Your Firm's Intelligence
Always On
Used by law firms across Nigeria. Built for African legal practice. Ready for the world.
—The Reality of Running a Law Firm Today
The quiet costs of practising without a system.
Matters Managed by Memory
Court dates tracked in physical diaries. Limitation periods remembered by individuals. Preparation checklists that exist only in a lawyer's head. When a matter is reassigned or a lawyer is unavailable, critical deadlines fall through the cracks — and no one finds out until it is too late.
No Visibility Into Your Own Team
Managing Partners discover problems after the fact — overloaded associates, stalled matters, missed hearings, unacknowledged conflicts. There is no real-time view of who is doing what, which matters are at risk, and where the firm's capacity actually stands.
Organisational Knowledge that Walks Out the Door
Every time a senior exits the firm, five years of client relationships, matter strategies, drafting standards, and negotiation patterns leave with them — because none of it was ever recorded in a system the firm controls. The next lawyer starts from scratch.
Revenue Lost Before It Is Billed
Conference calls, research sessions, court attendances — hours of billable work that are never logged, never invoiced, and never recovered. Outstanding invoices are chased manually. Payment records are scattered. The firm never knows its true financial position until it is too late to act.
— The Solution
Meet Case Management System — Law Firm
Case Management System Law Firm is not a document storage tool or a billing add-on. It is a unified intelligence system that manages the complete lifecycle of legal practice, from the moment a prospective client makes first contact, through every stage of matter management, to final billing, archiving, and Organisational knowledge preservation.
At its centre is TIMI, an AI assistant embedded throughout every workflow. TIMI briefs your team every morning, drafts documents using your firm's own precedents, flags risks before they become problems, and ensures that nothing — no deadline, no billable hour, no client commitment — is ever lost again.
— Everything Your Firm Needs. In One Place.
Core features, built for the way you
practise.
— Client Intake Pipeline
Never Lose a Brief Before It Begins.
Track every prospect from first contact through interview, conflict check, and formal conversion. Every intake decision — accept, decline, or refer — is permanently on record. TIMI runs a background conflict check in real time as you conduct the interview.
— Matter Management
Every Brief. Fully Managed.
From first instruction to final closure, every matter is tracked, tasked, and visible. Court dates, preparation checklists, stage advancement, file notes, team assignments — all in one workspace. TIMI monitors every active matter and alerts your team before anything falls through the cracks.
— AI Document Drafting
First Drafts in Seconds. Not Hours.
TIMI drafts motions, agreements, opinions, and correspondence using your firm's own precedents, style standards, and clause library. A document that takes a junior associate three hours to structure from scratch is ready for review in under thirty seconds. Your lawyers spend their time thinking, not formatting.
— Billing & Invoice Management
From Unbilled Hours to Paid Invoice. In Minutes.
Capture billable time the moment it happens. Create invoices in seconds, manually or from collated time entries. Send with one tap. Track every outstanding payment. Acknowledge receipts with proof of payment attached. Your firm's complete financial position on one screen, updated in real time.
— Organisational Knowledge
Your Firm's Intelligence. Preserved Forever.
Every matter your firm closes automatically flows into the Organisational Knowledge vault — a living, AI-enriched archive of your entire body of legal work. Ask TIMI a question in plain English and receive a sourced, permission-filtered answer drawn from your firm's own history. Your best lawyer's knowledge never leaves the firm again.
— Secure Client Portal
Your Clients Always Know Where Things Stand.
Give every client a secure, professional window into their matter. They see the current stage, upcoming court dates, shared documents, and invoices — and communicate directly with their legal team through a protected channel. No more chasing lawyers for updates. No more informal communication with no record.
The question is no longer whether your firm needs this.
The question is how much longer you can afford to practise without it.
— Up and Running in Days. Not Months.
Three steps to a smarter firm.
Set Up Your Firm
Configure your firm profile, practice areas, team roles, and billing rates. Your matter templates, document folder structures, and lifecycle stages are pre-configured for Nigerian legal practice, ready to use from day one.
Open Your First Matter
Create a new brief manually or upload your existing documents and let TIMI extract the details automatically. Your team is notified, tasks are assigned, and the matter is live within minutes.
