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Use Cases

Attorneys

For in-house counsel, law-firm partners and associates, paralegals, and legal ops leads — anyone whose work is track every matter, find every clause, and never miss a deadline.

If your day looks like this​

  • You're juggling multiple matters or transactions at once, each with its own thread of emails, drafts, and exhibits.
  • Redlines fly back and forth and you need to know what actually changed between versions.
  • Closing deadlines, filing deadlines, and statute-of-limitations dates live in too many places.
  • You spend real time digging through old files to remember how you handled a similar issue last year.

Think of Deck as the firm's institutional memory, one email away — a teammate you can pull matter history from in the back of a cab from court, brief on a counterparty in the ten minutes before a call, or send digging through old closings while you're focused on the redline in front of you. Every matter, every precedent, every counterparty pattern is one query away.

Set up first​

  1. One project per matter or client — Acme · MSA Renewal, Smith v. Doe, Series B Closing.
  2. A Precedents project — your standard clauses, fallback positions, internal redline patterns, model agreements. Add a playbook file like playbook_redline_review.md codifying how you want a draft reviewed against your standard positions.
  3. A weekday morning brief: "for every open matter, list what's outstanding, who owes me a response, and any deadline in the next 14 days."

Use cases worth setting up​

Redline tracking across versions​

Forward each draft (or its execution copy) into the matter's project. Ask: "what changed between v3 and v4 of the Acme MSA? Flag anything that touches indemnity, liability cap, or assignment."

You get the diff that matters, not the diff that's there.

Counterparty intelligence​

"Have we negotiated with [Firm] before? What did their lawyers push on, what did they concede, and where did we land?"

Your firm's institutional memory becomes a query, not a coffee.

Deadline watch​

Connect your calendar and ask: "what filing deadlines, closing dates, or response-due dates land in the next 30 days? Flag anything where I haven't sent a draft yet."

A scheduled task can run this every Monday morning so nothing surprises you.

Closing memo synthesis​

After a deal closes, ask: "draft a closing memo for the Acme transaction — parties, structure, key dates, material terms, open items for post-close."

The first draft writes itself from the documents already in the project.

Matter handoff and onboarding​

When a new associate joins a matter, ask: "summarize everything that's happened on this matter to date — pleadings, motions, settlement posture, current status."

Two weeks of catch-up reading becomes a one-page brief.

Clause and precedent lookup​

"In our last five Series B financings, how did we handle drag-along thresholds?" — pulls the patterns out of your closed deals so you don't have to remember.

Client correspondence recap​

Before a status call: "what's the latest with [Client] across all their active matters? What questions are open, what's been delivered, what's awaiting their response?"

You walk in with context, not surprises.

What good looks like after two weeks​

  • Every email, draft, and exhibit on a matter lives in one project — no more "which folder was that in?"
  • You stop missing the one version difference that mattered.
  • Deadlines surface seven days out, not the morning of.
  • Junior associates can pick up a matter without a 90-minute walkthrough.