Features

Law firm software features, built for practice in Kenya

Everything a modern law firm needs in one place: case management, documents, billing, payments, payroll and AI — connected, so information flows from the file to the fee note to the books.

Case management

Case and matter management, organised the way advocates work

Files hold everything about a matter: parties and their roles, court and case type, standing, remarks, court attendance dockets and bring-ups. The colour-coded diary keeps hearings, mentions, rulings, deadlines, mediation, calls and site visits in view for the whole team.

Files with parties, courts and case typesCourt attendance dockets & remarksBring-up dates and reminders16 colour-coded activity typesEmail reminders to staff and clientsImport files and documents from Excel
Case management in Yawakili
Documents

Legal document management: your firm's paperwork, secure and findable

Upload pleadings, contracts and correspondence into each file's folders. Store them on Yawakili's secure storage or connect your own Filebase or Google Drive. Allocate a document to a colleague and they get an email straight away.

Folders per fileYour own Filebase or Google Drive, or oursAllocation with email notificationStorage usage tracked per moduleBring-up dates on documentsSecure, expiring download links
Billing & finance

Legal billing: fee notes and statements your clients take seriously

Raise proforma invoices, fee notes, debit and credit notes with tax handled, and print payment statements and statements of account. Every document carries your own numbering, and can be signed digitally with a code anyone can verify online.

Fee, debit & credit notes and proformasPayment statements & statements of accountYour own numbering per document typeDigital signatures with verificationPetty cash, vouchers, investors & taxesFinance insights: profit, loss and receivables
Billing & finance in Yawakili
M-Pesa & firm wallet

M-Pesa payments for law firms: get paid without chasing

Every firm gets a wallet powered by SMPLY PAY. From inside a file, send the client an M-Pesa prompt; once they enter their PIN the payment is recorded against the file automatically. Top up petty cash the same way, and withdraw to M-Pesa, paybill or till with a confirmation code.

M-Pesa prompts from within a filePayments recorded automaticallyPetty cash top-ups by M-PesaWithdrawals confirmed by emailed codeBalances in every currencySubscription paid from the wallet
Payroll

Payroll with Kenyan statutory deductions, paid on time

Generate payslips with PAYE, NSSF, SHIF and the housing levy worked out, approve them, email them to staff — and pay everyone's net pay to M-Pesa from the firm wallet in one batch, confirmed with a single code.

Kenyan statutory deductionsAutomatic monthly payslipsEmail payslips to staffPay a whole payroll in one batchStaff receive their full net paySigned payslip PDFs
AI legal assistant

A capable junior that never sleeps — under your control

Summarise a matter before a meeting, draft correspondence on your letterhead, ask questions of a long document, pull out deadlines for your diary and prepare for a hearing. AI is off until your firm switches it on, feature by feature, and you choose the model.

Case summariesDrafting assistantDocument Q&A and analysisRead scanned documents (OCR)Deadline extraction into the diaryHearing preparation & financial analysis
Integrations & website

Fits the tools you already use

Send payments, expenses, petty cash, notes, payslips and taxes to Zoho Books or QuickBooks Online with your own credentials. Publish articles, FAQs and projects to your firm's website through a secure content API with images that just load.

Zoho Books & QuickBooks OnlineAutomatic, retried sync with a logWebsite content API with keysSigned image links for your siteExcel imports and exportsPDF printouts for everything
Security & control

Built for confidentiality from day one

Sign-in is confirmed with a one-time code sent by email. Roles decide exactly who can see and do what. Each firm's data is private to that firm, credentials are encrypted, and every change is logged for your review.

One-time sign-in codesRole-based permissionsFirm-private dataEncrypted credentialsAudit logs with secrets maskedConfirmations before anything is deleted
Security & control in Yawakili

See it with your own matters

Try every feature free for 14 days, or book a guided demo for your team.