Cases
Case number, court, bench, parties, stage and status, with a timeline of everything that has happened on the matter.
Practice management for lawyers and law firms
Your practice, kept in order.
Cases, hearings and proceedings, your calendar, daily diary, tasks, deadlines, clients and documents — in one private workspace. Now with AI hearing notes, AI legal drafting and WhatsApp reminders.
The person who creates the organization becomes its owner and invites the rest of the firm.
Features
Everything a working day in practice needs
One place for the matter, the date, the work and the paper, so nothing lives only in a notebook or someone's memory.
Hearings and proceedings
Schedule, complete, adjourn, cancel or reschedule. Record proceedings, court directions and the next date in one step.
Unified calendar
Hearings, deadlines, tasks and meetings together in day, week, month and agenda views, including recurring events.
Daily diary
Log court appearances, drafting, research, calls and meetings against a case, with time totals by day and activity.
Tasks and follow-ups
Assign work with priority and due date. Overdue is worked out from the due date, never set by hand.
Important dates
Filing, reply, rejoinder, limitation and compliance dates, with overdue items shown first.
Clients
A private client register with related cases, hearings, tasks, documents and a log of every call, email and meeting.
Notes and documents
Rich-text notes and PDF, Word, Excel and image uploads on cases, hearings, clients and tasks.
Reminders
15 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day or any interval you choose before a hearing, task, deadline or meeting — in the app, by email and on WhatsApp.
Search everything
Find a case number, client, judge, note or a hearing date from any page. Results open the record directly.
Teams and roles
Owner, lawyer, associate and staff roles. Invite colleagues by email and group them into teams.
Audit trail
Who changed what and when, with the previous and new value, for cases, hearings, tasks, notes and documents.
New
AI that works from your case file
Prepare for hearings and draft documents faster, and make sure nobody misses a date — without handing your judgment to a machine.
AI Hearing Notes
Preparation notes for the next hearing, built from the case file in under a minute.
- Case overview, procedural status and a summary of the previous hearing
- Pending applications, outstanding directions and arguments to consider
- Documents to review, questions to clarify and a preparation checklist
- Reads the text of uploaded orders and pleadings
- Every fact cites the record it came from; suggestions are labelled separately
- Editable, versioned, marked Reviewed or Prepared, exported to Word or PDF
AI Legal Drafts
A first draft of the document you need, with the case details already filled in.
- Legal notices, applications and petitions, replies, affidavits, letters and adjournment applications
- Court, case number, parties and procedural history taken from the case
- Your facts, relief and preferred authorities added through a short form
- English, Hindi and ten other Indian languages
- Edit or regenerate one section at a time, with full version history
- Stays marked “Draft — not reviewed” until a lawyer approves it
WhatsApp Reminders
The right person hears about a hearing or deadline on the phone they already check.
- Hearing reminders 1, 2, 3 or 7 days before — each lawyer chooses
- Adjournments, reschedules and cancellations sent to the case team
- Tasks due tomorrow and overdue tasks
- Send a reminder or update from any case or hearing in two clicks
- Delivery history with sent, delivered, read and failed status
- Only to people who have consented; replying STOP opts out
AI features use the AI provider configured by your administrator and are available to owners, lawyers and associates. Always review AI-generated content before relying on it.
How it works
From first instruction to final order
The same four steps, every matter. Each one takes a minute and builds the record for the next.
- 1
Add the client and open the case
Record the parties, court and bench once. Everything else hangs off the case.
- 2
Schedule the hearing
Court and judge are filled in from the case. Reminders start from your firm's defaults.
- 3
Record what happened in court
Proceedings, directions, the next date and follow-up tasks are saved together, straight after the hearing.
- 4
Never lose the thread
The case timeline shows every hearing, order, task, deadline, note and document in order.
Security and privacy
Built for privileged material
Client confidentiality is a professional duty. The product is designed around it rather than adding it on.
Each firm's data is isolated
Every query is limited to your organization. Another firm's records are not just hidden; to their users they do not exist.
Access by role, checked on the server
What a lawyer, associate or staff member can do is enforced by the API on every request, not by hiding buttons.
Documents stay private
Files have no public link. They are checked on upload, stored privately and released only to signed-in members, and each download is logged.
Hearing history is permanent
A rescheduled or adjourned hearing is never overwritten. The original stays on record, linked to the new date.
AI that does not make up the record
AI notes may only state facts they can trace to a case record, and anything they cannot trace is removed. Drafts mark unverified provisions for you to check instead of inventing citations.
WhatsApp only with consent
Nobody receives a WhatsApp message until they add their number and agree. Clients only after you record their consent. Anyone can opt out by replying STOP.
Legal dates are yours to verify. Lawyer Diary records and reminds; it does not calculate or certify limitation periods. Every legally significant date is flagged until a lawyer confirms it.
FAQ
Questions lawyers ask first
Short, direct answers about how the product behaves.
Does Lawyer Diary calculate limitation periods?
No. You enter every date yourself. Filing, reply, rejoinder, limitation, compliance and court-directed dates stay marked “Needs lawyer verification” until a lawyer or the owner confirms them, and changing the date asks for verification again.
Can my staff see everything?
Staff can view cases and schedule, record and upload, but cannot create, edit or delete cases. Diary entries are personal: only the author and the organization owner can read them. Tasks and events can be marked private.
What happens when a hearing is rescheduled?
The original hearing is kept exactly as it was, marked as rescheduled with your reason, and a new hearing is created and linked to it. The same applies to adjournments, so the full chain of listings is always visible.
Which files can I upload?
PDF, Word, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, text, JPG and PNG, up to 25 MB each by default. A file whose contents do not match its extension is refused.
How do reminders reach me?
As notifications inside the app, and by email as well when your administrator has set up email delivery and you have left email reminders switched on in your profile.
Will the AI invent facts, orders or case law?
It is instructed not to, and Lawyer Diary checks the result. In hearing notes every statement of fact must cite a case record, and statements that cannot be traced are removed before you see the notes; missing information is listed instead of guessed. In drafts, provisions and authorities you did not supply are left as [VERIFY] markers. Always review AI output before relying on it.
What case information is sent to the AI service?
Only what the task needs: case details, hearing history, deadlines, your notes and the text of uploaded orders for hearing notes; case, party and hearing details plus your instructions for drafts. Client phone numbers and email addresses are never sent. Keys stay on the server.
Is anything filed or sent automatically?
No. AI drafts stay marked as drafts until a lawyer approves them, and nothing is sent to a court, client or opposing party by Lawyer Diary. You export the document and decide what to do with it.
Who receives WhatsApp messages?
Lawyers and staff who have added their WhatsApp number and consented in their settings, and clients whose consent you have recorded. Each person chooses which reminders they want, and replying STOP stops them.
How do colleagues join my organization?
The owner invites them by email from the Team page and chooses their role. The invitation link works once and expires after seven days.
Open your diary.
Set up your organization, add your first case and schedule its next hearing in a few minutes.