Stop climbing Smokeball's tiers. Own your firm's practice system.

The figures a principal runs the firm on come straight from the time and invoice records, asked for in plain words.

• check Recovery and effective hourly rate per fee earner after write-offs
• check Lock-up per client: unbilled work plus invoices still unpaid
• check Unbilled entries older than ninety days, flagged by matter
• check A warning when a matter runs past the estimate the client was quoted

Every date that can hurt the firm is a record with a countdown, and one request lists what needs a decision this week, most dangerous first.

• check Limitation dates rank above settlements, hearings and filings
• check An undertakings register with the wording, the giver and the due date
• check A matter refuses to close while an undertaking is still open
• check Matters with a near limitation date and a quiet month, surfaced together

A name is searched across every client, party and matter the firm has recorded, and each file carries its engagement checks with the rule cited.

• check Conflict search over the firm's full history, closed matters included
• check New matters refused when a party on the other side hits
• check Engagement letter, scope, fees, conflict and identity checks on every file
• check No invoice drafted on a matter missing its engagement letter

Plain records in a database the firm controls, on one laptop for a sole practitioner or shared across the office.

• check No charge per user, per tier or per add-on
• check Old matters stay readable without keeping a subscription alive
• check Fields, practice areas and rules renamed to how your firm speaks
• check MIT licence, so there is no vendor to give notice to