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Learn B.Legal

Step-by-step guides for every feature across all platforms. Whether you are tracking your first time entry or running a three-way trust reconciliation, start here.

Time & Billing

Track time with manual entries, AI narratives, and captured email, meetings, and messages. Create invoices, record payments, manage expenses, and run reports.

  • Manual time entry
  • AI narrative generation
  • Invoice creation
  • Recording payments
  • Expense tracking
  • Billing reports
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Matters & Clients

Open and manage matters, track statute of limitations dates, maintain client records, run conflict checks, and organize contacts.

  • Creating matters
  • SOL tracking
  • Client management
  • Contacts directory
  • Conflict checks
  • Document management
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Trust Accounting (IOLTA)

Record deposits and withdrawals, maintain per-client balances, run three-way reconciliation, and generate audit-ready reports.

  • Trust deposits
  • Trust withdrawals
  • Client balances
  • Three-way reconciliation
  • Overdraft protection
  • Audit trail
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AI & Automation

Generate billing narratives from shorthand, draft documents, run AI research, and review captured activity — with a local-AI option for privileged work.

  • Billing narratives
  • AI drafting
  • Legal research
  • Screen capture
  • Email scanning
  • Built-in alerts
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Litigation Tools

Manage court dates and SOL deadlines, prepare depositions, work from discovery checklists, and estimate settlements.

  • Court calendar
  • SOL alerts
  • Deposition prep
  • Discovery checklists
  • Settlement calculator
  • Legal reference
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Communications

Connect Gmail, Zoom, iMessage, and Google Calendar. Surface billable activity from your inbox and meetings automatically.

  • Gmail integration
  • Zoom meeting scan
  • iMessage scanning
  • Calendar sync
  • Invoice email delivery
  • Matter picker
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Platforms

Install and configure B.Legal on macOS, iOS, the web, and Windows/Chromebook/Android via PWA. Platform-specific features and setup.

  • macOS setup
  • iOS setup
  • Web app
  • PWA install
  • Touch ID / Face ID
  • Auto-updates
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Security & Privacy

Understand how B.Legal protects your data with sandboxing, Firestore rules, API hardening, encrypted backups, and signed updates.

  • App Sandbox
  • Data isolation
  • API security
  • Error monitoring
  • Encrypted backups
  • Update signing
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Keyboard shortcuts reference

New time entry Cmd + N
New matter Cmd + Shift + N
New client Cmd + Option + N
New invoice Cmd + Shift + I
Dashboard Cmd + 1
Matters Cmd + 2
Time entries Cmd + 3
Clients Cmd + 4
Invoices Cmd + 5
Search Cmd + F
Open settings Cmd + ,
Open the Help Center Cmd + Shift + ?

Keyboard shortcuts are a feature of the macOS app.

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