Matters & Cases

Client, matter type, practice area, responsible lawyer, team, court, opposing party, stage and value — on a kanban pipeline with full chatter and activity tracking.

Court Diary & Limitation

Cause list grouped by court, hearings with reminders and adjournment chains, plus a limitation watchdog that counts down to the day a claim becomes time-barred.

Matter Checklists

Each matter type carries the papers and steps it needs. Opening a matter builds the checklist; outstanding mandatory items are shown, never silently ignored.

Land & Property Registry

Parcels with mouza, JL no., khatian and dag, area in configurable local units, boundaries and geolocation — plus chain of title with gap detection and encumbrance tracking.

Document Vault with OCR

Reads a born-digital PDF's own text layer first, falls back to Tesseract on real scans, reports a genuine per-word confidence, and exports a Word transcript.

Time & Billing

Billable time and disbursements per matter, invoiced through standard Odoo Accounting. Every entry is linked to the invoice line that billed it, so nothing bills twice.

Set it up once

Under Configuration ▸ Settings, choose the default OCR language, resolution, page mode and the service product billed time is charged against. The Engine Status panel tells you exactly what the server can do right now — which OCR binaries are present and which language packs are installed — so you never have to guess.

Then add your courts and sub-registry offices, review the document types, and check the land area units against your district's practice.

Open a matter

Name the file the way you label it on paper, pick the client and the responsible lawyer, then choose the Matter Type. That one choice sets the practice area, pre-fills the limitation deadline, narrows the court list to the usual forum, and builds the checklist.

Record the court and case number, the cause of action date, the billing mode and the brief. The reference code is generated for you.

Run a conflict check before you accept instructions

Enter every name involved — the prospective client, each opposing party, any company they control. The search runs across matters, parties, properties and, if you tick it, the full text of every land document you have read.

The wizard reports “nothing found”, never “no conflict”. It tells you what it saw; clearing a conflict is a professional judgement that stays with you.

Work the pipeline and the diary

Drag a matter between stages as the file progresses. My Work shows what is yours — matters, hearings, outstanding items, time. Court Diary answers the other question: who must be in which court tomorrow morning.

Hearings can be confirmed, marked held, or adjourned — and an adjournment creates the follow-up hearing and links the two.

The matter pipeline.

The cause list, next seven days, grouped by court.

Record the land, then build the chain of title

A parcel carries what identifies it in the record of rights: mouza and JL no., survey type and khatian, dag or plot, map sheet, area in your own local unit, boundaries on all four sides, and the sub-registry office.

The chain of title records who held the land and how it passed on. The module flags gaps where a predecessor does not match the previous owner, unmutated transfers that were never recorded, and area discrepancies where the deed and the measurement disagree.

Read a land document — the heart of the module

Upload a scanned PDF or image, set the custody status (original, certified copy, photocopy, scan only) and where the paper physically sits, then press Read Document.

The module reads a born-digital PDF's own text layer first — instant, lossless, nothing guessed. Only when there is no text layer does it rasterise the pages and run Tesseract, reporting a real per-word confidence and a plain-language quality band.

Then user-editable rules pull out deed number, registration date, mouza, khatian, dag, area, parties and consideration. No extraction logic is hardcoded.

A person checks it, then you bill it

A machine read it; a human still signs it off. Verification is deliberately separate from reading: Not Reviewed, Reviewed & Accepted, Questioned or Rejected. The Review Queue lists everything still waiting.

Record billable time and disbursements against the matter, then press Bill Matter — choose how much detail the client sees, and the invoice is created in draft, always.

Report on the practice

Law Firm ▸ Reporting opens live pivot and graph analysis on the matters, hearings, time, disbursements, properties and documents you already hold — every cell drills down to the exact records behind it, and Printed Reports opens the source list for the Matter File, Property Dossier and Document Register.

The Dashboard carries the same reports one click away: caseload, limitation, hearings, unbilled time, disbursements, title status and the document register, each with an on-screen preview, a QWeb PDF and an Excel download.

13 practice areas, 73 matter types

Matter pipeline, calendar and activities

Checklist templates per matter type

Parties register reusable across matters

Hearings with reminders and adjournments

Cause list grouped by court

Limitation watchdog with day and month periods

Conflict-of-interest check across all records

Land parcels with survey identifiers

Configurable local area units

Chain of title with gap detection

Encumbrance register with release tracking

Document vault with custody status

Over twenty ready-made document types

Text-layer and Tesseract OCR reading

Side-by-side scan and text preview

User-editable extraction rules with a test button

Word (.docx) transcript export

Batch reader and background queue

Time, disbursements and draft invoicing

Matter file, property dossier and register reports

Reporting menu: pivot/graph analysis, plus dashboard reports with PDF & Excel

For Advocates

Your caseload, your court dates and your limitation deadlines in one place — and a conflict check you can evidence.

For Land Practices

Survey identifiers, chain of title, encumbrances and the deed vault, with gaps and unmutated transfers surfaced automatically.

For Practice Managers

Unbilled work, documents awaiting review, outstanding papers and the firm's caseload by practice area.