Premium visual refresh

CaseLantern has a new visual direction across the core firm and client experience. The app now uses a lighter layered canvas, richer work surfaces, sapphire-to-teal action styling, and navy navigation rails that feel more polished without making the product feel heavy.

The firm dashboard and case portfolio have stronger hierarchy for attention counts, stale updates, unread messages, open document requests, and case rows. The client portal and case detail pages now give status, next steps, messages, documents, availability, and firm updates more visual separation, so the most important client-facing information is easier to scan.

Shared UI primitives were tightened at the same time. Buttons, cards, status pills, inputs, metric strips, section headers, empty states, the app shell, and navigation rails all draw from the same refreshed token system. That should make future MVP screens feel more consistent by default.

The design library has also been updated to document the new premium SaaS vocabulary: layered app backgrounds, crisp work surfaces, navy rails, sapphire actions, teal accents, and softer panel shadows.

The two navigation rails also feel less married. The secondary panel now reads as a lighter layer that visibly tabs out of whichever primary nav item is active — so when you're on Cases, the secondary feels like it's coming out of the Cases button, and the same applies to Today, Tasks, and the other sections. On pages without a secondary panel (like Settings), the primary rail keeps its previous clean edge.