// FORGEOS COUNSEL · LITIGATION PRACTICE OS
One screen runs the practice.
Counsel is the commercial-litigation operating system we built. Matters, time, trust, court deadlines, correspondence and AI drafting in one tool. No tab-switching, no lost units, no missed dates.
// 01 / HOW IT WORKS
Six things it does while you work the file.
01 / 06
The whole practice at a glance.
Every day opens on one view: active matters, work in progress, trust held, and a critical-dates watch that counts down every court deadline and limitation date. Overdue items pulse red.
02 / 06
Open a matter, and it's all there.
The file, the litigation timetable, parties and counsel, costs, disbursements, trust, correspondence, documents and the file register, behind one header.
03 / 06
Cost and duration, read off the file.
Counsel reads the documents, letters of demand, correspondence and the firm's comparable matters, then estimates the likely cost and duration by stage, for a partner to approve. On approval it drafts the costs disclosure.
04 / 06
Trust that warns you first.
Counsel watches the trust balance against unbilled work. When it no longer covers the work in progress, an alert fires with a revised estimate and a recommended top-up.
05 / 06
Pick the matter, then dial.
A dial pad that fills the client's number the moment you choose a matter, and starts recording time against it. Texts and internal messages work the same way.
06 / 06
Email that files itself.
Incoming mail is flagged to the right matter, filtering by matter starts the clock, and opening an email records the time. Save it to the file or reply in one step.
// 02 / ALSO IN THE BUILD
The rest of what ships with it.
01
Automatic time capture
Work is recorded as it happens, into a firm-wide time review.
02
Numbered file register
Documents auto-named, dated and categorised; deadlines pulled from court orders.
03
Simple and full modes
A guided screen for juniors, the whole console for principals.
04
Approvals queue
Estimates, letters and updates approved before anything leaves the firm.
05
Trust, Xero, disbursements
A trust ledger per matter, reconciliation and disbursement tracking.
06
Letters on letterhead
AI-drafted correspondence rendered to PDF on the firm's letterhead.
07
Document store
Files held securely, attached to the matter.
08
Built for the jurisdiction
Australian English, GST, DD/MM/YYYY, LPUL-aware.
// WHERE COUNSEL FITS
Counsel is one of the operating systems we build. The approach is the same one ForgeOS runs on any business: understand how the work actually gets done, then rebuild it as software that does the work.
Run a practice? Tell us how your firm works.
We reply within one business day
// 03 / ENQUIRE
See it on a matter like yours.
Tell us how your practice runs today: matters, time, trust and the tools in between. We call you back within one business day.
- 01You enquire. Two minutes.
- 02We call within one business day.
- 03We walk through a matter like yours, live.
- 04If it isn't right for your firm, we'll say so.