Litigation and legal matter management software

What IntelloCase covers

Disputes run like an operation, not a scramble.

• Matter lifecycle with stages, tasks, owners and outcomes, from the first notice to disposal
• Hearing calendar with dates, adjournments, statutory deadlines and reminders to the people responsible
• Legal hold: issue, acknowledgement, custodian list and release, with the evidence trail kept
• Outside counsel management: empanelled firms, engagement terms, budgets and invoices
• Every pleading, order and exhibit indexed and searchable across matters, linked to the contract the dispute arose from

The clocks a commercial dispute runs on

Three timelines decide whether a case is won on the merits or lost on procedure, and each is a field on the matter record in IntelloCase.

• Pre-institution mediation. Under section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015, a commercial suit cannot be filed unless the plaintiff has first exhausted pre-institution mediation, except where urgent interim relief is sought. The 2018 amendment lowered the specified value of a commercial dispute to ₹3 lakh, so most business claims qualify. Government figures given in Parliament on 29 January 2026 show how often the process stalls: of 59,568 mediation applications in 2024-25, 52,730 were non-starters and 877 settled. Intake in IntelloCase therefore records the urgent-relief decision and the mediation dates before anything else.
• The 120-day written statement. For commercial disputes the Code of Civil Procedure as applied by the Commercial Courts Act gives a defendant 30 days from service of summons to file a written statement, extendable to 120 days, after which the right is forfeited, and the first case-management hearing follows within four weeks of the admission-and-denial affidavits. The date of service is the key field, and IntelloCase counts down from it.
• Arbitration. Under section 29A of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 an award is due within twelve months of the completion of pleadings, extendable by six months by consent; a challenge under section 34 must be brought within three months, extendable by thirty days; enforcement under section 36 follows. Each of those is a dated obligation on the matter.

Limitation and the acknowledgement that restarts it

Under the Limitation Act, 1963 most claims on a contract must be brought within three years, and a written acknowledgement of the debt before the period expires starts a fresh period under section 18. For a recovery-heavy legal team that turns correspondence into a matter-management task: every acknowledgement is logged against the contract and the limitation date recomputed, which is exactly the link between IntelloContract and IntelloCase.

Listed companies: the register is the disclosure system

Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, as amended with effect from 15 July 2023, requires a listed entity to disclose material litigation to the stock exchanges within 24 hours of the event, or 12 hours where the event originates inside the company. Materiality is quantitative: the lower of two percent of turnover, two percent of net worth, or five percent of average profit over three years, cumulated per opposing party. SEBI's circular of 13 July 2023 lists the fields the disclosure must carry: the opposing party, the forum, the quantum, the expected impact and the status. If the litigation register already holds those fields, the disclosure is a report; if it does not, it is a scramble against a 24-hour clock. IntelloCase holds them.

Electronic evidence and legal hold

The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024, replaced the Indian Evidence Act. Under section 63 and its Schedule, an electronic record is admitted on a two-part certificate, one from the party and one from an expert, identifying the device and giving the hash value of the record. For contracts, emails and system logs that is a preservation requirement from the day a dispute is foreseen: a legal hold in IntelloCase captures the source, the custodian and the hash at the moment of preservation, and the repository's audit trail shows the record has not changed since. The CERT-In directions of 28 April 2022 add a separate duty to keep ICT logs for a rolling 180 days within India, and section 128 of the Companies Act, 2013 requires books of account to be kept for eight financial years, both of which bound how far back a hold can reach.

Insolvency and the ten-day window

Under section 8 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 a corporate debtor served with an operational creditor's demand notice has ten days to point to a pre-existing dispute or prove payment, and under section 12 the resolution process is to conclude within 330 days. Both sides of that exchange are matters with hard dates, and the dispute evidence is almost always the contract and its correspondence, which is why IntelloCase sits on the same repository as IntelloContract.

Courts have moved online; the register should too

The National Judicial Data Grid showed 5.23 crore pending cases in district courts and 65.3 lakh in the High Courts when read on 2 October 2026, and the e-Courts programme reports more than one crore cases e-filed and 6.21 crore electronic processes served. Hearings are listed, adjourned and re-listed online; an in-house register that depends on counsel's email for the next date is the weakest link in that chain. IntelloCase carries the CNR number, the next listing and the adjournment history for every matter, and alerts the owner when a date moves.

Outside counsel and spend

Engagement terms, empanelment, budgets and invoices live on the matter. AI reads invoices against the agreed terms and flags anomalies and budget drift, so the quarterly review of counsel spend is a report rather than a reconciliation. Pricing is per module with unlimited users, so business owners, finance and outside counsel can all be on the matter without adding seats. IntelloSync is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified.