Snapp.Fast · For uk law firms
Less admin for UK solicitors. Prepare client updates from court notices and assemble hearing packs, with court examples for England and Wales. Your solicitor reviews the work and controls what is sent or filed.
Tested on your past matters · Reference call with the case-study firm's managing partner, on request
Reply to Mr Smith's last three emails on his lease
Attach the certificate of service and update Northgate Retail
Add Northgate's comments to the witness statement
Court administration · England and Wales
A hearing notice arrives. Your team must find the matter, check the dates and prepare the client update. We build one workflow to prepare that work for solicitor review. The court examples below are for England and Wales.
Trigger: A hearing notice or court order becomes available through the firm’s agreed source.
Trigger: A solicitor asks for a matter update, or new correspondence arrives.
Trigger: The solicitor requests hearing preparation using the firm’s agreed checklist.
Trigger: A solicitor asks for a document pack for an agreed filing.
Results at a Paris litigation firm
An established Paris litigation firm uses these workflows every day. These figures describe that firm’s experience, not a forecast for your firm. Its managing partner will confirm them on a reference call, on request.
| Task | Before | With Snapp.Fast |
|---|---|---|
| Reply to a client who sent several emails | 36 min | 15 min |
| First assessment of a new document pack | 3 h | 45 min |
| First-pass triage of a 400-document file (about 1,000 pages) | 25 h | 3 h |
| Substantive draft or revision | 4 h | 1 h 45 |
| Evidence bundle, assembled and checked | 90 min | 30 min |
| Matter status, from emails and documents | 36 min | 12 min |
The times include the lawyer's instruction, review and corrections. Processing time is not counted as time saved. Court hearings are not included.
🎙️ Voice notes
Speak between two hearings, in a taxi or on the way to a client. Thirty seconds of voice becomes a draft in Outlook or Gmail, with the correct attachments, ready for your approval.
Tell Mr Smith the hearing moved to the 14th, and attach the court's notice.
Draft in Mr Smith's thread · 1 attachment
Where are we on the Northgate Retail claim?
Status note · 2 open points
Prepare the bundle index for tomorrow and tell me what is missing.
Index ready · 3 documents missing
How it works
We build and test the agreed path from the starting instruction or document to the result your lawyer reviews.
A lawyer sends a message or voice note, or an agreed source provides new correspondence.
Find the correct client and matter. If the match is unclear, stop and ask.
Use the information and systems agreed with your firm.
Create the draft, status note, index or document pack defined in the workflow.
Check the source references, documents and recipients where relevant. List missing information and open questions.
The lawyer checks the result and makes corrections.
The lawyer sends the communication or approves the send. Filing stays with the lawyer.
Record what was requested, prepared, approved and sent.
Your tools and authorised sources
For an online money claim handled through MyHMCTS, a hearing notice can state the hearing date and the claimant’s hearing-fee deadline. For matters in courts that use CE-File, a court order or notification can start the work. Each summary links back to the source document.
Work can start with notices already in your mailbox or matter folders. If direct portal access is needed, we confirm the available access and proposed connection before including it in the fixed quote. MyHMCTS and CE-File cover different courts and case types.
Scotland and Northern Ireland use different systems and procedures. Tell us where your firm practises so we can agree the right sources and scope.
Official guidance: MyHMCTS and HMCTS E-Filing (CE-File).
Controls
These controls are part of each workflow. We test them before handover.
The workflow prepares factual summaries, drafts and documents. Lawyers decide the advice, legal position and next action.
Nothing leaves the firm until a lawyer approves it. We test that an unapproved send is blocked. Filing stays with the lawyer.
If the client or matter is not clear, the workflow asks. It does not guess.
The workflow lists what it did not find and flags conflicting dates for review. It does not substitute a similar document or choose a legal interpretation.
Before connecting your sources, we agree the data, users, providers, regions and retention period.
We work as your data processor, under terms that fit UK GDPR, the UAE data protection law and the DIFC or ADGM rules, as they apply to your firm.
Case study
The lawyers of an established Paris litigation firm gave daily work to the assistant by message and voice note. The work included client replies, evidence bundles, revisions and matter status.
See how the firm prepares client replies, evidence bundles and document revisions, with lawyer review at each step.
Talk to the managing partner. She will speak with other firms that are considering the workflow, on request.
We can scope a workflow around your firm’s authorised sources and available access. That can start with notices and documents already in your mailbox or matter folders. If a direct portal connection is needed, we confirm it before including it in the quote. MyHMCTS and CE-File serve different courts and case types.
It extracts dates and deadlines expressly stated in the source documents and shows where they came from. A solicitor reviews conflicting dates, legal interpretation and procedural deadlines that need calculation.
Yes, where your firm authorises it and the service permits the agreed use. The workflow does not depend on a read-only or draft-only court account. Lawyers still control legal judgement, external communications and filing.
No. The MyHMCTS and CE-File examples on this page are for England and Wales. Work for firms in Scotland or Northern Ireland needs sources and procedures agreed for that jurisdiction.
One defined workflow, the access it needs, representative examples, acceptance cases and one all-inclusive fixed quote. Up to two change requests within the agreed need are included.
The agreed workflow will pass the acceptance cases defined before work starts. If it does not, Snapp.Fast corrects the agreed workflow at no additional fee. Reproducible defects in the accepted scope remain covered for 14 days after handover.
No. You keep what we build. Or we run it for you. We host and monitor the workflow, apply updates and make small changes. Your lawyers use it in the tools they already know. We agree the run plan and its price before it starts. You can stop the plan at any time.
See the shared law-firm offer or the page for UAE firms.
Start with one workflow
Show us a hearing notice to summarise, a matter update to prepare or a document pack to check. We show you the prepared result on your own past matters before you commit. Agree one workflow and an all-inclusive fixed quote before work starts. Complete the form in less than 5 minutes. Get your quote in less than 15 minutes. Ask for a reference call with the managing partner of our Paris case-study firm.
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