Transform your legal operations and be supported by metrics that help establish your legal function’s value proposition with Lawcadia’s clever BI reporting tool that provides automated reporting, analytics, and custom dashboards.
Purpose-built for in-house legal teams, Lawcadia’s reporting functionality is designed to help you and your team:
Business Intelligence (BI) reporting allows you to customise dashboards and delve into reports with unprecedented detail. Enabling the assessment of team efficiency, workload capabilities, spend management, and legal matter oversight with remarkable precision.
This level of detailed analytics and reporting is not just about oversight; it's a strategic tool that empowers your legal department to operate more effectively, ensuring alignment with the broader organisational goals. It's a game-changer that propels the legal department towards greater efficiency and strategic impact, proving the value their services deliver.
You can now match the FD with metrics demonstrating the value proposition of the entire expanded legal function – internal and external. Successful analytics and metrics facilitate the ability to identify and understand future sources of risk and allow communication of these internally to inform strategy and future decisions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What kinds of data does Lawcadia's reporting cover?
Lawcadia captures data across the full legal operations function, including matter volumes, workload distribution, matter age and status, turnaround times, external legal spend by matter and provider, invoice processing, budget versus actual spend, and law firm performance metrics. This data is available in real time through customisable dashboards and exportable reports.
Can dashboards be configured for different audiences?
Yes. Lawcadia’s reporting is designed to serve different stakeholders. The General Counsel may want a high-level view of workload, spend and risk exposure, while a legal operations manager may need more granular detail on process performance. Dashboards can be customised to reflect the metrics most relevant to each audience, including board-ready visual summaries.
How does reporting help the General Counsel make the case to the C-suite?
Reporting transforms the legal department from a cost centre that is hard to evaluate into a function that can demonstrate its output, efficiency and financial performance with evidence. A GC who can present accurate data on matters managed, spend controlled, and service levels delivered is in a stronger position to justify headcount, secure budget and influence strategic decisions.
Does Lawcadia capture data automatically or does it require manual input?
Data is captured automatically as the legal team works within the platform. Because intake, matter management, spend, workflows and invoicing all sit within the same system, metric data accumulates without any additional reporting effort. This removes the need for manual data collection and the risk of inconsistent or incomplete records.
Can Lawcadia report on law firm performance?
Yes. Lawcadia captures both objective data, such as spend, matter age, billing compliance and invoice accuracy, and supports the collection of subjective performance ratings. This gives in-house teams a structured basis for evaluating external counsel over time, informing panel reviews, RFP decisions and rate negotiations.
What reporting is available for legal spend?
Lawcadia provides real-time visibility of committed versus actual spend at matter level, as well as aggregate spend reporting by law firm, matter type, business unit and time period. Budget tracking alerts can be configured so that spend approaching or exceeding agreed thresholds is flagged before it becomes a problem.