Law App's matter management is built for the way Australian law firms actually work — not adapted from project management software. All practice areas, all included, ready to use from day one.
Law App was built from the ground up for Australian legal practice. Matter management is not an afterthought bolted onto a generic project management tool — it is the foundation the entire platform is built around. Every feature, from trust accounting to document generation, connects directly to the file.
That means when you open a matter in Law App, you see everything in one place: the parties, the question sheet, the financials, the documents, the diary, and the billing. No switching between systems. No waiting for data to sync. One file, one screen, one source of truth.
Law App includes purpose-built matter types for every common Australian practice area. Each comes with its own question sheets, key date templates, and document structures — all configurable to match how your firm works.
Settlement calculators, water rates, council searches, and inbuilt search ordering. Built for Queensland, NSW, Victoria, and all states.
Property pools, parenting orders, consent orders, and financial statements. Structured question sheets for every family matter type.
Estate administration, probate applications, beneficiary tracking, and asset registers. Purpose-built for wills and estates work.
Court dates, limitation tracking, party management, and document bundles. Key date reminders keep deadlines visible across the firm.
Claim tracking, medical reports, insurer details, and settlement offers. Matter-level financials show the full position at a glance.
Charge sheets, court appearances, bail conditions, and sentencing details. Structured fields for the data criminal matters require.
Water allocation calculations, entitlement transfers, and compliance tracking. Specialist fields for firms handling water rights matters.
Business sales, leases, shareholder agreements, and regulatory compliance. Flexible question sheets for the breadth of commercial work.
Because Law App includes general accounting, trust accounting, billing, and document management in a single platform, every piece of data connects back to the matter automatically. There is no sync delay, no integration lag, and no risk of mismatched records between separate systems.
Open any file and the financial summary is right there — trust balance, unbilled work in progress, disbursements, invoices, and payments. The activity feed shows what has happened on the file and when. Settlement warnings surface critical dates before they become urgent.
Every feature below is included in Law App's standard per-file subscription. No modules to add. No integrations to configure. Ready to use from the first matter you open.
Select the practice area and Law App creates the file structure, question sheets, key dates, and document folders automatically. Open a new matter in seconds.
Link clients, other parties, barristers, experts, and organisations to matters. Contact details update across all linked matters automatically.
Generate documents directly from matter data. Parties, dates, addresses, and financial figures merge into your templates automatically. No retyping.
Built-in water allocation and rate calculations for conveyancing matters. A specialist feature most platforms do not include at all.
Trust balance, general balance, WIP, invoices, and payments visible on every matter. Because accounting is built in, the numbers are always current.
Order searches and certificates directly from the matter screen. Results return to the file automatically. No switching between platforms.
Key dates, appointments, and reminders tracked per matter and visible on the firm-wide calendar. Limitation dates and settlements stay front of mind.
Record time directly against the matter with Quick Time entry. Time entries flow through to billing automatically — no separate timesheet tool.
Reports across all matters — open files by practice area, WIP analysis, trust balances, and matter activity. Filter by solicitor, date range, or status.
Law App charges per file opened — not per user. That means unlimited staff can access the system without per-seat licence fees. The file opening fee can be on-charged to the client as a disbursement, meaning the software can effectively pay for itself.
A straightforward comparison of matter management features across the platforms Australian firms are evaluating in 2026.
| Feature | Law App | LEAP | ActionStep | Smokeball |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All practice areas included | ✓ | ✓ | Config required | ✓ |
| Question sheets per area | ✓ | ✓ | Extra cost | ✓ |
| Matter-level financial view | ✓ | Partial (no GA) | Extra cost | Partial (no GA) |
| General accounting built in | ✓ | ✗ Requires Xero | Extra cost | ✗ Requires Xero |
| Water calculations | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Inbuilt searches | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Per file pricing | ✓ | ✗ Per user | ✗ Per user | ✗ Per user |
| Unlimited users included | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 100% browser-based | ✓ | ✗ Desktop required | ✓ | ✗ Desktop required |
| Australian data hosting | ✓ Azure AU East | AWS — region varies | AU available, not default | AWS AU/US/UK |
| Single year contracts | ✓ | ✗ 3 year lock-in | ✗ 3 year lock-in | ✗ 3 year contracts |
| Ownership model | Owner operated | Debt-financed | US HQ (Chicago) | US headquartered |
FilePro closes on 31 December 2026 and ActionStep migration windows are filling fast. Law App is the only alternative with per-file pricing — the same model FilePro used. Kelly Mills spent 15 years as a FilePro technician and Law Support Australia built the industry's first bulk document extraction tool. We know your system, your data, and what a clean migration looks like.
Book a demonstration with Kelly. She has 15 years of legal software experience including hands-on FilePro matter management. The session covers matter opening, question sheets, financial summaries, and document generation — no sales script, just a straight look at how it works.