Trust accounting.
Trust money held per matter, reconciled three ways, with the statutory reporting an audit expects to see.
Trust accounting
19- Trust ledger per matter
- Trust receipts and payments
- Trust requisitions
- Three-way reconciliation
- Trust statements
- Controlled money accounts
- Investment and interest-bearing accounts
- Trust journal transfers
- Trust to general transfers
- Statutory trust reports and audit
- Unclaimed and statutory trust money
- State and territory compliance
- End of financial year trust reporting
- Trust held for a specific purpose
- BPAY payments
- Cleared funds tracking
- Bulk trust transfers
- Overdrawn and stagnant balance reports
- Statutory deposit calculator
General accounting.
A full general ledger inside the practice management system. Office accounting, payables, bank reconciliation and BAS run on the same ledger as matters, billing and trust, so there is no separate accounting product to reconcile against.
General and business accounting
20- Single native ledger
- Built-in general ledgerKey difference
- BAS and GST reporting
- ABA batch payment files
- Multi-tier payment allocation
- Payment line-splitting
- Anticipated disbursements
- Chart of accounts
- Accounts payable and office account
- Bank reconciliation
- Bank feeds
- CSV transaction import
- Profit and loss, balance sheet
- Journals
- General receipting
- Cross-area payments engine
- Trial balance
- Bank feed rules and auto-coding
- Payment templates
- Remittance advices
Billing and invoicing.
From work in progress through to the bill, the payment, and the recovery of what was spent on the file.
Billing and invoicing
19- Invoice generation
- Branded invoice layouts
- Batch billing
- Itemised and lump-sum bills
- Fixed fee, retainer and contingency
- Bill templates
- Pre-bill and WIP review
- Point-in-time bill snapshots
- Draft and hold approval workflow
- Credit notes and adjustments
- Part-payments and allocations
- Client statements
- Automated reminder notices
- Disbursement recording and recovery
- Write-offs and discounts
- Costs disclosure and estimates
- Trust-compliant payment flows
- Peppol eInvoicing
- Fee earner and file rate codes
Matters and documents.
Every file, every document and every version, held together in one place with the firm's own structure applied from the moment a matter opens.
Matter and case management
12- Matter and file records
- Matter templates and precedents
- Practice area matter types
- Matter phases and stages
- Matter fee limits and budget capsKey difference
- Custom fields per matter type
- Conflict checking
- File and matter notes
- Matter status tracking
- Archiving, closure and retention
- Global Search
- Quick Find
Document management
19- Ethical walls and access restriction
- Central document store per matter
- Unlimited document storage
- Version control
- Email save to matter
- Folder structures and templates
- Document indexing
- Predictive email filing
- Full-text search
- Search inside scanned documents
- Check-in, check-out and edit locking
- Records management and legal hold
- Secure external file sharing
- AI document naming and tagging
- Outlook add-in
- Automatic email saving
- Document tags
- Confidential files
- Trash and recovery
Document assembly and automation
7- Word merge templates
- Precedent libraryKey difference
- Court forms auto-populated
- Prompts and dynamic fields
- Firm letterhead
- Email templates
- Auto-text
Practice areas, court forms and conveyancing
11- Australian court forms libraryKey difference
- Auto-population from matter data
- Settlement management
- Practice area calculators
- Support helpsheets and support site
- Family law property and parenting
- Estates and contentious estates
- Commercial matters
- Personal injury
- Criminal law
- Litigation preparation
Time, tasks and deadlines.
Time captured as the work happens, tasks that run themselves, and the dates a firm cannot afford to miss.
Time recording
14- Auto time trackingKey difference
- Auto time entry creationKey difference
- Missed time finderKey difference
- Manual time entry
- Timers
- Multiple concurrent timers
- Activity and fixed-fee recording
- Billable and non-billable tracking
- User budgets and targetsKey difference
- AI-generated time narratives
- Mobile time capture
- Law App Mobile
- Time entry from a file note
- Quick Time and Quick Note anywhere
Tasks and workflow automation
6- Tasks and to-dos
- Task assignment and tracking
- Workflow templates and matter plans
- Automation engine
- No-code workflow builder
- Dependent tasks and triggers
Calendaring and key dates
7- Key dates and limitation dates
- Manual one-off key dates
- Auto-generated key dates
- Reminders and escalations
- Calendar and diary
- Outlook and 365 calendar sync
- Teams meetings from appointments
Clients, intake and growth.
