Every matter in one dashboard
No more hunting through drives for a file. Corporate Legal Case & Document Management keeps every matter, case, hearing and document for every subsidiary in one searchable, audit-ready place.
Case & Document Management #1 Rated Corporate Legal Department Software
Legal Software for
Holding Companies & Groups
When your legal team runs every subsidiary from spreadsheets and scattered email, deadlines get missed, renewals slip, and outside-counsel bills climb. Smart Legal Counsel gives your in-house team one source of truth for every case, matter, litigation file, contract and trade licence across the whole group, so nothing falls through the cracks and the GC always has a board-ready answer. Trusted by 10,000+ legal professionals.
10,000+ Professionals
24+ Countries
500+ Enterprises
What It Does
What Smart Legal Counsel does for a holding-company legal team
Smart Legal Counsel is legal matter management software for the in-house legal team of a holding company or group, not a law firm. It centralises every matter, case, litigation file, contract, request and trade licence across all subsidiaries into one secure platform, giving group counsel entity-level control and group-level visibility. The outcome: fewer missed deadlines, lower outside-counsel spend, and a board-ready answer in minutes.
Litigation tracked across entities
Legal Litigation Management tracks disputes, hearings and court deadlines per subsidiary with external-counsel activity, so group counsel sees the whole litigation portfolio in real time, not in scattered inboxes.
Legal Litigation ManagementCentralised legal intake
Every business request from any entity lands in one triaged queue through Legal Intake Management, tagged to the right subsidiary with clear ownership, priority and a full audit trail.
Legal Intake ManagementRenewals stop surprising you
A group-wide compliance and trade-licence calendar flags every obligation, governance task and renewal early across all subsidiaries, so nothing lapses and no entity is left unwatched.
Compliance & Trade LicencesLower outside-counsel spend
Legal Expense & Panel Management shows what each firm is billing against each matter and entity, so the GC controls panel spend across the group instead of approving it blind.
Expense & Panel ManagementBoard-ready analytics in minutes
Analytical Insights roll cases, litigation, risk and legal spend across every entity into one report, so the GC proves legal's value and answers the board in minutes, not days.
Analytical InsightsContracts, POs and approvals together
Contract Management keeps intercompany and vendor contracts, purchase orders, procurement requests and approvals in one workflow, so every commitment a subsidiary signs is captured, reviewed and visible to group legal instead of buried in inboxes.
Contract & PO ManagementNever miss a renewal again
One renewal lifecycle tracks every contract, trade licence, permit and purchase order from start to expiry across the whole group, with early reminders so nothing lapses at an entity nobody was watching.
Renewal Lifecycle Management
Capabilities
One platform for the whole group's legal work
From corporate legal cases and litigation to compliance, trade licences, contracts and outside-counsel spend, every legal workflow for every subsidiary runs in one place. Your in-house team works from a single source of truth, and group counsel keeps full visibility across every entity.
Cases & Matters
Run every legal case and matter in one place
Give the group one structured home for every case, matter and litigation file, organised by entity and rolled up for group counsel. Court dates, hearings and external-counsel activity are tracked per subsidiary so nothing sits forgotten in an inbox, and case templates let new entities onboard in minutes, not weeks.
Corporate Legal Case & Document Management
Legal Litigation Management
Legal Intake Management
Case Templates
Compliance & Governance
Stay compliant and licensed across every entity
Load each subsidiary's compliance obligations, governance tasks and trade-licence portfolio once, and let the platform watch every deadline for you. Automated reminders cover renewals, notices and cheque-bounce matters, while group-level risk management gives the board one view of where exposure sits across the organization.
Legal Compliance Management
Legal Risk Management (GRC)
Trade Licences
Notices & Cheque-Bounce
Workflow & Tools
Move work faster with workflow + your tools
Every request, review and approval routes automatically to the right lawyer and entity, so there is no lag between “the business asked” and “legal delivered”. Email integration keeps correspondence on the matter, the law firm panel keeps external counsel accountable, and time-sheet recording captures effort across the whole group.
Review, Approval & Workflow Automation
Email Integration
Law Firm Panel Management
Time Sheet Recording
Spend, Risk & Performance
Turn legal spend and risk into board-ready numbers
Track legal expense against every matter and entity, share documents securely with role-based access, and turn the whole portfolio into board-ready analytics. The same platform extends to full-lifecycle contract management, so contracts, cases and compliance live together instead of in silos.
