Instead of LawMaster
Stop licensing LawMaster. Own the system your firm runs on.
Enterprise DNA builds your version around your practice groups, your file opening steps and the way your partners bill, maps your LawMaster records across, and runs it for you. The roadmap is yours, not a parent company's.
LawMaster puts no price on its website. You contact the vendor for a quote, and the mobile app, client portal, automation, dashboards and consulting are listed as extra services beside the core suite.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
Inside the licence
What the LawMaster invoice is really for
Every matter, party and time record came from your own people. The licence pays for the suite built around those records, and for the vendor's view of how your firm should use it.
No price until you call
There is no pricing page. The website and the software directories send you to the vendor to ask, so you cannot compare it with anything before the sales conversation starts.
Five centres in one suite
Matter, practice, document, financial and knowledge management are presented as one suite, built for firms that want all of it.
The useful parts listed as extras
The iBench mobile app, the client portal, automation and dashboards each appear on LawMaster's extra services page, separate from the five centres.
Consultants to fix how you use it
LawMaster offers business process consultants who evaluate your usage and write an action plan.
A product inside a bigger owner
Actionstep bought LawMaster in 2022 and FilePro the year after. Where LawMaster goes next is decided by a parent running several practice systems at once.
Leaving is a service other people sell
We found no published LawMaster guide to exporting a whole firm. Its report library is the way out, and rival vendors advertise migration specialists for firms leaving it.
What you get instead
Your firm's records, answering in plain English
Critical dates
The dates a partner loses sleep over, in one list
Limitation dates, settlements, filings, hearings and undertakings in one countdown, sorted by the damage a miss would do rather than by the calendar.
- check Limitation dates sit above everything else, with days left shown
- check Each undertaking kept word for word, with who gave it and to whom
- check Open undertakings block a matter from closing
- check A Monday review of what moved, what is late and what is next
New instructions
A conflict search that remembers every file
One name checked against every client, other party and matter description the firm has recorded, closed files included, before anyone starts work.
- check Hits on the other side stop a new matter until someone decides
- check The decision and the reason are recorded on the file
- check Engagement terms, fee information and identity checks tracked on each matter
- check Billing is held until the engagement letter is on record
Partner numbers
Where the firm's money is sitting
Time logged the way a lawyer says it, draft bills built from it, and the answers a managing partner wants without a separate dashboards service.
- check Unbilled time per matter, oldest entry first
- check Lock-up per client, unbilled and billed but unpaid together
- check Recovery per fee earner once write-offs are taken off
- check An early warning when a matter runs past its estimate
Ownership
A system with no vendor roadmap
Plain records in your own database, for one practitioner on a laptop or a whole firm on a shared system. Nothing changes unless your firm asks for it.
- check Fields, matter types and rules renamed into your firm's words
- check Every record readable by any tool you choose
- check No acquisition can change what you are running
- check Open source under the MIT licence
Make it yours
Design your own LawMaster replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from LawMaster. Try it here, and we build the real one.
2. What it runs
3. Make it fit
4. Your colour
Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your LawMaster data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from LawMaster
A move usually involves exporting your core practice records through LawMaster's reports, mapping its fields, checking the imported data, then running both systems together before you switch.
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Get records out of LawMaster
While your LawMaster licence is current, use LawMaster's own reporting library to get clients, matters, parties and time out. The available material does not describe a whole-firm export guide, so check with LawMaster which reports and formats your account allows. Keep the source reports unchanged so you can compare them with the records brought across.
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Map and load the records
Arrange for the LawMaster columns to be mapped to the importer before loading. Matters for Claude Code's importer is built for another vendor's export, so LawMaster's fields need mapping first. Start with a test run if the import offers one. It shows what would arrive before anything is saved, giving you a chance to fix the mapping before writing records into your database.
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Review the import findings
Check the import results and follow up on missing or unrecognised fields. Imported clients arrive without a CDD date, and imported matters have an empty client care file, so review and backfill those details. Check key dates and undertakings against LawMaster, and enter them deliberately if they did not map. These records are too important to assume they came across correctly.
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Run both systems together
For a short period, keep LawMaster available while you use Matters for Claude Code on live matters. Compare records in both systems, including parties, time, key dates and undertakings. Use the overlap to find gaps and correct the mapping or enter missing records. Agree which system is authoritative for changes during this period so updates do not diverge.
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Switch off LawMaster
After you have reconciled the records and checked that your team can work from Matters for Claude Code, stop entering new work in LawMaster. Keep the source reports and any records you still need, and confirm with LawMaster when report access ends before you close the account or licence. Resolve outstanding mismatches and check important dates and undertakings before switching.
Where the real effort goes
The main work is mapping LawMaster's fields and your firm's rules, deciding which history to bring across, and checking details that need review or manual entry, especially key dates and undertakings. If you have Enterprise DNA install and run it for you, Enterprise DNA handles the mapping and migration work with you.
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Get your LawMaster switch plan by email
We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off LawMaster, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.
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Try the free version, or let Enterprise DNA build and run your firm's own
Open source
Run it yourself
Free
- 1 Download the free version from GitHub
- 2 Load the sample law firm and open it in Claude Code
- 3 Ask which critical dates and undertakings need someone this week
- 4 Map your LawMaster report exports in when you are ready
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA build it for you
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check We pull your clients, matters, parties and time out of LawMaster and map them across
- check We connect a certified trust accounting system, your documents, email and accounts
- check We set up your practice groups, file opening checks and the Australian rules you work under
- check It runs inside Omni, our managed Command Center, with the rest of your business
Questions
Instead of LawMaster, answered
LawMaster runs our trust account and payroll. What replaces that? expand_more
The free version keeps no trust ledger and no payroll, on purpose. Trust money belongs in a certified trust accounting system your auditor signs off, and payroll belongs in a payroll system. This records the practice around the money. When we build your version, we connect it to the trust and payroll systems your firm chooses.
How do our records get out of LawMaster? expand_more
Through LawMaster's own reports, run while your licence is current: clients, matters, parties and time. The free version's importer reads a different vendor's export, so LawMaster's columns need mapping first. Enterprise DNA does that mapping, and a test run shows what would arrive before anything is saved.
We are an Australian firm. Does it know our rules? expand_more
The rule book in the free version cites New Zealand conduct rules, limitation periods and anti money laundering duties. Each rule is written in plain language, so it can be swapped for the rules in your state, and we load those when we build your version.
Can it handle a firm with many lawyers, or an in-house legal team? expand_more
Yes. One person can run it on a laptop, and a firm or a corporate legal team runs it on one shared database. Every person asks the same records, and the fields and matter types can be renamed into your own words.
Is the compliance checking legal advice? expand_more
No. It compares your own records with a written list of rules, each with its source, and names the files that fall short. You read the rules, you change them, and the call stays with your lawyers.
Keep the records, drop the suite
30 minutes with Sam. We look at what your firm pays LawMaster, which centres your people actually open, 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.
Matters for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
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