Can it run conflict checks?
Yes. Conflict checks search every contact and related party for a name before you take a new client, and keep the signed-off report with the case. The piece has one part not live yet.
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Software for small law firms
Corwen builds small law firms their own app around how the firm runs matters, instead of a practice tool you rent and work around. Describe your practice, answer a few questions about the tools you use and who's on your team, and Corwen picks the pieces from a menu of 240 and builds it. You try it on made-up matters first, and the firm owns the app and the data.
The case file is the center of it. Each one holds the client, practice area, billing method and key dates, with its documents, events and time on one page.
Trust accounting and the books stay in the tools you keep. Corwen builds the intake, conflicts, time and billing around them.
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The pieces that make it
These are the pieces Corwen usually picks for a law firm. Take any of them out, or add more from the menu. See every piece on the menu.
| Piece | What it does | Today |
|---|---|---|
| Case files with practice areas and key dates | Each case has a client, practice area, responsible person, billing method, status, budget, and limitation date, with one page showing its contacts, documents, events, time, and balances. | Live today |
| Conflict checks | Search every contact, case, and related party for a name or keyword before taking a new client, mark each hit, and keep the signed-off report with the case. | One part not live yet |
| Time and expense entries | Log hours and costs against a customer or case, billable or not, rounded to the firm's increment, one at a time or as a weekly timesheet. | Live today |
| Billing rates and fee arrangements | Set rates by person, client, case, and activity, and bill each case hourly, as a flat fee, or as a share of a settlement. | Live today |
| Split billing and e-billing files | Divide one case's bill among several payers, and produce bills in the standard file format that corporate and insurance clients require. | Live today |
| Court rule deadlines | Pick a jurisdiction and a trigger date and every dependent court deadline is added to the case calendar, moved off weekends and holidays. | One part not live yet |
| Documents from templates | Fill Word or PDF templates with customer and case details to produce letters, agreements, and forms in one click. | One part not live yet |
| Customer portal | Clients open a link or sign in to see their documents, bills and appointments, pay, upload files and message the business. | One part not live yet |
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Questions owners ask
Does it handle trust accounting?
Client trust accounts and three-way reconciliation use the accounting tool you keep. Corwen's app sits next to it for the matter work.
Can we bill flat fee and contingency matters?
Yes. Billing rates are live today, and each case can bill hourly or as a flat fee. Contingency cases can bill as a share of a settlement.
Can it track court deadlines?
Court rule deadlines take a jurisdiction and a trigger date and add the dependent deadlines to the case calendar, moved off weekends and holidays. It has one part not live yet, so keep checking every date the way you do now.
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