We design and build the day-to-day work for a law firm: opening a matter, collecting documents, reviewing contracts, doing research, and sending the result. It runs in the systems the firm already uses.
Matter fileConnected
Connected systems
We set up software that does the repetitive parts of a matter. It sorts new instructions, chases missing documents, checks contracts against the firm's rules, and pulls research together with the sources. A partner still gives the advice and speaks to the client.
If a document goes to a client, a lawyer reviews it first. The advice and the confidential work stay with the firm.
We connect to practice management, the document system, contracts, research, and timekeeping. We do not add another inbox that nobody opens.
Opening a file, reviewing, and saving what the team learned follow one path. The next matter does not start from zero.
Less time chasing documents. Less time getting to a first draft. Lawyers still review the work. They start sooner.
Six jobs we set up. Each one is a step that usually slows a matter down.
01 · Matter intake
We sort the new work and open it in the firm's system. The conflict check starts on its own. The lawyer in charge confirms what the firm is doing before the file is active.
A matter still goes from opening the file, to collecting documents, to doing the work, to a lawyer checking it, to sending it, to using it next time. We take the steps that take hours and create risk. The lawyer keeps the decisions.
What breaks today
Work arrives in personal email. Conflict checks start late. Every team sets up a file differently.
How Alteron intervenes
New work goes into the practice system in a set format. One named lawyer owns the client.
What breaks today
Contracts and evidence sit in email and on desktops. When people are busy, the chase stops.
How Alteron intervenes
The software asks, reminds, and files documents against the matter.
What breaks today
Every review and research task starts from scratch. The same clause checks happen on every deal.
How Alteron intervenes
The software checks the contract against the firm's rules, searches approved sources, and drafts a starting point. Unclear points wait for a person.
What breaks today
Quality depends on who does the work. Every message out can get the facts or the confidentiality wrong.
How Alteron intervenes
The work is prepared with its sources attached. A lawyer signs anything that goes to a client.
What breaks today
Clients have to ask for an update. Slow replies lose the next instruction.
How Alteron intervenes
The matter shows a clear status, from ready for a partner to sent.
What breaks today
Useful notes stay on someone's personal drive. Closing steps get skipped.
How Alteron intervenes
Checklists and the firm's standard documents are saved so the next file can use them.
Work we have shipped with legal teams and legal-tech companies.
Lawyers spend less time chasing documents and assembling a first draft, and more time on advice and negotiation.
The first draft comes with its sources, and the software marks where a contract differs from the firm's usual terms. A person still reviews it.
