Frequently asked questions

Jursu is legal practice management software for lawyers, advocates, and law firms. It keeps your cases, clients, court hearings, documents, deadlines, tasks, and invoices in one place on the web and on Android, replacing spreadsheets, paper diaries, and manual court-portal checks.

Lawyers, advocates, and law firms of any size, from a solo practitioner to a multi-lawyer firm. It handles both litigation (court cases with hearing tracking) and non-litigation work such as advisory, transactional, and general engagements.

Go to app.jursu.com, choose Register, and enter your name, email, and a password of at least 8 characters. You'll receive a verification email. If your firm already has an account and an administrator has invited you, use the link in that invitation instead of registering separately.

Not for the web app: it runs in any modern browser at app.jursu.com with nothing to install. The Android app is a separate install if you want the mobile experience with offline support.

After your first login, you either create a new firm (in which case you become its administrator and owner) or join an existing firm using an invitation link or code from a firm administrator.

Yes. One email and password, one set of firms, one set of data. A matter you add on the web shows up on mobile immediately, and anything you change on mobile appears on the web.

The free plan is $0. Professional and Business plans raise the limits on matters, clients, team members, and document storage. See our pricing page for current rates.

No. The free plan requires no credit card. You only enter payment details if you choose to upgrade to a higher plan for larger limits.

Mostly headroom, not features. Matters, clients, invoices, and templates are unlimited on every plan. Paid plans raise the team-member and document-storage limits. See our pricing page for the current numbers.

Jursu blocks that one action (adding a matter, inviting a member) with a message naming exactly which limit you've reached. Nothing else is affected and your existing data is never touched.

No. You can create an account and use the free plan with no credit card. Payment details are only needed if you decide to upgrade.

A matter is any piece of work you handle for a client: a court case, an advisory engagement, a transaction, or general work. "Matter" is the standard term used across the legal profession. Each matter in Jursu has its own hearings, tasks, notes, expenses, documents, time logs, deadlines, and invoices. See What Is Matter Management? for a full walkthrough.

A court case is one kind of matter. When you create a matter you choose an engagement type (Court Case, Advisory, Transactional, or General), and only Court Case unlocks court and hearing tracking and, later, judgment recording.

Yes. Advisory, transactional, and general engagements are first-class matter types. They get the same tasks, notes, expenses, documents, time logs, deadlines, and invoicing as court cases, without the court and hearing fields.

You enter hearing dates on the matter. For matters at a supported court, Jursu also keeps the next hearing date up to date automatically. It emails reminders 1, 3, and 7 days before each hearing to you and any assigned lawyers, and can push hearing dates into Google Calendar. See How to Track Court Hearings So You Never Miss a Date for the full picture.

If the matter is at a supported court, Jursu updates the hearing date automatically as soon as the court's cause list changes, and re-sends reminders for the new date. For other courts, update the date on the matter yourself and Jursu recalculates the 7/3/1-day reminders from there.

Jursu has a firm-wide hearings view showing every upcoming, past, and all hearing across every matter, not just one case at a time, so you can see your whole team's court schedule in one place instead of checking each matter individually.

Archiving hides a matter from your default list and stops its reminders, but it's reversible at any time and still counts toward your plan's total-matters limit. Deleting removes the matter and everything under it (hearings, tasks, notes, expenses, documents); only a Jursu platform administrator can restore a deleted matter, and deleting is the only way to free up a matter slot.

Yes. Once a Court Case matter is marked Closed, Decided, or Dismissed, you can record a judgment: outcome (In Favour, Against, Settled, Withdrawn, Transferred, Other), judgment date, order number, deciding judge, and notes. Recorded judgments feed the Judgments report, which includes an overall win-rate figure.

Yes. Every matter has a Deadlines tab for dated legal deadlines with a priority level; overdue deadlines are highlighted, and automation rules can send reminders around them.

Optionally. You can give any client a self-service login to a client portal where they see their matter's status and upcoming hearing dates without calling your office. You control which clients get access and can turn it off at any time. See What Is a Client Portal, and Does Your Firm Need One?

No. Deleting a client removes the client record but leaves all of their matters intact.

Yes. Firm administrators invite members by email and assign each a role: Admin, Associate, Junior, or Consultant. How many members a firm can have depends on its plan.

Yes. A lawyer can belong to several firms at once and switch between them; each firm keeps its own matters, clients, and settings. Leaving a firm removes your access but not the history of your work there.

If a plan change puts a firm over its member limit, Jursu automatically suspends the most recently added members' seats (never the owner's) until capacity frees up. Suspended members aren't removed, and their seats are restored automatically when the firm upgrades again or another member leaves.

Yes. All data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS/TLS) and stored on secure servers with automated daily backups. Passwords are hashed and repeated login attempts are rate-limited. Your matters and clients are visible only to you and the lawyers in your firm, and Jursu never sells data.

Only you and the lawyers you have invited to that firm. A client with portal access sees only their own matter. Jursu platform administrators can access data only for support and recovery purposes.

You can export any individual matter or client to PDF from the web app. A one-click account-wide export isn't available yet. Contact support at [email protected] if you need a complete copy of your firm's data.

You can request deletion of your account and all associated data at any time from the Data Deletion page. Until then, your data is retained while the account is active.

Yes. The database is backed up automatically every day, and each backup is also copied off-site to separate infrastructure so it survives a full server failure.

Not yet. Jursu is available on Android and on the web today; an iPhone app is planned. In the meantime the web app works in any phone browser.

Offline you can view previously loaded matters, clients, hearings, tasks, notes, and expenses, open downloaded documents, and add, edit, or delete matters, clients, notes, tasks, and hearings. Those changes queue locally and sync automatically when you reconnect. Uploading new documents, emailing invoices, and live report generation need a connection. See What to Look for in Mobile Software for Lawyers Working Offline.

Yes. Connect Google Calendar from the Connectors screen and Jursu pushes your hearing dates into it. Disconnecting offers to also remove the events Jursu created.

Yes. Connect a Slack workspace and choose a channel to receive firm activity notifications: new matters, hearings, tasks, and more.