Documents & Collaboration · EdgeMessage
Secure legal messaging organized around matters, people, and documents — not generic workplace chat.
Included with EdgeLex · Available across web and mobile
Messages🔍 ＋
EdgeLex Connect · internal firm conversations
✦Lex
🎥 Meeting started — Join: https://…
TOTunde Okafor
Filed the opposition — see the doc thread
DRDana Reyes
Thanks — see you Tuesday
⚖ Hale v. Northstar — Alameda
MATTER CHANNEL · PRIVILEGED
📄 Northstar Opposition to Ex Parte…
Document conversation
📄 Draft Modification Request
Document conversation
📄 Platform Services Agreement
Document conversation
📄 Verified Matter Assessment — 2026-08…
Document conversation
LexMaya Chen, Lex✦ Catch up🎥 Meet now
Lex Aug 13, 9:45 PM
Matter Watch — standing delegation– Tentative ruling issued August 14, 2026, in Hale v. Northstar Logistics, Alameda County Superior Court, Case No. 26CV004182.
– The court denied Northstar’s motion to strike.
Hale v. Northstar — 26-JH-Civil Law-002Tentative Ruling (3)Review TaskRun detail
Completed Aug 13, 9:45 PM
Lex Aug 14, 1:47 PM
Notice of Ruling with Exhibit was just filed into Hale v. Northstar. Based on what it is, I can produce:
– Exhibit Compliance Report — your exhibit list checked against the pretrial order and the court rules. Checked against the real court-rules corpus, not a prompt.
Say the word and I will start — nothing runs until you ask.
Live now · recorded with transcript
JoinNotify: @Maya Chen @Lex
Write a message…➤ Send
Internal EdgeLex message. Try “@Lex help” to see what Lex can do here.
The problem
Generic workplace chat doesn't know what a matter is, can't tell a privileged thread from a lunch plan, and lives outside the record. Firm communication deserves the same rigor as the rest of the file.
Firm chat, on the record
Colleagued. Channeled. Caught up. Everywhere & owned.
Team chat built for a law firm — with an AI colleague in the roster and the firm holding the keys. Every screen below is the real product.
01 · Colleagued
@Lex is staff, not a bot.
Pull Lex into any human conversation the way you'd pull in an associate. Its standing Matter Watch reports the tentative ruling with links to the matter, the document, and the run. When a filing lands, it offers the work it could do — and says the quiet part out loud: nothing runs until you ask.
The delegations behind the watch →Messages🔍 ＋
EdgeLex Connect · internal firm conversations
✦Lex
🎥 Meeting started — Join: https://…
TOTunde Okafor
Filed the opposition — see the doc thread
DRDana Reyes
Thanks — see you Tuesday
⚖ Hale v. Northstar — Alameda
MATTER CHANNEL · PRIVILEGED
📄 Northstar Opposition to Ex Parte…
Document conversation
📄 Draft Modification Request
Document conversation
📄 Platform Services Agreement
Document conversation
📄 Verified Matter Assessment — 2026-08…
Document conversation
LexMaya Chen, Lex✦ Catch up🎥 Meet now
Lex Aug 13, 9:45 PM
Matter Watch — standing delegation– Tentative ruling issued August 14, 2026, in Hale v. Northstar Logistics, Alameda County Superior Court, Case No. 26CV004182.
– The court denied Northstar’s motion to strike.
Hale v. Northstar — 26-JH-Civil Law-002Tentative Ruling (3)Review TaskRun detail
Completed Aug 13, 9:45 PM
Lex Aug 14, 1:47 PM
Notice of Ruling with Exhibit was just filed into Hale v. Northstar. Based on what it is, I can produce:
– Exhibit Compliance Report — your exhibit list checked against the pretrial order and the court rules. Checked against the real court-rules corpus, not a prompt.
Say the word and I will start — nothing runs until you ask.
Live now · recorded with transcript
JoinNotify: @Maya Chen @Lex
Write a message…➤ Send
Internal EdgeLex message. Try “@Lex help” to see what Lex can do here.
02 · Channeled
Channels that know what a matter is.
Direct messages, group conversations, matter channels marked privileged, and a conversation on every document — anchored to the text and shared with EdgeDocs and Word comments. Matter channels narrate themselves: real deadline cards from the matter's calendar, and activity banners from the audited event stream. Nobody types status updates.
The matter behind the channel →＋ New conversation
Start a direct conversation
Pick two or more colleagues
Open a matter's team channel
Also threads on
📄 Every document — one conversation per document, anchored to the text, shared with EdgeDocs and Word comments.
