HIVE LAW

Transforming the South African legal services technology landscape

HiveLaw brings world-class practice management technology to university law clinics.

HiveLaw, an innovative platform built in a SharePoint environment, brings technology and practice management in law clinics up to date when compared with systems and processes used in legal practice. Practically, HiveLaw enables the employees of the law clinic and its students to be able to use the same type of technology they would encounter in a modern legal practice. HiveLaw is currently deployed at the Nelson Mandela University’s Law Clinic. 

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In today’s competitive legal landscape, technology is essential. High costs and complexity keep many from accessing this vital technology. This is where HiveLaw comes in.

Our story

The shareholders and business partners standing behind HiveLaw share a deep passion for equitable development of legal practice, as well as fair access to justice, and quality legal education in South Africa. A long history of support and mutual learning with the Nelson Mandela University led us to embark on a path of thinking about how best to achieve this joint purpose, within the context of practical needs of the Law Faculty of the Nelson Mandela University. We jointly identified the Law Clinic at the Nelson Mandela University as the ideal starting point.

The solution deployed at the Nelson Mandela University Law Clinic was intended to serve as a prototype for a viable, scalable and transferable model for modernising university law clinics, and in due course, smaller law firms and NGOs, giving them access to competitive practice management, document management and template management tools and enable them to compete more effectively.

Our process

Through a step-by-step process, we ensure HiveLaw is aligned with a client’s IT architecture, that we implement best practice and that the client’s requirements are accommodated.

Benefits for law clinics

  • Real world experience

    Students have the opportunity to interact with legal tech closely resembling the tech they will work on once they enter the workspace.

  • Full lifecycle of a matter

    For the law clinic and its practitioners, HiveLaw offers a practice management system which covers the entire lifecycle of a matter.

  • Paperless legal practice management

    HiveLaw offers the opportunity to move away from a paper-based environment to a digital environment, making the clinic’s entire client universe available at the click of a button.

  • Regulatory compliance support

    HiveLaw also supports regulatory compliance within law clinics, including conflicts check, controlled matter approval processes, compliance with Legal Aid requirements, and much more.

  • Business man conducting a technology workshop

    Training & support

    Training and support are offered by the various specialists forming part of the HiveLaw delivery team, to provide an immersive real world training experience.

  • Continuous development

    LawLabz’ team of specialist lawyers, technical experts and academics continue to assess our clients’ needs and the industry needs, to add new capabilities as part of the technology stack.

Material technical capabilities include:

Client onboarding;

Document management;

Email filing;

Client onboarding; Document management; Email filing;

Rights management;

Time recording;

Accounting;

Rights management; Time recording; Accounting;

Diary management;

Student onboarding;

Student assessment;

Diary management; Student onboarding; Student assessment;

  • “Most things are simply a click of a button.”

    – Practitioner in a law clinic

  • “HiveLaw has the potential to revolutionise the way in which university law clinics and law firms alike operate.”

    – Member of Law Faculty

  • “Hivelaw provides significant operational benefits for archival purposes.”

    – Member of Law Faculty

  • “HiveLaw brings assurance to the public that their cases are being handled in an efficient and professional manner.”

    – Member of Law Faculty

  • “HiveLaw will provide students with much required education and experience as to the future of legal practice and bring much needed change to the law curriculum.”

    – Member of Law Faculty

  • “The HiveLaw system offers the ideal opportunity to marry academic training with practical experience to advance students’ employability and graduate attributes.”

    – Member of Law Faculty

Let’s talk.

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