Law firm software for Nigeria
Product
LawKona keeps the matter, the deadlines, the notices, and the client money in one chamber file — so the firm does not live in WhatsApp, Excel, and paper. LawKona is practice management software for Nigerian law firms: one shared workspace where a chamber takes on clients, runs every brief, keeps its dates, drafts its documents, takes notes at court, and gets paid.
The same chamber you work in
Search, Matters, Calendar, Inbox, and Money sit on the rail. Everything else lives under More. Each chamber’s data is walled off at the database, and every important action goes into an audit log.
Matters
14 Idejo Street — tenancy
Board pack — commercial
Okonkwo retainers
Search
Find any matter, client, or document in seconds. Press ⌘K from anywhere in the chamber.
Matters
Your home screen. Every brief has one file with its parties, property, dates, documents, notes, and money.
Calendar
Hearings, filing and limitation dates, and tenancy notice periods for the whole chamber in one calendar, counted for your state.
Inbox
Everything waiting for a lawyer: notices to approve, tenant applications to review, overdue dates, and possible conflicts.
Money
Money you hold for clients sits on its own list, apart from the firm’s fees. Client money becomes fees only when it is applied to an invoice. Unpaid invoices show here too.
More
Properties, documents, intake, settings, practice pulse, and the court companion.
How a file runs
The whole chamber workflow, from taking a client on to getting paid. Each step links to the module that does it, with a worked example.
Take the client on
Add the client — or bring your existing client list in from a spreadsheet. For a landlord’s new tenant, send a private intake link: the tenant applies with their ID and consent, and a lawyer approves.
Open the matter
One file for the brief, with the client, the other side, and the state. A conflict check runs as it opens. Assign the lawyers, hand out tasks, and discuss the file in its own thread.
Let the dates come to you
Set your lead times once and every matter gets its reminders, counted for its state, on one shared calendar. The lawyers on the file are emailed as each date comes up, and anything overdue waits in Inbox. Tenancy notices are prepared on time, wait for a lawyer’s approval, then reach the tenant by email and WhatsApp.
Generate, then edit
Draft from a template or your own precedent with the file’s details filled in, finish it in the chamber editor, and export a Word document with the chamber signature or stamp.
Take the phone to court
Open LawKona on your phone at court. Type notes and record audio against the matter — even without network — and it all syncs back to the file.
Bill and get paid
Log time as you work, turn it into an invoice, and email a PDF or a payment link. Money held for the client stays on its own ledger and becomes fees only when applied to an invoice.
Keep the client in the loop
Invite clients and tenants to a private portal to see their matters, dates, documents, and invoices, and to pay online — without calling the chamber.
Underneath every step, each chamber’s records are walled off from every other firm, people sign in with their own role, and sensitive actions go on an audit log. How security works →
TENANCY AGREEMENT
The Landlord lets and the Tenant takes the premises known as 14 Idejo Street, Ikoyi, Lagos, for a term of two years commencing…
14 Idejo Street — tenancy
Every module, in detail
Every practice area runs on the same matter file: a hearings diary for litigation, CAC deadlines for corporate work, and a full tenancy desk for property practice. Each module page explains what it is, the problem it solves, and how a chamber uses it day to day.
- Matters →
One shared file for each brief, holding the parties, dates, documents, notes, and money. No more piecing a case together from a paper jacket, a chat group, and a spreadsheet that never agree.
- Reminders and alerts →
LawKona works out every date on the file and reminds the right people ahead of time — the lawyers by email, tenants by email and WhatsApp. The chamber stops missing dates, and tenants stop saying nobody told them.
- Inbox and team →
A daily list of everything waiting for a lawyer, plus tasks and a team discussion on every matter. No more instructions lost in group chats or work nobody remembers agreeing to do.
- Property and tenancy →
A register of every building and unit your landlord clients own, with private application links for new tenants. No more caretaker notebooks, ID photos in chats, or guessing which flat is vacant.
- Deadlines →
One chamber calendar for hearings, filing windows, limitation dates, and tenancy notice periods, with the days counted for your state. No more paper diary only one person reads, or days counted by hand.
- Notices →
Tenancy notices prepared on time from the lease dates, approved by a lawyer, then sent to the tenant by email and WhatsApp with a record of every send. No more notices remembered late, sent from personal phones, or sent without a senior lawyer seeing them.
- Documents →
Draft agreements, notices, and letters from templates or your own precedents, with the file’s details already filled in. No more retyping names and addresses, or emailing “final final” Word files back and forth.
- Signatures and stamps →
Upload your signature or chamber stamp once and LawKona places it, cleanly, on the documents you generate. No more printing, signing, and scanning your own papers.
- Money and trust →
A record of money you hold for clients — deposits, retainers, filing costs — kept apart from the firm’s own fees. No more client money and fees mixed in one account and one spreadsheet.
- Billing and payments →
Turn time logged on a matter into an invoice, send it as a PDF or a payment link, and let clients pay online in Naira. No more forgotten hours, or checking bank alerts to work out who has paid.
- Client portal →
A private page where each client or tenant sees their own matters, dates, documents, and invoices, and pays online. Fewer “any update?” calls, and no documents lost in chat threads.
- Court companion →
Your court notebook on your phone: type notes and record audio against the matter, and they reach the file even after a courtroom with no network. No more notes retyped later, or calls to ask what happened.
- Import and export →
Bring your clients, properties, tenants, and matters in from a spreadsheet, and export your records whenever you need them. No weeks of retyping to switch, and no data locked in.
- Security →
Your chamber’s records walled off from everyone else’s, access by role, encrypted sensitive notes, and an audit log nobody can edit. Safer than client files spread across personal phones and chats.
Money
Client money · trust
Held for the client. Never mix with fees.
₦ 2,450,000
Firm money · fees
Invoiced and collected fees. Not trust.
₦ 380,000
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Free for 1 lawyer and 3 properties, no card needed.