- Working copy of metapackages and roles.
Metapackages
case
For packages that address all or most aspects of managing cases.
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 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 is a flexible open-source legal case management system for KDE, currently under development. Licence: GPL
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 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 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 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 is the integrated mail, calendar and address book distributed suite from Ximian, Inc.
Licence: GPL
document
For authoring, co-authoring, processing, organizing and searching of documents.
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.
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 is a client (swing) as well as a servlet (web based) application for document assembly.
Licence: GPL
?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 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
evidence
?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 is an open source Filing Manager designed to process LegalXML filings.
Licence: MPL 1.1
Roles
- lawyer
- paralegal
- support