Mersal Running a litigation matter end to end
The situation
A commercial dispute with a hearing calendar, a growing evidence bundle, several counterparties and costs that need to stay visible.
What goes wrong without a system
The hearing date lives on a wall calendar, the bundle lives in a shared drive, costs surface at the end, and the person covering knows none of it.
How it runs in Mersal
Open the matter with its parties
Client, counterparties and external counsel are recorded as entities, which also makes them screenable.
Put the calendar in the matter
Hearings and deadlines belong to the matter and feed the firm calendar and the reminder engine, with times rendered in each viewer's own timezone.
Build the bundle where it belongs
Documents sit in the matter's folders with versions and check-out, so the filed version is identifiable.
Keep correspondence attached
Messages are attached to the matter deliberately, and threads can be exported when a record is needed.
Watch the money as you go
Time, expenses and budget utilisation are visible during the matter rather than discovered at the end.
What it prevents
- A hearing date only one person knows
- Filing the wrong version of a document
- Costs discovered when it is too late to discuss them
The fastest way to judge this is to watch it run against your own way of working.