Enterprise DNA

Instead of OneLaw

Stop renting OneLaw. Own your firm's practice records.

We build your version around your practice areas, your file opening checks and how your partners review WIP, bring your OneLaw records across, and keep it running. Your trust account stays in a dedicated audited system.

OneLaw publishes no price. Firms enquire or book a demonstration, and directories list it as priced per user with figures given privately.

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  • check_circleYour data in a database you own
  • check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
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What the subscription covers

A OneLaw subscription is a hosted screen over records your firm created

Every matter, time entry and conflict search in it was typed in by your own people. The subscription is the right to keep reaching them through OneLaw's screens on OneLaw's cloud platform.

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A price that starts with an enquiry

Neither the home page nor the product page shows a figure. The path to a number is an enquiry form or a demonstration.

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Headcount drives the bill

Directories list OneLaw as priced per user. Every new solicitor, clerk or legal executive changes the cost of the system, not just the payroll.

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Onboarding and training as a project

OneLaw offers onboarding with capped costs, plus personalised training plans on site or remote. Capped is still a cost before the first matter opens.

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Hosting you do not control

Your firm's records sit on OneLaw's Microsoft Azure hosting under its cloud hosting terms. Backups and retention follow its schedule, not yours.

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The way in is documented, the way out is not

OneLaw describes migration into its system in detail. Its public pages say nothing about taking your matters and time history back out.

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Changes go through the vendor

OneLaw develops the product to its own roadmap. A report or workflow your firm wants that the product lacks becomes a request to them.

What your firm gets instead

The practice, answered from your own records

Deadlines

Nothing slips past a limitation date

Settlements, filings, hearings and limitation dates are counted down every day, and the promises your lawyers give other firms are kept in one register.

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  • check Undertakings recorded with who gave them, to whom and by when
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  • check A file cannot close while an undertaking on it is still open

Opening a file

Conflict checks across the firm's whole history

Every client and other party the firm has ever recorded is searched when a new file opens, and the client care records are checked before anyone bills.

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  • check New files refused on a conflict hit until someone records the call
  • check Engagement letter, fees, scope and customer due diligence tracked per matter
  • check Each check names the Conduct and Client Care rule it comes from

Fees

The numbers partners actually ask about

Time is recorded the way people say it, and the money questions get straight answers without waiting for a report to be built.

  • check Unbilled time per matter, with the oldest entry flagged
  • check Money tied up per client, unbilled and billed but unpaid together
  • check Each fee earner's real recovery after write-offs
  • check A warning when a matter is about to run past its estimate

Ownership

Your records, on your terms

It runs on one laptop with nothing to set up, or on your firm's own database for everyone. Plain records that any tool can read, now and in ten years.

  • check No seat count: add a graduate without changing the cost of the system
  • check Your OneLaw records brought across by Enterprise DNA
  • check Matter types and stages renamed into your firm's own language
  • check Open source under the MIT licence, so there is nothing to cancel

Make it yours

Design your own OneLaw replacement

Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from OneLaw. 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 OneLaw data across and run it for you.

Switching

How to switch from OneLaw

A move involves exporting the records your OneLaw account allows, mapping them to the new database, checking the import and carefully entering key dates and undertakings.

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    Export your records

    OneLaw does not publish an export process, so check with OneLaw and export what your account allows. Start with contacts, matters and time, then include any other records you want to bring across that you can export. Take the export while your subscription is still live, and decide which history you need before the move.

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    Load a test run

    Map the export to the new records, then run a test import before loading your live data. The import accepts CSV, and a test run lets you check how your records fit before you commit them. If you have Enterprise DNA run the move, they work out the mapping with you and carry out the test run.

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    Check the import flags

    Review the import results and check that clients, matters and time have landed where you expect. Imported clients have no CDD date and imported matters have an empty client care file by design, so check the compliance list and backfill what is missing. Enter key dates and undertakings in a careful pass rather than importing them incorrectly.

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    Run both side by side

    Keep OneLaw available for a short period while you use the new system for live work. Compare the records you rely on, including matter details, time, key dates and undertakings, and resolve anything that does not look right before you make the new system your main record. Keep trust accounting in its dedicated system, since it is not part of this system.

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    Switch off OneLaw

    When you have checked the records you need and are ready to work from the new system, arrange to end your OneLaw subscription. Make sure you have taken the exports you need before access ends. Trust accounting stays in a dedicated, audited trust account system, whether you keep your current one or move it separately.

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Where the real effort goes

The real work is usually mapping your firm's fields and rules, then deciding how much history to bring across. Key dates and undertakings need a deliberate manual pass, and the import flags records that need follow-up, such as missing CDD dates and client care information. If Enterprise DNA runs the move, they do the export mapping and test run with you.

Not ready for a call?

Get your OneLaw switch plan by email

We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off OneLaw, 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 run it

Run the free version, or have us run yours

Open source

Run it yourself

Free

  1. 1 Clone the repo from GitHub
  2. 2 npm run demo, then open the folder in Claude Code
  3. 3 Type /attention to see the demo firm's week
  4. 4 Point it at your own database when the firm is ready
Get it on GitHub

Omni by Enterprise DNA

Have Enterprise DNA build and run it

One setup fee, then a monthly retainer

  • check We map your OneLaw records across and walk the key dates and undertakings with you
  • check We shape it to your practice areas, file opening checks and partner reports
  • check We connect it to your email, documents and accounting
  • check It runs inside Omni, our managed Command Centre, with the rest of your firm
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Questions

Instead of OneLaw, answered

OneLaw does our trust accounting. What happens to that? expand_more

Trust accounting is not part of this system, on purpose. Trust money belongs in a dedicated, audited trust accounting system under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act. We help you keep or move it there, and this system holds everything around it: matters, conflicts, time, fees, dates and undertakings.

How do our OneLaw records come across? expand_more

OneLaw does not publish how its data is exported, so we work it out with you from what your firm can pull out, such as contacts, matters and time. We map those to the new records and do a test run first. Key dates and undertakings are entered in one careful pass, because they matter too much to import wrongly. Take your export while your subscription is still live.

OneLaw is a local company with local support. Why move? expand_more

Local support is worth having, and we are in New Zealand and Australia too. The difference is ownership: your records sit in a database your firm controls, nobody prices it by headcount, and changing how it works is a conversation with us or a sentence typed into it, not a development request.

Do our lawyers need to learn anything technical? expand_more

No. They ask in plain words, like which limitation dates fall in the next 60 days or what WIP is older than 90 days, and get a straight answer. The demo firm lets you try it before any of your own records go in.

Is the compliance checking legal advice? expand_more

No. It checks your own records against a written rule book, the client care rules, the conflict rules, undertakings, the AML/CFT Act and the Limitation Act, with every rule pointing to its source. Your firm reads the sources, adjusts the rules to its practice and keeps the judgement.

See what your firm would own instead

30 minutes with Sam. We go through what your firm uses OneLaw for day to day, what you would want to keep, and what your own version would look like. If it fits, we build it and bring your records across. If not, the free version is yours to run.

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