Commitment to Innovation
We commit more than $20 million a year to research and development so that our clients have the best possible experience.
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30+ years of innovation
Backed by over 30 years of innovation, LEAP lets you run an efficient and flexible law firm from anywhere, at any time. Serving law firms in Australia for 20 years before expanding to the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and now New Zealand, LEAP gives law firms the benefit of a global platform that incorporates jurisdiction-specific solutions as well as local content and support.
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Aug 2024
Generate precedents with ease using AI
Our AI-powered template generator helps you produce letters, emails and forms in less than a minute. Type in the document you’re after and select from:
Past work (correspondence or precedents from your firm)
AI-generated documents via LawY
Forms available from LEAP, which are included within your LEAP subscription
Precedents from your By Lawyers subscription
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Aug 2024
Customised email signatures in LawConnect
Enhance your firm’s email communications with the new custom signature feature. This firm-wide setting allows you to include fields for Staff name, phone number, email, role, Firm name, and Firm email in your custom signature. Access it via App Settings > Firm > LawConnect Emails. After setting up your custom footer, you can send a test email to view how it will appear. Experience a more personalised and professional appearance for your LawConnect emails.
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Apr 2024
Get instant answers from your matter
Leveraging cutting-edge AI algorithms, Matter AI analyses all the intricate details within your matter, enabling you to streamline your workflow and deliver exceptional legal counsel to your clients.
Matter AI can search for contact information, critical dates, and appointments within your matter. It will intelligently scan your documents, emails, and attachments, even performing OCR on images, scanned PDFs and handwritten notes. From 10 to 10,000+ documents, receive a detailed response along with references to the specific files in seconds.
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Mar 2024
Power BI
LEAP is the first legal software provider with a Microsoft-certified Power BI connector. Seamlessly integrate the LEAP Practice Productivity Solution with Microsoft Power BI to gain powerful performance metrics, enhance decision-making, and optimise your legal practice with fewer resources.
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Feb 2024
LawY - Your trusted AI legal assistant.
LawY is the only AI legal assistant that generates answers to your legal questions from an expanding legal knowledge base, where answers are then verified by real, qualified lawyers. This blend of cutting-edge AI and human expertise is at the heart of our service, empowering you with accurate answers you can trust.
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Feb 2024
Intelligent Time Recording
Can't remember last week? We've got you. Let AutoTime allow you to concentrate on doing your legal work while LEAP AI auto-records your time in the background.
Our intelligent time recording automatically logs your billable hours, eliminating the need to manually make time entries. This simplifies billing and provides insights into your overall productivity, so you can focus on high-value work.
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NOV 2023
Conflict Check App
The Conflict Check app simplifies how you complete conflict of interest checks in LEAP. By searching across all People, Cards, Matters and Correspondence, you can quickly identify where a conflict may arise before instruction. With a full history of changes and integration with the applicable Compliance area of LEAP, you are given an indelible record to prove you acted with full knowledge when taking instructions from clients. You can add notes to the Conflict Check, set statuses and also assign to other users to review the check if required.
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NOV 2023
Memo & Voice transcription
Memo & Voice transcription – Live transcription will begin in real time when recording a voice memo. Choose to save the transcript only, the voice recording only, or both. The transcript will be saved as a new comment on the matter.
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MAY 2023
ABA Payments to export batch transactions
The ABA Payments app allows LEAP users to export batch transactions in the ABA file format and upload them to their banking portals.
With features like searching, validation and exporting files all in a simplified user-friendly platform, this app will save you hours of what would otherwise be manual and repetitive work.
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MAY 2023
Mobile App as LEAP Authenticator
Enable 2FA (two factor authentication) across your law firm with the LEAP Mobile App, which can now be used exclusively as a LEAP Authenticator. This allows admin users to restrict access to sensitive client data when staff are out of the office or on personal devices. It also improves your cybersecurity in line with best practice.
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FEB 2023
Call Logging - manage incoming phone calls for everyone in your firm
Forget taking information on an easily-lost post-it note, or sending an email that a client has called. Through the Call Logging app, you can easily capture the nature of a phone enquiry, allocate it to a Card or Matter and assign it to a staff member. Staff are notified within LEAP of new calls logged.
