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The company

About LawPractica Software Inc.

 

We design software that lets a law firm run the whole matter in one place. Client management, time, billing, document generation, and built-in legal accounting — so the practice stays in control from first instruction to the final ledger and bank reconciliation.

 

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 similar jurisdictions; new country products are announced when they are ready.

Company and country


LawPractica Software Inc. is one company. lawpractica.com is 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.

What we build


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

Client data stays in the country where the firm practises


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.


Certified in-country hosting — no exceptions

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.

Primary data centre — Canada

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.

Data-transfer policy

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.

Encryption

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 — Canada

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.

Private cloud and on-premises

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.

Independent testing & audit

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.

Access control

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.

Support security & compliance

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.

Architecture

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 team


LawPractica is organised by department. Each department is led by people who have already spent years inside the legal industry — in practice, in legal bookkeeping and accounting, and in the software those offices run. Together they bring decades of work with the practice-management and legal-accounting systems used by Canadian law firms, bookkeepers, and accountants, applied to one product meant to replace that patchwork.


LawPractica colleagues in a meeting room

Legal

Leading by professionals with more than forty years in Canadian legal practice

Probate, estates, real estate, and corporate work, including Law Society trust audits and years of running a working office on successive practice-management and legal-accounting products. This department advises LawPractica on which features matter and how a firm should put them into use.

Operations

Leading by professionals with more than fifteen years in Canadian legal bookkeeping and accounting

Work with the bookkeeping and accounting firms that serve lawyers, and with the practice-management, trust-accounting, and general-ledger products those offices already use. The department puts a better system in place without disrupting the office.

Research and development

Leading by professionals with more than thirteen years in Canadian legal technology

Design and direction of practice-management and legal-accounting platforms for law firms — cloud, private cloud, and on-premises, the same delivery models LawPractica offers.

Growth and sales

Leading by professionals with more than five years in Canadian legal technology

Work with firms that have already bought and left more than one practice-management or accounting package, and with helping them judge whether LawPractica can replace that stack.

Customer support

Leading by professionals with more than five years in Canadian legal bookkeeping and accounting

Support for bookkeeping and accounting firms that serve lawyers, including the move off legacy practice-management and legal-accounting platforms onto LawPractica without losing the workflows an office depends on.

Cloud-based software development

Leading by professionals with more than nine years in Canadian legal technology

Software for legal bookkeeping and accounting firms, built to match the practice-management and trust-accounting systems those firms already know — matters, trust, and the general ledger included.

Engineering leadership

Leading by professionals with more than nine years in Canadian legal technology

Engineering direction for software used by legal bookkeeping and accounting firms. The department stays hands-on with the practice-management and accounting workflows those offices already run, so firms can move onto LawPractica without relearning the work.

Human resources

Leading the people who build and support LawPractica

Hiring, workplace standards, and day-to-day support for every department — legal advice, operations, product, sales, customer support, and engineering — so the experience behind LawPractica stays with the company.

LawPractica product and operations colleagues collaborating