We commit more than $20 million a year to research and development so that our clients have the best possible experience.
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.
Aug 2024
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.
Aug 2024
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
Apr 2024
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.
Aug 2024
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.
Jul 2024
Streamline your transaction management within LEAP with effortless creation of payments, approvals and more. Enhance control and security through configurable approval workflows, all within a seamless LEAP integration.
Mar 2024
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.
Feb 2024
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.
NOV 2023
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.
Nov 2023
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.
MAY 2023
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.
Jan 2023
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.
FEB 2023
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.
MAR 2022
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.
NOV 2021
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.
JUN 2021
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.
MAY 2021
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.
NOV 2020
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.
OCT 2020
"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
May 2020
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.
APR 2020
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.
APR 2020
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.
2020
MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT
DEC 2019
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.
NOV 2019
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.
MAY 2019
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.
FEB 2018
Request electronic signatures (eSignatures) using LawConnect and DocuSign for Cost Agreements in Guides & Precedents.
JAN 2019
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.
NOV 2018
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.
2015
MAJOR ANOUNCEMENT
2013
MAJOR ANOUNCEMENT
2012
LEAP’s cloud solution launches, allowing practitioners to work anywhere, at any time.
1992
LEAP Legal Software was born in Australia, catering to the needs of small law firms in all common areas of law.
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