SpineLegal

SpineLegal is a cloud-based legal practice management platform for law firms, combining case and matter management, billing, document handling, and AI-assisted drafting in a single system, with jurisdiction-specific compliance built in.

Key features and functions include:

Legal AI
Drafts contracts, letters, and pleadings from matter data for further editing; reviews contracts for risk and flags issues against the matter; generates case summaries from document history; and supports drafting and review in multiple languages, including English, Arabic, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and Hindi. AI processing runs within the firm's own compliant environment, with no data shared with third-party tools.

Case and Matter Management
Provides a structure for tracking deadlines, documents, tasks, and client communications against each matter, with task assignment and tracking, file audits and checklists, risk capture and reporting, and pre-configured workflows for practice areas including civil litigation, immigration, conveyancing, family law, commercial law, IP law, personal injury, and wills and probate.

Document Management and Automation
Supports version-controlled document storage, one-click generation of case document sets from templates and matter data, multilingual templates, integration with Microsoft Word and scanned documents, and e-signature through DocuSign, with signed documents returned automatically to the matter.

Legal Accounting and Billing
Structures office and client ledgers to SRA Accounts Rules guidelines, supports ledger reconciliation with an audit trail, calculates and submits VAT through a Making Tax Digital module, captures time automatically against matters, and generates invoicing and payment collection through Xero and Stripe in multiple currencies.

Client Portal
Provides secure client messaging attached to the relevant matter, document sharing through an encrypted portal, client self-service access to case progress and key dates, online invoice payment through Stripe, and a shared feed for firm updates.

Workflow, Reporting, and Practice Management
Standardizes matter processing across the firm, supports quotation generation and conversion to invoices, provides practice dashboards and management information reporting, and includes contact management for clients, opposing parties, and other matter participants.

Compliance, Security, and Data Ownership
Hosted on Microsoft Azure with global data centers and disaster recovery. Compliance configurations are maintained per jurisdiction for GDPR, the SRA Accounts Rules, DIFC, UAE PDPL, India's DPDPA, and the Australian Privacy Act. Supports role-based user permissions and data portability, with feature and compliance updates delivered automatically.

Integrations and Access
Runs in-browser on desktop, tablet, or phone without installation, and integrates with Microsoft 365, Xero, Stripe, DocuSign, and UK Land Registry and HMRC filing, including SDLT submission.