Legal PlatformConceptCasebound
Practice management for law firms: matters, time, documents and billing.
Practice management for small and mid-sized law firms: matters and key dates, time recording, document management, billing and client account tracking.
- Category
- Legal · Practice Management
- Designed for
- Web
Why Casebound exists
The problem
Law firms track deadlines in calendars, time in spreadsheets and documents in shared drives, and unbilled time quietly leaks away.
The product
Casebound keeps every matter's dates, documents, time and money together, suggests billable time that was missed and drafts bills from recorded work.
Built for: Law firms and legal teams with 2 to 100 fee earners.
- Matter files with key dates and conflict checks
- One-click time recording and billable-time suggestions
- Versioned documents with client-portal sharing
- Draft bills from recorded time
- Client account tracking and reconciliation
- Budget tracking with client notifications
Walkthrough
Every Matter Under Control
Designed around a fee earner's week: deadlines first, then time, then billing.
- 01
Fee Earner Dashboard
Billable hours against target, unbilled work, overdue invoices and the week's key dates.
- 02
Matter File
Client, opponent, court, budget and a full activity history for every matter.
- 03
Time Recording
A week of time entries with rates, values and suggestions for missed billable work.
- 04
Billing
Billed and collected this month, realisation rate, client account balance, invoices and aged debt.
Every screen
The full experience.
What makes it different
Confidential By Design
Matter-level permissions, ethical walls and full audit logs, with client money tracked separately from office money.
Deadlines You Cannot Miss
Key dates tracked per matter with escalating reminders.
Time That Gets Billed
One-click timers and suggestions from calendar and email activity.
Ethical Walls
Matter-level access controls and conflict checks at intake.
Client Account
Client money tracked and reconciled separately from office funds.
How it’s built
The technology stack.
The architecture we would build this on today, and why each piece earns its place.
- Web app
Next.js (App Router), React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
Fast, accessible interfaces with server rendering where it helps
- API
NestJS on Node.js · REST + WebSockets
Typed modules, clear boundaries and live updates for busy screens
- Database
PostgreSQL with row-level security
Relational integrity for money and stock, with tenant isolation in the database itself
- Background jobs
Redis + BullMQ
Imports, emails, reports and integrations run reliably off the request path
- Documents
Encrypted object storage with versioning and full-text search
Confidential documents that are easy to find
- Integrations
Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace APIs
Email and calendar activity feeds time suggestions
- Infrastructure
AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS), Terraform, GitHub Actions
Reproducible environments and automated deploys from day one
- Observability
OpenTelemetry, Sentry, structured audit logs
Every error traced and every sensitive change attributable
More inside
The Whole Practice, In One System.
From intake to final bill, the screens fee earners and finance use every day.
Documents
Versioned documents with secure sharing through a client portal.
Client Intake
Conflict checks, identity verification and engagement letters.
What comes next
On the roadmap.
What a second release would add once the first one is in real users’ hands.
- 01E-signature for engagement letters
- 02Court e-filing integrations
- 03Precedent and template library
- 04Client portal mobile app
- 05AI document summaries
Related
Services and industries behind this work.
Concept project
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This is concept work: the product design, screens and architecture we would start from. If your business needs practice management or professional-services software, we can scope a first release with you, usually within a week.
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