Take control of legal matters and spend with clarity and confidence
Manage legal work from intake to insight with structured workflows, real-time spend visibility, and performance analytics that help you prevent budget surprises and demonstrate legal's value to the business
Legal teams rely on disciplined matter and spend management to deliver value and control costs — but fragmented systems, reactive oversight, and limited visibility get in the way
Capture demand with structure, start aligned
When legal requests arrive through email, Slack, or hallway conversations, it's impossible to prioritize effectively, set clear expectations, or allocate resources appropriately. Centralize intake and establish consistent matter setup from the start, so your team works on the right things with clear scope and budget expectations.
Execute with coordination, stay aligned
Legal work spans multiple stakeholders — internal teams, business units, and outside counsel — making it difficult to maintain visibility, coordinate effectively, and keep work moving forward. Create shared workflows and real-time collaboration that keep everyone aligned and reduce administrative burden.
Control spend with precision, prevent surprises
Without real-time visibility into accruals, vendor performance, and billing compliance, legal departments discover budget overruns too late and struggle to justify costs to finance. Monitor spend proactively and enforce billing guidelines so you can control costs and make data-driven vendor decisions.
See the difference the right solution makes
372%
return on investment over three years with a six-month payback period*
60%
productivity improvement in invoice review and management with Legal Tracker*
80%
of users report HighQ has helped them manage contractual obligations more efficiently, with an average efficiency improvement of 40%**
*Forrester TEI Study, 2023 **TechValidate Survey
End-to-end spend and matter management workflow
- Capture
- Execute
- Control
- Optimize
Capture demand and set up the matter
Manage legal requests, define scope and budgets, and create matters consistently from the start.
What you can achieve by using Legal Tracker and HighQ:
- Centralize legal intake through structured request forms that capture the right details upfront.
- Define matter scope, ownership, and budget expectations before work begins, reducing downstream rework.
- Route matters for review and approval with automated workflows that ensure appropriate oversight.
- Establish consistent matter setup across your legal department, creating a foundation for effective execution and spend control.
Execute workflows and collaborate
Manage matters efficiently, coordinate stakeholders, and keep work aligned to scope as it progresses.
What you can achieve by using Legal Tracker and HighQ:
- Track matter status, ownership, and key milestones with real-time visibility across your entire legal portfolio.
- Coordinate internal teams and outside counsel through secure collaboration workspaces that centralize documents, communications, and task management.
- Automate routine workflows for contract approvals, policy reviews, and compliance processes, reducing manual administrative effort.
- Maintain alignment to scope as work progresses, ensuring matters stay on track and stakeholders remain informed.
Monitor spend, vendors, and performance
Control legal spend, manage outside counsel performance, and ensure work stays within approved budgets and guidelines.
What you can achieve by using Legal Tracker:
- Enforce billing guidelines and agreed rates automatically, flagging non-compliant invoices before payment.
- Track spend and accruals against matter budgets in real time, preventing surprises and enabling proactive budget management.
- Monitor vendor performance across law firms, regions, and matter types with comprehensive analytics on cost, cycle time, and outcomes.
- Control outside counsel costs through systematic rate management, invoice review workflows, and spend analytics that support better vendor negotiations.
Report outcomes and optimize
Turn matter and spend data into insight that improves decision-making, forecasting, and legal operations performance.
What you can achieve by using Legal Tracker and HighQ:
- Analyze spend, matter mix, and vendor performance with customizable dashboards and reporting that reveal patterns and optimization opportunities.
- Support budgeting and forecasting with historical trend data and predictive analytics that improve accuracy.
- Demonstrate legal's value to finance and leadership through clear, data-driven insights that connect legal work to business outcomes.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying high-performing vendors, optimizing matter allocation, and reducing total cost of legal operations.
Complete visibility and control from matter intake to financial insight
Legal Tracker
Legal Tracker provides comprehensive matter and spend management, giving legal departments real-time financial visibility, vendor oversight, and reporting that drives better decision-making.
HighQ
HighQ enables secure collaboration, workflow automation, and matter execution across internal teams and external counsel.
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See firsthand why customers are choosing Thomson Reuters for their legal operations needs
“We’ve been able to really lean into the Legal Tracker data to help partner with our finance team to make sure that we are staying on top of our anticipated and actual spend.”
Melissa Bodner
Manager, Legal Support & Operations, AtriCure, Inc.
“Our commercial teams are infinitely happier since adopting HighQ. No waiting — just click to create or view a contract, and they receive instant updates.”
Max Freeman-Inglis
Legal Operations Manager, Alliance Pharma Ltd
Explore our expert insights
Thomson Reuters Legal Tracker case study: Atricure
“Now, Legal Tracker is woven into the fabric of our team.”
Melissa Bodner, Manager, Legal Support & Operations, AtriCure, Inc.
How Alliance Pharma transforms legal operations with HighQ
“Being able to build a Thomson Reuters tech stack was a huge attraction for us. It’s such a trusted brand within the legal sphere. I’d recommend HighQ one hundred percent.”
Max Freeman-Inglis, Legal Operations Manager, Alliance Pharma Ltd
Frequently asked questions
HighQ provides the collaboration and workflow automation layer for matter execution, while Legal Tracker manages the financial and operational oversight. Together, they create a seamless experience from intake through to completion — HighQ captures and routes requests, manages collaboration and task execution, while Legal Tracker handles budget tracking, invoice management, and spend analytics.
Legal Tracker provides real-time spend tracking and accrual management, allowing you to monitor matter budgets continuously rather than discovering overruns at month-end. Automated alerts notify you when matters approach budget thresholds, and comprehensive dashboards give you portfolio-level visibility into spend trends before they become problems.
Legal Tracker automatically enforces your billing guidelines, outside counsel guidelines (OCG), and negotiated rates. When invoices are submitted, the system flags non-compliant entries — such as incorrect rates, unapproved timekeepers, or blocked task codes — enabling your team to address issues before payment and ensuring you only pay for compliant, agreed-upon work.
Both Legal Tracker and HighQ improve cross-functional collaboration. Legal Tracker provides finance teams with the accrual data, spend forecasts, and audit trails they need for financial planning and reporting. HighQ enables secure collaboration with business stakeholders on contracts, policies, and projects — giving them visibility into status and deliverables without constant email follow-ups while maintaining appropriate governance and security controls.