The company’s cases, powers of attorney and documents… within the legal department’s reach
Murafe was designed for law firms, and a company’s legal department uses the parts that suit its work: case files at every litigation degree, hearings and their decisions, judgments and appeal deadlines, powers of attorney and their expiry alerts, documents under precise permissions, tasks, and reports by period, printed for the board of directors or senior management.
What weighs on your day today
Cases spread across different hands
Some cases are with an outside law firm and some with the department itself, and updates arrive piecemeal by email, so there is no single list of the claims by and against the company.
Powers of attorney that expire unnoticed
Powers of attorney issued to lawyers and firms with different expiry dates, and one is only found to have expired when it is asked for at a hearing.
A senior management report put together by hand
Before every meeting, case numbers and statuses are collected from scattered spreadsheets, so the report eats into the team’s time and remains prone to error.
Sensitive documents in email
Contracts, correspondence and disputes with employees or partners travel between departments by email, with no clear limits on who sees them.
What changes in your office
The company’s case register
Every case with its litigation degree, court, circuit, number and opponents, from the Labour Disputes Settlement Committee to the Investment and Trade Court.
Judgments and appeal deadlines
The judgment, its type, its operative part and the amount awarded, and a proposed last day to appeal from the periods the department sets, with an alert before it.
Powers of attorney under watch
The power of attorney’s number and type, the issuing authority, the attorneys and the expiry date, with an alert ahead of expiry by the period you set.
Documents with clear limits
Viewing inside the system without downloading for those who lack that permission, documents limited to people by name, and every view logged.
The team’s tasks and chats
Tasks added from the “New” button to follow up what each file needs, and internal chats for each case team instead of email chains.
Reports by period
Cases by litigation degree and status for this month, quarter or year, printed as a PDF or exported to Excel for the senior management meeting.
From morning to the last hearing… with Murafe
- 8:00 am
The morning look
The head of the legal department opens “Deadlines to watch”: an appeal deadline on a labour judgment in six days, and an outside firm’s power of attorney expiring this month.
- 10:00 am
An update from the outside firm
An email arrives with a hearing decision from the Investment and Trade Court; the department member responsible records it in the case file, the next hearing is created, and the team will be alerted before it.
- 12:00 pm
A sensitive dispute
A confidential case is opened for a dispute with a business partner, seen only by its team and those with the “View confidential cases” permission, and the draft settlement is limited to two people.
- 2:00 pm
A judgment finance needs
The lawyer uploads a copy of the judgment to the case documents, and the authorised finance employee views it inside the system without being able to download it.
- 4:00 pm
The quarterly report
The head of the department picks “This quarter” in the statistics, sees the cases by litigation degree and status, and prints the report as a PDF for the senior management meeting.
Does Murafe suit a company’s legal department?
It suits most of its work, and the limits are clear. Murafe is a system for managing law firms in Qatar, built around the client, the case and the fee agreement. What a company’s legal department needs from it is case files and their litigation degrees, hearings and their decisions, judgments and appeal deadlines, powers of attorney, documents, tasks, reports and permissions, and all of these work for it just as they do for any law firm. Fee agreements, receipt vouchers and the client portal, on the other hand, were designed for a firm’s relationship with its clients, and the department may not need them.
In practice, the company itself is registered in the system as a client of the “Company / establishment” type, with its commercial registration number and the person in charge, and each subsidiary can have a file of its own if it is a party to cases in its own name. The other party to each dispute is recorded in the opponents register with their capacity, whether employee, tenant, contractor or supplier, so the company’s cases and opponents come together in lists you can search and filter, and the history of every dispute is known from its start.
Deadlines and powers of attorney: what cannot wait
A legal department follows disputes before many bodies, such as the Labour Disputes Settlement Committee, the Rental Disputes Settlement Committee, the Court of First Instance – Civil Circuits, the Investment and Trade Court and the Execution Court, all set up in the system by name. Each litigation degree has a file linked to the one before it. Every judgment recorded gets a proposed last day to appeal, taken from the periods the department sets and reviews in Settings → Appeal periods (legal responsibility for deadlines stays with the department), and the alert arrives a week and then two days before the deadline.
Companies hold many powers of attorney, running in many directions: one for an outside law firm, another for a lawyer in the department, a third to follow a particular case. In the “Powers of attorney” section each one is recorded with its number, type, issue and expiry dates, issuing authority and attorneys, with a copy attached in the documents. The system alerts the team before it expires, by the period set in the settings, so the power of attorney is renewed in time instead of being found expired when it is asked for at a hearing. When a delegation letter is issued from the case file, the valid power of attorney number is filled in automatically.
Reports for senior management, and clear limits inside the company
In “Statistics and reports” you choose the period (this month, this quarter, this year or a custom range) and see the cases at each litigation degree and status, the files under study and the memoranda being written. Click any number to open the matching cases, then save the report as a PDF or download it as a file that opens in Excel to add to management’s presentation. If you record case expenses, such as court fees and expert fees, with payment vouchers linked to each case, they appear among case expenses in the period’s “Financial summary”.
Inside a company, limits on access matter more than ever: a dispute with a senior employee or with a business partner should not go beyond its team. So you turn on “Confidential case” and it appears to its team only, any document can be limited to specific people, and viewing documents is kept separate from downloading them. An employee from outside the department, from finance for instance, can be given a limited role that shows only what they need, and the audit log keeps every view, download and edit with the person’s name and the time.
Questions for corporate legal departments
No, Murafe was designed for law firms in Qatar. But its core parts, from cases, hearings, judgments and appeal deadlines to powers of attorney, documents, tasks, reports and permissions, serve a legal department as they serve a firm. In the demo we show you what suits your department’s work and what you will not need.
The case is recorded like any other, with “Assigned to” set to the department member who follows it; they enter the hearing decisions and judgments as they arrive from the outside firm and upload its documents. The dates, alerts and reports thus stay with the department, whoever pleads the case.
You may not, as they are designed for a firm’s relationship with its clients. The system’s sections appear to each user according to their role’s permissions, so your team does not see sections it has not been given permissions for. There is one all-inclusive package, priced by size and needs.
Yes, within what “Statistics and reports” shows. You choose the period to see case numbers by litigation degree, status and lawyer, the files under study and the memoranda being written, then print them as a PDF or export them to Excel to lay out in your presentation.
Your organisation’s data sits in a database of its own that no one else shares, its files in separate storage, and you sign in at your own address; each user sees only what their role’s permissions allow, and the data and files are backed up daily. You can switch off technical support’s access to your system, and every support visit is written to the audit log.
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