⚖ Hale v. Northstar — AlamedaMATTER CHANNEL · PRIVILEGED
⏰ Opposition due — 9 court days before the 10/6 hearingSep 23 · CCP § 1005(b)
⏰ Informal discovery conferenceOct 6 · Dept. 24
— Document added · “Notice of Ruling with Exhibit” · Aug 14 —
Tunde Okafor Aug 14, 2:10 PM
“The receiving party may use Confidential Information solely for the Purpose…”
Flagged this clause in the doc thread — @Maya can we take the fallback here?
— Comment resolved by Maya Chen · Aug 14 —
Deadline cards read the matter’s real calendar; activity banners come from the audited event stream — the channel narrates the matter without anyone typing status updates.
03 · Caught up
Catch up, propose, approve — in the thread.
One ✦ Catch up click returns "since you last looked" and "needs you." Ask Lex to schedule something and it arrives as a proposal card — created only if you approve. Save any message for later, and the reminder is a real task on your ledger, not a bookmark you'll never revisit.
Where reminders become tasks →✦ Lex just now
Since you last looked: the tentative ruling came in (motion to strike denied), the Notice of Ruling was filed with its exhibit, and Tunde flagged the use-restriction clause in the NDA doc thread.
Needs you: the clause question is waiting on your call — and one proposal below.
Tue Aug 18, 10:00 AM · linked to Hale v. Northstar · created only if you approve
ApproveDismiss04 · Everywhere & owned
One system on web, mobile, EdgeDocs, and Word — with a hard privacy line.
The main chat composer has two lanes: Ask Lex, or Message people — and the second says it plainly: internal messages to colleagues are never sent to Lex. Web and mobile stay in sync down to per-category push controls, and document conversations follow the document into EdgeDocs and Microsoft Word. Everything your team expects from modern team chat — channels, threads, mentions, search, saved messages — and the firm owns every word of it.
Ask LexMessage people
👤 Internal message to a colleague — this is never sent to Lex.
🔍 Who do you want to message?
Pick a colleague first…➤ Send
Web and mobile are one system — channels, threads, mentions, reactions, search, saved messages, and per-category push controls (direct, mentions, other) stay in sync. Document conversations follow the document into EdgeDocs and Microsoft Word.
WebEdgeMobileEdgeDocs panelWord pane
The difference
Chat that belongs in a law firm.
Generic team chat knows nothing about privilege, matters, or deadlines — and it lives on someone else’s servers, priced per seat, forever. EdgeMessage gives the team everything it expects from the chat tool it already knows, then adds what a firm actually needs: privileged matter channels, document threads on the record, an AI colleague under approval gates — all inside the firm’s own deployment.
Where Meet now leads →@Lex on the roster
Pull Lex into any conversation — watches, catch-ups, and proposals that execute only on approval.
Privileged by design
Matter channels carry the privilege flag; document threads share one audited record with EdgeDocs and Word.
Owned, not rented
Web and mobile in lockstep on the firm's own infrastructure — no per-seat chat tax, no third party reading the firm's talk.
Capabilities
What it does
One inbox, every surface
A universal Messages inbox with unread state appears in every EdgeLex shell — browser, mobile, mail, documents, Word — showing the same conversations everywhere.
Messages are records
A message is a durable legal-work record, not an ephemeral ping — one record, rendered wherever you read it, searchable by person, matter, document, date, and text.
Conversations attached to documents
Discuss a specific document version in a thread that carries a legal-context pill and a version-correct deep link — the conversation and the work stay attached.
People and AI, structurally separate
Ask Lex and Message people are two explicit modes with separate composers and separate records — a message to a colleague can never be silently routed to the AI.
Lex as a teammate
@Lex in a thread and it replies with the thread and document context in view. It's opinion-only in messages — actions still go through Ask Lex and its approval gates.
Access-aware deep links
Every link re-authorizes at open. If someone's access to a linked document changed, they see a safe fallback — never a leaked title or excerpt.
On your phone, without leaking
The full inbox and threads on mobile, with push notifications that show a content-free preview on the lock screen and deep-link into the thread on tap.
Margin comments join the thread
Word and EdgeDocs margin comments bridge into the document's conversation with provenance and de-duplication — review chatter stops living in the file alone.
In your control
Messaging runs inside your deployment, under your identity system, with every thread access-controlled by the same permissions as the work it discusses.
Related
Works with
Lex AI & Agents
Lex isn't one application among many. It's the horizontal layer connecting matters, documents, email, messages, meetings, deadlines, and billing — grounded in your data, gated by your approvals.
EdgeDocs
Native document drafting and a full DMS: versioning, redlines, clause library, e-signature with an evidence trail, and freeze-on-signature.
EdgeMeet
Two solutions in one: the Zoom/Teams replacement on your own infrastructure, and a deposition machine — live Agent Insights, certified transcripts, page:line clips, filed to the matter.
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