Legal Services

Bridge your matters to your clients

Engagement letters, filings, discovery documents, and billing — shared securely with clients through a governed portal with full audit trail.

Regional Data Residency
AAL2 Multi-Factor Auth
Tamper-Evident Audit Trail
7-Year Retention
PIPEDA Compliant

The document problem every firm knows

Legal matters generate sensitive documents that demand more than email and shared folders can provide.

Sensitive documents via insecure email

Pleadings, discovery packages, and engagement letters sent as email attachments — with no record of who opened them, no revocation if sent to the wrong address, and no delivery confirmation.

Clients requesting access constantly

Clients call or email asking for the status of their matter, copies of filings, or the latest version of a document. Your associates spend billable time answering document requests instead of practicing law.

Billing disputes without an audit trail

A client disputes an invoice. You know the work was done, the correspondence was sent, the filing was delivered — but proving it means searching email archives and hoping nothing was deleted.

How Bridge solves it

A governed client portal purpose-built for the sensitivity and structure of legal matters.

One Matter per client — every document in one governed portal

Each client matter gets its own container. Engagement letters, pleadings, discovery, billing, research, and correspondence — organized by category from day one. Clients see only their own matter. Associates control what is published and when.

Tamper-evident audit trail for every interaction

Every document view, download, and message is logged with a precise timestamp. When a billing dispute arises or a client claims they never received a filing, your audit trail is complete, signed, and ready for review — not reconstructed from memory.

AAL2 authentication for privileged matter documents

Sensitive pleadings, discovery packages, and privileged communications can require TOTP multi-factor authentication before a client can access them. Step-up authentication challenges are logged — demonstrating your firm's diligence in protecting solicitor-client privilege.

Full-text search across matter documents

Associates search across all matters in the workspace. Clients search within their own portal. Find a specific clause in a 400-page discovery production in seconds. Search indexes PDFs, Word documents, and spreadsheets — all within the tenancy boundary.

Bridge speaks your language

The CORPORATE theme configures Bridge with the terminology law firms and their clients already use.

Legal Services — CORPORATE Theme
Generic Term Your Term
Container Matter
Client Client
Portal Client Portal
Manager Role Associate
Theme CORPORATE

Pre-configured for legal matters

Every legal services workspace arrives with the document categories your matters require — organized from day one.

Engagement Letters
Pleadings
Discovery
Correspondence
Billing
Research

Categories are fully customizable. Add, rename, or remove to match your practice areas.

Ready to bridge the gap?

See how Cadenora Bridge connects your firm and your clients — with a demo configured for legal services.