How the legal foundation is organized

The legal apps of Jaah are several modules that work as one system. The legal foundation is the module they all depend on: installing any of them brings it, and its records are the ones every legal file points to.

Two apps in the home menu

• Law holds the reference records: the lawyers, the courts and, when switched on, the judges. Its Configuration menu holds the practice areas, the circuits and the law settings.
• Requests holds the client requests: the work that reaches the firm before it becomes a consultation or a case. Its Configuration menu holds the reject reasons and the categories.

The other legal apps add their own menus next to these: consultations, cases with their hearings, executions, contracts, agencies.

Shared records

A lawyer, a court or a judge is recorded once and picked everywhere: the lawyer of a consultation, the court of a case, the judge of a hearing. Correcting a court's address corrects it in every file that names the court. A lawyer may be linked to a user who signs in; a user is linked to at most one lawyer.

Practice areas describe what each lawyer handles. They come pre-filled and are the firm's to rename, archive or extend.

Access by section

Access is not one switch for "the legal apps". The Legal Rights section of a user has one level per section: Lawyers, Courts, Judges and Client Requests. Read-only shows the records, Manager also edits them and their configuration; client requests add a User level for the people who process requests without configuring the intake. The legal apps built on the base add their own sections in the same place.

From request to file

A client request is the firm's intake. It arrives from the portal or is recorded by the firm, reaches the default lawyers with a deadline and a review activity, and ends in one of two ways: registered as a consultation or a case, which carries the client, the subject and the opposing party over, or rejected with a reason. The request types come with the apps that handle them, so the request form offers consultation or case once those apps are installed.

Branches

When the database holds several companies, the legal records carry a Branch. A court with no branch is shared by all of them.