Brightflag launches Matter Updates to further its goal of providing in-house professionals with complete visibility into legal work and spend.
Ian Nolan, founder and CEO of Brightflag said:
“To effectively deliver legal services, it’s essential that in-house leaders understand how legal work is progressing. Matter Updates ensures that in-house leaders have this information at their fingertips, providing an easy way to get status updates from the internal team and from outside counsel.”
As explained in the announcement from Brightflag, Matter Updates enables in-house teams to understand the current state of play for legal work by automatically “collecting and reporting on updates from matter participants.”
It reportedly eliminates the need to chase people “for information and collate endless spreadsheets.”
Customers are able to define which matters “require updates and which should be excluded.”
Updates can be collected from the lead in-house attorney as well as the outside counsel, “enabling better collaboration with legal service providers.”
Matter participants are reportedly able to provide updates “directly from their inbox by clicking on a link in the email notification they receive and typing in their updates.”
With the reporting provided by Matter Updates, in-house professionals know how matters are actually progressing and “where material changes have occurred that will impact scope, timelines, and budget.”
Brightflag continually develops new functionality in order to provide in-house teams with increased “visibility into legal work and spend, and has a full roadmap of innovative product releases planned throughout 2025.”
As covered, Brightflag’s e-billing and matter management platform provides visibility “into legal work and helps in-house teams control costs.”
The AI-enhanced platform makes teams more productive by eliminating time-consuming tasks “related to invoicing, reporting, and matter management.”
The company says that it serves a community of legal professionals from offices that are reportedly based in in New York, Ireland, and Australia.