https://lextree.ai/articles/Recent content in Articles on Lextree AIHugoenhttps://lextree.ai/articles/how-to-track-legal-entities-in-a-spreadsheet/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:52:22 -0700https://lextree.ai/articles/how-to-track-legal-entities-in-a-spreadsheet/<h2 id="decide-what-one-entity-row-tracks">Decide what one entity row tracks</h2> <p>Someone hands you a list of thirty entities — subsidiaries, joint ventures, a few dormant shells — and says, keep track of these. Figuring out how to track legal entities in a spreadsheet starts with a structural decision, not a naming one: what does a single row stand for? You open a blank workbook. The instinct is to start naming columns: entity name, state, agent, status, due date. That instinct is premature — get the row wrong and every column added afterward inherits the mistake.</p>