Clarra Launches the First Modern Collaboration Platform for Complex Litigation

Clarra Exchange Gives Firms and Parties the Visibility and Control to
Manage Large-Scale Multi-Party Litigation

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarra, a cloud-based case management platform optimized for litigation and legal operations, today announced the launch of Clarra Exchange, the first modern litigation collaboration platform designed to help law firms manage large-scale, complex litigation cases. Complex litigation refers to high-stakes civil lawsuits that involve multiple parties, intensive judicial management, and massive amounts of data.

Common complex litigation cases include class actions, mass torts, multidistrict litigation (MDL), antitrust, intellectual property disputes, securities litigation, commercial disputes, and environmental and toxic torts. Of all pending federal civil dockets, 65% to 70% involve coordinated multi-party/mass tort litigation centralized through MDLs. These types of cases routinely require dozens of law firms, clients, experts, and other parties to coordinate simultaneously. Yet much of the work that moves those cases forward does not live on the court docket or within any single firm's case management system. Correspondence, negotiated protocols, working deadlines, discovery exchanges, client updates, and other critical information are instead spread across email chains, file-sharing tools, and firm-specific systems. As a result, plaintiffs' law firms appointed by the federal judges and national coordinating counsel hired by large enterprise companies to lead complex cases often lack the visibility and control required to direct and manage massive litigation effectively.

The coordination burden grows quickly with case size. Clarra finds that an average MDL can involve 14 law firms, while the largest mass tort matters may involve more than 100. With that many teams working across separate systems, attorneys can lose two to four hours each week just keeping information aligned, while various versions of the same critical document may be circulating at once.

"The way complex litigation is managed hasn't kept pace with how it's actually evolved," said Keao Caindec, CEO and co-founder of Clarra. "When dozens of firms are working on the same case, even small gaps in information can quickly become bigger problems. Teams can miss deadlines, act on outdated documents, give clients conflicting updates, or share sensitive information with the wrong people. At that scale, coordination isn't an administrative issue — instead, it can directly affect the strategy, risk, and outcome of the case."

Clarra Exchange leverages the modern case management system and allows law firms and in-house legal departments to:

• Invite external users and collaborators into secure, private workspaces to manage complex matters together
• Coordinate shared docketing deadlines, tasks, and matter status updates with authorized co-counsel, local counsel, clients, and experts in real time
• Manage case documents in a single repository with version control, document lineage, and a permanent audit trail
• Control access to matters, documents, and accounting information through matter-level and role-based permissions across more than 70 configuration options
• Automatically ingest court-filed documents, party-to-party correspondence, court transcripts, and depositions
• Leverage AI and rich analytics dashboards to understand trends, find critical information, and improve efficiency

"Complex litigation requires broad collaboration without unrestricted access, and working in a single workspace shouldn't mean giving up that control," said Eugenia Gueorguieva, head of product management at Clarra. "Clarra Exchange allows the managing firm to decide exactly who has access to each matter, document, and category of information, and the system enforces those permissions. The result is expanded collaboration without compromising confidentiality or control."

Clarra Exchange marks the latest expansion of Clarra from case management into a broader litigation operations platform. It follows the recent launch of Clarra's Model Context Protocol server and Claude Cowork integration, alongside integrations with NetDocuments, iManage, Google Drive, Microsoft SharePoint, and OneDrive, and ongoing development of automated court filing and docketing workflows.

For more information, visit clarra.com or schedule a demo. Clarra will be demonstrating Clarra Exchange at the Mass Torts Made Perfect conference in Las Vegas at booth #68, October 13 to 15.

About Clarra

Clarra is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company founded in 2021 that provides a cloud-based case and legal practice management platform optimized for litigation. Designed for law firms, enterprise legal departments, and insurance, finance, and services teams, Clarra brings matter and case information into a single, cloud-based system that supports collaboration, tracking and oversight across the full lifecycle of a matter. With generative and agentic AI capabilities, broad integration support, no-code customization, and built-in analytics delivered through a simple, intuitive user interface, Clarra helps organizations improve efficiency and visibility to support better business outcomes. For more information, visit www.clarra.com.

SOURCE Clarra, Inc.