan. Each opens at its own address, free, with no account and nothing to install. The app around them is for the legal-administrative paperwork an operating business produces.
The questions this section answers
- Know which files are open — Matter Tracker
- Write the dates down with their source — Matter Deadline Tracker
- Open a file properly — New Matter Intake Checklist
- Record that you searched — Conflict Check Log
- Know what has been asked for — Document Request Tracker
- Chase the statements you need — Statement Collection Log
- Find where the box went — Evidence Transfer Log
- Remember which holds are live — Legal Hold Tracker
- See what is with whom — Contract Review Tracker
- Remember what is owed — Client Communication Log
- Know what went out — Counsel & Expert Instruction Log
- Close a file properly — Matter File Closure Checklist
7 registers to keep: held now so the question can be answered later. 3 things to log: written down on the day it happened. 2 programs to plan: decided ahead of what will be done, and when.
Connected CompliMaint apps
- CompliMaint Work & Projects — Today, tasks, projects and a portfolio — with the meetings, decisions and records behind them. 3 tools in the matter file are work Work does too, at the same address.
Where to go next
- Contract records — What was promised, who signed it, and what is still confidential — 3 tools
- Certificates & cover — What expires, and who is exposed when it does — 1 tool
- Time & costs on a matter — Hours, advances and fees — recorded, never rounded or rated — 3 tools
- The entity — Decisions indexed and filings tracked, on dates you entered — 2 tools
- Keeping and destroying records — Your periods, your decisions, dated — and no certificate issued — 2 tools
- Money on a matter — Estimates and budgets from your own figures, and never a rate we made up — 3 tools
- Risk on a file — The things that go wrong because nobody remembered they were outstanding — 2 tools
- Know-how — An index of your own precedents — this product supplies none — 1 tool
- Where work comes from — In and out, with no fee arranged and nothing determined — 1 tool
- Documents — Everything you have filed, ready to reopen or print