Hivelight & Dye & Durham Unity

Hivelight and Dye & Durham Unity

Hivelight integrates directly with Unity™ Practice Management to give your firm a complete operational command centre. While Unity handles your matter data, billing, and client records, Hivelight adds the legal project management layer your team needs to deliver work efficiently, consistently, and at scale — without the manual overhead.

Whether you run a boutique practice or a multi-site firm, this integration is built to grow with you.

Why Unity Firms Come to Hivelight

Unity is a powerful foundation for managing a modern law practice. But as your caseload grows, you need more than a practice management system — you need a system for managing the work itself.

Hivelight is that system. It gives every person in your firm — from partners to support staff — immediate clarity on what needs to be done, who owns it, and when it's due. It eliminates the need for manual status chases, spreadsheet trackers, and ad hoc meetings to figure out where things stand.

Matter Management That Runs Itself

Hivelight provides a live, colour-coded summary of every active matter, ranked by urgency. The moment a task becomes overdue or a milestone slips, it surfaces to the top of your list — no manual updates required.

Every matter has its own task board that breaks the work into milestones and tasks. At a glance, anyone in the firm can see exactly what stage a matter is at, what's coming up next, who is responsible, and whether things are on track. It's instant accountability without micromanagement.

Task Management Built for Legal Teams

As your team grows, a simple to-do list stops being enough. Hivelight gives you team-centric task management built specifically for the pace and complexity of legal work:

• Urgent-first dashboard — every person logs in to a personalised view of their most pressing tasks and upcoming deadlines.
• Matter task boards — milestones structure the work so nothing gets buried in an endless list.
• Central task list — see all tasks across all matters, filter by assignee, status, due date, or custom tags, and reallocate work in seconds.
• Bulk actions — reassign, reschedule, or reprioritise tasks across the firm without clicking through individual records.

Workflows That Scale Your Standards

Hivelight workflows allow you to codify your firm's best practices and apply them to every new matter in seconds. Load a roadmap of milestones and tasks, set target timeframes, and let Hivelight's automated progress tracking do the rest.

Unlike rigid workflow tools, Hivelight is designed for the reality of legal work — where deadlines shift, matters change direction, and no two cases are identical. You can update active matters with improved workflow versions, adjust milestone dates in bulk, and chain workflows together as a matter progresses through stages.

If you can write a to-do list and break it into stages, you can build a Hivelight workflow. No coding. No complicated branching logic.

Intake Management Without the Chaos

Hivelight is built to handle high volumes of incoming enquiries. Create a matter for each new enquiry in Hivelight, load your intake workflow, and track it through to sign-up — all without cluttering Unity with matters that may not proceed.

If the enquiry converts, sync the matter to Unity and continue seamlessly. If it doesn't, archive it in Hivelight and keep your Unity environment clean and accurate.

Live Analytics for Data-Driven Decisions

Hivelight generates continuous, real-time reporting across every dimension of your practice:

• New matters per month and intake conversion rates
• Top referral sources and business development performance
• Staff workload, productivity, and potential burnout signals
• Capacity planning and demand forecasting
• Matter velocity — whether cases are progressing at the pace you set

You can even add custom data fields to your matters and build reports on those, giving you visibility into the metrics that matter most to your specific practice.

Getting Started

When you engage with Hivelight, our experienced team works directly with yours. We establish a clear implementation plan, configure your workflows, and guide your team through to a successful launch. Ongoing support includes a comprehensive resource library, in-app assistance, and structured training to get everyone up to speed quickly.