What Hive sees
Matter status, approved correspondence, deadlines, document sets, time records and the firm’s required administrative evidence.
Hive for legal services
Keep matter administration moving without outsourcing legal judgement.
Hive reads the authorised matter trail, prepares routine administration and returns reviewable evidence. Lawyers and authorised compliance staff keep every legal, conflict and AML decision.
Reads. Reconciles. Drafts. Flags. Consequential actions wait for human approval.
One operational thread
From scattered signals to reviewable work.
What Hive does
Drafts routine updates, prepares evidence bundles, proposes matter-admin tasks and flags gaps against explicit checklists.
What Hive returns
A lawyer-ready queue with source links, missing records, proposed next steps and a complete action receipt.
Workflow library
Start where the work repeats.
Each workflow follows the same boundary: read the approved context, prepare the work, flag the exception and wait for a person where judgement or consequence begins.
Matter opening preparation
- Pain
- Matter data, engagement documents and intake evidence arrive in different places and must be assembled before review.
- Hive prepares
- Hive prepares the administrative file, drafts standard documents from approved precedents and flags missing inputs for authorised review.
- Receipt
- Illustrative receipt: intake file prepared · 6 records linked · 2 missing items flagged · opening held for approval.
Matter status and deadline coordination
- Pain
- Clients and fee earners chase status while deadlines and dependencies live across calendars, inboxes and matter systems.
- Hive prepares
- Hive consolidates the operational state, drafts a plain-English update and flags approaching deadlines without making a legal assessment.
- Receipt
- Illustrative receipt: 31 matters checked · 4 deadline dependencies flagged · 9 updates drafted for review.
Evidence and bundle preparation
- Pain
- Documents need sorting, indexing and source checking before a lawyer can review the substance.
- Hive prepares
- Hive de-duplicates, classifies and indexes the authorised document set, then prepares a draft bundle with source references.
- Receipt
- Illustrative receipt: 680 documents indexed · 42 duplicates separated · draft bundle ready for legal review.
Time and billing preparation
- Pain
- Narratives and matter context are reconstructed late, slowing billing and creating avoidable review work.
- Hive prepares
- Hive drafts time narratives and billing-support context from approved activity records for the fee earner to confirm.
- Receipt
- Illustrative receipt: 18 narratives drafted · 3 ambiguities flagged · no time posted without fee-earner confirmation.
Confirmed integration categories
Connect the systems that already hold the work.
Hive supports integrations across these categories. Exact products, permissions and write actions are confirmed during pilot design; no connector is implied until that scope is agreed.
- Practice and matter management
- Document, knowledge and e-signature systems
- Email, calendar and client communication
- Time recording, billing and finance operations
Pilot qualification
A strong fit for firms with defined matter-admin checklists and clear sign-off roles.
Choose an administrative workflow with an approved precedent, checklist and reviewer. Hive can prepare the file and surface exceptions while the firm retains judgement.
- High-volume repeat matter administration
- Approved templates or precedents
- Named legal and compliance decision owners
FAQ
Clear boundaries before the first workflow.
Does Hive make legal judgements?
No. Hive prepares administrative work and evidence for review. Legal analysis, advice and client decisions remain with qualified lawyers.
Can Hive run conflict or AML checks by itself?
No. Hive may prepare information for the firm’s approved process and flag missing evidence, but authorised people and systems make conflict and AML decisions.
Can Hive prepare document bundles?
Yes. Hive can sort, de-duplicate, index and source-link authorised documents, then return a draft bundle for legal review.
Will Hive send matter updates without review?
Only if the firm explicitly approves a low-risk communication policy. Legal, sensitive or consequential updates should remain behind human approval.