The whole practice, in one system.
Most firms run on six tools that do not talk to each other: a case system, a time sheet, an accounts package, a document drive, an inbox and a wall of sticky notes. OpenLPM is those six in one place — built around how lawyers actually work, and around what clients actually ask.
The file, the procedure, the dates
Where the legal work actually happens — and where it either gets done properly or quietly slips.
Matters & case files
Every case in one file: procedure, people, notes, documents, deadlines, hours and money — with access restricted per matter when the file is sensitive.
Open page →02Procedure blueprints
Your best matter, written down once and run by anyone: phases, steps, owners, documents and deadlines — with version history and sign-off.
Open page →03Conflicts & engagement
Search clients, matters, contacts and counterparties before you accept instructions — and keep a dated record of the check, the letter and the onboarding.
Open page →04Deadlines & calendar
Court and statutory dates calculated, owned and reminded — with the firm’s week on one calendar and overdue items impossible to miss.
Open page →05Documents & drafting
Precedents that stay precedents: firm templates with merge fields, versioned files, and document requests that clients actually respond to.
Open page →06E-signature
Send the engagement letter from the matter, watch it being viewed and signed, and let the executed copy file itself.
Open page →18Tasks & boards
Every step carries its own tasks with an owner and a date. See the week ahead on a board, reassign when someone is away, and keep completion on the matter’s history.
Open page →19Email, calls & notes
Correspondence filed against the matter, attendance notes that stay put, portal messages in one thread, and internal notes that never leave the firm.
Open page →Time, invoices and client money
The three things that decide whether a profitable firm stays profitable.
Time & recovery
One always-on timer, the firm’s rounding and approval rules, and unbilled time visible before the invoice goes out.
Open page →08Invoices & payments
Five invoice types, payment links the client can use from their phone, receipts issued automatically, and aged debtors surfaced early.
Open page →09Trust accounting
Client money recorded as it moves, monthly reconciliation from the bank statement, and overdraws refused at the point of entry.
Open page →20Payments & receipts
Invoices that carry a way to pay, payments matched to the right client and matter, receipts issued automatically, and outstanding money worked from a list.
Open page →The front door and the window
How work arrives, and what the client sees while you are doing it.
Enquiries & intake
Website forms, embeds, chatbot, email, WhatsApp and SMS into one inbox — triaged, conflict-checked, attributed and converted.
Open page →11Public pages & forms
Practice-area pages in the firm’s branding, embedded forms, a case-evaluation tool and payment links that work with the site you already have.
Open page →12Client portal
Progress, shared documents, messages and their own invoices — so the routine questions stop reaching fee-earners.
Open page →21Client record & onboarding
One record per client: identification checks with dates on them, engagement terms signed, and the documents you need collected rather than chased.
Open page →The firm’s knowledge, and AI on a leash
Finding what the firm already knows — and using assistance you can defend to a client.
Research & knowledge
Search matters, notes, precedents and the knowledge base together; keep research threads with their sources; hold legislation in a library the firm can check procedures against.
Open page →14AI with the firm’s rules
Drafting help, summaries and date extraction that arrive as drafts for a lawyer to approve — with sources shown and usage visible to the firm.
Open page →22Know-how & precedents
The firm’s own precedents, clauses, house style and handbook, versioned and searchable — so the answer to “have we done one of these before?” is a search.
Open page →Evidence, people and numbers
The parts of a practice that are not legal work — but decide whether the legal work is sustainable.
Compliance & audit
Attributed change history, access logs, data requests handled, retention per firm policy, and restores practised rather than assumed.
Open page →16People & operations
Roles and permissions, leave and CPD, matter-scoped chat, workload and cover — plus the firm’s own administrative settings.
Open page →17Reports & insights
The dashboard a partner actually opens: what is overdue, what is unbilled, who is overloaded, and whether the practice mix is right.
Open page →23Workload & capacity
Open work, dates and recorded effort by fee-earner, so a date is promised against real capacity and cover is arranged before a client notices.
Open page →24Roles & access
Roles from reception to managing partner, matter-level access for sensitive files, gated actions and a record of who changed what.
Open page →25Reports & financials
Work in progress, aged debt, utilisation and budget against actual, produced from the work as it is recorded, with exports your accountant accepts.
Open page →One enquiry becomes one file becomes one invoice.
The reason firms move to a single system is not the feature list — it is that the same information serves every stage, so nobody re-types it and nothing gets lost between tools.
- An enquiry arrives, is conflict-checked, and converts into a matter with the details already filled in.
- The matter runs the firm’s blueprint, with documents, deadlines and owners attached.
- Time and disbursements become the invoice; the payment and receipt come back to the same file.
- The client watched it happen in the portal, so the closing letter is confirmation, not a surprise.
Pick the two features that hurt most
You do not need to evaluate twenty-five at once. Tell us the two problems that cost your firm the most time, and we will spend the demo on those.