Business of Law/METADATA SCRUBBING

Metadata Scrubbing

Both law firms and legal departments need to track the work that they undertake, for a variety of reasons including the necessity of being able to locate past work product easily. In law firms, matter management is of particular value because it allows lawyers to easily find representative work that can be referenced in pitches for new work, to use historical matter information in budgeting for future matters, and to track budget and WIP on current matters. Leading solutions for law firms, such as Foundation, provide the capability to track all of these aspects of law firm matters - from matter financials to nuanced matter metadata. Solutions such as Xakia provide matter and work tracking capabilitis for corporate legal departments.