Definition von legal matter management im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
Legal Matter Management or Matter Management can be defined as the comprehensive project management of legal matters within a corporate legal department. Matter management software systems help corporate legal departments and their staff manage the day to day complexities involved in managing legal matters. This includes the tracking of such items as the People, Issues, Documents, Budgets and Invoices associated with each particular legal matter. Corporations can utilize matter management software and systems to manage both their in-house counsel staffs as well as their outside counsel law firms and non-law firm legal service providers who work on legal matters on the corporation's behalf (i.e., expert witnesses, court reporters, copy services, etc.). Matter management systems can provide excellent communication and collaboration platforms to organize and distribute information, although new web-based collaboration tools are beginning to reduce the need for matter management systems as collaboration tools