Bracton

The whole practice on one system, with the work already done.

Bracton runs your matters, documents, diary, time and money, with the assistant built in. A firm that moves onto it replaces its present system.

  • Every live file read overnight, with the work drafted.
  • Every date computed from the rule that produces it.
  • Client money and office money kept apart, and a breaching save refused.
  • Time recorded from what a fee earner did.
See it run Find out which one fits, two minutes
Bracton
The whole application on the Today screen, the firm's sections down the left, the overdue client money comparison at the head of the morning's items, and the breach with its clock running beneath it

Illustrative. The application as a fee earner meets it in the morning, and every screen below comes from the same software, on invented files.

What the platform holds

Bracton holds what a firm in England and Wales needs to conduct legal work.

What the record holds

The matters and parties, the documents and correspondence, the diary with its limitation engine, time recording and billing, the client and office ledgers kept under the SRA Accounts Rules, anti money laundering and conflict searching, the court and Land Registry forms, and the compliance record a regulator would ask to see.

Unlike the system you run today, it does not wait to be asked. Where a contract holds you elsewhere, the assistant is sold on its own.

The platform, screen by screen

The morning list

Each fee earner opens the day to the files that need attention, each with the action drafted. The sweep runs every working day, never on a Saturday, a Sunday or a bank holiday.

The checks that keep the firm current

Underneath sit the Civil Procedure Rules, the practice directions and the HMCTS forms, checked weekly for a changed edition.

Bracton, Today
The morning's items on the Today screen, the client money comparison and the breach with its clock running, above the four doors of the firm's day with their honest counts

Illustrative. Working software, on invented files.

Every date carries its rule

The limitation engine reads the file, finds the trigger, applies the rule and writes the date.

A divorce file, 43 days counted

A divorce file, the engine counting 43 days from the conditional order and saying why on the entry.

Bracton, file diary
The diary of a personal injury file, each date carrying its rule on its face, the acknowledgment twenty one days after the letter of claim, the answer on liability three months after the acknowledgment, and the four months for serving the claim form ending with the warning that an unserved claim form dies with them

Illustrative. Working software, on an invented file.

Money moves by named acts

Bracton has no dropdown. Every movement of money is one of nine named acts, answered from the ledger, and the decision the SRA Accounts Rules care about is not left to whoever is posting.

What the acts refuse

Client money will not go overdrawn, and a receipt is not office money where nothing stands billed. A transfer answers costs properly billed and no more, and a refusal comes back in the cashier's own words with the ledger as the proof.

Bracton, file financial
The Move money list on a file's financial tab, nine acts each named in the cashier's own words with a sentence saying what it does, from receiving client money to anticipating a disbursement, with Receive a mixed payment open and its form showing the amount and what the movement is

Illustrative. Working software, on invented figures and names.

The act to press. Receive a mixed payment takes a payment covering a delivered bill and leaving a surplus, and splits it at the door, the billed part to the office account and the rest to the client account. It commits whole or not at all, and no one is asked which account.

Four more screens sit on their own page, the recovered time, the accounts rules, the court forms and the permissions.

Moving a firm across is scoped, priced and timetabled in writing before you commit, on the implementation page.

What sits behind the screens

i.

The assistant is built in

It reads and writes the same record as the rest of the platform. How it works
How it reaches the whole record

Bracton works the ledger, the diary, the time record and the correspondence as one thing, so it compares work done on a fixed fee against the scope agreed.

Drafts come from your own precedents, and research answers cite an authority you can open, or say that none was found.

ii.

Governance runs through it

A qualified fee earner signs off every output, and every action sits in an audit trail. How it works

The software produces first drafts, a qualified fee earner checks them, and nothing leaves the firm unsigned.

The terms behind the principle

Processing runs on United Kingdom infrastructure, client data is never used to train any model, and your precedents are configured for your firm alone. The permissions Bracton reads under are set and changed by the firm.

The hosting and model terms are what Bracton Ltd contracts to before your firm signs. The security page sets out where the data sits, what the Cyber Essentials certification covers and which choices are still open.

If a contract holds you

The contract diary

Case management agreements commonly run three to five years. Give us the date yours ends.

A quarter before that date we write to you once. Meanwhile the assistant runs inside the system you have.

The month is enough. Put the first if you are unsure of the day.

One note from us, a quarter before that date, and nothing in between. How we handle what you send is set out in the privacy notice.

Contact

The system this would replace

Tell us what you run today and how long the agreement has left.

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