Designing a management tool for a law firm.

While supporting my partner as she runs her own law firm, I am designing Avocab, a management tool built around her actual needs. The approach is fully custom, with a strong focus on automating tasks through an AI agent.

The project is currently in development.

I am the solo designer on the project, from framing to interface design. I build the application myself with Claude Code.

Team size: 1 Product Designer, with Claude Code for development
Users: 1 expert user, a solo lawyer
Status: in development

Discovery

Tools that don't fit a solo practice

The legal management software available on the market is not suited to small firms, and even less to a lawyer practising alone.

→ My approach: design an AI-centred tool that gives a 360° view of the lawyer's activity.

Having direct access to an expert user, I rely on her knowledge and needs to shape a tool that truly fits her practice. The project is also a way for me to grow in AI-assisted design and in integrating external services:

Claude API
AI agent design
Google APIs
Electronic invoicing

Documents

Where the most time is saved

Lawyers constantly send the same documents: petitions, lists of exhibits, sworn statements, fee agreements. Each one follows a template, and today they lose time filling them in by hand, copying the same client and case details over and over.

→ Avocab generates these documents from its templates, filled with the data already in the case.

Assignation en divorce

Dossier : Claire Martin
Divorce · Tribunal judiciaire de Lyon

Requête en divorce

À Madame, Monsieur le Juge aux affaires familiales du Tribunal judiciaire de [Tribunal].

Pour : [Civilité] [Prénom] [Nom], née le [Naissance], demeurant [Adresse].

Ayant pour avocat [Avocat], avocat au barreau de [Barreau].

Contre : [Partie adverse], époux de la requérante, mariage célébré le [Date du mariage].

Illustrative demo: pick a template and generate it from a fictional case. The feature is being built in Avocab.

Live demo