Show leadership what legal achieved this year

The reporting in-house legal teams need to prove impact, defend headcount, and walk into the boardroom with data, not anecdotes.

Try Checkbox
📌 "Q4 Board Review" · presented last Tuesday
Legal · Board Report Q4 · FY25

What legal achieved this year

Request Volume
+40%
Turnaround Time
0.6days
Requests Automated
82%
Risk Reduced
54%
Requests handled · YoY
FY25 FY24
✓ Board-ready ⤓ Export & share with leadership
Trusted by leading legal teams
Deloitte.HITACHIelastic◎ RampHines
Without visibility

The legal team is the most active group no one can see

Your team is taking calls, reviewing contracts, advising the business, and managing risk every hour of every day. And yet when it's time to defend headcount or report up, the only data point is "we're busy."

Without a reporting layer, the GC has anecdotes. The CFO has questions. And the board has assumptions.

  • GCs can't show what their team actually handled this quarter
  • Headcount and budget asks rely on gut, not evidence
  • Legal looks like a cost center because it can't show its ROI
  • Quarterly board prep eats nights and weekends pulling data by hand
Slide 7 of 12 · no board deck

Legal team: year in review

We were busy this quarter?
A lot of contracts came through?
We helped the business move faster?
Risk was managed?
The team needs more headcount?
When you can't measure it, you can't defend it.
There's a solution

Make legal's impact impossible to ignore.

With Checkbox reporting

Real-time dashboards. Board-ready reports. Proven ROI.

Checkbox turns every request, workflow, and outcome into structured data — and structured data into the case your GC makes for the team.

Real-time dashboards

See matter volume, cycle time, SLA compliance, and team workload in one live view. Dashboards update automatically as work progresses, so the picture is always current.

No more pulling reports from multiple tools at quarter-end.

Reporting for leadership

Generate and export reports on request: volume, cycle times, workload, and outcomes. Every metric stays linked to the underlying matter, so the data is traceable end to end.

Reporting your CFO reads without translation.
$

Advocate with data

Optimize workflows and make the case for the headcount and budget your team needs. Shift legal from cost center to proactive business enabler.

Every metric that matters

From request volume to risk reduced: measure what legal actually does

Six categories of legal performance, captured automatically, ready for the next board review.

Demand & volume

Request volume by team & type

See how much work is reaching your team, broken down by department, matter type, and channel, so you can plan capacity and prove demand.

+40% YoYBy deptBy channel
Speed & service

Turnaround & cycle time

Measure how fast your team responds and resolves matters. Benchmark against SLA targets and surface bottlenecks before they escalate.

Avg TATSLA adherenceP95 cycle
Automation & deflection

Requests automated & self-served

Track what percentage of intake never touched a lawyer, and the hours that saved senior counsel each quarter.

32% automatedSelf-serve rate
Risk & compliance

Risks flagged & matters escalated

Surface the risks IP triage flagged at intake (clauses, vendors, sensitive matters) and the escalations that came with them, so the GC can show what legal caught before it became a problem.

Risks flaggedEscalationsAudit trail
Capacity & team

Workload & team utilization

See who's stretched thin, who's available, and where the work is actually going. Headcount conversations come with evidence, not just instinct.

Per-lawyer loadUtilizationWorkload balance
Matter lifecycle

Matter status & aging

See every open matter, who owns it, and how long it's been sitting. Surface stalled work, unblock approvals, and close the loop before requests go cold.

Open mattersAgingStalled work
Every view, every dimension

Visualize legal any way your team thinks about it

Choose a chart type, pick a field, filter by any segment. The same underlying matter data, rendered as the view that fits the question your GC, CFO, or board is asking.

6 chart types

Workload by lawyer

PIE
Maria — 34% Alex — 26% Priya — 22% Others — 18%
Who's carrying the load?

Matters created by month

BAR
Is volume growing, and where?

Cycle time trend

LINE
Are we getting faster?

Matters by type · this quarter

PIE
Contract — 42% Advice — 22% Privacy — 18% Other — 18%
What mix of work is hitting legal?

Total matters · Q4

METRIC
1,284
Headline KPI for the board.

Open matters · top 5

LIST
Vendor MSA NDA batch Privacy Employment IP filing
What needs attention right now?
Chart anything by: Matter typeCounterpartyRequester LawyerStatusPriority ChannelBusiness unitRegionTime period
How it works

From scattered work to a board-ready story, in four steps

Checkbox captures structured data the moment a request comes in, then turns it into the dashboards and reports your GC needs.

1

Capture structured data

Every request from email, Slack, Teams, or forms is captured with matter type, requester, priority, and SLA. No manual logging required.

2

Track every workflow

Each step (review, approval, escalation, resolution) is timestamped, logged, and tied to the right team member and the right outcome.

3

Visualize in dashboards

Choose from prebuilt templates for matter volume, cycle time, SLA compliance, and workload — or build your own view.

4

Share with leadership

Exportable reports your team can share when the question is "so what did legal achieve this quarter?"

The reporting layer for legal

Every legal moment, captured and ready to report

  • Prebuilt dashboard templates

    Start with templates for the legal KPIs that matter most: matter volume, cycle time, SLA compliance, team workload. Customize the view, filters, and widgets for any team or audience.

  • Custom reports without IT

    Configurable widgets and filters let your team build custom reports for any metric, any segment, any time window. No SQL, no BI tickets, no waiting for data.

  • Exportable reports leadership can read

    Share reports with the business or leadership in the formats they want, from board slides to CSV.

  • Always real-time, with a full audit trail

    Every metric is live, and every data point traces back to the workflow, requester, and timestamp — the audit trail compliance and finance need.

checkbox BoardsReporting Jeannine Moran ▾

Legal Performance Overview · FY25

Request Volume 1,284 ▲ 40%
Turnaround Time 10.6d ▼ 62%
Requests Automated 32% ▲ 28pt
Risk Reduced 54% ▲ 18pt

Requests by month

FY25FY24

Requests by type

1,284 Total FY25
Contract review · 42% Legal advice · 22% Privacy / DSAR · 18% Marketing review · 10% Other · 8%

Average turnaround time · last 12 months

FY25 avgSLA target
Proof

The numbers your GC can take to the board

Published outcomes from Checkbox customers. The kind of data that turns a quarterly review into a victory lap.

83%
Of matters with compliance requests automated
Hitachi
2–3 days
Legal response time, down from 2–3 weeks
Coca-Cola Europacific
80%
Reduction in matter volume legal handled directly
Woolworths Group
30+ min/day
Saved on approval workflows per lawyer
SAP
JL
"We were doing the work, but we didn't have the data to show it. Checkbox gave us a centralized way to handle intake so we could finally see the volume and source of requests and plan resourcing accordingly."
Jen Lonsander · Senior Director & Legal Chief of Staff · Boohoo
Ready for your next board meeting?

Give your GC the report they've been waiting for

See how Checkbox turns scattered legal work into the dashboards and exportable reports your team needs to demonstrate legal's value. Live demo, tailored to your stack.

Try Checkbox
Have questions first? Talk to our team