Workspace
Workspace overview
Understand the legal workspace, its tenancy boundary, and the tools available to each organisation
A workspace is the top-level home for legal work in 8rney. It decides which people, matters, clients, documents, tasks, knowledge, workflows, and policies can interact.
Five areas of the workspace#
Your legal day
Home, Assistant, Matters, Tasks & deadlines, Documents, Clients or Business, and Knowledge cover the work lawyers return to every day.
Matter execution
Each matter has an overview, documents, tasks, research, drafts, participants, activity, and matter-specific tools.
Ambient agents
Agent Tasks let 8rney run background work across matters, channels, documents, schedules, approvals, and artifacts.
Legal operations
Intake, conflicts, clients, entities, calendars, time, budgets, invoices, spend, outside counsel, and secure portals connect legal work to the business around it.
Organisation management
Authorised administrators manage people, access, identity, governance, billing, workflows, integrations, audit, and developer access.
Workspace boundaries#
Every customer-owned record belongs to one workspace. The workspace identifier—not the creator's user ID—determines tenancy. Search indexes, file paths, jobs, webhooks, notifications, and real-time channels use the same boundary.
Restricted matters require an explicit grant. Ethical-wall matters also exclude implicit administrator access, so elevated workspace privileges do not silently cross the wall.
What stays global#
Identity, authentication, language, accessibility, and appearance follow you across workspaces. Legal content and operational configuration do not. Layouts, saved views, notifications, research preferences, integrations, and activity belong to the active workspace.
The workspace shown in the switcher is the context for every page. An explicit workspace link always wins; otherwise 8rney opens the last workspace you can still access and falls back to personal when needed.