Clarra Brings Order To Complex Litigation Chaos

Email threads, shared drives, and spreadsheets can feel “fine” until you’re coordinating 30 firms, thousands of plaintiffs, and a calendar full of court deadlines that can’t slip. We sit down with Keao Caindec, CEO and co-founder of Clarra (https://clarra.com), to unpack what complex litigation case management really requires and why the biggest pain is often coordination, not just documents.Keao explains how Clarra grew out of real-world needs from a complex litigation law firm handling antitrust, mass tort, class action, and bankruptcy matters. We compare purpose-built litigation workflows with more intake-oriented or small-firm platforms, then get specific about what breaks at scale: multi-party responsibility tracking, bulk docketing, complex calendaring, discovery flow, and the constant question of who owns the next action.We also go deep on collaboration. Clarra’s permissioned workspaces are designed to let co-counsel, local counsel, and clients work from a shared repository without exposing everything a firm keeps private. Add in integrations with tools like NetDocuments, iManage, Google Drive, and OneDrive, and you start to see a realistic path away from the spreadsheet monster.Then we talk AI for lawyers in practical terms: voice-driven time entries, agentic help for docketing and field population, document summarization, and analytics. Subscribe for more legal tech startup stories, share this with a litigator or legal ops leader who lives in spreadsheets, and leave a review with the biggest workflow bottleneck you want software to fix.