In comparison to past products I have used in the past, including Needles and TrialWorks, Filevine is just as great a product and even has some features and abilities that the others haven't. I would prefer to continue using Filevine.
I have used other products which aren't available to list here, but Filevine is powerful but lags in ease of use, billing, and reporting compared to other platforms.
I have previously used LegalServer, which I felt was not as easy/user friendly as Filevine has been. The layout was a lot more technical looking and it was much more difficult to navigate through the case files. The one major thing I will say that I liked more about LegalServer …
I’ve tried Clio, MyCase, and PracticePanther. Clio is super user-friendly with lots of integrations, MyCase is great for billing and communication but more limited on automation, and PracticePanther is easy to use but not as strong on reporting. Compared to them, Filevine feels …
Filevine is so much more detailed and extensive in terms of keeping all the information for each case in one place. I can even edit docs within filevine and combine docs and create emails and faxes right from within. I feel Filevine is an all in one stop and helps keep …
File Vine is an excellent product due to its ease of use and organizational capabilities. Have used another product, but it's not as vast as File Vine.
I have used Zelous. It is a smaller known case management software. I was a public defender. it was created for public defenders by public defenders. I have also used Defender Data. Filevine blows both of these products out of the water.
much more customizable. We have a niche practice - ERISA - not a personal injury practice. Clio does not fit what we do and Filevine can be customized to fit.
Night and day difference between FV and Practice Panther. PP was easy to start but has massive limitations. FV can be built for anything. It's the Salesforce of this segment.
Filevine is much easier to learn and use, the user interface is more appealing (with bigger fonts and easy-to-understand icons), and its customization feature is easier to use and understand.
File Vine is well-suited because I believe it was invented to assist Law Firms with document organization for the legal cases collected in a Law Firm. It is easy to navigate and find your documents with a click of a button.
Filevine is complex, and while it manages documents well, it fails in almost every other aspect. It does not do a two-way sync to your outside calendar, and you can forget about having reports available to easily monitor performance. The reporting system appears robust but complicated at first, but then it becomes obvious that the report functions are extremely limited in practical uses every law firm expects, and therefore reporting in Filevine is just unnecessarily complex and overall a failure.
Because of the customization factors and add-ins, usability is truly based on how you build out your Filevine. I've made it so user friendly, that any new hires can easily run a case from start to finish without the added stress of trying to figure it out on their own. The use of the Filevine University is always helpful for those one off questions that you require additional assistance
Their live video chat support is a good resource, but often the problem cannot be resolved through this chat, and then promises to have someone follow up are almost always dropped. Filevine fails to make corrections for glitches or missing basic functions.
I have previously used LegalServer, which I felt was not as easy/user friendly as Filevine has been. The layout was a lot more technical looking and it was much more difficult to navigate through the case files. The one major thing I will say that I liked more about LegalServer was the function to email documents to a case file email and those would automatically upload to the file