Filevine vs. LEAP Legal Software

Filevine is well suited if you want to have a practice management program that is not Clio and that is difficult to use, lacks essential features, and is overpromised. It is not suitable for heavy litigation. What kind of legal practice system refers to the core elements as "projects"? Not matters or cases?

LEAP is a really good option for small to medium sized firms. Most products on the market are expensive document management systems designed for large law firms. The other are case management software that are great for billing, contacts and calendaring. LEAP seems to combine both of the options in an easy to use system. It is customizable but is fully functional as an "off the shelf" product unlike IManage or similar products.

Incentivized

• Highly customizable.
• Great user interface.
• Easy to learn, simple to use.

Incentivized

• document management
• client contacts
• billing
• integration with QBO

Incentivized

• Aesthetically unpleasing user interface
• document management

• it has trouble with some non-Microsoft programs
• It has trouble with EXE files
• support is primarily on-line versus phone

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

IManage was great but we were quoted up to $40,000 to "customize" it to perform as it did in demonstrations. IManage was clearly designed/priced for large, multi-offices. LexWorkplace was another program that worked really well. It had real problems converting emails and certain files from our old program, Time Matters. LEAP was a reasonable, comprehensive program. It offered customer service, training and data conversion as part of the package.

Incentivized

• Loss of several thousand dollars
• Wasted time from numerous high pressure sales calls

• integrated system
• Ease of billing
• Syncs with Quickbooks Online

Incentivized