Case Study: Nelson City Council streamlines legal work with LawVu

Nelson City Council - Customer Case Study

Nelson City Council, a small in-house legal team serving a wide range of council needs, was struggling to manage legal requests, records, and external counsel engagement with spreadsheets and email. As the team grew, the old process became clunky, hard to collaborate on, and made it difficult to track work, attach documents, or report on activity across the department. To solve this, the council turned to LawVu and its legal workspace.

With LawVu, Nelson City Council centralized matter management, vendor engagement, and intake into one configurable system, giving the team a single place to assign work, track costs, manage external panel matters, and report on workload and risk. According to the case study, LawVu improved visibility, prevented work from falling through the cracks, strengthened relationships with external firms, and helped the team demonstrate its value to leadership — including supporting a business case for additional permanent resource by comparing in-house versus external legal spend.

Nelson City Council

Fiona McLeod

General Counsel