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Jan 2023
LEAP User Portal
Streamline your onboarding experience with the self-service LEAP User Portal, allowing you to access and manage your account before, during and beyond your LEAP installation. Troubleshoot issues through the Help Centre, contact your Legal Practice Advisor or upskill via LEAP University, which provides quick online tutorials to help you unlock the full automation power of LEAP - all in one location.
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MAR 2022
Online Invoicing
Deliver high-quality legal bills directly to your client’s Inbox using LEAP’s Interactive Invoice. This new billing system provides you with the ability to insert links to important documents created in the billing period to convey the real value of the work you have done in a way that clients can understand and appreciate. Clients can see the amount of time spent and the individuals responsible for the work on their matter. A Request further information feature has also been introduced for those exceptional cases where a client requests additional details concerning the time spent by a staff member.
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MAR 2022
AutoTime
Seamlessly record activity as you work from your LEAP matter. AutoTime records time on documents, pdfs, emails, appointments and Excel spreadsheets - removing the need of a fee earner to start and stop a timer to manually monitor time. Your firm’s interactive invoices will provide clients with a detailed summary containing links to actual documents worked on, as well as easy online payment options so they can pay their bill right then and there.
DEC 2021
Clause Library
Clause Library gives lawyers the power to draft contracts, forms and legal documents more efficiently and accurately than ever before. With Clause Library, lawyers finish legal drafting faster, so they can save time, improve client service and make more money.
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NOV 2021
Westlaw App
The Westlaw app brings simplicity and confidence to your legal research workflow. With Westlaw accessible directly from the app, you can take advantage of cutting-edge technology informed by an expert team of in-house lawyers to bring you the most up-to-date primary and secondary law in one place.
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NOV 2021
LEAP App built for iPad
Take your productivity to a whole new level with the new LEAP Mobile App for iPad. Managing your cards, matters, appointments and tasks from your smart device has never been easier.
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OCT 2021
Financial Statement App
LEAP’s Financial Statement App is now available in the LEAP Marketplace. Save time on manually entering data with client and matter data used to automatically populate and calculate your Financial Statements.
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AUG 2021
LawConnect Mobile App
The LawConnect app lets you easily and securely share documents with your clients. Available on iOS and Android devices, the app gives your clients the convenience to view and collaborate on documents, sign forms or cost agreements, pay invoices and view their trust statements in one secure and easily accessible location.
JUN 2021
LEAP Marketplace
The LEAP Marketplace is the best place to find apps that integrate with LEAP. Offering a wide range of apps that add functionality to matters, cards and more, the LEAP Marketplace lets you extend LEAP’s capabilities to suit your firm. Anyone with a LEAP account can browse, enable and manage apps within LEAP. Get started with the LEAP Marketplace by browsing all available apps below.
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MAY 2021
Winner of the Established Business of the Year Award
We're proud to announce that we have ranked number one in the Law category and named as winner of the Established Business of the Year at the Australian Digital Technology Awards 2021.
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MAY 2021
Settlement Adjustment Sheets
LEAP’s new Settlement Statements, Statement of Adjustments and Adjustment Sheets provide conveyancers with an even more efficient way to work out council and water rate proportions. With one consistent approach for all states (excluding NT & TAS), LEAP has the tools you need to get this complex and time consuming form completed effortlessly. New features include a statement view where you can create multiple statement types in the one document, time period automatic start/end date calculations, and the ability to create a direction item.
NOV 2020
BundlePro
BundlePro allows law firms to create professional, presentable, cost effective and fully text searchable electronic PDF bundles for the courts in minutes. By automatically converting large volumes of documents into a single PDF, complete with an auto-generated paginated index, bookmarks, hyperlinks and a cover page you can save time and money with BundlePro. Once a bundle has been created, an automatic disbursement can be generated and saved to the corresponding LEAP matter.
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OCT 2020
LEAP innovation recognised
I’m very pleased to share that LEAP Dev has taken out 7th place in the AFR list of Most Innovative Companies for 2020. The Award really is a testament to the teams at LEAP Dev who are continually thinking and working outside the box to deliver a range of innovations to LEAP users. Innovation always has been and always will be the driving force between everything we do. Mark Burgess - CEO, LEAP Dev
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SEP 2020
Off The Plan Recurring Matters
The Off The Plan Recurring Matters application can be enabled directly from the applications menu in LEAP to take the work out of managing off the plan projects. By automating and streamlining repetitive tasks, the application gives you back hours of productivity.
