Law firm software: choose tools that fit your practice

A law firm uses more than one kind of software. Some tools manage matters, billing and deadlines. Others provide access to legal sources. Legal AI helps lawyers read documents, draw on their firm’s precedents and prepare drafts. These needs complement one another, but deserve separate tests.

What work do you want to make easier?

For practice management, look at matter tracking, time recording and billing. For legal research, check the coverage of sources and how easily you can verify a reference. For document work, test analysis of matter documents, drafting from your templates and integration with Word or your document management system.

A generic demonstration says little about daily use. Give each candidate tool the same fictional matter: a legal question, a few documents and a firm precedent. Compare what it finds, cites and drafts, and how long it takes to check the result.

Where Jimini fits

Jimini helps lawyers analyse documents, research legal questions and draft. You can ask questions of a matter’s documents, structure a review with an analysis grid and develop a draft in Word. The document library makes it possible to work from your organisation’s templates and precedents; research answers link back to the legal sources used.

Application data are hosted in France, and Jimini is ISO 27001:2022 certified. The team supports adoption with training and workshops tailored to legal practice. These considerations matter alongside features if the tool is to become part of a firm’s work.

Jimini supports legal work. For billing and administrative matter management, assess dedicated practice management software.

How should a firm compare its options?

Check three things on your own matters:

1. Quality of the work: are answers useful, sourced and easy to correct?
2. Fit with existing tools: can you start from your documents and continue in Word?
3. Conditions of use: where are data hosted, how are they processed and how will the team be trained?

A trial on representative documents is more useful than a list of supposedly best products. For a closer look at AI, read our guide to choosing legal AI software.