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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Delegate legal duties to another user

Delegate legal duties relating to your assigned legal requests, legal matters, legal matter tasks, and approvals to another user when you might not have time or are unavailable.

Before you begin

Role required: legal_fulfiller

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > Legal Request > Legal Counsel Center.

  2. Click the list icon (

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List icon\).
  1. In the Set Delegate, click My Delegates.

  2. In the My Delegates list, click New.

  3. On the form, fill in the fields.

FieldDescription
UserUser who delegates legal duties to a delegate.
DelegateUser to whom you are delegating legal duties assigned to you.Note: The delegate must be from the assignment group of which you are a member.
StartsStart date of the delegation period.
EndsEnd date of the delegation period.
ApprovalsOption to delegate approvals. Select this option to authorize the delegate to approve or reject the approvals you've been assigned.
AssignmentsOption to delegate assignments. Select this option to grant the delegate the same level of access to all approvals, legal requests, legal matters, and matter tasks as you.
All notificationsOption to delegate notifications. Select this option to send a copy of any notifications you receive to the delegate during the delegation period.
  1. Click Save.

Result

Setting the delegation has the following effects during the specified period:

  • The delegate can access and perform all the functions that you can do for your assigned legal requests, legal matters, matter tasks, and approvals from the Delegated to me list.
  • Both you and the delegate receive notifications related to activities done on legal requests, legal matters, matter tasks, and approvals.

Parent Topic:Delegation of legal duties and approvals