Filevine review
Bottom line
Filevine is a web-based case management system for law firms that adds billing, intake, document management, signatures, and AI agents on top of each matter. Its clearest strength is keeping timekeeping, invoicing, and client payments inside the same system that holds the case file. The main cost to watch is that no plan prices are published, so buyers have to request a demo before they know what it will cost. Firms in personal injury, family law, or government defense work that want one system for case and billing work should evaluate it first.
What is Filevine?
Filevine is a case management platform for law firms and legal teams, built around LOIS, its Legal Operating Intelligence System. It keeps matters, documents, client intake, billing, and signatures in one system so attorneys and staff do not have to move between separate tools to run a case. The core problem it addresses is fragmented case work, where deadlines, client records, and invoices end up scattered across different programs.
Day to day, staff open a matter to see its people, tasks, timelines, and documents in one place. Timekeeping lives inside the case system, with multiple timers, time tracked from email, and LEDES billing codes added to entries. Administrators can generate invoices for many clients in a single action. Clients can pay by credit card, ACH, or buy now, pay later options through Payments by Filevine, and staff can see which balances are overdue. Court dates and deadlines appear on a court timeline, and MedChron builds timelines that connect case events as a matter develops. LOIS agents can also act on matters, such as setting tasks, moving deadlines, and generating documents, with each action traceable to its source.
Filevine serves personal injury, family law, mass torts, immigration, insurance defense, criminal defense, and estate planning firms. It also serves public defenders, prosecutors, state and federal agencies, and in-house counsel. The company lists firms from small practices to Big Law among its users. Pricing is not published. A LOIS free trial is offered with no credit card required, and buyers request a demo to learn what plans cost.
What distinguishes Filevine is the combination of case data and compliance coverage. The company says LOIS is built on more than 40 million matters through a structured legal graph, which it uses to read across a firm's entire caseload rather than a single file. Many case tools cover one stage of legal work, while Filevine links intake, matters, documents, billing, and signatures under one system. Its security program includes SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA efforts, CJIS compliance, annual penetration testing, and a public bug bounty program.
Who it's for
- Mid-size personal injury or family law firms
- Public defender and prosecutor offices
- Firms that bill hourly and need LEDES codes
- Teams that want case and billing in one system
Who should look elsewhere
- Buyers who need published per-seat prices before a demo
- Firms that want a permanent free plan
- Teams that require on-premises deployment
Typical uses
- Tracking billable time across a heavy caseload
- Managing court dates and filing deadlines
- Collecting client payments by card or ACH
- Onboarding new clients from structured intake forms
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