Conflict checking that actually catches conflicts
Writford screens every new matter against your whole firm's history, catches the typos, accents and sound-alike names a manual search misses, and leaves an SRA-ready record of every decision. AI confirms the match; a solicitor always decides.
Every new matter checked against the whole firm
The moment a matter is created, Writford screens the client and the opposing party against every party the firm has ever acted for or against. Current clients, former clients and opponents, across every matter and every fee-earner, not only your own files. Screening you could never reliably do from memory happens before the work begins.
- Automatic screening the instant a matter is created
- Covers current clients, former clients and opposing parties
- Checks across all matters and every fee-earner in the firm
- Each finding names who in the firm holds the conflicting record
- Results graded Definite, Potential or None so you can triage
- A persistent banner warns on every screen until the conflict is resolved
Catches the variants a plain name search misses
A deterministic matching engine looks past the surface of a name. It reconciles legal-suffix variants, punctuation and abbreviations, forgives typos, and reads sound-alike and accented names as the same party. It also matches on company number and email, so a conflict is not missed just because a name was typed differently.
- Legal-suffix variants, so Ltd and Limited are treated as one
- Ampersands, abbreviations and initials, so J Smith reaches John Smith
- Typo-tolerant fuzzy matching for mistyped names
- Phonetic matching for sound-alikes such as Catherine and Katherine
- Accent-aware matching, so a pasted Zénith meets Zenith
- Company-number and email matches alongside the name checks
AI confirms the match, a solicitor makes the call
Amazon Nova adjudicates the borderline name matches, confirming whether two similar names are really the same legal entity and strengthening the finding when they are. It never erases a flagged conflict. A qualified solicitor always reviews and decides, and every decision is recorded. Data is processed in the UK and EEA, and your firm's material is never used to train AI models.
- AI confirms genuine matches and upgrades the finding
- AI can strengthen a conflict but never clears one on its own
- A qualified solicitor reviews every flag and makes the decision
- Clear a false positive, or waive a real conflict with a recorded reason
- Waivers capture who waived it, when, and why, for informed-consent evidence
- An SRA-ready audit trail, processed in the UK and EEA, never used for training