Enterprise DNA

Instead of Law App

Stop paying Law App by the file. Own your practice records.

Enterprise DNA builds your version around your practice areas, intake questions and billing habits, maps your Law App records across, and runs it for you. Your trust ledger stays in an audited system.

Law App publishes no price. It quotes privately, either a fee for each file opened, added to the client's matter as a disbursement, or a flat monthly fee for each user.

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Where the money goes

What a Law App quote is really for

Your client list, matter history and time records belong to the firm. The quote pays for access to the system that holds them, renewed each year.

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A number you only get by asking

The pricing page explains two models and shows no figures. Every firm gets its own quote, so there is nothing public to compare against.

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A charge on every new file

On the per-file plan, each matter opened carries a fee. A file is a matter opened in Law App, a new client engagement or a new matter for an existing client.

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A software fee on your client's invoice

That file fee goes onto the matter as a disbursement, so your clients see a line for your software on their bill.

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Or a fee for every person

The other plan is a flat monthly charge for each user, with part-time rates. Hiring a paralegal grows the bill.

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A contract that comes back every year

Contracts run a single year. That avoids a long lock-in, and it also means a new contract every twelve months.

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Everything in one vendor's box

Matters, trust, the general ledger and documents share one system. The pricing page does not say how a firm takes its records out.

What you get instead

A practice system with no meter running

Opening files

Open a matter without opening a charge

Small files, quick advice and pro bono work cost the same as any other record: nothing extra.

  • check Every name on a new matter checked against all past clients and other parties
  • check The matter is refused when the check finds a hit
  • check Engagement letter, scope, fee estimate and identity checks recorded per file
  • check No disbursement line for software on your client's bill

Deadlines

Dates and promises watched every morning

Limitation periods, filings, settlements, hearings and undertakings in one list, ordered by what a miss would cost.

  • check Limitation dates sit at the top, counted down daily
  • check Undertakings stored in their exact wording, with who gave them and when they fall due
  • check Missed dates stay on the list, marked missed
  • check A file stays open while any undertaking on it is outstanding

Fees

Ask anything about the money

Time recorded as people describe it, draft bills built from that time, and answers to questions a fixed report screen never offered.

  • check Unbilled time per matter, oldest entry first
  • check Lock-up per client: unbilled work plus bills still unpaid
  • check Real recovery per fee earner once write-offs are counted
  • check An alert before a matter passes the estimate the client was given

Ownership

Records that do not renew

Plain records in your firm's own database, on one laptop for a sole practitioner or shared across every office.

  • check Nothing to renegotiate when the year is up
  • check Closed files readable for as long as the firm keeps them
  • check Practice areas, intake questions and rules written in your firm's words
  • check Open source under the MIT licence

Make it yours

Design your own Law App replacement

Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Law App. Try it here, and we build the real one.

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Answered from your own database

Build my version

We build it from the open-source base, bring your Law App data across and run it for you.

Switching

How to switch from Law App

A move involves asking Law App for exports, mapping its fields, testing the import, checking gaps, and running both systems side by side before you stop using Law App.

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    Ask for your exports

    While your Law App contract is live, ask its support team for exports of your clients, matters and time records. Law App’s pricing page does not explain how to export, so check what your account allows. Decide which history you need before requesting the files, and confirm the available export options directly with Law App.

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    Test the mapped import

    Have the Law App columns mapped to the importer, then run a test before saving anything. Matters’ importer was written for another vendor’s export, so do not assume Law App’s fields will line up automatically. Enterprise DNA handles the mapping when it runs the migration for you. If you are doing it yourself, make sure the mapping matches the records you chose to bring across.

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    Review gaps and warnings

    Check what the test import reports and review the compliance check before relying on the imported records. Imported clients arrive without a CDD date, and imported matters have an empty client care file, so expect to review and backfill those records. Key dates and undertakings are entered by hand in one deliberate pass, because importing them incorrectly could cause problems.

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    Run both systems briefly

    Keep Law App available while you check the imported client, matter and time records against the originals. Make sure your team can find the records it needs in Matters, and finish the manual entry of key dates and undertakings. This short period of using both systems gives you a chance to spot gaps before Law App is no longer your working reference.

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    Switch off Law App

    Stop using Law App only after you have checked the imported records, completed the backfill you need and decided that your team is ready to work in Matters. Contact Law App about closing your account and follow the terms of your agreement. Keep any records you still need according to your firm’s own retention requirements.

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Where the real effort goes

The main work is usually mapping Law App’s fields to the importer, deciding which history to bring across, and reviewing information that needs backfilling. Your own fields and rules may need attention too. Enterprise DNA does the mapping when you have them run the migration. Plan separately for trust and general ledger records, since Matters does not include either.

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Get your Law App switch plan by email

We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off Law App, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.

One email with your plan. No spam, and you can unsubscribe any time.

Two ways to switch

Try the free version, or have Enterprise DNA build and run yours

Open source

Run it yourself

Free

  1. 1 Download the free version from GitHub
  2. 2 Load the demo law firm and open it in Claude Code
  3. 3 Ask what needs attention this week
  4. 4 Map your Law App exports into it when you are ready
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Omni by Enterprise DNA

Have Enterprise DNA build it for you

One setup fee, then a monthly retainer

  • check We map your Law App clients, matters and time across and check every record with you
  • check Your trust money stays in an audited trust system, and we connect your email, documents and accounting
  • check We set up your practice areas, intake questions, conflict rules and billing habits
  • check It runs inside Omni, our managed Command Center, with the rest of your business
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Questions

Instead of Law App, answered

Law App includes trust accounting and a general ledger. Do we lose those? expand_more

The free version has no trust ledger and no general ledger, on purpose. Trust money belongs in a dedicated, audited trust system, and your books belong in accounting software. This system holds the practice around them: matters, conflicts, time, bills, dates and undertakings. When we build your version, we connect it to your accounting, and your trust money stays in its audited system.

How do we get our records out of Law App? expand_more

Law App's pricing page does not say how to export, so ask its support for client, matter and time exports before your contract ends. The free version's importer was written for another vendor's export, so Law App's columns need mapping. Enterprise DNA does that mapping, and a test run shows what would arrive before anything is saved.

Our clients pay the file fee, so is Law App not free to us? expand_more

Your client still pays it, on every matter, as a line on your bill. That is a cost of your practice that your clients carry, and it grows with every file you open. With your own system there is no per-file charge to pass on at all.

Is it built for Australian firms? expand_more

The compliance rules in the free version ship with New Zealand sources, each one cited. An Australian firm changes them to its own conduct rules and limitation periods in plain words, and when we build your version we set them up with you.

Is the compliance checking legal advice? expand_more

No. It checks your own records against a written list of rules, each with its source, and names the files missing something. You read the sources, change the rules to suit your practice, and your judgement stays in charge.

Your files should not each come with a fee

30 minutes with Sam. We look at what your firm pays Law App, which parts your people use every day, and what your own version would look like. If it is a fit, we build it and run it. If it is not, take the free version and run it yourself.

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Matters for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.

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