Support

Help & guides

Step-by-step walkthroughs for every part of LexBrief Counsel. Each one is written in plain English with a picture for every step – you do not need to be technical to follow them.

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Your first day in LexBrief Counsel

Sign in, set up your details, create a matter, record time, and send your first invoice.

Moving your data from BarBooks

Bring your matters, invoices, contacts and expenses across in about ten minutes.

Getting around

Dashboard

Reading your home screen: the cards, charts and targets.

Settings

Your profile, banking, defaults, appearance, backups and more, tab by tab.

Backups

Making, scheduling and restoring safety copies of your data.

On your phone

Installing and using LexBrief on your phone.

Daily work

Matters

Creating and managing your briefs and files.

Recording time

Timers and manual time entry.

Invoices

Drafting, issuing, and getting paid.

Expenses

Recording costs and disbursements.

Contacts

Clients, firms, solicitors and other parties.

Money & reporting

Reports

Profit and loss, GST, tax and more.

Work scopes

Breaking a capped fee into estimated buckets of work.

Interest invoices

Charging a client interest on overdue invoices.

Templates

Setting up your invoice and letter templates.

Diary & tasks

Court Diary

Key dates and deadlines.

Action Items

Your to-do list, per matter.

Upcoming

One glance at your soonest court dates and to-do items.

File notes

Contemporaneous notes on a file.

Chronology

The events of the dispute, as a document.

Cannot find what you need? Email support@lexbrief.au – a real person reads it, usually the same working day.