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Legal Software for Municipalities and State Agencies

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State and municipal agencies serve their communities with dedication and resilience. Filevine is built to support that mission — giving you the tools to manage high volumes of legal work, protect sensitive information, improve public service, and ensure compliance — all from one secure, flexible platform. Protect your community’s vital records with Filevine’s centralized repository. Store, share, and manage contracts, ordinances, resolutions, and case files securely, backed by industry-leading compliance.
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Scalability and Customization

Accurately track time spent on various tasks and generate pre-bills with ease. Filevine's timesheet features streamline billing processes, improve accuracy, and promote cost-effectiveness, ensuring you receive proper compensation for your valuable time.
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Handle a wide range of legal matters across multiple agencies within a single, organized platform. Filevine provides the tools to manage everything from litigation and investigations to legal advice and compliance, all within a unified system.
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Filevine offers specialized functionality for specific legal domains and the flexibility to adapt to evolving regulations and requirements. Stay ahead of the curve and ensure compliance with ease.
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Create a centralized repository for legal resources and knowledge with Filevine's referential projects. Store statutes, case law, internal policies, and best practices in a searchable database, accessible to your entire team. Promote consistency, efficiency, and professional development by empowering your public defenders with the information they need.
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Key Challenges Facing State and Municipal Legal Teams

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Protect Sensitive Data and Ensure Compliance

Filevine is built with security, privacy, and compliance at its core. Benefit from features that meet or exceed CJIS Security Policy requirements, including robust encryption, access controls, audit trails, and independent third-party audits like SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.
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Manage Intake and Information Gathering

Easily gather and organize critical case information. Filevine facilitates integrations with law enforcement software, enabling faster access to criminal records, court filings, and other vital data your team needs to act swiftly.
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Access Information and Collaborate from Anywhere

Whether in council chambers, the courtroom, or out in the field, your team can securely access Filevine’s centralized case files, documents, and communication tools from any device, anytime. Empower your public service mission with flexible, mobile-ready technology.
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Task and calendar management

Calendars and Tasks

Task and calendar management

State and Municipalities attorneys have many different task management requirements for lawyers and legal professionals. For example, meeting discovery deadlines and keeping track of upcoming hearings or trial dates. Managing this kind of workload is both time-consuming and prone to errors.

Automated task flows help your team stay organized and productive by eliminating manual tasks. In contrast, public-facing calendar tools help ensure that State and Municipal calendars are always up-to-date so that attorneys can plan accordingly. Task and calendar management can help State, and Municipal attorneys better serve their clients, allowing them to be more efficient in court, regardless of their specific area of practice.

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Elevate Your Legal Operations with Filevine

Filevine adapts to the unique needs of government agencies at all levels.

  • Scalable: Effortlessly handle massive datasets and complex workflows.
  • Customizable: Align with specific state laws and procedures.
  • Flexible: Accommodate diverse needs with configurable project types and workflows.
  • Integratable: Connect with existing government systems for seamless collaboration.
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Centralize your case management with Filevine.

  • Consolidate all documents, emails, notes, and data in one secure platform.
  • Manage every aspect of your cases – from intake to resolution – in a single workspace.
  • Improve workflows, access to information, and collaboration across teams.
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Filevine's advanced reporting and analytics.

  • Track key performance indicators to optimize legal processes.
  • Analyze caseloads, identify bottlenecks, and measure team performance.
  • Generate reports that provide transparency to the public, ensuring accountability.
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Connect with Filevine's built-in communication tools.

  • Securely communicate with witnesses, victims, law enforcement, and other parties.
  • Maintain a centralized record of all communication for easy reference.
  • Collaborate seamlessly with colleagues and external parties.
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Document Mangement

Centralized Document Management

Securely Manage Documents

Stay organized and protect your critical legal records with Filevine’s centralized document management system. Easily store ordinances, resolutions, contracts, and case files in one secure location. Control access with robust permissions, share documents securely, and retrieve what you need — when you need it.
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Communication made easy

Communication

Communication made easy

State and municipal attorneys generally handle large quantities of cases, making it critical to stay on top of communication between witnesses and victims. Two-way texting helps counsel manage communication quickly and accurately since all texts and attachments are stored and managed directly through Filevine.

This software eliminates the tedious back-and-forth between lawyers and their outside vendors, saving time and reducing potential errors. Filevine also allows attorneys to keep their finger on the pulse of every witness or victim interaction. State or local law enforcement teams can trust in the reliability that two-way texting provides when communicating with those on the front lines.

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Filevine as Your Municipal Management Software

As a state/municipal legal team, you likely handle many cases ranging from employment disputes to property rights cases.

Filevine's powerful case management tools can help you keep track of all your cases and associated documents, track deadlines and progress, and collaborate effectively with your team members.

For example, you can use Filevine's case tracking tools to manage cases related to zoning disputes or employment claims. You can also use Filevine's document management tools to organize all your legal documents related to municipal ordinances, permits, and contracts.

State legal teams receive a high volume of requests for legal services from various departments and external entities.

Filevine's intake management tools can help you centralize and prioritize these requests, ensuring that your team is aware of all incoming legal issues and can respond to them promptly and efficiently.

For example, you can use Filevine's intake management tools to track requests for legal advice from departments such as public works or human resources and prioritize them based on their urgency and potential impact.

Municipal legal teams work closely with other departments and external counsel regularly. Filevine's collaboration and communication tools can help you streamline these interactions, ensuring that all stakeholders are aware of important updates and decisions related to legal matters.

For example, you can use Filevine's messaging tools to communicate with external counsel regarding litigation strategy or use Filevine's collaboration tools to work on legal documents with other departments, such as the planning commission or the city council.

State governments deal with a lot of sensitive information, such as confidential legal advice or personally identifiable information (PII) related to employees or citizens.

Filevine takes data security and confidentiality very seriously and has implemented a range of measures to ensure the safety of your information.

These include bank-level encryption, two-factor authentication, user permissions and access controls, and regular security audits and assessments.

In addition, Filevine complies with various data privacy regulations, such as HIPAA and GDPR, to ensure that your data is handled in accordance with the highest security and privacy standards.

Municipals legal teams have some of the largest caseloads in the legal industry, and you likely have a range of routine tasks and workflows that can be automated to save time and improve efficiency.

Filevine's automation tools can help you streamline these processes, allowing your team to focus on more complex and strategic tasks.

For example, you can use Filevine's workflow automation tools to automate tasks such as document creation, approval processes, and email notifications. You can also use Filevine's integrations with other software tools to automate tasks such as contract management or e-discovery.

By automating these tasks, you can free up valuable time and resources for your team to focus on higher-level initiatives such as policy development or litigation strategy.

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