Staying Informed
Laminar has three instruments for staying ahead of your caseload without living in refresh: the overview dashboard, notification subscriptions, and health updates.
Your Overview
Section titled “Your Overview”Logging in lands you on your overview: a personal dashboard (always yours, regardless of the context selector) built for the “what does today look like?” question.
Momentum stats across the top: active matters, completed this week (with the trend against last week), overdue items, and what’s due in the next seven days. The overdue card turning red is your honest mirror.
Today’s Closings: matters completing today, yours by default, with an All Firm tab.
Upcoming Deadlines: tasks and matters due in the next week, overdue pinned to the top in red.
Recently Active shows the last matters with movement, and Pending Trust Transactions appears only when trust work on your matters is in flight.
Thirty seconds here each morning replaces the mental caseload inventory you used to rebuild over coffee.
Notification Subscriptions
Section titled “Notification Subscriptions”Every matter, task, and trust transaction has a notification control with four levels:
Participating & @mentions (the default): you hear about it when someone @mentions you or you’re directly involved.
Watching: important activity plus mentions. For the files you care about but don’t own.
All Activity: everything. Laminar asks “are you sure?” because it means it.
Ignoring: silence, even mentions. For the matter you’ve handed off but still appear on.
The right pattern: leave the default alone for most things, Watch the deals that keep you up at night, and Ignore what’s genuinely no longer yours. Notification emails include a mute link, so one click from your inbox stops a noisy thread without even logging in.
Health Updates
Section titled “Health Updates”Notes on tasks and trust transactions can carry a health status: On Track, At Risk, Blocked, or Off Track. The badge follows the item into Service Channels queues and work item lists, and “flagged” counts (blocked plus off track) roll up into the team and firm overviews.
Health is how a problem gets seen before it’s late. “Blocked: waiting on payout statement, bank unresponsive since Tuesday” turns a private frustration into something a team lead can act on. Post it when reality changes, clear it when it’s resolved, and treat a colleague’s red badge as an invitation to help rather than a stain on their record.