The entire legal function benefits from structured intake and triage, streamlined workflows, accurate instructions, greater control of legal budgets and law firm engagements, as well as optimised document, email, and matter management.
The Lawcadia platform can also solve regulatory compliance challenges with a dedicated Regulatory Timeframe Tracker for statutory obligations such as Freedom of Information.
Purpose-built for in-house legal teams, Government legal departments are seeking out Lawcadia’s platform to provide:
The G-Cloud framework, established in 2012, is a trusted digital marketplace for public sector bodies to find and procure cloud-based services, including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). G-Cloud 15, the latest iteration, offers a streamlined process to help public sector teams quickly identify trusted suppliers and solutions.
With Lawcadia’s inclusion in G-Cloud 15, public sector legal and procurement teams can benefit from our easy-to-use platform designed to improve workflows, enhance collaboration, and provide powerful data insights. Whether it's for matter management, workflow automation, or document management, Lawcadia is ready to support your organisation with secure, flexible, and compliant technology.
For our clients, it provides assurance that our platform has undergone rigorous testing and independent evaluation, meeting key security requirements and safeguarding sensitive data with robust cyber protection.
The configurability of the Lawcadia platform allows for simple integration with the systems you already use.
Current integrations with world-class platforms, including Microsoft SharePoint, Word and Outlook, iManage and OpenText Content Manager, are available and ready for you to activate.
Custom integrations are available through Web Hooks and Lawcadia Intelligence™ – Lawcadia’s intelligent automation engine – which includes a unique plug-in architecture for the rapid deployment of new functionality.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Lawcadia support government legal teams?
Government legal teams face specific demands around public accountability, procurement compliance, records management and audit readiness. Lawcadia provides structured matter management, compliant workflow automation, rigorous access controls and comprehensive audit trails that support the governance requirements of government agencies. Integration with Content Manager (formerly TRIM) supports the records management obligations of public sector organisations.
Does Lawcadia meet government records and data management requirements?
Yes. Lawcadia integrates with OpenText Content Manager and Microsoft Sharepoint, leading enterprise records management systems that are widely used across government to meet statutory records and data management obligations. These integrations allow legal matters to be managed within Lawcadia while records are maintained in accordance with agency requirements.
How does Lawcadia support procurement compliance in government?
Lawcadia’s RFP and spend management capabilities support structured, defensible procurement of external legal services. The platform records the full selection process, from brief to proposal evaluation to engagement decision, creating a transparent audit trail that meets the accountability requirements placed on government agencies. Approval workflows can be configured to reflect delegation of authority frameworks and procurement policies.
Can Lawcadia handle the volume and variety of requests in a government legal team?
Yes. Government legal functions often receive high volumes of diverse requests, from routine contract reviews and FOI matters to complex regulatory investigations and litigation. Lawcadia’s intake and triage capabilities allow requests to be captured with the right level of detail for each matter type, routed appropriately, and tracked through to completion, regardless of volume or variety.
How does Lawcadia support audit and oversight requirements?
Every action taken within Lawcadia is logged with a timestamp and attributed to a specific user, creating a complete and tamper-resistant audit trail. This applies to matter updates, document changes, approval decisions and invoice actions. This level of traceability supports both internal governance requirements and external audits or reviews.
Is Lawcadia's security architecture suitable for government use?
Yes. Lawcadia holds ISO 27001:2022 certification and is built on AWS infrastructure with data stored in relevant geographic locations, including in the United Kingdom. Role-based access controls, information barriers for sensitive matters, end-to-end encryption, and SSO integration with government-approved identity providers give agencies the security controls required for legal and regulatory work.
Does Lawcadia include a configurable tracker to manage and report on FOI matters?
Yes. Lawcadia has a configurable Regulatory Timeframe Tracker for tracking, managing and reporting on time-sensitive statutory and regulatory obligations such as privacy breaches, Freedom of Information and Subject Rights Requests, and data subject access requests (DSARs) and other time-sensitive regulatory timeframes.
Is Lawcadia on the G-Cloud Digital Marketplace?
Yes. Lawcadia has been awarded a place on the UK Government’s G-Cloud 15 framework and is available through the Government Commercial Agency’s (GCA) Digital Marketplace.
Eligible public sector organisations can procure Lawcadia’s legal operations platform through this established procurement pathway, providing access to technology that supports legal intake, matter and contract management, workflow automation, document management, reporting and legal spend oversight.
What does Lawcadia’s inclusion on G-Cloud 15 mean?
Lawcadia’s inclusion on the UK Government’s G-Cloud 15 framework provides eligible public sector organisations with a compliant and streamlined way to procure our legal operations platform through the Digital Marketplace.
Public sector legal teams can access technology that helps improve legal intake, matter management, workflow automation, document management, reporting and legal spend oversight.
What capabilities does Lawcadia provide through G-Cloud 15?
Lawcadia provides a secure legal operations platform that helps organisations manage legal work from request through to completion.
Key capabilities include:
- Legal Front Door and Legal Intake
- Matter and Contract Management
- Email and Document Management with version controls
- No-Code and Low-Code Automation, including approval workflows
- External Counsel and Spend Management
- Document Automation
- eBilling and Invoice Review
- Reporting, Dashboards and Analytics
- Advanced Search
- Secure Integrations