Fact and claim get mixed
Which document a fact rests on and which claim it carries must be visible separately.
FOR LEGAL PROFESSIONALS · PRODUCT DIRECTION
A lawyer's work is not only drafting. The facts in a file, statute and case-law research, the other side's claims, deadlines and the division of work inside the team all depend on each other.
Lawyers, law firms, in-house legal units and file teams.
Which document a fact rests on and which claim it carries must be visible separately.
Statute and case-law research accumulates elsewhere and never binds to the relevant part of the file.
Deadlines and hearings live in another table; when something changes the related work is not updated.
Whoever takes over the file has to reconstruct what was done and why.
File access must stay with authorized team members; being a manager does not mean reading every file.
It binds the information in the file, the research and the work performed into one record; it takes on preparation and compilation and leaves legal judgment to the lawyer.
Which document and which fact each claim rests on stays visible.
When a retrieved source is read, its verification state is recorded and bound to the relevant part of the file.
Deadline and stage sit in the file's own record; a change affects the related work.
Because the reasons for decisions and the work done are recorded, whoever takes over does not start from zero.
File visibility is set at participant or unit level.
Illustrative example; not a real file or client matter.
Illustrative example; not a real file or client matter.
version_differences
Changes between contract versions, clause by clause.
fact_document_claim
Which document and fact each claim rests on.
research_sources
Retrieved statute and case-law sources with verification state.
deadlines_and_stages
Deadlines, stages and the history a colleague taking over will see.
This area is not open yet and gives no legal advice. The example below is the intended record format.
Matter: an eviction clause in a lease · parties: example A and example B Documents: the lease (2023), two notices, 14 payment receipts. Timeline found: lease → first notice → payment → second notice. Conflict: the second notice appears dated before one of the receipts. Flagged. Legal assessment and strategy belong to the lawyer; the product lays out documents and dates.
document,date,source,pages lease.pdf,2023-06-01,client,1-6 notice_2.pdf,2024-02-11,other_party,1
As new documents enter the matter, the summary takes a new version.
When a document is added
The timeline and the conflict list are derived again; the old version is not deleted.
When a flag is removed
Who removed it and why is written into the record.
Legal assessment, strategy, advice to the client and any statement submitted belong to the lawyer. MMT gives no legal opinion and guarantees no outcome; it takes on compilation, comparison and tracking.
See clearly which part works today and what still awaits external authority.