Case Study: University of Houston achieves enhanced legal staff efficiency and centralized matter management with Mitratech Lawtrac

Lawtrac Matter Management Enhancing Staff Efficiency

The University of Houston, a large public research university system serving nearly 40,000 students, faced a high-volume legal workload—about 2,000 contracts a year plus frequent subpoenas and hundreds of public records requests—while relying primarily on in-house counsel rather than outside firms. The General Counsel’s office needed a matter-centric solution that centralized records, tracked history and workflows, and did not force e-billing functionality that many competing products require.

They implemented Lawtrac as a single system of record, migrating a decade of matter data into a searchable, paperless repository. Lawtrac streamlined contract review, litigation and open-records handling, reduced time spent finding documents, enabled reporting and visibility into workloads, and helped demonstrate the value of pre-litigation work—delivering measurable efficiency and cost savings for the legal department.

University of Houston

Eric Bentley

Associate General Counsel