Legal Expense Management
Analytical Insights
Information Sharing & Security
Contract Management
One Roof
Contracts, licences, purchase orders and renewals in one platform
Bring everything the group commits to under one roof instead of scattered spreadsheets and inboxes. Contract management runs the full lifecycle of intercompany and vendor contracts, with the deep drafting and CLM engine in Smart Legal Contract. Trade licence management holds the whole group's trade-licence portfolio in one register. Purchase orders, procurement requests and approvals across subsidiaries are managed alongside their contracts, not as a separate system. Contracts, approvals, notices and renewals are signed off with a built-in secure e-signature inside the platform, so the legal team approves and executes within Smart Legal Counsel rather than exporting documents to a third-party tool. And one renewal lifecycle watches every contract, licence, permit and purchase order to expiry, so the in-house legal team never misses a renewal anywhere in the group.
Compliance Management
Contract Management
Trade Licence Management
Purchase Orders & Procurement
Secure E-Signature
Renewal Lifecycle
The Challenge
A group legal team is a dozen legal teams at once
Every subsidiary has its own cases, its own litigation, its own contracts and its own trade licences, and most of it lives in spreadsheets, shared drives and inboxes the General Counsel cannot see in one place.
The result is the same in almost every group: a renewal lapses at an entity nobody was watching, a court deadline is missed because the file sat in someone's email, a dispute escalates before the GC even hears about it, and outside-counsel spend climbs with no single view of who is billing what. When the board asks “what is our total legal exposure?”, the answer takes days to assemble.
See what changes
Without one platform
- Cases & licences scattered across many subsidiaries
- Spreadsheets and email as the system of record
- Missed court dates and lapsed renewals
- No group-level visibility for the GC
- Runaway, unaccountable outside-counsel cost
With Smart Legal Counsel
- Every case, matter & licence in one source of truth
- Structured by entity, rolled up to a group view
- Automated deadline & renewal reminders
- Real-time oversight for group counsel
- Panel spend tracked against every matter
Case Study
A diversified holding group with 30+ subsidiaries
The problem. A regional group running businesses across real estate, trading and services had a four-person legal team trying to oversee cases, contracts and trade licences for dozens of entities. Everything lived in spreadsheets and email. Court deadlines were tracked by memory, renewals were noticed only when a licence was about to lapse, and the board's questions on legal exposure took days to answer.
What they did. They moved every entity onto Smart Legal Counsel. Each subsidiary was modelled separately, cases and litigation logged centrally, the compliance and trade-licence calendar loaded once, and outside-counsel work routed through the law firm panel with spend tracked per matter.
The result. Group counsel now runs the whole legal function from one dashboard: every subsidiary's cases, renewals and outside-counsel spend are visible in real time, board questions on legal exposure are answered the same day, and the four-person team covers dozens of entities without chasing files across inboxes.
- One dashboard for every subsidiary's mattersCases, litigation and documents structured by entity, rolled up for the GC.
- No more missed licence renewalsA single calendar flags every renewal and notice across the group early.
- Panel spend finally visibleEvery external firm's billing tracked against the matter it belongs to.
- Board-ready legal reporting in minutesConsolidated analytics replace days of manual spreadsheet work.
Enterprise & Security
Enterprise security and integration your group IT team can sign off on
Smart Legal Counsel fits your group's existing stack, with single sign-on, role-based access, audit trails, Microsoft 365 and Teams, and your choice of cloud or on-premise hosting.
SSO & Active Directory
One-click sign-in through your existing Active Directory and single sign-on, so the legal team uses the same identity and password policy as the rest of the group.
Microsoft 365 & Teams
Works inside Microsoft Office, Outlook, SharePoint and Teams, so matter emails, documents and approvals stay in the tools your group already runs.
AI integrations & workflows
Automate request routing, deadline reminders and document triage, with AI that can run on-premise for groups that keep legal data in-house.
Reports & Analytical Insights
Consolidated dashboards plus case, litigation and expense reports across every entity, ready to take into a board or governance meeting.
Staff timesheets
Capture legal time per lawyer, matter and entity, so the group can see where the legal team's effort actually goes.
HR & Payroll (add-on)
Optional module to manage the legal department's own headcount, leave and payroll alongside its matters.
OneDrive & drive storage
Connect OneDrive and the document storage your group already uses, so legal files stay where IT expects them.
Cloud or on-premise
Deploy in the cloud or on-premise on your own servers, so the legal data stays under your group's IT and data-residency policy.
Role-based access
Granular permissions by entity, team and matter, so each user sees only the subsidiaries and files they are cleared for.
Audit trails
Every view, edit and approval is logged with user and timestamp, giving the group a defensible record for audit and governance.
Data encryption
Legal data is encrypted in transit and at rest, helping the group meet its data protection and compliance obligations.
Secure backups
Regular, recoverable backups protect every entity's matters, contracts and licence records against loss.
Watch Demo
See Smart Legal Counsel in action
Watch how a group's in-house legal team runs corporate legal cases, litigation, subsidiary legal requests, compliance, governance and trade-licence tracking across many entities in one connected platform.
