Overview of Matter Management
Cubed by Law Squared provides a modern, structured approach to Legal Intake and Matter Management, enabling legal teams to efficiently capture, manage, and deliver legal work from request through to completion.
What is Matter Management in Cubed?
Matter Management in Cubed allows legal teams to:
- Capture legal requests through a structured intake form
- Convert requests into tracked legal matters
- Assign, manage, and progress work across the team
- Maintain a complete, auditable record of all legal activity
Cubed brings intake, collaboration, and tracking into a single, unified experience, replacing email-driven or manual processes.
Key Capabilities
📥 Structured Legal Intake
- Business users submit requests via a guided intake form
- Capture consistent, high-quality information upfront
- Reduce back-and-forth communication
This ensures legal teams receive complete and actionable requests from day one.
🗂️ Centralised Matter Management
- All legal work is managed as matters
- Matters provide a single place to:
- Track progress
- Store related documents
- Capture decisions and updates
This creates a single source of truth for all legal activity.
👥 Assignment and Ownership
- Assign matters to specific lawyers
- Clearly define ownership and accountability
- Reassign matters as workloads change
This enables better workload distribution and transparency across the team.
📊 Status Tracking and Visibility
- Track matter status from open to closed
- Provide visibility into:
- Work in progress
- Work back with the business
- Work out with other parties
- Completed matters
Stakeholders and legal teams gain real-time insight into legal demand.
🔒 Controlled Access and Confidentiality
- Access is governed by Cubed security roles
- Sensitive matters can be protected using features like:
This ensures appropriate confidentiality for high-risk or sensitive legal work.
⚙️ Matter Lifecycle in Cubed
Cubed supports the full lifecycle of a legal matter:
- Request Submitted
- Business user submits a legal request via intake
- Matter Created
- Request becomes a structured legal matter
- Triage & Assignment
- Matter is reviewed and assigned to a lawyer
- Work & Collaboration
- Legal team progresses the matter
- Documents, notes, and updates are captured
- Risks are identified, flagged and mitigated
- Completion & Closure
- Matter is finalised and closed
- Full audit history is retained
📈 Why It Matters
Using Matter Management in Cubed helps legal teams:
- ✅ Centralise all legal work requests in one platform
- ✅ Improve intake quality and reduce rework
- ✅ Increase transparency across the legal team
- ✅ Track performance and workload effectively
- ✅ Maintain a complete audit trail of legal activity
In Summary
Cubed transforms legal intake and matter management into a structured, transparent, and efficient workflow, helping legal teams deliver faster, manage risk, and operate with greater control.