Practice management, built for the Australian Bar.

LexBrief Counsel brings matters, time-billing, invoicing, GST, expenses, and reports into one workflow for Australian barristers.

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LexBrief Counsel dashboard showing seeded practice data.

Features

Built for how barristers actually work

Swipe through what Counsel does today – the rail advances on its own, or take it at your own pace.

  • Matters

    Keep each brief, task and filing thread in one place. Matters stay readable when your week turns busy.

  • Time recording & timers

    Capture work in six-minute units, or run a live timer from Task Overview and let Counsel round it to your matter’s billing band.

  • Invoicing, receipts & interest

    Move recorded work to a clean tax invoice with less re-keying – then issue receipts, statements of outstanding fees and overdue-interest invoices from the same data.

  • GST & reports

    Cash-basis P&L, GST/BAS, aged debtors, work-in-progress and turnover – ex-GST figures the way barristers need, exportable to PDF, Word and Excel.

  • Court diary

    Keep every hearing, directions date, mention and filing deadline across all matters in one diary – subscribe from Outlook or your phone via a private iCal feed.

  • Action items & upcoming

    A per-matter to-do list with due dates that rolls up into a single Upcoming view – overdue, today, this week and the next 30 days at a glance.

  • Tax returns

    Record each financial year’s lodged return and lock that year’s expenses so the figures behind it can’t drift – fully reversible, with an audit trail.

  • Document templates

    Turn your own Word documents into reusable templates Counsel fills from a matter or invoice – including one-click conversion of existing BarBooks templates.

  • Yours, and Australian-hosted

    Your practice lives in one encrypted store you control, hosted in Australia, with scheduled encrypted backups. No third-party cloud holds your client files.

  • Mobile

    Install Counsel as a phone app – check the dashboard and drop in a task or expense between court, chambers and clients.

  • Missing something useful?

    Think there’s something missing that would make practice easier? Reach out and we’ll work with you to add it. New features are added regularly to keep Counsel matched to how Australian barristers actually work – and to make your life easier.

    Suggest a feature

  • On AI

    Counsel has no built-in AI features. We’re investigating – and seeking barristers’ feedback on – whether and how AI should be integrated, and would seek that feedback before adding anything. Our first concern is data sanctity: your practice is hosted in Australia and fully under your control, and AI raises privacy, confidentiality and privilege questions that must be properly managed first.

Screenshots

A calmer view of the work between brief and bill.

Who it's for

Built for the shape of a barrister's practice.

LexBrief Counsel is built for sole-practitioner barristers in Australia. If you run your own practice and want software that understands six-minute units and ex-GST invoicing, this is for you.

Request beta access

We are inviting a small number of Australian barristers to the beta. Tell us a little about your practice and we will be in touch.

Please note: this form is only to request access – do not include confidential client information in your message.