Run the legal practice inside Odoo: open matters for clients after a conflict-of-interest check, plan court hearings in the Odoo calendar, never miss a limitation date, log time and bill clients by fixed fee, by the hour or with a monthly retainer. Clients follow their matters, hearings and invoices in their portal.
Key Features
- Legal matters — Client, opposing parties and counsel, matter type, court, judge, court case number, stage board, responsible lawyer and team, outcome when closed.
- Conflict-of-interest check — Opening a matter compares its parties with every other matter of the firm, by contact, tax ID and company name. A conflict blocks the opening until a managing lawyer waives it with a reason.
- Court hearings in the calendar — Each hearing is an Odoo calendar event for the attending lawyers, with reminders, adjournments that plan the next hearing and a hearing notice e-mail to the client.
- Deadlines and limitation dates — Filing, response, appeal and limitation deadlines create activities ahead of the due date; missed deadlines are flagged every day.
- Time entries — Lawyers log hours per matter; rounding increment, rates per matter, per lawyer or per company; billed time is locked.
- Billing three ways — Fixed fee, hourly from unbilled time, or a recurring retainer, all as Odoo customer invoices linked to the matter.
- Strict confidentiality — Lawyers see only their own matters; confidential matters are visible to their team only.
- Client portal and reports — "My Matters" with hearings and invoices for clients; matter report PDF, matter, time and hearing analysis.
Benefits
- One place for every case file, date and hour spent
- No hearing or limitation date forgotten: calendar reminders and activities
- Bill all recorded time, never twice
- Clients informed without phone calls
Ideal For
- Law firms and solicitors' practices
- In-house legal departments tracking cases and external counsel time
- Advocates, attorneys and legal consultants working alone or in teams
Technical Highlights
- Depends on Invoicing, Calendar and Portal only; Community and Enterprise
- Uses Odoo contacts, users, calendar events and alarms, activities, chatter attachments and customer invoices
- Lawyer and Managing Lawyer roles; confidential, multi-company and portal record rules
- Per-company settings with defaults; fully translatable
Supported Odoo Versions
- Odoo 19
- Odoo 20
