feature · 19 August 2026
On the Atlas: five ways to see the work of an in-house legal team
Discover LawVu, Plexus, Xakia, LawAdvisor and Checkbox on the Atlas, each offering a different entry into legal operations.
The Profession
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An in-house legal team can be busy all week and still struggle to show where the work came from, what is waiting, or why the queue keeps growing. This week’s Atlas discoveries look at five tools through that visibility problem. Their scopes differ. The useful question is which part of the team’s work needs to become easier to understand.
LawVu: the matter in its wider setting
Logo: LawVu; image used in its Atlas listing.
LawVu is a cloud legal operations platform for in-house teams, combining intake, matter and contract management with outside-counsel spend, documents and reporting. Its breadth is worth exploring when information about the same piece of work lives in several places. Use the Atlas profile to begin examining the relationship between those functions. A demonstration built around a real team workflow will be more revealing than a tour of every available module.
Plexus: where the business meets legal
Melbourne-founded Plexus offers tools for in-house teams, including contract and matter management and marketing compliance. Its Atlas entry is an interesting discovery for readers thinking about recurring work that arrives from the business. Explore the relevant product in relation to a defined process, including who starts the request and how it reaches the legal team. Product scope and commercial terms need to be checked for the proposed arrangement.
Xakia: making the matter list legible
Xakia is a Melbourne-founded legal matter management platform for in-house teams. The Atlas profile offers a focused starting point for readers who need a clearer view of their team’s work. Explore how a matter would be recorded and followed through its life. The test is whether the information helps the team make decisions about the workload; a detailed record has limited value if maintaining it becomes a separate administrative burden.
LawAdvisor: configuring the working process
Australian-founded LawAdvisor offers a low-code legal operations platform for corporate legal teams and law firms, covering matters, contracts and projects. That makes it a useful discovery for readers interested in configuring how work moves through a team. Begin with a process that can be described clearly. Explore what configuration involves and who would maintain it when the organisation’s requirements change, rather than assuming flexibility removes the need for design.
Explore LawAdvisor on the Atlas
Checkbox: beginning with one repeatable task
Checkbox appears in the Atlas as an Australian-founded legal workflow automation provider. Its inclusion is a reminder that a useful operations project can begin with a bounded task. Choose a recurring request whose inputs and decisions are understood, then explore whether automation would make the experience clearer for the person requesting help. The Atlas entry opens the investigation; the value depends on the particular process and its exceptions.
These discoveries offer different ways to organise legal work. Start with the information the team cannot currently see, or the recurring process it wants to improve, and use the Atlas links to investigate the relevant product scope.
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