# Legal settings

What each option of the General and Client Requests boxes of the legal settings does, from several clients on one file to who receives a new client request and by when.

The legal settings are shared by all the legal apps. Each app adds its own box; this page explains the two boxes of the legal base: **General** and **Client Requests**.

## Before you start {#before-you-start}

- Changing settings needs the **Administrator** role (**Role** on the user's **Access Rights** tab).

## Open the settings {#open-the-settings}

Open **Law/Configuration/Settings**. The **General** box comes first.

![The General box of the legal settings.](https://jaah.app/web/image/8664-a818fb78/law-base-settings-legal_settings_general-en.png)

## General {#general}

### Multi Clients {#multi-clients}

Off by default. Turn it on when a case, a hearing, a consultation, a client request or an agency can concern several clients: those records then show a field for the other clients, next to the main one. The agency expiry reminder also goes to every principal of the agency.

### Judges {#judge}

Off by default. Turn it on to record judges: the **Judges** menu appears under the legal menus, and a judge can be named on a hearing.

### Court Circuits {#court-circuits}

Off by default. Turn it on when a court sits in several circuits: the **Circuits** menu appears, and the circuit can be chosen on the court and on the hearing.

## Client Requests {#client-requests}

![The Client Requests box: default lawyers, deadline and the review to-do.](https://jaah.app/web/image/8668-bc9b6ed2/law-base-settings-legal_settings_requests-en.png)

### Default Lawyers {#default-lawyers}

The lawyers who receive a new client request when nobody chose one, typically the lawyers who sort incoming requests. A client who has lawyers of his own on his contact gets those first; these default lawyers come next.

### Default Deadline {#default-deadline}

How many days after a request arrives its deadline falls, 3 by default. The client does not pick a deadline when sending a request from the portal, so this number sets it.

### Register / Reject Client Request Activity {#register-reject-activity}

On by default. Each new request then puts a to-do in the planner of every assigned lawyer, asking them to register or reject it. A lawyer without a user in the system gets no to-do.

### Review Within {#review-within}

How many days that to-do leaves the lawyer, 1 by default. It appears only while the option above is on.

Click **Save** to apply your changes.

## FAQ {#faq}

### I turned on Judges but the menu does not show. {#judge-menu}

The menus follow the setting once it is saved: click **Save**, then open the legal menus again.

### Where are the other options of the legal settings? {#other-options}

Each legal app explains its own box: cases, consultations, executions, agencies and contracts each have a settings page in their user guide.

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- Source: https://jaah.app/docs/law-base/legal-settings
- Updated: 2026-10-15
- Version: Legal foundation setup 19.0.2.5.51
- Verified: 2026-10-16