Legal document management software
Our document management system for law firms will enable your practice to be more organised and manage your documents and files more effectively.
Manage all your legal documents and emails, automatically storing them against the appropriate case file, giving you a full history and quick, easy access.
Key features of our document management software
Learn more about our legal document management software features that help your law firm achieve its goals. Our document management software sits within our case management software and practice management software suites.
Automation and integrations
Remove admin work with a host of automated features. Emails, legal accounts and your digital dictation are all integrated with your case management, meaning you can do all of your work without ever leaving your software.
Search and manage documents with ease
Search a phrase within a document and the system will search through the content of every document, including email attachments in moments. Create fully paginated and indexed court and core bundles in seconds with our document management system specifically designed for law firms.
Share large documents securely
Securely store and share all of your documents, with 50GB of storage space as standard. Customers value the security and utility of our software for legal documents
Data and reporting
Law firms may need to see how the portal is being used by clients and third parties. Comprehensive data and business insights (BI) from the portal are available as part of our practice management reporting suite.
Claims Management
Access Legal insurance claims system improves your case handling, reducing the time spent processing each case, increasing the quality of service your clients receive, and improving your bottom line.
Cost Drafting
Access Legal Cost Drafting Software assists with bill creation, from layout and calculation to the production of a red line bill, enabling you to extract maximum value from fee earners’ time, with more streamlined daily processes.
Finding and managing legal documents
- Securely store and share large documents with up to 50GB of document storage space
- The full-text search tool enables a word or phrase within a document, email or attachment to be used to find the item, not just the file name
- Create a paginated, indexed, bookmarked court bundle or core bundle in minutes from documents on your case file to meet court requirements
Access Legal solutions integrate with a wide range of suppliers and services, enabling you to streamline more of your processes straight from your software. Learn more >
Sharing documents and files securely
- Quickly and securely share legal documents with clients, colleagues and third parties and send them to your client portal
- Sign and share allows you to digitally sign a document prior to sending, saving time and removing the need to print
- Your client can sign on any device and you instantly receive a copy of the signed document, which is automatically added to the case file to maintain a full audit trail
"We implemented Access Legal’s online document delivery and acceptance tool, which has proven vital in enhancing our client onboarding process - it’s all done with the click of a button." - Steven Hinchcliffe, IT Executive at Hudgell Solicitors’
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It’s time to embrace collaboration, agility and efficiency
Improve the performance of your legal practice and generate additional value with one seamless document management system for law firms.
Explore the market-leading Access Legal software solutions
A complete and unrivalled set of legal software solutions for the legal market incorporating case & practice management and legal accounts, alongside HR, learning, compliance and cloud hosting, all integrated through Access Workspace.
Speak to our legal specialists to see how Access legal software can benefit your organisation.
Hansells Solicitors and Financial Advisors
Established in 1827, Hansells Solicitors and Financial Advisors has substantially grown over the decades and is now a leading name within the UK. Following a number of successful mergers, today the firm has over 115 staff and partners, all working from seven offices across Norfolk.
Hansells boasts an enviable reputation due to its ethos of continually developing and improving its services to meet the changing needs of both personal and corporate clients.
“As an established practice, we continually develop our services to meet our clients needs. Access Legal is a fantastic solution for us – its flexibility allows us to give a better, cost-effective service by enabling us to rapidly adapt to client and sector requirements.” - Karon Harrison, IT Manager
Read how Hansells work with Access Legal to adapt to client and sector requirements.
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Legal document management software FAQs
What is legal document management?
A document management system provides law firms with a central secure area to store documents, emails and files related to a client. In addition, a document management system can fully automate the filing procedure and make retrieving documents simple and easy
Could my firm benefit from software for its legal documents?
If your organisation is still reliant on paper files and traditional archiving, then legal document management software can revolutionise admin processes and deliver transformative improvements in operational efficiency.
Firms that have transitioned to digital documents will save earners time by implementing a single file storage system with advanced retrieval capabilities, plus the streamlined court bundle creation, cost drafting and claims management functionalities.