Smokeball

Smokeball is legal practice management software built for people law, the firms that serve everyday people, covering everything from the first client touchpoint to the last invoice in one place. The homepage says Smokeball is trusted by more than 34,000 legal professionals worldwide (vendor stated), and frames the problem it solves in its own survey figures: a large share of legal professionals lose over a third of their time to non billable work, and many fee earners bill less than half of their working day. Smokeball is pitched at solo lawyers, small firms, and growing teams, with different fits for a solo practitioner who needs admin, billing, and paperwork handled, a small team collaborating and billing accurately without adding administrative headcount, and a whole firm where partners to paralegals share visibility without stitching together disconnected systems. The core work areas named on the homepage are Intake, which captures every new client ready to go, Matters, which keeps every case, document, and deadline in one place, and Smokeball Payments, which counts every hour and gets invoices out with no manual effort. Archie, Smokeball's AI matter assistant, works inside the matter to draft, review, and answer questions, and the homepage FAQ adds that Smokeball AI helps professionals review matter information, summarize documents, compare files, draft correspondence, and find relevant details more quickly, while keeping legal professionals in control. The platform as Smokeball describes it combines legal practice management, automatic time tracking, document automation, legal billing, trust accounting, and business reporting in one platform, integrates closely with Microsoft Word and Outlook, and provides practice area specific workflows and an extensive library of automated legal forms. Security and limits are stated plainly on the homepage: Smokeball says it is ISO 27001 certified, hosts on Amazon Web Services, protects data with AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.2 or higher in transit (standards as named by Smokeball), supports multi factor authentication, role based access controls, and continuous monitoring, limits AI access by firm, matter, and user permissions, and does not provide customer data to third parties for AI model training. Pricing is described qualitatively only, following Smokeball's pricing page: there are four plans on one platform, and every plan includes onboarding, bank grade data security, and a local support team. Bill is the legal billing plan with invoicing, time and expense tracking, online payments, trust accounting and reporting, and accounting integrations. Boost adds fully browser based client and matter management, task and calendar management, Microsoft 365 Outlook, calendar, and Word integration, a client portal, automated letterhead templates, eSignature, and eFiling, with Intake and Archie as add ons. Grow adds practice area templates and calculators, advanced document automation, automated forms and templates, email management, and a web app, with add ons including Archie, AutoTime automatic time tracking, FamilyPro, Intake, and Workflows. Prosper+ adds firm insights reporting, lead management, inquiry and advanced matter intake, custom workflows and templates, staff activity and profitability reporting, and includes Intake, AutoTime, and Workflows, with Archie and FamilyPro as add ons. Smokeball states pricing depends on the number of users, the selected plan, the contract term, and any optional products, that firms request a personalized no obligation quote, that there is no limit on simultaneous firm users or clients, and that training is tailored to the plan with data migration options confirmed in the quote.