Easy, intuitive practice management software. Get back to helping your clients.

Smokeball is the engine behind successful small law firms, making it easy to automatically track time and activity, manage workloads, bill your clients, and more.

Smokeball Software - #1 on G2 in 2022
Smokeball Software - #1 on G2 in 2022

Easy, intuitive practice management software. Get back to helping your clients.

Smokeball is the engine behind successful small law firms, making it easy to automatically track time and activity, manage workloads, bill your clients, and more.

1 YEAR

3 YEAR

START

$29

per user/per month

Bill clients + get paid faster.

Start Free Trial
  • Cloud-based
  • Basic Contact + Matter Management
  • Time + Expense Tracking
  • Billing
  • Online Payments
  • Trust Accounting + Reporting

Grow

$119

per user/per month*

Run your firm like a pro.

Book a Demo
  • Everything in START
  • Document + Email Management
  • Powerful Document Automation
  • Deep Integrations (Outlook, Word)
  • Library of Pre-Automated Court Forms
  • Daily Digest of Tasks + Calendar Events
  • Secure Client Portal including SMS
  • Online + Offline Access

Prosper

$169

per user/per month*

Create strategic successes. 

Book a demo
  • Everything in GROW
  • Automatic Time + Activity Tracking
  • Lead Management
  • Email Marketing
  • Workflow Templates +
    Checklists by Practice Area
  • Intelligent Workflow + 
    Milestone Management
  • Profitability Management
  • Advanced Full Text Search with OCR
  • Custom Reporting + Dashboards
  • Phone/Video Conferencing Integrations

START

$29

per user/per month

Bill clients + get paid faster.

Start Free Trial
  • Cloud-based
  • Basic Contact + Matter Management
  • Time + Expense Tracking
  • Billing
  • Online Payments
  • Trust Accounting + Reporting

Grow

$99

per user/per month*

Run your firm like a pro.

Book a Demo
  • Everything in START
  • Document + Email Management
  • Powerful Document Automation
  • Deep Integrations (Outlook, Word)
  • Library of Pre-Automated Court Forms
  • Daily Digest of Tasks + Calendar Events
  • Secure Client Portal including SMS
  • Online + Offline Access

prosper

$149

per user/per month*

Create strategic successes. 

Book a demo
  • Everything in GROW
  • Automatic Time + Activity Tracking
  • Lead Management
  • Email Marketing
  • Workflow Templates +
    Checklists by Practice Area
  • Intelligent Workflow + 
    Milestone Management
  • Profitability Management
  • Advanced Full Text Search with OCR
  • Custom Reporting + Dashboards
  • Phone/Video Conferencing Integrations

*3 year Financed Agreement. Excludes Onboarding Pack fee and data migration costs. See our terms and conditions for further information.

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What our clients say

With Smokeball, you're not just getting software. You'll benefit from our community of legal experts and connect with your peers.

5 Star Review
"I wish we would have been using Smokeball many, many years ago… the program is ahead of the game."
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Katie Sarkisian
Sarkisian, Sarkisian & Associates
5 Star Review
"Smokeball’s auto time recording feature has increased the amount of time that I capture, by 30% or more."
Joshua Boehm's
Joshua Boehm
Cottonwood Law Group. LC
5 Star Review
"SmokebalI provides metrics on which cases and case types are profitable for me, which helps me adjust my pricing."
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Nora Endzel
Endzel Law, LLC

