The Legal Assistant is legal case management software for law firms, available either hosted in the cloud or installed on-site at the firm's office. It offers multiple practice-area modules (e.g., Personal Injury, Real Estate, Generic Case) running on a shared database, with features for document generation, mail/email management, billing, calendars, and automated event management. It also automates trust account reconciliation and record-keeping for compliance purposes.
What it's for
Features 20
- Audio dictation
- Automatic invoice and statement generation
- Billing management with automatic charge/cost accumulation
- Daily data backups
- Data conversion from other legal software systems
- Digital signature support
- Document generation with hundreds of MS Word templates
- Email monitoring and automatic case-file attachment
- Event management with automated document assembly
- Fax integration for sending documents
- Firm and personal calendars with automatic case event entries
- Incoming mail scanning and filing
- Letterhead management
- Mail merge for outgoing correspondence
- Marketing campaign emails (e.g., automated birthday emails)
- Predefined events per practice module
- Real-time client ledger updates and audit trails
- Task management with inter-office messaging
- To-Do list with nightly email notifications
- Trust account three-way reconciliation automation
At a glance
Integrations
Pricing
Pricing varies by version (Cloud vs On-Site) and is per user and per module: Cloud plans are $57/month (yearly) or $63/month (monthly); On-Site plans are $49/month (yearly) or $55/month (monthly).
Cloud-hosted version, quickest setup
Priced per user and per module; billed monthly
10% Annual Discount for paying 12 months up-front
Priced per user and per module; 10% annual discount
Installed on firm's own server
Priced per user and per module; billed monthly
10% discount for annual billing
Priced per user and per module; 10% discount
10% discount when paying for 12 months up-front
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