FAQ
Holding-company legal questions, answered
What is legal matter management software for holding companies?
It is a single platform that lets a group's in-house legal team run every legal matter, case, litigation file, request, contract and trade licence across every subsidiary in one place. Smart Legal Counsel by Beveron Technologies gives group counsel one secure workspace with entity-level visibility, role-based access and consolidated reporting across the whole organization. It is a form of enterprise legal management (ELM) built for in-house departments, not law firms.
Who is Smart Legal Counsel for?
It is built for the in-house legal team of a holding company, group, conglomerate or family office. That means the General Counsel, group legal department, legal operations and company secretarial staff who oversee legal work across many subsidiaries. It suits lean teams of a few lawyers managing dozens of entities, as well as large legal departments that need group-level visibility, governance and reporting. It is not a law-firm billing tool.
How is this different from law-firm case management software?
Law-firm case management software is built around client files, court procedure and billable hours for external representation. Smart Legal Counsel is matter management software for in-house teams. It is built around the business of the group: intake and triage of legal requests, matters and contracts across subsidiaries, outside-counsel spend, compliance, trade licences and board reporting. It manages the whole legal function of a holding company, not the billing of a single firm.
How does Smart Legal Counsel manage legal cases and matters across multiple subsidiaries?
Corporate Legal Case and Document Management and Legal Litigation Management structure every case, matter and document by entity, so the legal team sees what is happening at each subsidiary while everything still rolls up to a group view. Intercompany matters, requests, approvals and court deadlines are tracked with clear ownership, and consolidated dashboards give group counsel oversight across all entities at once.
Can the platform handle intercompany matters and subsidiary legal requests?
Yes. Business units across the group raise legal requests through Legal Intake Management, and intercompany matters are tracked with clear ownership, status and audit trails. Each subsidiary keeps its own records while the group legal department maintains full visibility, accountability and reporting across every entity.
How does it support compliance, governance and trade-licence renewals for a group?
Legal Compliance Management and Legal Risk Management track obligations, governance tasks and trade-licence portfolios for every entity, with automated reminders for renewals, notices and filings. The legal department gets a consolidated view of upcoming deadlines across all subsidiaries, reducing the risk of a lapsed licence or a missed governance requirement anywhere in the organization.
Can we track contracts, trade licences, purchase orders and renewals for the whole group in one place?
Yes. Smart Legal Counsel brings compliance management, contract management, trade licence management and purchase order and procurement tracking under one roof for the in-house legal team, instead of scattered spreadsheets and inboxes. Intercompany and vendor contracts run their full lifecycle, the group's trade-licence portfolio sits in one register, and purchase orders, procurement requests and approvals across subsidiaries are managed alongside their contracts rather than in a separate system. A single renewal lifecycle then watches every contract, licence, permit and purchase order to expiry, with early reminders across all entities, so the group never misses a renewal. For deep drafting and full CLM, contract management connects to Smart Legal Contract.
Can the legal team sign and approve contracts inside the platform?
Yes. Smart Legal Counsel has its own built-in secure e-signature, so the group legal team signs and approves contracts, approvals, notices and renewals inside the platform instead of exporting documents to a third-party tool. Signing is part of the approval and renewal lifecycle, with each signature captured against the right matter and entity and recorded in the audit trail.
How does Smart Legal Counsel help reduce outside-counsel spend?
Legal Expense Management and Law Firm Panel Management show what each external firm is billing against each matter across the group, so the General Counsel controls panel spend instead of approving it blind. Analytical Insights then surface where work can be brought in-house and where budgets are drifting.
Is Smart Legal Counsel secure enough for a holding company legal department?
Yes. The platform provides data encryption, granular role-based access by entity and team, detailed audit trails and regular secure backups. It can be deployed in the cloud or on-premise on the company's own servers, helping group legal departments meet their data protection and compliance requirements.
Can Smart Legal Counsel be hosted on our own servers?
Yes. Smart Legal Counsel supports both cloud hosting and on-premise hosting on the company's own servers, so a holding company can choose the deployment model that fits its data-governance and IT policy. It also integrates with single sign-on, Microsoft Office, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams and drive storage.
Does the platform integrate with our existing tools and reporting?
Yes. Smart Legal Counsel integrates with Active Directory single sign-on, Microsoft Office, Outlook, SharePoint and Teams, OneDrive and drive storage, and offers AI workflows. A built-in report generator produces dashboards, case and expense reports and staff timesheets, with an optional HR and payroll module for the legal department.
Talk to Our Team
Bring your whole group's legal work together
Give your in-house team one platform for cases, matters, litigation, requests, compliance and trade licences across every subsidiary. Tell us about your group structure and we will tailor the walkthrough.
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