Best legal matter management software
- Days until the notice deadline
- 90
- Months remaining in the term
- 6
- Days remaining, at 30 a month
- 180
Nothing in these worksheets is a figure we found somewhere. Every number comes from the figures you enter and the arithmetic stated on the page: contracts over their average term is renewals a month, times the window and the annual value is the money renewing; term less months elapsed less the notice period is the days to the deadline. Days are counted at 30 a month. The defaults are a worked example of a common small register, not a recommendation and not a benchmark.
Matter management is the other half of the legal team's register, and the best legal matter management software for a small team is the one that keeps matters beside the contracts they come from. A matter is a piece of legal work with a status: the vendor dispute, the lease renewal, the employment question, the regulatory filing. In a small legal department most matters begin or end with a contract, and keeping them in a separate tool means the answer to what is open on this counterparty takes two systems and a conversation. This page is about what matter management has to record, why a small team's matters belong on the contract register, and what the free lifecycle sheet on this site does for the contract behind a matter. Every figure on this page is the worked example's own arithmetic, from the figures you enter.
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Open the matter against the counterparty
A matter carries the counterparty, the contract it concerns, the person handling it, the date it opened and its status. On a register it is a row that can be listed by counterparty, so the question of what is open with a vendor is answered by a filter rather than a search of inboxes.
Read the contract behind it
Most matters have a contract behind them with a date that decides the matter's urgency. A lease with 6 months left, a 90 day notice period and $12,000 of remaining value is a matter with a deadline in 90 days; the free lifecycle sheet on this site returns those figures from the contract's own terms.
Close it with a record
A matter closes with an outcome, a date and any change to the contract it concerned: an amended term, a new notice period, a renegotiated value. Recorded against the contract, the change moves the deadlines; recorded in an email, it is lost by the next renewal.
Will it do what you need for Best legal matter management software?
Tell us how the contracts are kept now and which deadline last caught you out, and we will tell you plainly whether Clauselane does it.
Best legal matter management software: common questions
What is the difference between matter management and case management?
Case management is a law firm's product for litigation and client files, with billing and court dates. Matter management is an in-house team's list of the legal work open in the company, most of it attached to a contract. Clauselane does the second.
Can matters exist without a contract?
Yes. A regulatory filing or an employment question has no counterparty contract, and the register holds it as a matter with a status and an owner. Most matters in a small department do have one, which is why they are kept together.
How is matter management priced here?
It is part of Clauselane Pro at $49 a month for the whole legal team, with the contracts, obligations and clause library; there is no separate module and no per matter charge.
Clauselane Pro
Keeping the register
The worksheet gives you one window's deadlines and one contract's dates. Pro remembers them: the contracts, their obligations, the matters, the clauses, and the reminder that arrives before the notice deadline rather than after the renewal.
- Download the contract summary as a file you can send to the business
- Hand it over without the Clauselane watermark across it
- Come back to this contract's summary with the figures still in it
- Put your own logo on the summaries and reports the business sees
- Take every contract, obligation, matter and clause out at once, as a file
- Send a contract owner their notice deadline without leaving the register
- Not used by Clauselane: nothing here takes a payment from your counterparties
- Push the register's contract values across to the books as commitments
$49per month, whole team
Start Clauselane Pro PricingClauselane Pro is $49 a month and renews on the same date each month at the same $49 until you cancel. There is no introductory rate, no minimum term and no automatic step up in price. If the price ever changes you keep the price you signed at.