Advanced Matter Management is an optional Brightflag module designed to help legal teams better manage the work happening within their matters and improve visibility.
What Does Advanced Matter Management Enable?
1️⃣ Centralized Work Tracking
Organize tasks, deadlines, and updates in one place
Improve collaboration across internal stakeholders and outside counsel
Clearly define responsibilities and ownership
2️⃣ Increased Visibility
See matter status, budgets, and key milestones at a glance
Monitor progress in real time
Prevent information silos
3️⃣ Greater Efficiency
Reduce time spent chasing updates
Eliminate manual reconciliation of spreadsheets and emails
Core Features of Advanced Matter Management
🏠 1. Homepage Dashboard
A centralized, customizable dashboard for active matters that provides:
Real-time visibility into matter progress
Open tasks and upcoming events
Key milestones
Spend insights
This creates an at-a-glance operational view of your legal workload.
🔄 2. Matter Updates
Streamlines updates from:
Outside vendors
Internal matter leads
Enables timely visibility for stakeholders such as:
General Counsel
Legal leadership
Finance teams
✅ 3. Tasks & Events
Enables structured task management within matters:
Create and assign tasks
Set deadlines and reminders
Collaborate within matters
Track progress via dashboards
📧 4. Outlook Integration
Accelerates intake of emails and files by allowing users to:
Push emails directly into matters
Attach files from Outlook into Brightflag
📥 5. Legal Service Requests (LSR)
Centralizes legal intake by allowing teams to:
Capture legal service requests from the business
Track legal service demand across departments