HoudiniEsq Law Practice Software
Cloud or Selfhost
The best practice for your law firm practice
Comprehensive law firm practice software for teams and solos. Integrated AI assistant, Word and PDF creation, editing and annotating, integrated chat, and a full email client are just a start. All of your data including email, attachments, and documents are full-text indexed. You never have to forward your emails or tag your documents so you can find the information you seek in HoudiniEsq law firm practice software.
Leave mundane tasks behind
HoudiniEsq streamlines your workload and improves productivity with the most robust workflow automation engine in the industry. Generate work products, documents, contracts, and drafts, send emails and reminders, and complete mundane day-to-day tasks, all automatically.
Manage a little or a lot
Manage projects, clients, leads, matters, and your organization’s budgets, backend accounting, staff workload, and billing, staff compensation agreements, third-party contracts, incidents, claims, and more.
Customize to fit
Extensive and extensible record customization means HoudiniEsq law firm practice software will fit the needs of any team or practice area now and well into the future.
Performant, reliable, efficient, and trusted
HoudiniEsq is trusted by small firms and some of the very largest organizations in the US and abroad. Municipalities, State, and Federal agencies trust HoudiniEsq to help manage millions of matters a month worldwide.
HoudiniEsq is used by law firms in America, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India, England, Wales, Romania, Kenya, South Africa, the UAE, Hong Kong and Shanghai China. In addition, thousands of Solo practitioners use HoudiniEsq and support services every day at zero cost. Why don’t you?
Click to read a Case Study: Pearl Lemon Legal UK
Pearl Lemon Legal
HoudiniEsq Legal Practice Management
What it is & why we use it
HoudiniEsq is a cloud-based legal practice management system built specifically for law firms and legal teams. It’s designed to streamline case management, client intake, billing, calendaring, and document automation. For us at Pearl Lemon Legal, it’s been a way to keep legal work structured without drowning in admin.
How we use it internally
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We run all case files, client comms, and billing inside HoudiniEsq so everything’s centralised.
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The calendar sync is critical — client calls, court deadlines, and contract milestones automatically feed into our team calendars.
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Document automation has been a huge time-saver. Draft contracts and NDAs now get generated from templates instead of starting from scratch.
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The billing module ties directly into case notes, so our legal team isn’t manually tracking time — it’s logged against cases as they work.
What impact it’s had
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Cut case prep/admin time by around 60% compared to before (where we juggled Google Drive, Excel, and emails).
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Improved compliance — everything is audit-trailed, which means fewer gaps when clients or auditors ask for records.
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Boosted client response speed by at least 3x because matter details are instantly accessible from one dashboard.
Who we recommend it to
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Boutique law firms that don’t have the budget for clunky enterprise software.
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In-house legal teams in startups or agencies (we use it this way).
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Any professional services firm handling contracts and compliance-heavy work.
Clever/unexpected use cases
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We’ve tied it into our sales and onboarding workflows: when a new retainer is signed, HoudiniEsq automatically generates the engagement letter and pushes it into our legal pipeline.
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Our PR team also uses it for contract tracking with media and event partners — so it’s not just “legal,” it’s become a cross-department tool for managing agreements.
What I liked most
What stood out for me with HoudiniEsq is how lawyer-minded it feels. Unlike generic CRMs or project tools, it’s built around how legal teams actually work: case-first, document-heavy, compliance-driven. From an agency perspective, that discipline has been a gift. It forced us to tighten processes — less back-and-forth on contract wording, fewer “who has the latest draft?” headaches, and more accountability when multiple team members touch a client matter.
On a cultural level, it reinforced something we value at Pearl Lemon Legal — agility. A tool like HoudiniEsq fits right in because it adapts to different contexts while keeping governance tight. For me, that’s the magic: agility with structure. It’s the same principle that makes our ops run at scale.
Deepak Shukla
Principal, Pearl Lemon Legal UK
HoudiniEsq Helps Manage Millions of Legal Matters
The preferred choice of legal firms, in-house counsel, state and federal agencies.
"A great innovation for the department. We handle over 100,000 cases annually. HoudiniEsq has made the department more effective and efficient. The department saves over $750,000 annually."
Director, Department of Fair Employment and Housing
Trusted by law firms big and small, corporate counsel, and state and federal agencies since 2008.
Create, edit, and annotate PDF and Word files in software.
You don’t need MS Word or Adobe installed on any of your computers.
No plug-ins, add-ins, or launchers to download, configure, and maintain.
Create, edit, and annotate Word files in HoudiniEsq. Turn any Word document into a template and merge data with a simple click.
Create, edit, and annotate PDF files in HoudiniEsq with a complete set of annotation tools.
Create beautiful documents in software. Take productivity to a new level and leave the old dependencies behind. Streamline cost and avoid future software licensing cost from Adobe and Microsoft.
You can see an overview of an entire case with just a glance.
Working with the HoudiniEsq team has been wonderful.
Patricia Schneider
Paralegal, Kasher Law Group
Our competitors claim their strength is ease-of-use. Nonsense, burdensome workarounds such as tagging data and forwarding emails, and having to pay for 3rd party integrations don’t make things easier, just burdensome and expensive.
"Whether in the Cloud or In-house, HoudiniEsq is the most effective way to manage a law practice."
CNBC
"After evaluating Clio, LexisNexis' Firm Manager, MyCase and then settling on RocketMatter. We now use HoudiniEsq to efficiently manage our law practice."
Trusted by Legal Professionals Since 2008
Billing, Invoicing, AR, Budgeting, Trust and Back Office Accounting
Automate Documents, Communication, and Workflow
Exhaustive Reporting and Customization
Integrates with Acrobat, Outlook, Word, WordPerfect, Office 365, Google, Quickbooks, Calendar Rules, LawPay, and more
Get started for free Download HoudiniEsq a Solo License is free
All-inclusive for as little as $21 a month for an on-premise multi seat license
In 2002 our company founder architected and developed the first cloud-based legal practice management product for the industry. Four years before the term “Cloud Computing” entered our lexicon. That product was called Time Matters World Server by DataTXT Corp. The Product was acquired by LexisNexis in 2004.
The first use of “cloud-computing” occurred on August 9, 2006, when then Google CEO Eric Schmidt introduced the term at an industry conference.
