Data Organization and Tracking Questions

Designing, structuring, and maintaining data and simple tracking systems that support legal operations work for contracts, matters, vendors, budgets, and compliance obligations. Candidates should be able to define the right fields and metadata, unique identifiers, relationships between contracts and matters, lifecycle statuses, obligation and milestone tracking, renewal triggers, and reporting requirements. Discussion should include choices between normalized and pragmatic schemas, tagging and taxonomy, searchability and indexing, dashboards and metrics for stakeholders, integration considerations with contract lifecycle management and matter management systems, data governance, ownership and stewardship, access controls and privacy, retention and audit trail policies, and practical implementation approaches from spreadsheets to databases and commercial platforms.