Smokeball is a law practice management platform for small US law firms that combines matter management, automatic time capture, legal forms, and billing in a single integrated system. The platform's automatic time capture — which records time spent on matters as attorneys work, without requiring manual timer activation — is a distinctive feature that reduces revenue leakage from uncaptured billable time.
Smokeball's legal forms library covers state-specific court forms for major US states, populated automatically from matter data. For litigation practices that frequently complete court forms, this automatic population dramatically reduces the time spent on administrative form completion.
Archie AI, Smokeball's integrated AI assistant, operates within the platform to access matter-specific context — drafting communications, summarizing documents, and generating billing entries with knowledge of the specific matter. This matter-aware AI avoids the privacy concerns of exporting client data to external AI platforms.
Key capabilities include automatic time capture, matter management, legal forms library, billing, Archie AI assistant, document management, and email management. Smokeball is used by small litigation and transactional law firms across the United States.
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