Are your attorneys spending time on admin that should never land on a lawyer's desk?
How confident are you that every statute of limitations and filing deadline is tracked in a system that won't miss one?
Your attorneys bill 1,900 hours a year. Too many of those hours are admin.
Law firms lose 20 to 30 percent of billable time to work that isn't legal work. Client intake that takes five emails to complete. Document drafts assembled by hand from the same template used for the last hundred matters. Statute of limitations dates tracked in a shared spreadsheet nobody fully trusts. Billing entries written from memory at the end of the week.
At RaftLabs, we build automation systems for law firms and in-house legal teams that eliminate the admin drag without changing how attorneys practice law. Not a generic practice management tool — software built around your matter types, your intake process, your document library, and your billing structure. We've shipped 100+ products across professional services industries. We know what legal automation looks like when it actually gets used.
Automated document drafting from your own templates and matter data
Client intake flows that collect everything on the first contact
Deadline tracking with court filing reminders that don't depend on anyone's memory
Fixed scope and fixed price before development starts
RaftLabs builds custom legal automation software for law firms and in-house legal teams that automates document drafting from firm templates, client intake and onboarding, matter management workflows, billing and time tracking, deadline and statute of limitations tracking, court filing reminders, and compliance monitoring. Each system is built around the firm's existing matter types and document library rather than adapted from generic tools.
Law firms run on documents and deadlines. Both are automatable.
Legal work that requires attorney judgment cannot be automated, and shouldn't be. But the work that surrounds it — collecting client information, assembling documents from templates, tracking deadlines, routing approvals, generating invoices — follows patterns. Those patterns are exactly what automation is built for. The firms that have recognized this are recovering 400 to 600 hours of attorney time per year. The ones still managing intake by email and deadlines by spreadsheet are one missed filing away from a malpractice claim.
What we build
Document Drafting Automation
We connect your approved template library to your matter management data. When a new document is needed, the system populates the template with client name, matter details, relevant dates, and jurisdiction-specific variables — and sends the draft to the responsible attorney for review. For high-volume document types, the drafting step goes from 30 minutes to under two minutes. Clause libraries let attorneys insert pre-approved language without writing from scratch.
Client Intake and Onboarding
Intake forms that collect everything your team needs on the first contact — not through five follow-up emails. The form routes to the right attorney based on matter type, triggers an automatic conflict check, and creates the matter record in your case management system. Clients get a clear next-steps confirmation. Your intake team stops being a relay station for incomplete information.
Deadline and SOL Tracking
Statute of limitations dates, court filing deadlines, response windows, and contract renewal dates should not live in a spreadsheet anyone has to remember to check. We build deadline tracking systems where every critical date is logged at matter creation, monitored automatically, and triggers escalating reminders as it approaches. If no action is taken inside a defined window, the system escalates to the supervising partner.
Matter Management Workflows
Matter progression workflows that move a case through defined stages with clear task assignments, document checklists, and approval gates. Every team member sees what's open on their matters without a status meeting. Partners see portfolio-level views across all active matters. Nothing stalls because someone didn't know it was their turn.
Billing and Time Tracking Automation
Time entry capture as work happens — not reconstructed from memory on Friday afternoon. Billing rules applied automatically: minimum increments, matter-specific rate schedules, write-off approval workflows. Invoice generation from approved time entries, sent for attorney review before going to the client. The gap between hours worked and hours billed closes.
Compliance Monitoring
For firms working in regulated practice areas, compliance tracking for CLE requirements, bar registration renewals, engagement letter requirements, trust account reconciliation schedules, and jurisdiction-specific filing rules. Automated reminders before expiration. Compliance records stored and auditable. No one finds out something lapsed because a client or regulator asked about it first.
How many attorney hours per week go to work a junior clerk could handle?
Most firms have never calculated it. We help you measure it, then eliminate it.
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Frequently asked questions
Any workflow that follows a consistent pattern and doesn't require attorney judgment at every step. Document drafting is the obvious one — most firms use the same base agreements, motions, and letters repeatedly, with variables swapped in from matter data. An automation system drafts the document from the template, populates it with client and matter details, and sends it for attorney review in seconds instead of thirty minutes. Client intake is another high-value target: structured intake forms that collect the information your team actually needs, route the matter to the right attorney, and trigger the conflict check automatically. Deadline tracking — statute of limitations dates, court filing deadlines, response windows — should never live in a spreadsheet. It should be in a system with automated reminders that escalates when something is approaching and no one has acted on it. Billing entry collection, time tracking, and invoice generation are also strong targets because the cost of imprecision is direct revenue leakage.
Yes. Most legal automation work we do sits on top of existing systems rather than replacing them. We integrate with Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, Filevine, NetDocuments, iManage, and most systems with an API. We also integrate with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace for document generation and email-based triggers. The goal is automation that works within tools your team already uses — not another system they have to remember to open. If you're running something non-standard or proprietary, we assess integration feasibility before the engagement starts.
Document drafting automation generates the first draft — populated from your approved template library and the matter's data record. Every generated document goes to an attorney for review before it goes anywhere. The automation eliminates the assembly work, not the judgment. For high-volume document types like NDAs, engagement letters, demand letters, or standard discovery responses, the time savings per document range from 20 to 45 minutes. Across a firm handling hundreds of matters, that compounds into thousands of billable hours recovered per year. We also build clause libraries so attorneys can insert pre-approved language without drafting from scratch each time.
Legal data is among the most sensitive we work with, and we treat it accordingly. Every system we build uses encrypted storage and transit, strict role-based access controls, and comprehensive audit logging — who accessed what matter data and when. We design for attorney-client privilege protection by ensuring that data access patterns match your firm's actual role structure. For firms with specific compliance requirements, including state bar rules on data residency or handling, we scope those requirements in the discovery phase before any build commitment is made. You receive a full security architecture document as part of project delivery.