A limitation date can't be changed quietly
Critical dates are locked to lawyers and admins, and moving one asks for a reason, kept with who and when. The rule is in the database, so an import or a stale tab can't get round it.
Every limitation date, locked and accounted for.
Deadline and file-integrity control for litigation firms. Limitation dates locked and audited, conflicts screened at intake.
Billing if you want it. Trust accounting, document storage, a client portal or anything else your firm needs is added for your firm on request. What ships and what can be added.
What the database enforces, not the habit
Conflicts are screened at intake, and the check fails closed
The client and every adverse party are screened against every existing file, both ways, with fuzzy matching. If the check can't run, intake stops. It matches names only: a numbered company and the person behind it are strangers to it.
Confidential matters stay walled off
Only the file's own team can see it; nobody else can tell it exists. The wall is in the database, not a hidden menu.
Your files are not in a database with anyone else's
Each firm has its own database, not a shared table filtered by customer, so no query can span two firms.
An issued bill can't be rewritten either
Optional. Issuing a bill freezes it, admins included, and a correction is its own numbered credit note. Exports for QuickBooks Online and Xero. Trust accounting is added if your firm asks.
What that looks like on a file
Real screens from a demonstration firm; every name is invented. You can sign into it.
The week between the deadlines
A mediation, and everything pointing at it
An event groups the work aimed at it and puts it in each attendee's calendar. One with no date yet says so instead of inventing one.
Work that goes up for review, and comes back
Sending a draft up names who reads it and by when. Sending it back says what to change and sets a new date.
The state of the file, written down
Dated, attributed memo entries anyone on the file can add. Nobody can delete one, admins included, and revisions show.
Deadlines calculated, not counted on fingers
Calendar or business days from the triggering event, around your court holidays. The event and the period stay on the task.
Your week, in the order you mean to work it
What's due, what has to start this week, and the order you choose for today. By email before work if you want it.
The dates are in the calendar you already use
Two-way sync with Google Calendar and Outlook. Limitation dates are the exception: they change in Freeboard or not at all.
A register you can hand to your insurer
Every limitation date the firm carries, with its file and state, on one printable page.
Time, in minutes, and only if you want it
Optional. A timer on the task records minutes; rates live in billing, so a raise never re-prices past work. One timer runs at a time.
The firm's contacts, and the precedents worth keeping
Courts, assistants, reporters and opposing firms in one book. A precedent appears once a partner or admin approves it.
Your documents, where you want them
Files link to Drive, SharePoint, iManage, NetDocuments or the server. If you'd rather keep documents in Freeboard, ask and it's set up for your firm.
A firm fee and a seat fee
$69per firm, per month
$35per person, per month
No size bands. A year costs ten months. Sales tax is added at checkout.
A firm of 3 · $69 + 3 × $35
$174 /moor $1,740 for the year
A firm of 6 · $69 + 6 × $35
$279 /moor $2,790 for the year
A firm of 10 · $69 + 10 × $35
$419 /moor $4,190 for the year
A firm of 18 · $69 + 18 × $35
$699 /moor $6,990 for the year
Prices in Canadian dollars. Every seat includes:
- Matters and files, with conflict checks at intake
- Critical deadlines, locked and audited
- Confidential matters and ethical walls
- The deadline calculator, with your jurisdiction’s holidays
- Events, and the work grouped under them
- The running memo to file, and review handoffs
- Task board, table and calendar views
- Two-way sync with Google Calendar and Outlook
- Team workload, and a simple desk booking board
- The printable limitation-date register
- Time capture and billing, optional and off until you ask
- The firm’s contacts and approved precedents
- The morning email and deadline reminders
- CSV import and export, and a nightly copy to Google Sheets
- Outbound webhooks
- Two-factor authentication
There is no reduced seat, and nothing on this page is held back for a higher plan. Anything not on the list, from document storage to trust accounting, is added for your firm on request.
If desk booking is the part you actually need
Freeboard’s board covers who is in on which day. Alcove does desks, rooms, check-in and no-show reports, and is included free. It has its own sign-in; ask and we’ll switch it on.
Getting started
Setup is $750, waived if you pay the first year up front: we import your files, add your team, set up your deadline rules and run the first week with you.
Or open it now
The demonstration firm, shared and rebuilt every night. Sign in as dana@example.com, password freeboard-demo (firm administrator, so every section is reachable). Don’t type a real client or party name into it.
See it on your own files
Thirty minutes, on your matters and your jurisdiction’s deadlines.