Let TIMI Go to Work
From the moment your first matter is open, TIMI begins monitoring, briefing, suggesting, and protecting. Every deadline is tracked. Every hour captured. Every document enriched. Every organisational insight preserved.
Your Firm Becomes Smarter With Every Matter It Closes.
Join the law firms building their organisational intelligence on Case Management System — Law Firm.
Demonstrations available in Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt. Remote demos available nationwide.
Got some questions?
We've got you covered
CMS — Law Firm was designed from the ground up for Nigerian and African legal practice, not adapted from a Western product. This means the platform reflects how Nigerian law firms actually operate: the court-filing practices of the Federal High Court and State High Courts, the NBA Rules of Professional Conduct, trust-accounting requirements under Nigerian bar regulations, and the NDPR data-privacy obligations that every firm must comply with. At the same time, the platform is built to international enterprise standards — fully capable of supporting cross-border matters, multi-currency billing, and firms working across multiple African jurisdictions. It is Africa-first and internationally ready.
WhatsApp and email are communication tools — they are not practice management systems. They do not track deadlines, assign tasks, flag conflicts of interest, monitor billable time, or preserve organisational knowledge. When a matter is disputed, there is no structured record. When a lawyer leaves, the communication history leaves with their personal phone.
CMS- Law Firm does not replace communication; it organises it. Every client message is threaded to the relevant matter, creating a permanent, searchable record. Every team conversation is linked to the work it relates to. And because all of this lives in a system the firm controls, not on a personal phone, the firm's relationships and history are protected regardless of staff changes.
Most firms are fully operational within a few days of account activation. The platform comes pre-configured with templates for the most common Nigerian practice areas, Litigation, Corporate and Commercial, Property and Conveyancing, Employment, Estate and Probate, and Advisory. Your matter stages, task checklists, and document folder structures are ready to use from day one.
For firms with existing matters, our onboarding team works with you to migrate key active matters into the system. For firms starting fresh, the process is even faster, create your first matter, assign your team, and TIMI goes to work immediately. No lengthy implementation project nor specialist IT resource required.
Data security is not a feature on CMS Law Firm; it is an architectural principle. Every firm's data is completely isolated from other firms on the platform at the database level. A user from Firm A cannot see, access, or even confirm the existence of Firm B's data under any circumstance.
Within your firm, access to every matter, document, and file is governed by a layered permission system — a document can be restricted to a single user while the broader matter remains visible to the team. The platform is designed for compliance with the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR), and all data processed on behalf of Nigerian firms is handled in accordance with applicable data residency requirements.
Every action taken on the platform, every login, every document access, every permission change, every invoice raised is recorded in an immutable audit trail retained for a minimum of seven years. Nothing is hidden and nothing can be altered after the fact.
Case Management System - Law Firm is built for every firm size from a solo practitioner upward.
For a solo practitioner, Case Management System - Law Firm means never missing a court date, capturing every billable hour, and having a professional client portal without needing a support team to maintain it.
For a small chambers, it means the managing partner has complete visibility into every active matter without calling a meeting. Pricing is structured to reflect firm size — smaller firms pay less, and the platform grows with you as your practice develops.
TIMI is a task-specific AI assistant embedded throughout the platform. It does not operate as a single general-purpose chatbot; it uses specialised agents for different tasks, viz, drafting, research, summarisation, compliance checking etc. Each agent is designed for a specific purpose and operates within strict boundaries.
TIMI never acts autonomously. It prepares, suggests, drafts, and flags but every output requires your explicit confirmation before anything is saved, sent, or acted upon. A document TIMI drafts does not go anywhere until you review and approve it. A task TIMI suggests does not appear on your list until you accept it. A strategy TIMI recalls from a previous matter is clearly labelled as AI-generated and sourced — you can see exactly which documents it drew from.
Critically, TIMI only accesses information the requesting user is already permitted to see. It cannot surface a restricted document, a confidential matter, or another client's information through its responses — the permission boundaries that govern human access govern TIMI'S access equally. Every query TIMI processes is logged in the audit trail. There are no black boxes and no unexplained outputs.
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