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JUL 2020
E-filing for Victorian probate matters
Transition to mandated e-filing for probate matters in Victoria with integration between LEAP and InfoTrack. Easily file a probate application with minimal data entry from a LEAP matter. By completing your probate applications with InfoTrack, up to 70% of the pre-entered matter information will be use to pre-populate the e-filing form.
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May 2020
Zoom integration
Easily start or schedule a Zoom meeting with colleagues or clients directly from a LEAP matter. Integration between Zoom and LEAP lets you quickly start video and audio calls as well as sync scheduled calls with your Outlook calendar.
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APR 2020
Stay up-to-date with Court Sync
Court Sync helps litigators stay up-to-date when documents are received from the Court Portal and eliminates the need to manually add court documents to a matter. Once documents, orders and judgments are submitted, clients can click the ‘Court Sync’ button within LEAP and any updated documents will be automatically saved to the corresponding matter
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APR 2020
Microsoft Teams integration
LEAP and Microsoft Teams integration makes it easy to collaborate with your team from any location. Share and collaborate on documents and matters, conduct audio or video calls with your team and schedule client callbacks directly from LEAP using Microsoft Teams' instant messaging service.
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APR 2020
FaceTime video calling
Video call clients from your iOS device with the new LEAP and FaceTime integration. Take advantage of face-to-face meetings from any location with the ability to send FaceTime invitations from the LEAP Mobile. With the option to automatically record time spent on FaceTime calls made through the LEAP Mobile App, all time entries are accounted for.
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MAR 2020
Alerts and notifications pane
Easily view a quick snapshot of what’s new in a matter so you can stay on top of incoming work. The new alerts and notifications pane ensures you’ll never miss an appointment, payment search or task.
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DEC 2019
Introducing LEAP 2x
LEAP 2x is one of the most innovative updates our software has seen. With this release, you’ll find a new look and exciting range of new features to enhance your productivity and efficiency. With a smoother experience in Windows and enhancements to accounting, documents, quick links and more, there is truly something exciting for everyone in this release.
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NOV 2019
Record time and fees with Amazon Alexa
Record time and create fees with integration between Amazon Alexa and LEAP Assistant, the voice-driven integration that allows you to use LEAP with only your voice. Take advantage of the ability to create matter-specific time and fee entries without a single click.
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SEP 2019
Record activities using your Apple and Android Watch
Easily record billable time on the go using an Apple or Android Watch. Quickly start, stop and save entries with the flick of a wrist. You will receive a LEAP notification on your mobile in order to complete all entries.
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MAY 2019
Voice Memos
Work anywhere, anytime when you record and save voice memos directly to the correspondence section of a LEAP matter from your iPhone. Easily replay and review recordings from either your iPhone or desktop computer at a later time.
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JAN 2019
Create a New Matter on Mobile
Create a new matter while working on the go or meeting with clients. With the LEAP mobile app for iOS devices, you can select the matter type as well as enter matter and client details without needing to return to the office.
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NOV 2018
Two-Factor Authentication
Rest assured that your data is safe with two-factor authentication (2FA). Even if your password is compromised, your data will remain secure with secondary verification required by the LEAP mobile app.
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NOV 2018
Comment & Reply on Shared Documents
Easily and securely collaborate on documents with colleagues or clients via LawConnect. Add comments to documents and suggest changes without the need to keep track of multiple document versions or e-mail correspondence.
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AUG 2018
RapidPay Instalment Plans
Get paid on time by offering clients instalment plans. Set up monthly or fortnightly instalments to take payment for future work, or to help clients pay off outstanding matter balances.
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MAY 2018
Staff Licence Management
Manage and edit your LEAP user licences with ease when you update staff details and permissions directly from LEAP. Staff can also change their own passwords from LEAP.
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FEB 2018
Electronic Signatures
Request electronic signatures (eSignatures) using LawConnect and DocuSign for Cost Agreements in Guides & Precedents.
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SEP 2017
Document Compare
Compare two documents in a single matter, across multiple matters or from outside LEAP to view changes made across various versions.
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MAY 2017
RapidPay
Make it easier for your clients to pay you when you accept online payments through your website using credit card, EFT and BPAY. Get paid the same day with automatic bank reconciliation.
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JAN 2017
Time, Save & Close
Capture time more easily with Time, Save and Close. With a single tap, you can instantly record time against your timesheet and have documents or correspondence saved directly to your matter.
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