CasEngine by CodEngines
Performance & reporting

Performance automation for legal practices.

Utilisation, realisation, receivables ageing and the four risks that quietly cost a practice money — on a dashboard rather than in a spreadsheet somebody rebuilds each month.

The problem

The management meeting starts the same way every month: somebody has spent the morning building the numbers.

By the time the spreadsheet is circulated it describes last month, the definitions have drifted since the last version, and the only questions it can answer are the ones whoever built it thought to ask. The things that actually cost a practice money — a file nobody has touched since June, an appeal window closing on Thursday — are not in it, because nobody thought to look.

How it works

The numbers, without the spreadsheet.

  1. 01

    Everyone opens their own view first

    Action items waiting on you, your timesheet summary, your active cases and projects, your expenses, and what you delivered over the last thirty days. Personal accountability before firm reporting, and nobody has to see everyone else's numbers to find their own.

  2. 02

    Management sees the whole practice

    Caseload by status; the pipeline of new matters, cases, clients, leads, KYC and service requests; and the financial picture — work in progress still unbilled, amounts outstanding, receivables ageing, realisation rate and collection rate.

  3. 03

    The risk panel is the one to read first

    Appeal windows closing within seven days. Cases dormant more than sixty days. Service requests past their service level. Timesheets unapproved for over a fortnight. These are the four ways a practice quietly loses money or acquires a claim, and each is a panel rather than a discovery.

  4. 04

    Productivity measured the same way each month

    Utilisation across the firm and billable hours by timekeeper, computed from the same records every time — so a change in the number means a change in the work, not a change in who built the report.

  5. 05

    Who sees what is governed

    An administrator decides which panels a role may see; each person then arranges their own. A panel appears only where the module is permitted, the policy allows it, and the user has chosen to show it — so a dashboard cannot become a route around someone's permissions.

See it

The same thing, on screen.

The view each person opens first: follow-ups, hearing minutes and to-dos, due today or already overdue.

Outcomes

What changes for the practice.

In detail

Everything included, in one place.

Risk panels

Appeal windows closing within seven days, cases dormant beyond sixty, service requests breaching their SLA, and timesheets left unapproved for more than fourteen days — surfaced as standing panels rather than found during a review.

Financial position

Work in progress not yet billed, outstanding amounts on litigation, receivables ageing, realisation rate and collection rate — the difference between work done, work billed and money actually received.

Utilisation and timekeepers

Firm-wide utilisation and billable hours by timekeeper, computed from recorded time rather than estimated.

Pipeline and caseload

New matters, cases, projects, clients and leads, alongside KYC, service requests and service agreements by status — so the front of the practice is as visible as the back.

Personal dashboards

Each person gets action items awaiting them, their own timesheet summary, cases, projects and expenses, and a thirty-day view of what they delivered.

Twelve-month trends

New matters, cases, projects and clients tracked over a rolling year, so a quiet quarter is visible as a trend rather than as a feeling.

FAQ

Common questions about this feature.

In practice, the risk panels — appeal windows closing within a week and cases dormant beyond sixty days — because those are the items with a deadline attached. Utilisation, realisation and collection rates follow, and the twelve-month trends give them context.

Related

Works with the rest of the platform.

See it on your own matters

A short walkthrough with our team, using the kind of work your team handles day to day.