Legal Tech Is Opening Its Dashboards to Clients in 2026 — But Client-Facing Transparency Only Works If Your Billing and Trust Data Is Clean

A wave of July 2026 product launches — led by Centari's new External Views, which lets firms share permissioned deal-intelligence dashboards directly with clients — signals that legal tech's next frontier is client-facing transparency. The catch: the moment a client can see your data, your data has to be right. Here's why transparency is really an accounting problem, and how CaseQube and LawAccounting make firm data client-ready by default.