Project Management Tools Don't Work for Legal Transactions

Dec 3, 2025

Asana, Monday, and Jira are the gold standard project management tools in most white-collar industries. They're built around a simple, linear workflow: start with a list of tasks, assign owners, track progress, and work toward a finished set of deliverables. To outsiders, it's shocking that these platforms are almost never used for complex legal transactions. If you're a lawyer reading this, you may not have even heard of them. But the reason is simple. Project management tools miss a core truth about legal transactions: lawyers start with the documents, not the tasks.