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41 workflow templates, showing 25 to 41
Hearing preparation pack
Before a set hearing, the arguing attorney has one draft pack: the hearing as the notice states it, the docket history, each order's directives quoted, each witness's prior statements with page cites, exhibit and checklist status as the firm records them, and an open-items list. The attorney decides every argument.
- Starts it
- Paralegal
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 10 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Inbound demand or claim intake record
When a demand, claim or subpoena arrives, the company's lawyer gets one intake record the same day: who sent it, what it asks, every date it states, the facts and citations it relies on, related matters, where the records are, and a question on keeping them. It rates nothing and recommends nothing.
- Starts it
- Legal operations coordinator
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 2 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Internal change announcement
One decided change, announced well: managers briefed first, a message for each group in the right order, talking points, and the questions people will ask, answered only from the decision or marked open. Every message is a draft that a person approves and sends.
- Starts it
- Internal communications lead
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Invention disclosure brief for patent counsel
Before the first call with patent counsel, the founder or engineering lead has one factual brief: the invention in the inventor's words, who contributed what and when, every outside demonstration, sale, talk or publication with its date and audience, and the records still missing. Counsel decides.
- Starts it
- Founder
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Investor update
Each month or quarter, the founder gets a drafted update for investors: the headline, key figures against plan and last period, cash and runway, wins, problems told plainly with what is being done, and specific asks. Every figure comes from the company's own reports. The founder approves and sends it.
- Starts it
- Founder
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 3 outputs
IP ownership and licence question table
Before an agreement or statement of work is signed, IP counsel gets one table of the ownership, assignment, licence, background-IP and confidentiality clauses, each quoted with its section, set against the company's own IP positions and led by whether the assignment words counsel expects were found.
- Starts it
- Contracts manager
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Leadership meeting rhythm
Your chief executive gets a proposed calendar of leadership forums and written reports, built from today's meetings and the decisions left waiting: each forum with its purpose, inputs, attendees, frequency and one decision owner, and the hours it gives back. The chief executive chooses; no calendar is changed.
- Starts it
- Chief executive
- Brings
- export, notes
- Gets
- 7 outputs
Legal hold custodian tracker
Once counsel has issued a legal hold, your legal operations lead keeps one tracker for counsel: every custodian and system in counsel’s scope, who has acknowledged and who is overdue, who has left or changed role, the refresh date counsel set, and reminders copied from counsel’s own text for a person to send.
- Starts it
- Legal operations lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 3 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Manager feedback preparation
Every manager walks into a feedback conversation prepared like your best one: specific dated observations, the questions worth asking, a clear ask and the support on offer.
- Starts it
- Team manager
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 7 outputs
NDA check against counsel's approved positions
Before anyone signs a proposed NDA, counsel gets every clause quoted with its section and set beside the positions counsel has approved: matching, departing or not covered. Any obligation beyond confidentiality sends the whole NDA to counsel. The check never says an NDA is ready to sign.
- Starts it
- Salesperson
- Brings
- notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Ninety-day marketing plan
An owner or first marketing hire gets the next ninety days of marketing on one plan: the stage the business is really in, the moves that fit it, who owns each one, the money and hours they use, and what is deliberately left undone. Every count comes from your own records, and no budget is invented.
- Starts it
- Owner
- Brings
- export, notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 1 output
Open-source licence inventory for counsel
Before a release ships or an acquirer asks, counsel and the engineering lead get every open-source package listed with its licence as found, the file and line where it was read, and the duties your own policy attaches to it. A missing, custom or conflicting licence is marked needs review, never cleared.
- Starts it
- Engineering lead
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 5 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Outside-counsel invoice questions
When a law firm’s invoice arrives, legal operations has one worksheet ready: every line set against the agreed rates, the approved matter budget and the company’s own billing guidelines, each difference written as a neutral question for the firm. Nothing is sent, paid or rejected until people decide.
- Starts it
- Legal operations manager
- Brings
- export, document
- Gets
- 10 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Presentation outline and talk track
Anyone presenting to a board, a client or a conference gets a storyboard built on one message, then a spoken script for every slide, timed to the slot and true to their own speaker notes. Every fact comes from what the presenter supplied, and the presenter approves the message and the words.
- Starts it
- Presenter
- Brings
- notes, pasted text
- Gets
- 4 outputs
Privilege log entry check
Before a draft privilege log goes to review counsel, the paralegal gets an entry-by-entry check against counsel’s approved format and role map, and a list of logged documents’ attachments with no entry. It checks metadata only: review counsel makes every privilege call and writes or approves every description.
- Starts it
- Paralegal
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Research plan for counsel
Before an associate or paralegal starts on a partner's research question, they hold a one-to-two-page plan: the question split into sub-questions, the stated facts against each, the firm's own notes to read first, where to search and with what terms, and the gaps. Leads, not authorities: nothing is named from memory.
- Starts it
- Associate
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 6 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.
Weekly status requests to outside counsel
Every Monday, in-house counsel has a draft status request for each outside firm that owes one: what has happened since the last update, the dates on record to confirm, decisions pending and spend against budget, plus the matters skipped and why. Counsel edits and sends each one.
- Starts it
- Legal operations manager
- Brings
- export, notes, document
- Gets
- 2 outputs
Prepares work for a lawyer. Not legal advice.