New Features

This page includes some of the new features the application is considering in the future versions.

Webhook

GitHub Issue 1480

• Polling vs Webhook. A webhook is an HTTP-based callback function that allows lightweight, event-driven communication between 2 application programming interfaces (APIs).

Webhooks are used by web apps to receive small amounts of data from other apps.

Advantages of including webhooks in a system include

• improved reliability,
• faster data processing,
• reduced manual effort.

Read on about webhook for Xero here

Setting up Trust Accounts

• Trust Accounting.

Scraping of Individual Calendar

GitHub Issue 1481 Function to extract Calender events and

• Allocate to Matters
• View date, time, and who is invited
• Link back to calendar

Create Organisation VIA ABN

GitHub Issue 1449

• New feature to allow creation of new organisation via ABN lookup
• Auto fill form with results from ABN Lookup Read More About ABNLookup here

AI

Read on OpenAI, hoping to embed ChatGPT into the ALP application to aid in system tasks to be more automated.

Telephone call data for Contacts

Integrate call data spreadsheets to show phone interactions with Contacts.

• Create time entries.
• API from softphones. Table is already in database: here

Client portal

Limited direct access for clients to key data based on one-time passwords.

Research Client Needs

• Update their own details (name, address, subscriptions, etc.)
• Invoicing/payments.
• Key documents – permanent record
• Matter status,
• etc (Limited)
• Corporate and key referrers.
• Emails to clients on Matter -> triggers link to request OTP.

Digital signing

• Work Proposals – priority.
• Final document after lawyer review needs to go through signing process.

Email Upgrade

• To include Conversation

Notification Upgrade

GitHub Issue 971

• Clickable links in notification

Global Search

New feature of Global Searching the entire application.

Line Laying Module (LLM)

Communications Line Laying Module (LLM).

Ability to train on our own data. Ownership of trained data. Foundry.

Ability to run on our own servers.

Read on LLM.

Stage 1:

• Use of natural language functions to speed up tasks in Portal.
• Short-medium term strategy: Do not use to do direct legal work for now. Use NL ability to improve Portal functions.
• Email summaries.
• Time recording – check for incorrect language. Make recommended time entries from things like emails and calendar entries. Tie-in with Dash prompts.

Stage 2:

• Tweak towards our dataset.
• Try this

Mobile App or Mini-Browser

• Limited functions
  • Time entry
  • Contact look up –> call

Web-scraping and API calls

Read more about Scraping here

• Use automation to fill in Contact and Organisation data.

ABN. LinkedIn. Social media. ASIC (GetEdge). Organisational websites, etc.

VOI Process

GitHub Issue 1478 Verification of Identity

• Upload of documents to validate who they are.

Other Products

• Email chronologies for legal cases. Core data extraction.
• Interactive display
• Document review. (FYI integration)
• Portal for other mid-large law firms.
• Data analysis