lapco is a project management and pricing platform for law firm and legal department collaboration on individual legal matters, built around a shared, two-sided project board.
Features and Functions include:
Two-Sided Matter Board
Both the law firm and the legal department work on the same matter using a shared Kanban-style project board. Each side can also use the board independently, with its own template library of reusable matter structures.
Reusable Matter Structures and Proposals
Matter types are stored as reusable structures with phases, tasks, subtasks, deadlines, dependencies, and target effort/cost per work package. These structures convert directly into online proposals, so the scope and price quoted are drawn from the same structure used later for delivery.
Task-Level Time and Cost Tracking
Time and effort are recorded at the task level, producing cost-based data intended to inform pricing and controlling on future matters of the same type.
Mirrored Five-Phase Workflow
Both sides work through the same five-phase sequence, though each side uses its own terminology. On the law firm side, the phases are Marketing, Sales, Collaboration, Performance Review, and Client Development. On the legal department side, the same sequence is labeled Sourcing, Procurement, Collaboration, Performance Management, and Supplier Development. The middle phase, Collaboration, is where both organizations work jointly on the shared board.
Task Ownership and Visibility Controls
Each task names one responsible person on the law firm side and one on the legal department side. Visibility can be set task by task, either kept internal to one organization or shared with the other party.
Structured Demand and Comparability
On the legal department side, matter demand is described using the same structured format rather than free text, which is intended to make competing proposals more directly comparable.
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