MuseLegal splits the door: clients, attorneys, paralegals each get their own key

MuseLegal is bolting a role-based access system onto the platform, sitting alongside the existing sharing model rather than replacing it. The new layer links people to specific matters with an explicit role - client, attorney, reviewer, or paralegal - and uses that to gate everything connected to a matter: documents, portal messages, tasks, intake submissions, downloadable files. Clients see only their own matters; reviewers and paralegals are treated as interchangeable; partners and admins bypass the check entirely.

The move is a quiet but pointed repositioning. This is no longer just a generic AI legal assistant - it's being shaped into a firm-portal product where the client experience and the internal workflow live behind different doors of the same building. The guardrails run at the database layer, not just in app code, which is the right place for them if real client data is going to flow through.