When a disputed claim turns into a lawsuit, your legal team is already buried in defence instructions, coverage questions, subrogation deadlines and panel-firm invoices, most of it tracked in spreadsheets and email. Smart Legal Counsel gives your in-house team one place for every claims dispute, coverage matter, recovery file and panel instruction, so no hearing is missed, no recovery lapses, and the Head of Legal can see total litigation, recovery and defence spend at any moment. Trusted by 10,000+ legal professionals.
Smart Legal Counsel is claims litigation and legal case management software for the in-house legal team of an insurer or takaful operator, not a defence firm. It centralises every claims dispute, coverage matter, subrogation file, panel instruction and notice into one secure platform, so a heavy litigation load stays under control and the Head of Legal keeps full visibility. The outcome: no missed hearings, more recoveries collected, tighter defence spend, and exposure numbers ready on demand.
No more chasing a claim across email and the claims system. Corporate Legal Case & Document Management keeps every dispute, hearing, pleading and document on one searchable, audit-ready matter tied to its policy and claim reference.
Case & Document ManagementLegal Litigation Management tracks hundreds of coverage and claims actions, hearings and court deadlines with the instructed firm on each one, so the legal team sees the whole litigation portfolio in real time, not scattered across inboxes.
Legal Litigation ManagementRecovery files carry the amount paid, the third party and the limitation date, so the team chases every collectable subrogation action before it is time-barred instead of writing off recoverable money.
Recovery & SubrogationEvery claim that escalates to dispute lands in one queue through Legal Intake Management, opened against the right policy with a clear owner, priority and a clean handover from the claims team.
Legal Intake ManagementLegal Expense & Panel Management shows what each panel firm bills against each claim and its budget, so the legal team approves defence spend with the full picture instead of signing off blind.
Expense & Panel ManagementAnalytical Insights roll open litigation, recovery pipeline, risk and defence spend into one report, so the Head of Legal answers management on total legal exposure in minutes, not days.
Analytical InsightsCompliance Management keeps the insurer's regulatory obligations, governance tasks and trade licence management in one register, with automated reminders and a complete audit trail, so obligations and licences are evidenced on demand for any regulator, auditor or examiner.
Compliance & Licence ManagementContract Management holds vendor and third-party-administrator contracts, while purchase orders, procurement and approvals sit on the same files, so the legal team runs agreements, spend commitments and sign-off in one flow instead of chasing email threads.
Contract & Procurement ManagementRenewal Lifecycle Management tracks every contract, licence, permit and purchase order through its full renewal cycle, with reminders ahead of each expiry, so nothing lapses and the insurer is never caught out by an expired agreement or licence.
Renewal LifecycleFrom claims disputes and coverage litigation to subrogation, recovery, compliance management, contract management, trade licences, purchase orders and renewals, every legal workflow runs under one roof. Your in-house team works from one platform instead of scattered spreadsheets and inboxes, and the Head of Legal keeps full visibility across litigation, recovery, contracts, licences and panel spend.
Give the legal team one structured home for every disputed claim, coverage action and recovery suit, each tied to its policy and claim reference. Hearings, deadlines and the instructed firm are tracked on the file so nothing sits forgotten in an inbox, and templates by claim type let a new dispute open in minutes even when the caseload runs into the hundreds.
Open subrogation and recovery files with the amount paid, the third party and the limitation date, and let the platform watch every time-bar for you. Automated reminders cover recovery deadlines, regulatory responses, notices and cheque-bounce actions, while risk management gives management one view of where legal exposure sits across the book.
Every instruction, review and approval routes automatically to the right lawyer and panel firm, so there is no lag between “the claim escalated” and “the defence is filed”. Email integration keeps correspondence on the claim file, panel-counsel management keeps each defence firm accountable to its budget, and time-sheet recording captures the legal team's own effort per matter.
Beyond litigation, the same platform runs the rest of the in-house legal workload in one place. Contract management holds vendor and third-party-administrator agreements, and you manage purchase orders, procurement and approvals alongside those contracts instead of in a separate inbox. Contracts, approvals, notices and renewals are signed off with built-in secure e-signature, so the legal team signs and approves right inside the platform as part of the approval and renewal lifecycle, with no third-party signing tool. Compliance management and trade licence management keep regulatory obligations and licences in one register, and renewal lifecycle tracking carries every contract, licence, permit and purchase order to its expiry so nothing lapses and you never miss a renewal. Track defence expense against each claim and turn the whole portfolio into management-ready analytics on litigation, recovery and spend. For deep drafting and full contract lifecycle work, it connects to full-lifecycle contract management, while the wider Beveron suite covers IP and trademark management and debt collection and recovery when your matters reach beyond the courtroom.
A disputed claim becomes a lawsuit, a lawsuit needs a panel firm, the firm needs instructions and a budget, and a possible recovery is waiting in the background, all multiplied across hundreds of open matters the legal team is tracking in spreadsheets and email.
The pattern repeats on every desk: a hearing is missed because the file sat in someone's inbox, a subrogation claim is time-barred before anyone pursues it, a panel firm bills well past the budget nobody was watching, and a coverage decision lacks the clean record a regulator or complaint examiner later asks for. When management asks “what is our open litigation and total defence spend?”, the answer takes days to assemble from scattered files.
See what changesThe problem. A regional insurer with a heavy motor and medical book had a small claims-legal team trying to manage hundreds of disputed claims at once. Litigation lived in spreadsheets, panel firms were instructed by email, and subrogation files sat in a separate list. Hearings were tracked from memory, recovery claims were noticed only after the limitation date had passed, and nobody could say in one number what the defence panel was costing against reserves.
What they did. They moved the legal function onto Smart Legal Counsel. Disputed claims were opened as matters tied to their policy and claim reference, coverage and recovery suits were logged centrally, every panel firm was instructed with a budget on the file, and subrogation files were loaded with their amounts paid and limitation dates.
The result. The legal team now runs the whole litigation load from one workspace: open disputes, hearings and recovery deadlines are visible in real time, subrogation actions are chased before they lapse, defence spend is approved against a budget instead of blind, and management questions on litigation and recovery are answered the same day.
Smart Legal Counsel fits your carrier'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.
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 carrier.
Works inside Microsoft Office, Outlook, SharePoint and Teams, so claim emails, pleadings and approvals stay in the tools your insurer already runs.
Automate dispute triage, hearing reminders and document review, with AI that can run on-premise for insurers that keep claims data in-house.
Dashboards plus litigation, recovery and defence-spend reports across the book, ready to take into a management or audit review.
Capture legal time per lawyer and matter, so the carrier can see where the legal team's effort on disputes actually goes.
Optional module to manage the legal department's own headcount, leave and payroll alongside its matters.
Connect OneDrive and the document storage your insurer already uses, so claim and litigation files stay where IT expects them.
Deploy in the cloud or on-premise on your own servers, so claims and policyholder data stays under your carrier's IT and data-residency policy.
Granular permissions by team and matter, so each user sees only the disputes, recovery files and documents they are cleared for.
Every view, edit and approval is logged with user and timestamp, giving the carrier a defensible record for audit, regulators and complaint examiners.
Claims and legal data is encrypted in transit and at rest, helping the insurer meet its data protection and compliance obligations.
Regular, recoverable backups protect every dispute, recovery file and contract record against loss.
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