Legal Project Management, Confidential by Deployment
Track the work on a matter, capture the time it takes, and keep it all inside infrastructure your firm controls.
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What does legal project management need?
Legal project management is the discipline of running a matter like a project: a defined scope, an agreed budget, named owners, and dates that hold. Firms adopt it because clients now ask what something will cost and expect the answer to be right. What that needs from software is a clear task plan per matter, time captured while the work is happening, and confidentiality that survives a client security questionnaire. Orangescrum covers that layer, and the Self-Hosted edition keeps it on your own servers.
Why matters lose time and margin
Deadlines, time, and client confidentiality
Runs on your infrastructure
The Self-Hosted edition installs on your own servers or private cloud, so client work never sits in a vendor cloud.
Access per matter
Role based permissions scoped per project, so a team sees only the matters it is on.
Time captured as it happens
Log time against the task rather than reconstructing the week, then approve it on a timesheet.
Invoices from logged work
Turn approved time into a client invoice without rekeying it into another system.
Matter budgets
Set a budget or fee cap per matter and see actual cost build against it while there is still room to react.
The whole team included
Unlimited users means paralegals, secretaries, and support staff are in the tool, not around it.
How a matter is run
Where firms use it
Which edition includes what
| Capability | CloudManaged SaaS | Self-HostedOn-premise / private cloud | Open SourceCommunity Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Projects, tasks, and boards | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time logging | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Role based access control | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Runs on your own infrastructure | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Timesheets and approval | Pro | ✓ | ✗ |
| Budget and cost tracking | Pro | ✓ | ✗ |
| Client invoicing | Premium | ✓ | ✗ |
| Client access to their own project | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Law firm project management FAQ
Is Orangescrum a case or practice management system?
No, and this is the most important thing to be clear about. We have no conflicts checking, no client and matter intake with compliance screening, no trust or client account handling, and no document assembly. Orangescrum is the project layer: the plan for a matter, who is doing what, the deadlines, the time, and the cost. Firms run it alongside a practice management system, not instead of one.
Can we keep client data out of a vendor cloud?
Yes. The Self-Hosted edition installs on your own servers or private cloud and sends nothing to us, so client material stays inside infrastructure your firm controls. This is normally what a client's own security questionnaire is asking about when it queries your suppliers.
Does it produce legal bills in LEDES or UTBMS format?
No. Invoicing in Orangescrum is a straightforward project invoice built from approved time and expenses, with your rates applied. If your clients require LEDES files, task and activity coding, or e-billing submission, that stays with your billing system, and you would use us for the time capture and matter budget rather than the bill itself.
Can we control who sees which matter?
Yes. Permissions are role based and applied per project, so a team is only added to the matters it works on. Access can be reviewed and changed at any time, and every change is recorded.
Do we pay per fee earner?
No. Every plan is a flat monthly price with unlimited users: Basic 29 dollars a month, Pro 69, Premium 349. That is usually the deciding factor for firms, because it means paralegals, trainees, and secretaries can be inside the system rather than kept out to control license cost.
How does time tracking work?
Time is logged against a task while the work is being done, either with a timer or by entering hours. Those entries roll into a weekly timesheet for approval, and approved time feeds both the matter cost and the invoice, so nobody rekeys anything.
Can a client see progress on their matter?
Yes, if you want them to. Client access lets you give a named client user a view of their own project and nothing else. Some firms use it for large transactions and litigation programmes where the client wants status without emailing for it.
Can we see whether a fixed fee matter is profitable?
Yes. Set a budget or fee cap on the matter and define rates, then actual cost builds from logged time automatically. You see the overrun forming rather than discovering it when the bill is drafted.
Run matters like projects, on your own terms
Cloud or fully self-hosted on your own infrastructure. Every plan includes unlimited users.