Legal aid software for nonprofits needs to take applications at volume, check conflicts before advice is given, manage casework without billing clients, and report on the work done. Many organizations also need grant reporting and eligibility screening, which are often the deciding features.
LawAOS covers intake, conflicts, matters and reporting. Applicants use public intake forms, conflicts are checked by fuzzy name matching across contacts, companies and matter parties, and matters can use the Pro bono fee arrangement. Reports and the custom report builder show open work, hours and matters by member, and a knowledge base holds the organization's guides with revision history.
LawAOS does not publish nonprofit or discounted pricing, and it has no grant reporting or eligibility screening. Organizations with pricing questions can reach us through the contact page.
- Intake forms
- Forms at a shareable link collect short and long text, dates, dropdowns, checkboxes and file uploads, with a honeypot and rate limits against spam.
- Conflict checks
- Every applicant and opposing party can be searched before advice is given, and a search that could not run is never stored as a clearance.
- Pro bono matters
- The Pro bono fee arrangement records that the client is not billed, while time can still be recorded to show the work done.
- Know-how and training
- The knowledge base keeps articles with revision history, and CLE courses written by the organization carry credit categories and certificates.
- Volunteer and staff roles
- Roles limit what volunteers and staff can see per module, checked on the server.
- Whether your funders require reports in a fixed format that LawAOS does not produce.
- How you screen eligibility today, since LawAOS has no eligibility rules or means test.
- What the per-user price means for your number of staff and volunteers.
- Where your data must be hosted, since the primary database is in Asia-Pacific (Sydney).
- Who will own the intake form, the conflict search and the knowledge base, since each needs a person to keep it current.
- Which staff and volunteers need seats, since every seat is billed per user a month.
Publish an intake form
Create a Client Intake form and share its link with applicants and partner agencies.
See the moduleCheck conflicts
Search the applicant and other parties before the first advice appointment.
See the moduleOpen a pro bono matter
Convert the application into a matter with the Pro bono fee arrangement and assign the caseworker.
See the moduleRecord time and outcomes
Record time as non-billable and keep notes, documents and deadlines on the matter.
See the moduleReport on the work
Use report tabs and the custom report builder for hours, open work and matters, with CSV export.
See the module
Stated plainly, so you can decide before you sign up rather than after.
- No nonprofit or discounted pricing is published; plans are the same for every organization.
- There is no grant reporting in a funder's format and no eligibility screening or means test.
- Intake forms are shared by link and cannot be embedded on the organization's website.
- The primary database is hosted in Asia-Pacific (Sydney), with no other hosting region on the shared service.
Anything the list leaves open, our team answers directly.