SpineLegal's legal software features bring AI-powered drafting, case management, SRA-compliant accounting and secure client collaboration into one platform.
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SpineLegal brings every essential tool your firm needs into one intelligent, streamlined platform. Designed for solicitors, legal practitioners, and busy support teams, our software removes manual admin, simplifies case management, and strengthens client communication — all while helping your practice stay compliant and fully organised.
From case tracking and document automation to time recording, billing, and integrated email management, SpineLegal ensures your firm can work smarter, faster, and with total confidence. Underpinning it all, our built-in Legal Software AI handles the heavy lifting — automating repetitive tasks, surfacing key insights, and helping your team make faster, better-informed decisions every day. Whether you handle litigation, conveyancing, immigration, family law, or intellectual property matters, our features are built to support your daily workflows and long-term growth.
Store and manage documents in the your private cloud
Everything a solicitor firm needs to run matters, bill accurately, stay compliant and keep clients informed — without stitching together separate tools.
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Drafting, review and summarisation, in seven languages.
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Track every matter, task, deadline and risk in one workspace.
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Storage, automation, templates and e-signature via DocuSign.
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SRA-compliant ledgers, VAT, and payments via Xero and Stripe.
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Secure messaging, document sharing and self-service.
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Standardise matter processing and see firm-wide MI.
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Multi-jurisdiction rules, hosted on Microsoft Azure.
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Works with your tools, on any device's browser.
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See SpineLegal next to Clio, LEAP and others.
SpineLegal’s built-in AI drafts contracts, letters and legal documents, reviews contracts for risk, and summarises case files — working in English, Arabic, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Hindi and more, entirely inside your firm’s own compliant environment.
Generate first drafts of contracts, letters and pleadings from your matter data, then edit and finalise inside SpineLegal.
Review contracts for risk before they go out, with issues flagged against the matter.
Generate summaries from your document history so anyone picking up a file gets up to speed fast.
Draft and review documents in the language your client prefers, without a separate translation step.
AI runs inside your compliant, jurisdiction-specific environment — nothing is copy-pasted into an external tool.
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The full matter lifecycle — deadlines, documents, time recording, tasks and client communications — linked to a single file, whatever the practice area.
A built-in structure for every matter type, from conveyancing to commercial litigation.
Assign, track and close tasks against the matter they belong to, with clear ownership.
Run pre-defined checklists to audit files for completeness and quality.
Capture and report risks as they arise, so nothing is left to institutional memory.
Pre-configured workflows and deadline logic for Civil Litigation, Immigration, Conveyancing, Family Law, Commercial Law, IP Law, Personal Injury and Wills & Probate.
Read the full breakdown: Case management software
Every document sits with its matter, with version-controlled storage, multilingual templates and DocuSign built in for signing.
Store and organise documents securely, with version history kept against the matter.
Generate a full set of case documents in one click from your templates and matter data.
Codify your firm's precedents once, then reuse them consistently across every language you operate in.
Work directly in Word, manage PDFs, and bring in scanned documents without leaving SpineLegal.
Send documents for digital signature in any supported language, and have them return to the matter automatically once signed.
Learn more: Legal document management software
Accounting built for solicitors, not adapted from generic finance software — office and client ledgers stay properly separated, with invoicing and payment collection through Xero and Stripe in any currency.
Office and client accounts are structured to SRA Accounts Rules guidelines.
Reconcile client and office account statements against the ledger with a clear audit trail.
Calculate and submit VAT for each reporting period through the digital VAT module.
Time is captured against the matter as you work, so no one has to reconstruct a timesheet from memory.
Generate invoices from time and quotations, and collect payment online in any currency.
Related pages: Billing & legal accounting Time recording
A secure client-facing interface for matter updates, document sharing and messaging — in whichever language your client prefers.
Message clients directly on the matter, keeping the conversation attached to the file.
Share and receive documents with clients through an encrypted portal, not email attachments.
Let clients check progress and key dates without needing to call or email the fee-earner.
Let clients settle invoices directly through the portal via Stripe.
Share updates and announcements with clients or staff from a single feed.
Learn more: Client portal
Standardise how matters move through your firm, then see the results in reporting your partners can act on.
Standardise matter processing so every fee-earner follows the same proven steps.
Generate quotations from configured templates, ready to convert into an invoice.
See firm performance through charts and reports built for partners and managers.
Generate management information in one click to run the firm more effectively.
Manage clients, opponents and other matter participants from one place.
Hosted on Microsoft Azure with global data centres and a 99.9% uptime SLA, with compliance rules for GDPR, SRA, DIFC, UAE PDPL, India DPDPA and the Australian Privacy Act built in per region.
Global data centres, full disaster recovery and a 99.9% uptime SLA.
GDPR, SRA, DIFC, UAE PDPL, India DPDPA and Australian Privacy Act rules, kept current per region.
Full data portability — your firm retains ownership and control at all times.
Control exactly what each person in the firm can see and do, by role.
New features and compliance patches are delivered automatically, at no extra cost.
Learn more: Security & compliance
SpineLegal works alongside the tools your firm already relies on — and because it’s a secure web platform rather than a native app, your team can open it from a laptop, tablet or phone browser without installing anything.
SpineLegal runs in the browser, so it works the same way on desktop, tablet or phone — nothing to download or update.
Outlook, Word and Teams — synced, not siloed.
Billing sync and payment collection across currencies.
Digital signing in all supported languages.
SDLT submission and Land Registry filing direct from SpineLegal.
Microsoft 365 
Stripe 
DocuSign 
Land Registry & HMRC 
Global Trademark DBSee every integration: Integrations · IP practices: Trademark & IP software
Firms often shortlist SpineLegal alongside Clio, LEAP and InsightLegal. Here’s how the platforms line up on the features that matter to solicitor firms.
Case studies from firms of different sizes, showing how they use SpineLegal day to day.
Case study: small firm — JT Solicitors
Case study: mid-sized firm — CRCS Legal
Case study: large firm — CityLegal
“A game changer for our immigration cases, with support that responds faster than any provider we’ve worked with.”
City Legal Solicitors — Immigration, UK
“We search trademark numbers in seconds and see every deadline and case note in one view.“
Helena Reid — IP Law, UK
“The system was tailor-made to our requirements from day one, with training that was genuinely intuitive.”
Barbara Spoor — CRCS Legal, UK
SpineLegal includes built-in AI for document drafting, contract review, case summarisation and billing automation. It works inside your firm's own compliant environment and does not send client data to third-party AI tools.
Yes. SpineLegal's legal accounting module is built to SRA Accounts Rules guidelines, with dedicated office and client ledgers, VAT handling and reconciliation tools, plus billing and payment collection through Xero and Stripe.
SpineLegal supports law firms in the UK, UAE, India, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Canada and South Africa, running on Microsoft Azure global infrastructure in seven languages.
Yes. SpineLegal is a secure, web-based platform rather than a native app, so you can access matters, documents and your calendar from any device with a browser.
Yes. SpineLegal integrates with Microsoft 365, including Word, Outlook and Teams, alongside Xero, Stripe, DocuSign and Land Registry and HMRC submissions.
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