What we're building
Family law today. A Strategy Spine for every matter tomorrow.
MVP 1 gets your firm running with family law intake, contacts and FLENA precedents inside Microsoft 365. It is the first piece of a bigger platform, built by the team behind FLENA, that carries legal thinking, judgement and risk across the whole life of a matter.
Where we are headed
A practice management system runs files. LawManage runs legal thinking.
Your practice management system is built for billing, trust accounting and records. LawManage is being built as a Strategy Spine that sits across the lifecycle of a matter, so decisions, drafting, negotiation and resolution stay aligned, intentional and defensible.
It is built on FLENA’s proven methodology, so your team can see the why behind a matter, not just the what.
Our principle
This is not a workflow.
It is a thinking framework embedded in technology. Strategy lives in the matter, not in one person’s head, so it stays with the file when people step away.
The Strategy Spine
Five stages, from first call to final resolution
Two stages are live in MVP 1. The rest are in development and will be released progressively.
In MVP 1
01
Assess
Diagnoses the matter at the outset, identifying risk, complexity and strategic constraints early.
Coming next
02
Explore
Lets lawyers test pathways, anticipate consequences and design strategy before committing.
In MVP 1
03
Create
Keeps drafting and precedent selection aligned with strategy, posture and negotiation intent.
Coming next
04
Engage
Executes strategy through controlled communication, negotiation and collaboration.
Coming next
05
Resolve
Governs finalisation, so matters close safely, deliberately and completely.
What the Spine carries
Strategy that adapts as the matter changes
The Strategy Spine is not a checklist. It is the connective system that carries strategic intelligence across the matter, so decisions stay aligned as circumstances change.
Client objectives
- Safety
- Housing
- Stability
- Closure
- Legacy
Strategic pathways
- FDR
- Collaborative
- Litigation
- Hybrid
- Urgent intervention
Risk & constraints
- Safety risk
- Financial complexity
- Power imbalance
- Time pressure
- Jurisdictional limits
Adaptive direction
- Strategy evolves with the matter
- Without losing coherence
- Without losing intent
The problems we are solving
The real problems in family law are not administrative
They are strategic, ethical and human. This is what the full platform is designed to fix.
The problem
Strategy trapped in people
When strategy lives in one lawyer’s head, the team sees tasks but not judgement, risk or intent. Experience walks out the door.
The problem
Misdiagnosis at the start
If a matter is misdiagnosed at intake, no amount of good drafting can save it. Assess surfaces risk, complexity and constraints early.
The problem
Drafting that undermines outcomes
Documents are strategy, and once sent they cannot be undone. Create keeps drafting aligned with case theory, not muscle memory.
The problem
Strategy leakage in negotiation
Most damage happens incrementally, during negotiation. Engage gives strategy control over tone, documents and concessions.
The problem
Unsafe or incomplete resolution
Resolution without strategy is deferred risk. Resolve checks strategy, safety and integrity before settlement.
The problem
The human cost
When systems do not carry the thinking, people do. Carrying strategy in the system reduces cognitive load and burnout.
Extensions
Build the platform your firm needs
Extend LawManage with licensed Knowledge Partners, Practice Packs and Technology Modules. Add what you need, remove what you do not, without rebuilding your system.
Knowledge Partners
Specialist legal knowledge, precedents and education, licensed from trusted experts and embedded where you need it. Licensed, not harvested, and fairly compensated.
For example: FLENA, LawManage’s founding Knowledge Partner.
Practice Packs
Subscription modules that plug into the Strategy Spine and can be added, removed or evolved as your practice changes.
For example: In-depth intakes, family violence safety triaging, FLENA precedents and workflows, and the Property Strategy Engine.
Technology Modules
Microsoft 365 comes as standard. Third-party modules are switched on by choice, with new integrations released progressively.
For example: InfoTrack, Xero and litigation lenders.
Roadmap
Available now, and what is coming next
We release progressively, so founding firms get value from day one and help shape what comes next.
Available in MVP 1
Ready for founding firms
- In-depth family law intake and triage
- Automatic family violence triaging
- Contact management with automatic and manual conflict checks
- Precedent Studio with FLENA precedents
- Microsoft 365: Word and Outlook
Coming next
In development
- Build-Your-Own Precedents
- Property Strategy Engine
- Explore Assist (knowledge and research intelligence)
- Engage Portal (controlled negotiation and communication)
- SharePoint document storage
- Xero, with trust accounting and billing
- Bring your own AI
Your journey
A companion that adapts with your firm
Not a big-bang migration. Run LawManage alongside your existing practice management system, or run matters fully in LawManage. Scale up, scale down or change practice areas without being punished by your technology.
Works alongside
Your practice management system
CLIO, LEAP, ActionStep, FilePro, SILQ, Smokeball, One Law and other platforms. No direct integration required.
Be one of the first family law firms on LawManage
We are onboarding a small group of founding firms for MVP 1. Book a 30-minute demo and we will walk you through intake, triage and precedent generation on a real-world family law matter.
Family Law
Pricing
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