NoRA Advanced

NoRA Advanced is a law office management system organized around an electronic file to which documents, correspondence, deadlines, and financial records are linked. It is offered in editions for lawyers, notaries, and legal departments and associations, with optional add-on modules extending core functionality.

Key features and functions include:

Electronic File
Serves as the central record for each matter, linking documents, correspondence, deadlines, and financial data, with structured data capture by practice area for both legal and notarial matters.

Document Management and Generation
Creates documents from templates using matter data within standard office applications, then sends and files them to the matter. A no-code document and contract generator, a text block library, document preview, PDF/A conversion, and OCR for full-text search support document work.

Deadlines and Workflow
Maintains a deadline calendar and follow-up system designed to meet German court requirements, along with an internal workflow mailbox for delegating documents, tasks, and callback requests between staff. Action lists support batch processing of files or addresses, such as for enforcement proceedings and mail merges.

Time Recording and Billing
Records time with a stopwatch function that feeds into billing, and supports invoicing under the German statutory lawyer fee schedule or hourly rates, incidental expense capture, open item management, payment reminders, payment transactions, and litigation cost calculation.

Financial Accounting and Reporting
Provides bookkeeping through to annual financial statements, business analyses such as revenue distribution and liquidity, dashboards built from saved searches, and advanced search across all data.

Notarial Functions
Supports notarial work with a digital deed register and inheritance contract register, escrow and custody ledgers, notarial fee billing, certified shareholder lists, and automated generation of notarial correspondence with associated deadlines.

Legal Department and Association Functions
Offers cost capture for legal departments, litigation cost provisions, and member management for associations.

Contact Management and Telephony
Manages contacts and master data, including a court database, and links telephone systems to the software to match incoming callers with client files.

AI Assistant
Provides optional AI functionality through an integrated third-party platform, supporting contract and pleading analysis, drafting in a firm’s style, handwriting recognition, a knowledge base built from firm files, routing of incoming mail, and template filling. Personal data is anonymized before being processed by language models.