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The company
We are a legal technology company based in British Columbia, Canada. Research and development is how we enter a market: we study local professional rules, legal accounting duties, and how firms actually run files, then we build the product around that — so the books are designed for what the regulator expects, not a generic package adapted after the fact. Canada is in market today, province by province. The same discipline is how we prepare likewise jurisdictions; new country products are announced when they are ready.
LawPractica Software Inc. is one company. lawpractica.com: the organisation, the team, and how to reach us. Each market gets its own customized product.
Canada is live at lawpractica.ca — English and French, with commercial terms and legal-accounting language for that country. Further country sites follow the same research-and-development path. They are published when they are ready, not as placeholders.
LawPractica is one product: cloud practice management with legal accounting built in. The file, the time, the invoice, the trust and office ledgers, and the documents stay on the same matter. The firm does not keep the practice in one system and the books in another.
Work is filed the way a practice already thinks — by law type and matter type. Defaults ship with the product so a new firm is not forced into a single generic “legal file.”
IT can keep the database and the application inside the firm’s own hosting boundary, on-premises or with another provider. Firms that want their own name in front of the product can ask about branding. Those arrangements are discussed directly, not published as a rate card. Contact us if that is how you intend to deliver LawPractica.
Guides: wiki.lawpractica.com. Service status: status.lawpractica.com.
Security and governance
When a firm chooses practice-management software, it is choosing who will hold client files, trust records, and personal information. LawPractica treats that as a legal and professional duty, not only an IT preference. We do not shop for the cheapest global region. We select only in-country hosting providers that hold the certifications a law firm is entitled to demand, and we will not put a market live until that infrastructure is in place.
Physical, network, application, and data controls are there so the file remains private, available to the people who are authorised to see it, and recoverable if something fails. Business continuity is planned for the same reason: the practice still has to open the matter the every morning.
A provider is eligible only if it is physically in the host country and independently certified. We require ISO/IEC 27001 (information security management), ISO/IEC 27017 (cloud security controls), ISO/IEC 27018 (protection of personal data in the cloud), and AICPA SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 Type 2 reports. Uncertified or offshore-by-default infrastructure is not used.
Canada production runs on OVHcloud Canada in Beauharnois, Quebec. OVHcloud holds ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, and 27018 for its Canadian datacentres, together with SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 Type 2 reports. Operations and automation stay in Central Canada. Further country products use a certified local host of the same standard before that market goes live.
Residency is incomplete if transit leaves the country. Client data residency and data transit stay inside the host jurisdiction. Support tooling and operational systems are chosen on the same basis, so a routine transfer does not become an unplanned cross-border disclosure.
Data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.2 or higher, using automatically managed SSL/TLS certificates issued via the ACME protocol. Backups are stored encrypted. The purpose is to protect client files and personal information against unauthorised access while they sit on disk or move between authorised systems.
Disaster recovery runs on a separate Sable Servers Inc. infrastructure in Montreal, not on the same OVHcloud production site. Sable Servers Inc. provides Canadian-hosted infrastructure with security and compliance controls, including ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 Type II assurance. Automated backups run twice daily. Retention keeps the last five days of backups for recovery. Backups are for recovery purposes and are not a substitute for the firm’s own retention duties.
Firms that must keep the database and application inside their own boundary can run LawPractica on-premises or with a provider they already trust. That hosting boundary does not have to leave the country either. Those arrangements are discussed directly with IT.
Hosting certifications are the floor, not the whole programme. LawPractica performs penetration testing annually and operates against ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management System guidelines for our own application, access, encryption, and recovery controls.
The product is built for multi-user firms. Access is limited to people the firm authorises, so a matter, a trust ledger, or a personal record is not open to the whole office by default. The firm remains responsible for who it invites and what those users may do.
Legal accounting is specialised work. LawPractica support staff and consultants are people who already know how a law firm’s books are kept. They do not enter a workspace unless the firm authorises it. Access is limited to the request in hand, granted through a secure channel, and transparent to the firm — there is no standing, undocumented way into another practice’s records.
Each practice has its own workspace and its own data store. A high-volume firm does not share that store with a sole practitioner or a two-lawyer office, so one practice’s load is not allowed to crowd the other. Larger firms can be placed on dedicated servers when volume requires it. Access to each store is scoped to that firm’s workspace - not a single shared store across all firms.
Canada product terms and privacy notices: Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions on lawpractica.ca.
The people who design, run, and support LawPractica. Each of them has already worked with numerous practice-management and legal-accounting systems used by Canadian law firms, bookkeepers, and accountants — then we build one product that is meant to replace that patchwork.
Legal Advisor, B.A., LLB
Called to the British Columbia bar in 1984. Founder of Fast & Company Law Firm, with more than forty years experience in probate, estates, real estate, and corporate work. Has completed multiple Law Society trust audits and used various practice management and legal accounting products over the years. Acts as consultant and advisor to LawPractica regarding optimization of software features and best implementation practices.
Director, Operations
More than fifteen years with Canadian bookkeeping and accounting firms that serve lawyers. In-depth knowledge of practice management, trust accounting, and general ledger products currently used by Canadian law firms. Uniquely positioned to assess and implement optimal software products, and streamline law firm operations.
SDM - Research & Development.
Thirteen-plus years in Canadian legal technology. Has designed and led practice management and legal accounting platforms for law firms across cloud, private cloud, and on-premises — the same delivery models LawPractica offers.
Head of Growth & Sales
Five-plus years growing and selling Canadian legal technology. Collaborates with firms that have already acquired and abandoned more than one practice management or accounting package, and assists them to determine whether LawPractica can replace that stack.
Customer Support Manager
More than five years supporting Canadian bookkeeping and accounting firms that serve lawyers. Has worked with law firms to migrate from legacy practice management and legal accounting platforms and get productive on LawPractica without losing the workflows they depend on.
Regional Software Development Manager
More than nine years building software for Canadian legal bookkeeping and accounting firms. Regional lead on products that must match the practice management and trust accounting systems those firms already know - including how they expect matters, trust, and the general ledger to behave.
Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead
More than nine years as a senior developer and team lead on software used by Canadian legal bookkeeping and accounting firms. Hands-on with the practice management and accounting workflows those offices already run, enabling streamlined adoption of LawPractica for those firms.
Senior Software Engineer
More than three years as a senior developer on practice management and legal accounting software in the Canadian context. Builds against the same well-established matter, trust, and bookkeeping patterns familiar to law offices from other software products.
