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By Lawyers is available as an exclusive integration within LEAP Legal Software.

Focussed on the needs of legal practice, LEAP is dedicated to developing legal practice management software that helps you run your firm efficiently and improve client service. Increase your firm's productivity and profits with integrated matter management, legal accounting, time recording and more, in one serverless solution.

The integration of By Lawyers within LEAP provides practitioners with research at their fingertips, within each and every matter. Using the LEAP software system the By Lawyers precedents and forms are fully automated.

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By Lawyers is an online legal publishing company providing practical legal commentary, precedents, and matter plans to all those engaged in legal practice.

There are many publications about the law, however, most are written by academics with little practical day-to-day application. Every piece of By Lawyers content is authored and reviewed by solicitors and barristers with practical experience in that area of law. By Lawyers is practical and always up-to-date.

Available in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, By Lawyers exists because of our desire to make the practice of law safer, more profitable, and more consistent. We help legal professionals to enjoy practice more.

For more information view the About Us page.

By Lawyers publications are made up of three components

1. Matter Plans

   By Lawyers matter plans are an organisational system that arranges precedents and commentaries into a logical order from start to finish. They act as roadmaps, detailing every step and consideration of the matter in sequential order. By Lawyers Matter Plans have proved to be a valuable tool assisting firms to increase productivity, minimise risk, and make practice easier and more enjoyable.

2. Commentaries

   Commentaries provide all the necessary research at your fingertips, within the matter itself. Providing fast, precise, and practical answers with links to relevant legislation and case law.

   The commentary is a detailed, practical explanation of how to effectively conduct a matter in a particular area of law. They are written by experienced practitioners - fully conversant with how to properly conduct a client matter. We focus on the practical aspects a practitioner will face and consider when practising in an area of law.

   The commentaries are continually maintained ensuring access to current real time developments in practice, legislation, and case law.

   Accessing the commentary is through the matter plan with the full commentary at the top and then links to relevant chapters as the matter progresses.

3. Precedents

   Every practitioner and law firm has their own library of precedents however they are often a little disorganised and not necessarily kept current with law and practice.

   By Lawyers provides one of the most comprehensive libraries of precedents available. From the everyday letters through to the more complex deeds and agreements, as well as libraries of less common precedents and forms for those occasions when the matter requires something beyond the usual practice.

   Through the matter plan, the precedents are highly organised and practitioners can quickly find what they need when they need it.

Our authors and editorial team continually monitor all our publications and keep them up-to-date to reflect changes in the law and practice.

We subscribe to multiple legislation tracking and case reporting services, as well as various journals, which are reviewed and actioned daily. We are constantly adding new precedents and commentary to enrich our publications so that practitioners can remain confident that they are working with the latest information.

All By Lawyers matter plans, commentaries, and precedents are written or reviewed by a practitioner with experience in the relevant area of law and the applicable jurisdiction.

Over 30,000 users around the world use By Lawyers publications every day.

Whether you are a senior lawyer needing to draft a complex agreement, wanting for example to look up the issues around parenting orders and relocation, or just dashing off an everyday letter filing documents at court, we can help.

The practice manager can advertise for staff with job descriptions and interview crib sheets, manage existing staff and undertake relevant performance reviews, consider and update the firm’s workplace policies, and maybe prepare a business plan for the future. By Lawyers has you covered.

You might be a general practitioner and working with an enormous number of files, in all the common areas of law. With By Lawyers systems, research, precedents and forms we can provide the support every busy lawyer needs.

You might be a paralegal and assisting one or more lawyers with their files. With the By Lawyers system the management of matters is simplified. The drafting of everyday letters is done for you and with a commitment to using plain language all members of a legal practice are supported from the most senior partner to the most junior member of the team.

Work is easily delegated, the sequential matter plan is easily followed and a consistent standard of communication and precedent production is achieved.

Who wouldn’t use By Lawyers!

Through an exclusive integration with LEAP, By Lawyers precedents and forms are auto-filled with data in the LEAP matter. Names address and contact details for clients, other law firms, courts, government departments, and so on, only need to be entered once.

By Lawyers is an online legal publication subscription service for law firms. We cannot assist with private legal matters or advice.

Read more about By Lawyers on our About Us page.