Legal Practice Management System


Practice management made easy

ActionStep is an elegant end-to-end practice management system that will help you bring workload under control, give better service to clients and maximise billable time.

With its unique workflow-based approach, ActionStep will support consistently excellent results from your team, bring effortless efficiency to your practice and increase profits.

One of the great aspects of ActionStep is the efficiency and productivity… you only enter information once.
David Hayward Partner, Shirley Law

How workflow can help you


Key features include:

  • Client and matter management
  • Workflow with steps, tasks and alerts
  • Time recording
  • Automated matter billing
  • Trust accounting
  • Document generation and management
  • Shared calendars
  • Matter-based email
  • System audit trail
  • Access online anywhere, anytime

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Workflow

“Real workflow” allows you to bake your legal expertise into the DNA of the firm, by creating templates that are applied for different matter types. It’s an approach that will increase the productivity and quality of your output without increasing costs.

Real workflow sits at the heart of your practice management system, and drives everything that happens in your business — from first initial client contact (website form, email, or phone), through to engagement, service delivery, and billing. You set up a map of how you want you firm to run by creating a series of interconnected steps.

Different paths can be followed through the map depending on the circumstances of each particular matter.

How can “real workflow” help you?

Many practice management systems are just variants of the same theme (appointments, time recording, and billing), and workflow is nothing more than an organised to-do list. "Real Workflow" is very different, and is the key to increasing profits and reducing stress. Learn more here.


At each step you can define:

  • The tasks that need to be performed by each staff role
  • Whether tasks must be completed before leaving the current step
  • Whether tasks must be completed before arriving at some future step
  • Documents that need to be completed
  • Data that needs to be captured
  • The matter participants that are required
  • If a file note must be entered
  • An automatic email that should be sent out (e.g. client updates)
  • Whether an invoice needs to be raised
  • And lots more…
  • Automation through real workflow is especially important in practice areas such as bankruptcy, collections, employment, family, immigration, personal injury, and real estate to name a few.
  • It means routine work can be passed to legal assistants with the comfort of knowing it will be done right every time.
  • Your time is freed up to focus on the areas where your skills can deliver the most value, to maximise the firm’s profitability.

The benefits of workflow

Once you starting using ActionStep’s workflow you’ll notice a fundamental change in your practice:

  • Staff will feel empowered because they know exactly what they need to do each day and where to find the information
  • Service delivery will occur faster and more accurately
  • You will have greater visibility into how your practice is running, and will quickly be able to identify and fix bottlenecks
  • You will be able to focus on delivering value-added legal service rather than administration

The bottom line is that you will get more work through the firm, for less cost and higher quality.

The net result: less stress and larger profits!