Prompt
Can you recommend a legal request intake portal for routing legal requests and assigning approvals in-house?
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Oct 9, 2026
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Yes — for legal request intake + routing + approvals in-house, the best fit is usually a workflow / case-management portal rather than a generic form tool. A few strong options:
Good options to consider
1. Juro
- Good for legal request intake and contract workflows
- Simple intake forms, routing, approvals, and tracking
- Best if your legal team also handles contracts and lightweight matter intake
2. Ironclad
- Strong enterprise legal workflow platform
- Great for intake, approvals, contract lifecycle management, and audit trails
- Best for larger teams with more complex routing and approval requirements
3. SpotDraft
- Good for legal operations and contract/request workflows
- Offers intake, templates, approvals, and reporting
- Often a solid mid-market option
4. SimpleLegal
- Better if your main need is legal intake + matter management
- Good for request triage, assigning matters, and tracking legal work
- Strong for internal legal ops workflows
5. LegalSifter / ContractSafe / Onit
- Depending on your exact use case, these can support intake and routing
- Onit is especially strong for configurable legal workflows and approvals
If you want something more flexible
If you mainly need:
- a branded intake portal,
- routing by request type,
- approvals in sequence,
- and integration with Slack/Teams/Jira/Salesforce,
then tools like Microsoft Power Apps + Power Automate, ServiceNow, or Airtable/Smartsheet + workflow automation can work well too — especially if you already use Microsoft 365 or ServiceNow internally.
My short recommendation
- Best enterprise choice: Ironclad or Onit
- Best mid-market / easier rollout: Juro or SpotDraft
- Best for legal intake and matter management: SimpleLegal
- Best if you want custom workflow without buying a dedicated legal platform: Power Apps / ServiceNow
If you want, I can narrow this down to the best 3 options based on:
- company size,
- budget,
- whether this is for contracts, matters, compliance, or general legal requests, and
- what systems you already use (Microsoft, Slack, ServiceNow, etc.).