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Start
Grow
Prosper
Cloud-based Anywhere, anytime access through a web browser
Time, Fee + Expense Tracking Easy tracking of all matter-based time entries, fees and expenses
Billing Bill the way you want with flexible invoicing that leverages batch/bulk invoices and easy reminders
LEDES Billing Bill your clients using the LEDES billing standard
Evergreen Retainers Keep on top of your cash flow with easy to use Evergreen retainer requests
Trust Accounting with easy bank reconciliation Rest easy with compliant Trust Accounting and powerful reporting
Online Payments through LawPay* Get paid faster with online credit card payments
Payment Plans Keep your cash flowing and set your clients up on payment plans
Accounting GL Integrations (QuickBooks) Peace of mind that your accounting software is always up to date
Matter, Fee Earner, Firm level reporting Keep track of all your billable work, outstanding debtors and Trust balance
Online/Offline Access No internet, no problem. Keep your finger on the pulse with a native app that seamlessly switches between online and offline modes.
Advanced Contact + Matter Management Keep a more detailed record of Clients, Contacts and Matters in one place online.
Pre-configured Practice Areas Intuitive functionality designed in partnership with legal experts for different areas of law.
Document + Email Management with Microsoft Word Integration Documents are never more than a few clicks away, with all critical documents and emails stored against your matters.
Document Automation Dramatically reduce the amount of typing in information with industry leading document automation.
eSignatures** Minimize time you spend waiting on clients to approve documents thanks to DocuSign.
Pre-automated Forms Library Don't waste time on common regulatory documents thanks to a comprehensive library of pre-configured and localized templates and court forms.
Task Management Streamline your internal collaboration by assigning and actioning tasks.
Calendaring with Outlook Integration Better manage your firm's workload and never miss an appointment again, with a rich two-way Outlook integration.
Secure Client Portal Send, receive and collaborate on documents securely with your firms very own client communication system.
Internal Chat Streamline internal communication no matter where you are, with internal chat functionality.
SMS Increase the speed of client response for urgent items by sending SMS's directly from Smokeball.
Integrated eFiling** File your documents with the court easily and seamlessly from your Smokeball matter.
Automated eBrief/Bates Stamping Create briefs using approved formatting preferences with ease.
Conflict Checking Check for client conflicts within a few easy clicks.
Matter + Billing Permissions Maintain control over who has acess to certain bills.
Mobile + Tablet App Anywhere, any time access no matter the device you are on.
Rules Based Calendaring** Remove the headache of manually calculating deadlines with a seamless integration with LawToolBox's rules-based deadline calculators.
Custom Template/Precedent Creation Set up templates for commonly used documents.
Unlimited Secure Data Storage Peace of mind that no matter where you are, all your and your clients data is protected by state of the art security standards.
Lead Management Keep track of all your prospects in one place and identify which clients are best suited to your firm.
Email Marketing** Sends newsletters, run marketing campaigns or simply send out office closure notices all directly through Smokeball.
Workflow Templates + Checklists by Practice Area Set up workflows and checklists specific to how your firm operates to ensure you never miss a deadline.
Advanced full text search with OCR Find the right document or phrase with powerful OCR searching of all stored documents including PDF.
Automatic Time + Activity Tracking Make manual time tracking a thing of the past with our unique autotime feature that automatically tracks your time and activity.
Staff Activity + Workload Management Balance workloads and have complete visibility into staff output and case activity.
Phone and Video Conferencing Integrations** Make calls and track your time automatically with integration to Zoom or RingCentral.
Profitability Reporting (by Firm, Practice Area, + Client) Dissect your profitability reports into areas relevant to you to identify areas you need to lean into.

*Online Credit Card payments are through our integration partner, LawPay. Additional fees apply.
**Fees apply, contact us for more information.

Perks of Smokeball

With a monthly subscription,
your firm also receives:​

Unlimited award-winning customer service

Training from Smokeball
legal professionals

Premium
technical assistance

About Smokeball pricing

Frequently Asked Questions

Want to know more about our pricing plans? Read on for answers to some of our most-asked questions:

1. Start – This plan is for lawyers looking to start their own law firm, or simply looking for an affordable legal billing and accounting solution that is completely compliant.

2. Grow – This plan is for law firms who have grown out of manila folders and are looking for a better, way to get their work done efficiently. It includes seamless document and email management.

3. Prosper – If you’re looking at intelligent ways to optimise your small law firm to become a thriving business, this is the plan for you. It includes automated time tracking and management reporting so you’ll confidently bill what you’re worth.

Smokeball offers a no-cost, risk-free trial of our Start package so you can evaluate whether Smokeball is right for your small law firm. If you cancel anytime within the 7-day free trial period, you will not be charged.

There is no limit on how many firm users and clients can use or simultaneously access Smokeball legal practice management software. And because there is no data storage limit, you can upload and download as much as needed.

Smokeball is the only practice management software with built-in automatic time tracking and timesheets. Whether you are reviewing a matter in Smokeball, writing an Outlook email or drafting court forms in Microsoft Word, AutoTime tracks and records this time, so you don’t have to. Upgrade or select the Prosper plan to have these features included.

Smokeball uses industry-standard SSL security, similar to eCommerce sites, financial institutions and other secure web-based (SaaS) software solutions. All your work, including the interactive wireframe, is password-protected and requires a login to access. Additionally, a national IT service provider, in a certified safe and secure environment, hosts and backs up all of your data.

At renewal, you have a couple of options:

1.   You can keep your current feature set by extending your plan with Smokeball. Or,

2.   You can upgrade or downgrade your plan to add or remove key features.

You can access the community page using this link: Smokeball Community