From the first enquiry to a verified client record, with the details collected once and held where the matter can use them.
Client intake and onboarding
6- Online intake formsKey difference
- Entity-type intake forms
- Client self-service intakeKey difference
- Document collection at intakeKey difference
- Malware scan gate on uploads
- Staging-first intake
Contacts and communications
12- Document review
- Email document reviews
- Contact records
- Contact to matter roles
- Beneficial ownership register
- Duplicate detection and merge
- Contact-level compliance status
- Email management and integration
- Communications timeline per file and contactKey difference
- Phone messages from any screenKey difference
- Messages work queue
- Live message alerts
Enquiries, migration and onboarding
8- Lead and enquiry capture
- Marketing source tracking
- Enquiry tracking and analytics
- Data migration tooling
- Concierge data migration
- Prospect self-service signupArriving next
- Sandbox with sample data
- Enquiry pipeline
Compliance, security and registers.
AML and CTF obligations, access control and the registers a firm is required to keep, all inside the platform rather than alongside it.
AML, CTF and client verification
14- KYC and CDD captureKey difference
- Risk rating engine
- Entity-type CDD forms
- PEP and sanctions screeningKey difference
- Source of funds and wealth
- Beneficial ownership
- KYC printable snapshot
- Pre-commencement client status
- Identity verification
- Client-sourced identity documents
- AML program and 7-year records
- Threshold and suspicious matter reporting
- AML/CTF register
- File-level AML risk report
Security, permissions and administration
14- Role-based permissions
- Per-feature permissions
- Matter-scoped and firm-wide permissions
- Server-side enforcement
- User lock, disable and lockout
- Multi-tenant isolation
- Single sign-on and MFA
- Australian data residency
- Web based, nothing to install
- Backups and disaster recovery
- Audit logs
- AI processing controls
- Permission sets for roles
- Branches, departments and teams
Legal registers
2- Safe custody and deeds register
- Wills register
Reporting and integrations.
What the firm needs to see, and what it needs to connect to.
Reporting and analytics
11- Standard reports
- Customisable dashboardsKey difference
- Dashboard widget library
- Per-user configurable widgets
- Profitability, cost and profit
- Team and user reporting
- Budget vs actual
- Capacity and availability
- WIP, debtors and aged reports
- Export to Excel, PDF and HTML
- Professional fees reports for insurance
Integrations and connections
7- AI running nativelyKey difference
- InfoTrack
- Microsoft 365 and Outlook
- Microsoft Word
- Open banking feeds
- Law App as an MCP server
- Personal AI connections
AI, built in with Lawrence.
Lawrence is Law App's own AI assistant, built in and hosted in Australia. It is already doing the firm's admin work. Document drafting, contract review and drafting rulebooks follow in December 2026.
What Lawrence does today
15- New file from a contractKey difference
- Transcribe a time sheetKey difference
- Transcribe a file noteKey difference
- Improve with Lawrence
- Ask about a file
- Create a file
- Create a contact
- Update a file
- Upload a document to a file
- Process an invoice
- File details
- File accounting
- Find reports
- Find text inside documents
- How to use Law App
Reading and reviewing the file
62 arriving December 2026- AI document review and summarisation
- Matter dossier
- Matter questions and chronologies
- AI client update draft
- AI contract draftingArriving next
- AI contract review and redlineArriving next
Control, choice and logging
31 arriving December 2026- Configurable, open AI
- Firm and personal drafting rulebooksArriving next
- AI usage logging
Drafting with Lawrence
11Expected December 2026- Lawrence, the built-in assistant
- AI document draftingArriving next
- AI fields in merge templatesArriving next
- AI drafting into email templatesArriving next
- Draft from selected documentsArriving next
- Draft from the Documents menuArriving next
- Streaming draft review and redraftArriving next
- Cited sources in AI draftsArriving next
- Drafting from a blank canvasArriving next
- AI-assisted template building
- Strict mode for court formsArriving next