Project Management Software for Legal Services

A matter isn't a project, but it needs the same discipline

A matter has its own timeline, its own team and its own confidentiality boundary, and most of what goes wrong on one isn't the legal work itself, it's the coordination around it: an associate who doesn't know a deadline moved, hours logged three weeks late and half-remembered, a partner who has to ask three people before finding out where things stand.

Firms usually solve this with more check-ins, which competes directly with billable time, or with a shared drive full of documents nobody structures until something goes wrong and everyone needs the same file at once.

ShipSprint treats each matter as a board with its own team, and gets the status and the time record without adding a meeting to get either. That's project management for legal services built around a matter, not a generic task list.

Confidentiality is the actual requirement

Client confidentiality isn't a nice-to-have for a law firm, it's the baseline the whole practice sits on. Every ShipSprint workspace is an isolated tenant, two-factor authentication is available to every user, and every admin action, who accessed what, who changed a permission, is written to an audit log.

That's a specific, checkable claim rather than a marketing line about encryption: it's about who can be in the room. See the security overview for the detail.

What this is not

It's worth being direct about scope. ShipSprint is not a contract-redlining tool, it doesn't handle e-signature, and it doesn't integrate with a case management system. It's where a matter's tasks, time and internal coordination live, the layer firms are usually missing, not a replacement for the specialist legal tools already in place.

Firms that use it tend to run it alongside their document and case management systems, using it for the coordination and time-tracking those tools were never built to handle, the layer between "the filing is done" and "everyone actually knew it needed doing."

What a matter actually looks like inside ShipSprint

A new matter opens, and the supervising partner sets up a board sized to the associates actually staffed on it, not an assumption of how much time everyone has free. A discovery request that lands mid-matter goes into triage instead of a hallway conversation nobody else hears about. Every hour an associate logs sits next to the task that produced it, timestamped close enough to the work to defend if a client questions a bill.

Six weeks in, the forecast, built from how fast this team has actually been closing tasks on this matter, flags that an internal deadline is trending late. That's early enough for the partner to reallocate an associate, rather than finding out the week the deadline hits, when the only remaining option is an apology to the client.

What loosely tracked matters are quietly costing

A firm running twenty active matters, where partners spend even ninety minutes a week each chasing status by hallway conversation and email, is spending the equivalent of a full associate's week every month just finding out where things stand, time that produces no billable work, no client value, and no defensible record of what happened when.

Business, at ₹599 per user per month, is a small fraction of that. The point isn't to eliminate every check-in; it's to make most of them unnecessary.

Fee earners and the business side, one subscription

A firm is more than its matters, business development is chasing new clients, HR is managing recruitment and reviews, and operations is running the office itself. Templates for each of those sit in the same subscription as the matter boards, so the firm isn't paying for and reconciling a separate tool for every function.

ShipSprint also connects to Claude and ChatGPT, so a managing partner can ask which matters are behind pace this month in plain language instead of requesting a report.

Practice groups don't all move at the same speed

A litigation matter runs on court dates and discovery deadlines set by someone outside the firm. A transactional matter runs on a closing date both sides are trying to hit early. Corporate advisory work often has no hard date at all until a board meeting sets one. Forcing all three onto one shared board format usually means the format fits none of them well.

Each practice group can run its own board, its own stages and its own cadence, while a managing partner still sees every matter, litigation, transactional, advisory, rolled into the same firm-wide command center without asking any group to change how it works.

Not a way to watch fee earners

No screenshots, no keystroke logging, no activity tracking, only delivered work and the hours a person logged themselves. Scorecards are leave-adjusted and visible to the fee earner they describe, so nobody is marked down for a week of approved leave. For a firm that already asks associates to account for their time down to the tenth of an hour, that distinction, measuring what was delivered rather than watching how it happened, tends to matter more than it sounds like it should.

Starting with one matter, not the whole firm

The lowest-friction way to evaluate this is on one active matter, set the board up, have the staffed associates log time for two weeks, and compare the resulting record against what a bill would have reconstructed from memory. That comparison tends to make the case on its own.

The Free plan covers a matter or two at that scale. Extending it to a full practice group, once it's proven itself, is a plan change inside the same workspace, not a new procurement process.

What it costs

• Free covers up to 5 users and 2 projects, permanently, enough for a small practice group to try it on one matter.
• Team is ₹299 per user per month (₹2,899 a year), up to 40 users.
• Business is ₹599 per user per month (₹6,499 a year), adding forecasts, scorecards and the firm-wide command center.
• Every paid plan opens with a 14-day full-access trial on Business, a sample project preloaded, no card required. See pricing.