Jade is an open-source case management tool tailored for small and medium-sized law firms, offering a digital repository for case documents and activity with a user-friendly interface. It provides features such as consolidated time recording, secure access, collaboration tools, and detailed reporting while ensuring data security through role-based access and audit trails. The software is customizable and can be hosted on private servers, making it a flexible solution for legal professionals.

1. Jade
Open SourceCaseManagement
for SME Law Firms
Vikram Vaswani
October 2017

2. Overview
● Digital repository of casedocumentsand activity
● Consolidated timerecording and reporting
● Simple, easy to learn interface
● Desktop and mobilebrowser access
● Secureand scalable; host on your own server
● Open source; freeto useand fully customizable
Designed for SME law firms
and independent legal professionals

3. CaseManagement and Collaboration
● Consolidated "digital hub" for casefiles, hours
worked, customer and billing details...
● "Hoursworked" reportsfor casesand users
● Company-wideshared document templatesand tags
● Easy collaboration with granular, per-caseaccess
privileges
● Client dashboard
● "Recent activity" streams

4. CaseManagement and Collaboration

5. Security
● Role-based access
● Employees/ clients/ administrators
● Secureby default
● Nil accessto client dataunlessexplicitly granted by case
owner
● Audit trails
● Each modification logged and traceableto aspecific user
● Open source
● Sourcecodefreely availablefor inspection

6. Security

7. Roadmap
● Full-text search
● Invoicegeneration
● Email integration with caseactivity streams
● REST API for third-party tool integration
Download and try:
github.com/vvaswani/jade
Report bugsand add ideas:
waffle.io/vvaswani/jade