Legal Matter & Spend Analytics Dashboard

Track legal department workload, matter types, cycle times, outside counsel spend, and team utilization -- with interactive charts and filterable views.

Getting Started

Use the hosted version

Visit: https://legal-spend-analytics.up.railway.app

Run locally

./start.sh        # macOS / Linux
start.bat          # Windows

This creates a virtual environment, installs dependencies, starts the API and dashboard, and opens your browser. Requires Python 3.11+.

Run with Docker

docker compose up

Open http://localhost:8501.

Deploy Your Own

1. Fork this repo on GitHub
2. Create a Railway account
3. New Project > Deploy from GitHub repo
4. Railway auto-detects Dockerfile.railway and deploys

Features

• Data import from CSV/spreadsheet files
• Key metrics: matters opened/closed, average cycle time, outside counsel spend, internal hours, request volume by business unit
• Interactive visualizations: trend lines, breakdown charts, cycle time distributions
• Filterable views with drill-down by matter type, team member, and business unit
• Budget vs. actual tracking per matter and outside counsel firm
• Exportable charts for executive presentations

For Developers

API documentation

Start the API server and visit http://localhost:8000/docs for the interactive Swagger UI.

Project structure

lsa_app/          FastAPI backend (API, models, services)
lsa_frontend/     Streamlit frontend (calls API via HTTP)
data/sample/      Synthetic sample data for testing
tests/            pytest test suite

Running tests

pip install ".[dev]"
pytest

Tech stack

• Python 3.11+, FastAPI, Uvicorn
• SQLAlchemy 2.0 with SQLite
• Pydantic v2
• Streamlit, Plotly
• Docker, Railway

License

MIT -- Copyright (c) 2026 Noam Raz and Pleasant Secret Labs