Manage outside counsel.
Track every matter.
Legal departments juggle multiple firms, engagement letters, and work product streams — often with no centralized system. Lawden gives you a command center for every matter, inside and out.
The challenge
The old way
No visibility across firms.
Matters are scattered across outside counsel portals, email inboxes, and shared drives. General counsel spend hours tracking down status updates, reviewing invoices, and hunting for documents.
- Matters managed across multiple firms with no unified view
- No standardized way to exchange documents or track milestones
- Outside counsel access is uncontrolled — sharing via email and FTP
- Compliance risk from inconsistent record-keeping across firms
- Difficult to audit historical matter activity after engagement ends
The Lawden way
One dashboard. Every engagement.
Each engagement with an outside firm becomes a controlled Lawden room. Your team and external counsel collaborate in a single workspace with granular permissions, complete audit trails, and standardized document exchange.
- Dashboard shows every matter across every firm — status, owner, stage
- Controlled external access: counsel sees only their engagement
- Full audit trail on every action — who did what and when
- Standardized folder templates and checklists per engagement type
- Exportable matter record when the engagement closes
Key benefits
Control without friction.
Matter oversight
A single dashboard across every firm you retain. Filter by practice area, status, owner, or deadline. No more email chains to figure out where things stand.
External counsel management
Invite outside firms into controlled rooms. Granular permissions ensure they see only their engagement — never your internal matters or other firms' work.
Compliance & audit
Every document upload, comment, and permission change is timestamped and attributed. Export a complete matter record when the engagement closes.
Vendor management
Manage every firm
from one place.
When you retain multiple outside counsel, consistency matters. Lawden gives you standard engagement templates, controlled access per firm, and the ability to review work product without leaving the platform. No more logging into five different portals.
View vendor management featuresStandardized onboarding
Consistent folder structures, checklists, and permission templates for every new outside counsel engagement.
Controlled document exchange
Counsel uploads directly to the correct room. No email attachments, no FTP, no version confusion.
Real-time progress tracking
See milestone completion, open tasks, and pending reviews across all active engagements at a glance.
Clean offboarding
Export the complete matter record, revoke access, and archive the room — all in one action.