Answer the board before the external counsel invoice arrives — Legalnaut A Markdown version of this page is available at https://legalnaut.com/for/in-house-legal.md for AI and LLM tools. IN-HOUSE LEGAL Answer the board before the external counsel invoice arrives ============================================================ The in-house question is usually about exposure rather than tactics: how bad is this, what do our own documents say, and how much of it should go to external counsel. Questions this practice actually asks ------------------------------------- “What do our own documents say about this dispute?” Forward the mailboxes and the shared drive into one workspace and ask it. Every answer quotes the document and the page it came from, so the board gets a fact with its source rather than an impression. “How do I brief external counsel without paying them to read everything twice?” Export the chronology, the entity profiles and the proof chart as documents. External counsel starts from a file that is already read, and reads the originals only where it matters. “Which of our people were involved and what did they say?” A profile for each of your people lists every statement they made and every document they wrote, across the whole file. Paying twice for the first read ------------------------------- External counsel bills for reading a file your own team already collected. Internal correspondence is scattered ------------------------------------ The relevant material sits in several mailboxes and a shared drive. No shared view -------------- Legal, finance and the business each hold a piece and nobody holds the whole. What Legalnaut does about it ---------------------------- - Forward correspondence to a workspace address and it lands in the file with its attachments. - A matter briefing on demand: posture, what changed, next steps, gaps and risks, written from the file and marked as a working draft. - The case against you, in writing: devil's advocate lists the weakest exhibits and the contradictions that hurt, before external counsel bills for the same reading. - Exports produce a chronology or a bundle in DOCX and PDF, with exhibit numbering intact, and a client update in plain language for the business. SCREENSHOT · CLIENT UPDATE screenshots/client-update.png A briefing drafted from the matter, in plain language, for the people who need the answer. Start with one case file and a 14-day trial. [See the plans](https://legalnaut.com/pricing). SCREENSHOT ![]()