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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.

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.

Professional indemnity insurer for New South Wales law practices, with a risk-management education programme for lawyers. Resources include workshops, claims-prevention roadshows, in-house presentations, online learning, podcasts, short videos, cybersecurity guidance and practice checklists.

Task: Starting a practice

• PI insurers & brokers
• Supplier
• Sole practitioner

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Task: Starting a practice

Discipline

Legal bookkeeping and trust reconciliation

Statutory disciplinary body hearing certain conduct matters concerning Queensland legal practitioners.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of body

Regulatory body

Statutory professional indemnity insurer for Victorian law practices, providing insurance services for solicitors and barristers. Its risk-management resources include practice guides, checklists, claims insights, recorded webinars and in-house training materials, supported by a yearly programme of seminars and workshops.

Task: Starting a practice

• PI insurers & brokers
• Supplier
• Sole practitioner

The regulator and complaints body for the Tasmanian legal profession.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of body

Regulator and complaints body

The conduct and complaints body for the South Australian legal profession.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of body

Complaints and conduct body

The complaints and conduct body for the Queensland legal profession.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of body

Complaints and conduct body

The national body responsible for the Legal Profession Uniform Law framework, which applies in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of body

National regulatory body — Uniform Law

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.

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.

Task: Starting a practice

Type of provider

Independent PLT provider

Intakes

Jan, Feb, Mar, Sep, Dec

Delivery mode

Online, In person, Hybrid

Professional indemnity insurer owned by the Queensland Law Society. It provides claims support and practice risk-management resources, including checklists, risk procedure packs, online training and workshops covering cyber risks, artificial intelligence and legal practice systems. Website resource access requires a practitioner login.

Task: Starting a practice

• PI insurers & brokers
• Supplier
• Insurance

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

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.

Task: Starting a practice

Deployment

Cloud-based platform.

App building.

Task: Starting a practice

Deployment

Cloud