Law App Release Notes — July 2026: What’s New

A client trust ledger with Preliminary/Final and Purchase/Sale toggles, fees and outlays that pre-fill from your firm’s standard disbursements, and a “Seed duty from price” button. WA stamp duty matches RevenueWA exactly.

A full Statement of Adjustments covering council rates, land tax, per-lot Owners Corporation rows, water/service charges and GST handling.

The same modern layout with QLD wording — Seller/Buyer, Body Corporate, and water usage calculated from meter readings.

Across several feedback rounds this month the statements were refined to match firms’ own marked-up examples exactly. Seller and buyer’s-agent statements now show the correct deductions and credits, the settlement figures fully reconcile (funds in always equal payments out), a Land Tax pro-rata card and s.110 fee were added, and your firm’s logo now prints on all three statements. Word export now matches the PDF.

Access is controlled per firm via a feature flag, and the calculators only appear on property matters in the relevant state. Ask us if you’d like it switched on for your firm.

Covers the full matter: grant and caveat status, limitation dates, the people involved and their solicitors, grounds of dispute, family provision details, the chain of wills, court proceedings, mediation, offers and settlement.

Entering a limitation period expiry or a caveat expiry creates and keeps the matter’s Key Dates in sync automatically, with a red banner counting down the days until the limitation period expires.

Switching a file between question sheets never loses data — shared details show the same values on every sheet.

The Estate Details screen was reworked to show both estate tabs combined on one page.

Ad-hoc (free-entry) dates let you set the date, priority and status directly from a quick “Ad hoc Date” menu item. They appear in the list and the calendar alongside standard key dates.

Only the owner of a manual Key Date can remove it, and system-generated critical dates are locked so a manual entry can never overwrite them.

Manual Key Dates are now supported for matters involving multiple clients.

Log time straight from an email, pre-filled with the file, rate, date and notes. Entries are dated from the email itself, an email is stamped “LawApp Time Recorded” to prevent double-billing, and fixed-fee entries can be entered.

Save emails from any shared mailbox you have Full Access to.

When there’s no file code in the subject line, the add-in now matches the sender or recipient against file contacts, with a recent-files picker and a searchable “browse all files” option.

Improved reliability when switching rapidly between emails, and system-generated emails (for example, Teams notifications) now save cleanly.

Admins can flag a long-standing client so no fresh verification is needed for a kind of matter you’ve handled for them before 1 July 2026. A new kind of matter for that client still verifies in full.

Attach a scan onto an existing safe custody entry, and the Received Date now shows after saving and can be edited.

Request a VOI from inside a file, and your InfoTrack login is now validated before saving with a clear message if it’s wrong. Credentials are handled entirely server-side.

Trust receipt clearance now considers cleared date, deposit date, payment method and issue date, with cleared/uncleared status chips and deposit details shown on the list. A new Quick Deposit button creates a deposit slip straight from a receipt.

Trust lockdown prevents printing or exiting without finalising, and non-draft transactions are locked. Trust-receipt and deposit-slip report details were also expanded with firm account and BSB placeholders.

EFT payments show the account name, journal transfers show the counterparty matter, and joint-name matters show both names.

A “Trust Available” figure — cleared funds available to draw — has been added to the file accounting summary.

Corrected GST handling on the GL Summary Report, negative-GST fixes on discounted invoices and receipt allocations, and BAS improvements — disbursement journals are now excluded, and general journals are included on a cash basis.

New Gross Amount and date-range filters are available across trust, GL, disbursement, invoice, receipt and payment screens, plus validation blocking invalid postings to control and bank accounts.

Supplier Invoices by Supplier, Creditors Trial Balance, Disbursements List, and a compact landscape “Transaction Detail Simple” report. The Outstanding Disbursements report was rebuilt to match the balance sheet.

Batch billing now excludes empty-amount timesheets. New safeguards prevent accidental duplicate entries — a second save is blocked, and a supplier-invoice number already in use is caught up front with a clear prompt. Reports also gained export/save to Word.

Retained earnings are now split into previous years vs current year, and financial reports default to Financial Year / Top Level.

Law App displays PDFs itself again instead of relying on Google or the browser, fixing blank previews and failed downloads. Documents v2 also gained a Print button for single or combined print jobs.

PDFs emailed from Law App now open in all providers, including Yahoo, and the winmail.dat problem — recipients on older providers like Bigpond receiving an unreadable attachment — is resolved.

Documents now save back from Word and Excel reliably through long editing sessions, with sign-in refreshed automatically in the background so a session never lapses mid-edit.

Firm logo, signature, header and footer images are now preserved when saving settings. Legacy .doc/.xls files now guide you to convert them rather than opening in a state that can’t be edited, and the audit log gained an Export CSV button.

Contacts with a VOI document attached now open reliably, hand-typed addresses such as PO Boxes are now saved correctly, and printing large invoices is more robust — with a clear message on the rare occasion a print can’t complete.