VakeelLegal Aid billing that actually understands the LAA.Legal aid work, tracked properly alongside paid matters.
From provider registration to the rate matrix, controlled work fixed fees, escape fee thresholds and cost limit alerts, Vakeel handles the structure of LAA work so your bills are right the first time.Dedicated activity codes for Lok Adalat preparation and NALSA, SLSA and DLSA honorarium tracking sit alongside retainer and pro bono billing schemes, so legal aid work is recorded with the same rigour as paid matters.
Built to do the job properly.
- LAA provider registration: provider numbers, schedules, and case type to funding scheme mappingsLegal aid activity codes for Lok Adalat preparation, tracked against the case like any other time entry
- Controlled Work and Licensed Work: Legal Help, CLR, ECF fixed fees and certificated hourly work across 14 funding typesNALSA, SLSA and DLSA honorarium tracking, so legal aid income is never lost in general billing
- The full LAA hourly rate matrix: category of law by region, fee-earner grade and court level, with effective-date versioningPro bono and corporate retainer billing schemes alongside legal aid work
- Controlled Work fixed fees per category, including the 3x escape fee thresholdCase rate cards distinguish legal aid, pro bono and paying clients on the same matter type
- Cost limits and extensions tracked, with alerts as a limit approachesWIP and reporting split legal aid and pro bono time from billable time by department
- LAA activity codes at time entry: attendance, preparation, advocacy, travel and waiting, and moreFull audit trail on every legal aid entry, ready for Lok Adalat and legal services authority reporting
How teams use it.
The point of it.
LAA billing has more moving parts than any private bill: the right grade, the right region, the right scheme, the right code, under the right cost limit. Vakeel encodes those rules so fee-earners just record the work and the bill assembles itself correctly.Legal aid and Lok Adalat work is easy to under-record because it does not generate an ordinary invoice. Vakeel gives it its own activity codes and honorarium tracking, so the effort is visible and reportable, not invisible.
Good to know.
Which funding schemes are covered?Which legal aid activities are covered? +
Legal Help, CLR, ECF fixed fees and certificated hourly work, across 14 LAA funding types, with case types mapped to schemes at matter opening.Lok Adalat preparation and attendance, with NALSA, SLSA and DLSA honorarium tracked against the case.
What happens when a matter approaches its cost limit?Can legal aid and paying work sit on the same system? +
Vakeel tracks standard, emergency and extension limits and alerts the fee-earner and supervisor as the limit approaches, so extensions are requested in time.Yes. Legal aid, pro bono, retainer and per-appearance billing schemes all run in the same case and reporting system.
Bring every matter into one calm workspace.
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