A three-month clock that starts before you are instructed
Employment work is short deadlines, heavy bundles and a tribunal that does not extend time for an oversight. Writford keeps the dates on the matter and the papers with them.
What does employment law case management software need?
It needs deadlines the firm holds rather than one person, all correspondence and documents on the matter for bundle preparation, and time captured as the work happens. Writford keeps key dates on the matter with two-way Outlook sync and files email straight to the file.
- How are tribunal deadlines tracked?
- As key dates on the matter, visible to anyone who can reach it, and synced both ways with Outlook so the date is where the fee earner is working.
- Can I file client emails to the matter?
- Yes, from inside Outlook using the add-in, and the time spent on that email can be recorded in the same step.
- Does it help with bundles?
- Everything for the matter, including correspondence and documents, is on the file as the case runs, so a bundle is assembled from what is already there.
- Can AI review an employment contract?
- Yes. Upload it and ask questions about it, with clause extraction and answers that point back to the passage they came from. A solicitor reviews the output.
- Does it record time on research?
- Yes. Research and document work on a matter drafts its own time entry, which you review before it counts.
The deadline belongs to the firm
Employment time limits are short and unforgiving. Key dates sit on the matter rather than a personal calendar, so a limit survives somebody being on leave, and syncs to Outlook so it is in front of whoever is working.
Everything for the bundle, in one place
Correspondence, documents, notes and decisions are on the matter as the case runs, so preparing a bundle is assembling what is there rather than searching three inboxes.
Time on email, actually captured
Employment work is largely correspondence, which is where recorded time usually leaks. Filing an email to the matter from the Outlook add-in records the time in the same step.
AI that reads the contract and the policy
Upload the contract, the handbook or the grievance outcome and ask about it. Clause extraction and questions answered from the document, with the passage the answer came from.