Filevine

Overview

Filevine is a legal-work platform that brings matter management together with tools for documents, intake, depositions, and billing. It is aimed at law firms, government legal organizations, and corporate legal teams; its breadth suits teams coordinating several parts of legal work, while custom pricing and no mobile apps make it less suited to buyers prioritizing a mobile-first or low-cost system.

Key features

Matter and document management cover task tracking, contacts, deadlines, calendars, document organization, advanced search, and secure file sharing. That combination supports teams handling complex matters and substantial case files; a group seeking just one narrow legal tool may have little use for the wider platform.

Intake captures, qualifies, and routes leads automatically, with AI-powered features and intake forms. It fits teams that want a structured path from prospective client to matter. Deposition tools span scheduling, live transcription, AI summaries, and a searchable library, making them relevant to teams that manage depositions as part of case work rather than needing transcription alone.

LOIS AI Drafting generates, edits, and reviews documents using matter context, with human-verified output. The free LOIS Explore tier separately offers AI legal research and drafting, document uploads and questions, and cited results, but it does not connect to Filevine Case Management. That makes it a way to explore those AI capabilities, not a free route into the case-management platform.

Billing is included in the Matters package and covers time tracking, invoice management, and online payments. Filevine also lists native integrations across billing and timekeeping, email and calendar, data visualization, law management, and communication. Its security approach includes encryption at rest and in transit, centralized governance controls, and identity and access management. Filevine says it is hosted on AWS and offers ongoing guidance through Customer Success and Support, with Certified Implementation Partners available for setup and workflow customization.

Pricing

Filevine packages use custom pricing tailored to the organization. The Custom quote offering includes matter management, document management, and billing and payments, with intake, deposition, signature, and AI packages available as options. The broader Filevine packages offering is also custom quote and includes custom-built packages, Matters, Intake, Depositions, and Signatures packages, plus optional package extensions. This lets organizations shape a package around their workflows, but buyers cannot compare a published package price before discussing requirements.

LOIS Explore costs nothing, with no credit card required. It includes AI legal research and drafting, document uploads and questions, and cited AI results. Its chief limit is that it has no Filevine Case Management connection; teams seeking the main case-management platform need a Filevine package that includes it. Filevine offers a free plan and a free trial, but the trial does not include access to Filevine Case Management, so it is not a way to evaluate that core workflow.

Platforms

Filevine supports web access and an API. It has no mobile apps, a meaningful limitation for teams that expect dedicated phone or tablet apps while working away from a desk.

Who it's for

Filevine is best suited to law firms, state and federal government organizations, and corporate legal teams coordinating matters across documents, intake, depositions, or billing. Teams with setup needs can draw on Filevine's support and Certified Implementation Partners for workflow customization. Smaller teams looking for a standalone tool, a published entry price, or mobile apps should consider a narrower or more accessible alternative.

Pros and cons

• Pros: Matter, document, intake, deposition, and billing capabilities can span connected legal workflows rather than leaving each to a separate point tool.
• Pros: LOIS Explore provides a free way to use AI research and drafting with cited results and document questions.
• Pros: Encryption, governance controls, identity and access management, and AWS hosting address core organizational security and hosting needs.
• Cons: Filevine package pricing is custom, so buyers cannot assess the cost from a published rate.
• Cons: LOIS Explore does not connect to Filevine Case Management, and its free trial excludes Case Management access.
• Cons: No mobile apps are offered, which rules out teams that require dedicated mobile access.

Alternatives

For a more directly priced legal practice option, 8am MyCase has a MyCase Basic plan at $50 a month, billed annually, with case and contact management, time entry, invoicing, and trust account features; choose it if those core functions and a stated annual-billing price matter more than Filevine's broader package model. HoudiniEsq may suit solo practitioners seeking a free, perpetually available one-user license, or teams considering its $48 a month Cloud & Beyond plan.

LexNebulis is a free, self-hosted, Apache 2.0 option for readers who prefer open-source software and can host it themselves. CaseFox offers a free Solo plan with four cases and two additional users, alongside PRO features; it is worth considering for a small practice that can work within those caps. RunSensible is another freemium option, with a free plan and paid tiers that include unlimited e-signature and storage on Essential.

For readers focused on docketing, CaseDesk offers a free beta for 90 days followed by a two-week read-only grace period, as well as an annually billed Pro plan at $290 a year. Openfront Law Firm is a freemium, self-hosted option with full source code access. Litigious is free and open source under AGPL-3.0, with self-hosting and modules enabled as needed.

Browse Legal Practice Management Software, Legal Client Portal Software, Legal Deposition Software, Legal Docketing Software, and Legal Transcription Software for more options by category.

Verdict

Choose Filevine if your organization needs a configurable legal platform that can cover matters and adjacent workflows, and can work with custom pricing and web/API access. Its breadth is the strongest reason to buy; the lack of mobile apps and the gap between free LOIS Explore and Case Management are the clearest reasons to look elsewhere.