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Legal navigation and client-connection platform offering AI-generated legal information and routes to practising lawyers. It prepares matter briefs from guided conversations and helps participating lawyers receive enquiries relevant to their practice.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Pricing model

Public AI information is offered free; the lawyer-facing page describes payment per accepted matter.

Deployment

Online client navigation and lawyer-connection platform.

Listed specialist financier providing disbursement funding facilities and other finance to the legal profession. Formerly JustKapital.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Disbursement and legal sector finance

Law-firm management consultancy offering financial and operational diagnostics, virtual general manager support, principal coaching, team workshops and strategic planning. Services also cover practice start-up, succession, transactions and practice-management processes.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Practice management, financial diagnostics, Strategy, leadership and succession.

On-premise practice management for mid-size and larger Australian firms. Being wound down following the Actionstep acquisition. Certified by the Law Society of NSW as a complying trust accounting system (certificate 15).

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Firm size fit

Mid-size, Large / national

Deployment

On premise

Alternative legal services provider placing lawyers on secondment, in teams or direct hire, drawing on a network of several thousand lawyers.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Type of practice

Alternative legal services provider

Legal practice management software combining matter and document management, time recording, billing, trust accounting and Australian forms and precedents. LEAP also offers integrated client collaboration and legal AI tools.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Firm size fit

Sole practitioner, Boutique, Mid-size

Pricing model

Subscription licensing. Obtain a written quote covering licences, contract term, renewal and any additional products or services; LEAP directs licence pricing and renewal questions to its Accounts team.

Deployment

Hybrid

Bookkeeping service exclusively for Australian law firms, supporting LEAP, Smokeball and Clio with Xero office accounts. Services include trust and office reconciliations, BAS, payroll, external-examination support and staff training in receipts and transfers. It does not undertake software conversions.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Legal bookkeeping and trust reconciliation

Marketing agency for Australian and New Zealand law firms offering web design, SEO, Google Ads, email marketing and consulting. It also publishes a law-firm marketing podcast and practical resources. Its website currently advises that it is not taking on new clients.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Web and digital marketing — legal only

PLT accredited in all eight Australian jurisdictions, with online, blended and onsite delivery. Full-time 20 weeks or part-time 30 weeks; domestic fee $12,390. Also a major CPD provider and delivers the Victorian practice management course.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Type of provider

Independent PLT provider

Intakes

Jan, Feb, Mar, Sep, Dec

Delivery mode

Online, In person, Hybrid

Trust accounting software operated by the Law Institute of Victoria for its members.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Deployment

Cloud

Cloud practice management software combining matters, CRM, document templates, time recording, invoicing, trust accounting, tasks, calendars and reporting. Other functions include safe custody records and AI-assisted content analysis.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Deployment

Cloud-based platform.

Banking services for legal practices, including business transaction and trust accounts, investment accounts and term deposits. Dedicated legal-industry relationship teams help firms assess banking arrangements and connect day-to-day financial operations.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Business banking and trust accounts for legal practices.

Melbourne-headquartered marketing agency with a dedicated law firm practice covering branding, web, content and PR.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Branding, PR and marketing

Australian legal practice and finance software from DataChef, built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. MatterX Legal Finance includes practice accounting and trust-account workflows; the wider suite lists additional products at preview or planned stages.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Deployment

Cloud

Practice management and trust accounting built for migration practices.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Deployment

Cloud

Managed IT provider supporting legal applications, Microsoft 365, document workflows, cybersecurity and backup and recovery. It also assists with staff onboarding and offboarding, permissions and day-to-day technology support.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Managed IT, legal application support, Security, backup and Microsoft 365.

Managed IT provider offering support, infrastructure and cybersecurity to Australian law firms.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Managed IT and cybersecurity

NAB's statutory trust account for solicitors and other regulated professions, with automatic interest remittance to the governing body.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Bank — statutory trust account

Australian legal technology consultancy providing software selection, implementation, data migration, integrations, training and legal operations advice. Its services also cover AI strategy and adoption within law firms. It also operates a referral service connecting people seeking legal help with independent Australian law firms.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Legal technology strategy, Implementation, Migration, integrations and training.

Practice management and trust accounting, sold through GlobalX and part of the Dye & Durham stable.

Jurisdiction: National · Task: Starting a practice

• Trust accounting
• Software
• Sole practitioner