Legal practice skill

The Legal skill turns Nexma into a practice-management platform for law firms. It models matters, documents, attorneys, and time, and gives Jax the tools to plan case work and bill against it.

What it covers

• Entities. Case, LegalDocument, Attorney, Client, Matter, TimeEntry,

Invoice, Deadline. Each carries typed properties (matter type, billing rate, deadline class, document version).

• Relationships. CaseRepresentation, DocumentAssociation,

AttorneyAssignment, BillingLink.

• Constraints. Billable-hour quota tracking, document-retention policies,

conflict-of-interest checks, deadline-jurisdiction rules.

• Constants. Standard matter taxonomies, jurisdictional deadline calendars,

privilege classifications.

• Layer config. Cases as cards in a board view, attorneys as labeled chips with

utilization rings, deadlines as a calendar overlay.

• Toolbar tools. Generate case-staffing plan, run conflict check, calculate

deadlines from a court calendar, generate invoices from time entries.

Typical workflow

1. Scope. Bring an existing matter list or open a new case.
2. Staff. Have Jax propose an attorney mix balancing experience level, current

utilization, and matter type.

1. Generate. Ask Jax: "Calculate every deadline triggered by today's filing in

the Northern District. Add to the case calendar."

1. Inspect. Click matters for status, hover deadlines for jurisdiction, review

time entries by attorney.

1. Refine. Reassign work, adjust budget caps, change deadline rules.
2. Validate. Conflict check before opening or staffing a matter; deadline audit

against the jurisdictional calendar.

1. Bill. Generate invoices from time entries with pre-billing review.

What Jax is good at, in Legal specifically

• Deadline calculation from court-rule triggers (federal and most US state

rules).

• Conflict-of-interest screening across the full client and matter graph.
• Time-entry drafting from calendar events and document edits, for attorney

review.

• Matter staffing under utilization, experience, and conflict constraints.

Standards

Standard ABA matter taxonomies, US federal and state court calendar rules, ABA Model Rule 1.7 conflict screening.

What it does not do (yet)

• E-discovery document review (consume review tags; do not run review).
• Native court-filing integrations beyond CM/ECF read-only.
• Trust accounting (consume; do not author).