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confidentiality

Packages for authentication and secure communications to safeguard attorney-client confidentiality and secure submission of documents.

The GNU Privacy Guard

GnuPG is the GNU project's complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880. GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key managment system as well as access modules for all kind of public key directories. From the command line it allows to easily encrypt/decrypt and to sign/verify files, there are also frontends to it. It is compatible with the well-known PGP software by Philip Zimmermann

There are extensions for Firefox (called fireGPG, works with GMail, although some earlier versions have shown problems) and for Thunderbird (Enigmail). Kmail and Evolution have also support for GPG.

License: GPL

OpenSSL

The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. It is based on the SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson.

OpenSSL manages, creates and verifies a wide variety of certificates.

License: Apache-style

case

For packages that address all or most aspects of managing cases.

Legal Case Management System

The legal case management system is aimed for use by not-for-profit legal advice centres in order to make better follow-ups of their cases, including client consultations and court events, reporting, etc.

Licence: GPL

eLawOffice

eLawOffice is a full crossplatform and language-extensible java suite, for workflow and data management of Law Firms (plus data sharing with customers). It works in a intranet/extranet environment, with a client-server and servlet+jsp application.

Licence: GPL

VirtuaLaw

?VirtuaLaw is a flexible open-source legal case management system for KDE, currently under development. Licence: GPL

Kumula

Kumula is intended to become a complete software suite for most of your business needs. Although it started as software for consultants, it is flexible enough to be used by almost any type of business. Currently Kumula provides a small CRM (Clients) and a Mini-DMS (Documents), and is further enhanced by some other applications.

There is also a plugin available for lawyers called Kumula Cases

Licence: GPL

Mozart

Mozart is a contact, calendar and case/project management system. Each user can have his/her own address book, calendar and any number of cases/projects. You can also track multiple cases/projects for each contact. Additionally, by viewing a case/project, you can see every contact associated with that case.

Licence: GPL

SugarCRM Web based Open Source CRM Solution. A lot of Plugins are available e.g. in the following categories: Time Tracking, Case Management, Contact Management, Invoicing,... With ?ZuckerOffice there is also integration into OpenOffice available. It is based on PHP. License: GPLv3

time

For packages that address the time aspect of cases - to include calendaring, timesheeting or contact tracking.

Etude

Etude exists to help lawyers (or other self employed persons) to manage their clients, timesheet, cash flow, etc. It provides a time-sheet system, and offers the ability to make facturation and register payments. The program is in French and uses PHP.

Licence: GPL

GnoTime

?GnoTime is the GNOME Time Tracker, a program which allows you to track the time you spend on any number of tasks and projects. ?GnoTime also allows you to generate customised reports and annotated logs of these times.

Licence: GPL

communication

For email, pbx, voip, conferencing.

Evolution

Evolution is the integrated mail, calendar and address book distributed suite from Ximian, Inc.

Licence: GPL

Asterisk

Asterisk is "the world's leading open source PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit. Offering flexibility unheard of in the world of proprietary communications, Asterisk empowers developers and integrators to create advanced communication solutions...". It offers a great range of solutions, from simple autoattendants to complex dialplans and call-data-storage.

License: GPL

document

For authoring, co-authoring, processing, organizing and searching of documents.

OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org 3.0 is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office. Users report that little or no training is required for people migrating from other office suites - everything works the way people expect.

Lizenz: LGPL

avaiable in more than 80 languages For authoring, co-authoring, processing, organizing and archiving documents.

Canzeley

An attorney's office programm based on OpenOffice.org and MySQL. It is written in ?StarBasic.

The UI (and the comments in the program) are in German language.

It is still usable, but some very nice to have functions are still in progress.

You can find a beta release, an installation manual and an user manual (also in German).

Licence: GPL (recent v3)

JInterView

JInterView is a client (swing) as well as a servlet (web based) application for document assembly.

Licence: GPL

DocSearcher

?DocSearcher is a search tool for indexing and searching files on a personal computer. It uses API's to provide search functionality for common document formats (currently Word, Excel, PDF, Open / Star Office, rtf, text, and HTML).

Licence: Apache

accounting

SQL Ledger

SQL Ledger is a professional quality Web-based double-entry bookkeeping system. Features include automatic invoicing (including PDF format bills to send by email), and completely customisable templates and reports.

Licence: GPL

PostBooks

Free open source ERP, accounting, CRM package for small to midsized businesses. ERP client runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows (built with open source Qt framework). Business logic resides in PostgreSQL database. International ERP, accounting, and CRM tools.

License: CPAL

LedgerSMB

LedgerSMB is a fork of a popular general ledger software package called SQL-Ledger largely written and maintained by Dieter Simader. If you are considering joining our community please take a look at our Code of Conduct.

SMB is an acronym for Small Medium Business.

License: GPL

evidence

OpenEvidence]

?OpenEvidence produces technology for evidence creation and evidence validation in a context of electronic or dematerialised documents and activities, based on current and emerging technologies for digital signatures, key management, time stamping, archiving and notary systems and standardised document formats.

Licence: BSD-artig

courts

OpenEFM

OpenEFM is an open source Filing Manager designed to process LegalXML filings.

Licence: MPL 1.1

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