Cloud-based legal case management solution for enterprises
4.6/5 (48 reviews)Filevine is a cloud-based project, team, and case management solution designed for legal professionals and firms. The solution helps legal firms to organize case documents in an orderly fashion and assists in streamlining communication between lawyers, assistants, paralegals, and clients.
Filevine assists businesses in managing deadlines, reporting, tracking project bills & expenses, recording documents, and evaluating ideal settlement terms for clients. The tool also supports project management and collaboration. Filevine allows lawyers to efficiently collaborate with their clients and team members. The solution records every internal as well as external communication and allows legal firms to organize client details, case notes, meetings, and tasks. The self-learning algorithm enables Filevine to observe repeated steps involved in a case lifecycle and automatically generate the next set of workflows for the lawyers and assistants after each phase.
Filevine offers an accurate litigation calendar that stores every milestone related to a case - especially case deadlines. The solution automatically sends a reminder to lawyers and their teams as soon as any critical milestone approaches. Filevine offers multiple templates to report and analyze various KPIs and improve business practices. The settlement calculator tool helps to evaluate the different options offered during a case settlement and suggest the best scenario for clients.
Filevine offers advanced standards of data security including HTTPS grade encryption, server side verification, redundant data backups and secure e-payments. The solution serves a wide range of organizations and is ideal for teams of four or more legal associates looking for an application to collaborate, organize and expand client base.
Pros
This software adapts to the way you practice law. You don't organize your cases the way a vendor tells you to, you do it your way. You use your own, trusted, time-tested checklists and processes. But Filevine takes what you have built over your career to the next level by allowing you to streamline intake, and standard tasks you do in every case. The best way I can put is I don't need to cut-and-pate any more. I just click a button and I'm ready to serve standard sets of discovery. I don't need guess whether we ordered a court reporter for a deposition. There's a "Yes" or "No" button that says we did or didn't. I don't even need to manually check when we last did something on a case--I just click a button and a report tells me when the last activity occurred.
Cons
The set-up time is significant, especially if you are particular about the way things need to look and feel. But that's to be expected for something you can customize from the ground up. Outlook integration could be better, but it has improved since I've come on board. All signs indicate it's going to continue to get better.
The PI department in my firm (my department) has used Filevine for about two years now. I think we were one of its first users. My firm also uses Clio. Clio has some real strengths in trust accounting and thinks like that. But Clio doesn't hold a candle to Filevine when it comes to communication.
Filevine absolutely shines in the area of communication. That is an area where Clio and other practice managers fail. The Filevine Feed give unparalleled team cooperation and collaboration opportunities. Clio notes and tasks are combersome and my firm kind of ignores that feature. Filevine notes and tasks are the central feature of Filevine (imo) and it shows that the development team built it with team communication as the central goal.
It is the only software that my office has ever used where I have been able to convince my staff to consistently take notes on what is happening in the case. I can think of at least four times in the last year where there was a dispute with the court, and insurance company, or a client about what we said or did. We pulled up Filevine, showed them our time-stamped notes and won the day.
I also love, love, love the text-to-file feature. We can assign a private texting number to each client. The clients text directly into their case feed where I team can respond in text back. Clients can text pictures to that number, and Filevine will save them to the documents folder. If i am on the go, and I need to get a copy of a client's documents, I will often just take a picture of them and text them to the client's Filevine number. The texting feature means that texts aren't fragmented between different telephones. It means I can monitor communication between my team and my client. It means that we can reduce time-wasting phone calls by answering concise texts when we are ready. Clients really seem to love it.
In all fairness, Filevine is still rough in a couple of areas. I have spoken with the developers, and I know that they are working around the clock to bring new functionality and to make existing functionality more elegant. I personally don't mind software that still has room to grow as long as it has a team that is excited about making it grow. I think Clio has that kind of a team too. I know that Filevine does.
Anyway, it is worth taking a look at it. I know the Filevine team also spends a lot of time onboarding you with customization for your own firm. It is kind of cool.
I get the ability to move my cases quickly and in a way that produces repeatable results. There is a huge increase in our efficiency and organization.
Pros
Filevine's feed is deceptively simple. It looks a ton like Facebook. But that's part of the genius. We had trouble getting our team to use other case management software. They would take notes in various programs. But they have all taken to Filevine. The ability to send texts to clients from the feed is game changing for us. We love the document automation and workflows. We recently connected Filevine with Domo to give us best in class automated visual reports for our KPIs. We enjoy the ability to share tabs with our clients, experts, and referring counsel. Filevine allows us to scale our processes. We are very satisfied. Customer support is first rate. I used Clio for almost 6 years.
Cons
Sometimes data has to be entered multiple times in various fields - like birthdates. This is a small annoyance. I do wish that Filevine had an intake tab that functioned like Lexicata to allow our clients to enter in some of their information without us.
Pros
The best thing about this product is the fact that it's fully web-based. Gone are the days of needing a beefy back end and/or an SQL server to host the databases. Now all of your data is secure and in the cloud for easy access for attorneys and their staffs.
Cons
The biggest con with this software was the setup. They sold us on a seamless integration, which is never the truth, with a dedicated handler. To put it plainly, our installation was not pretty. Lots of delays and having to really push to have certain items exported from our former client management system and entered into the proper fields within theirs. Was it worth the headache of making the move, absolutely, however it could have been handled much better in my opinion.
The convenience of being able to access case information on the go - all of it - notes, documents, contact information, etc. It's easy to maneuver as well so you get your info quickly.
Pros
Easy to learn, can be tailored to suit your needs, and is a one-stop shop for all of the information and pertinent documents for your files. You control what's inputted and it can be as much or as little as you want/need. Support is quick to respond and very helpful. All issues that I have experienced have been quickly resolved.
Cons
The software is still evolving so there are minor issues that pop up - not bugs, just things that could be improved. That said, every issue I've noticed and called to support's attention has been resolved by the team promptly.
Filevine is charged on a per user, per month basis.
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• Filevine helps to systemize business workflows by defining roles and operations for each stakeholder within a firm.
• The solution can be used as a lead generator, task manager, document manager or a communication management system across large, multi-location firms.
• Filevine enables multiple users to collaborate on a case to minimize the case study time and ensure that everyone within the team is onboard as early as possible.
• Filevine logs every interaction with clients and records all documents, meeting notes, payment history, bills, and expenses in a centralized repository.
• Filevine is capable of preventing loss or theft of critical business data and offers security features such as data traffic encryption, server-side verification, redundant data backup and secure credit card data storage.
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Filevine offers the following pricing plans:
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Filevine is charged on a per user, per month basis.
Contact Filevine for detailed pricing and discounts.
Filevine offers the following features:
Filevine has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business
Filevine supports the following languages:
English
Filevine has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
We do not have any information about what devices Filevine supports
Filevine integrates with the following applications:
Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Law Ruler, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, NetDocuments, Office 365, Shape, SpringCM
Filevine offers the following support options:
FAQs, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
With Filevine's help, I've been able to increase three-fold the number of active cases I feel comfortable handling. It's a great product, with a great support team. I would highly recommend it to everyone, especially if you already have a billing program you like and don't want to change.