An enquiry that dies in a week and a dispute that runs five years are the same kind of file. Nothing forces one through the stages in order.
inquiryA record exists from the first email.
registeredIdentity confirmed, conflicts checked.
consultation_booked → completedBooked, then held, notes on the same timeline.
retainer_drafted → sentDrafted, sent, signed or declined.
engagedTerms agreed, staff assigned.
active · awaiting_documentsA matter can be parked on a missing bank statement and say so.
closed → archivedClosed, then archived. Nothing is deleted.
Not Git. No rebasing, no merging, no commit graph: a line of versions, a label a lawyer would say out loud, and a master that is only a pointer.
The firm will provide the services described in Schedule 1 for a fixed fee of $4,500an estimated fee of $4,500 to $6,200, payable on completionin two instalments.
Taiwanese clause numbering is a format the editor cannot draw, so it is swapped for one that looks identical and put back before the file is saved.
w:numFmt="taiwaneseCountingThousand"
w:numFmt="chineseCountingThousand"
The script is detected per document, and the redline knows where the words are.
本所應提供附表一所列之服務，費用為固定預估新臺幣十二萬元至十六萬元。
Every deadline belongs to a matter. The dashboard is the same information sorted by when, not by where.
Address and thread. No subject scraping, no matter numbers pulled out of bodies, no model guessing.
A connected mailbox is optional. Legalease asks Google for two permissions — gmail.readonly and gmail.send — never receives a password, stores only the messages that match a matter, and sends nothing on its own. How mail data is handled.
Add it to a home screen and it behaves like everything else there.
Drag down to dismiss — never while a field has focus, so a flick cannot lose what was typed.
The back gesture peels one layer at a time, in the order they opened.
Every sheet tracks the on-screen keyboard, because WebKit will not.
Nothing editable, nothing deleted. Years later, “who approved this, and against what” has an answer — and what a person can do follows their place in the firm.
InternRead and contribute to assigned matters.ClerkEdit matters, upload documents, file mail.LawyerPromote versions, close matters.Principal LawyerAssign staff, see every matter.SysAdminAccounts, mailboxes, system settings.⌘K reaches matters, documents, notes, templates and filed mail. A half-remembered surname is enough.
Templates and precedent notes the firm has already written, kept where a new document can be started from them.
Face ID or a fingerprint. No password to reuse, phish or forget.
A deadline can reach a phone. Almost nothing else is allowed to.
Operated privately by one firm. Accounts are created by the firm for its own people; there is no public sign-up.