Omega Legal gives your firm a secure app for lawyers and staff, a free client portal for the people you act for, and encrypted video conferences. Every message, document and call is encrypted on the device that sends it.
Lawyers and the people they act for need different things from a messenger, so Omega Legal comes in two parts that talk to each other.
The working space for partners, solicitors, paralegals and the front desk.
A private line to the lawyers a client has engaged, with nothing else in the way.
When you open a matter, you send the client a code or a link. They install the portal, accept the invitation, and can message the matter team straight away. Nobody can search for your lawyers or staff, so the only people who reach you are clients you've invited.
A client with a conveyancer for the house and a family lawyer for a separation keeps both firms side by side in the one portal, with each matter in its own thread.
Settlement funds are a favourite target for payment redirection fraud, where a forged email swaps in a criminal's account. In Omega Legal, your trust account details live inside the portal, sealed and tied to your firm, so a client can check them before every transfer.
Your trust account details are published once, inside the app, under your firm's name.
Nobody at the firm can change payment details alone, and clients are told the moment anything changes.
Clients compare the details in the portal with their banking app before they send funds.
Omega Legal will replace the mix of email chains, text messages and personal chat apps that client matters often end up in.
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Partners, solicitors, paralegals and reception talk in one place, in private chats and a thread for each matter.
Coming soon
Send advices, contracts, affidavits and signed copies inside the same encryption as your messages.
Coming soon
Brief counsel or write to the other side's lawyers, as long as they use Omega Legal too.
Coming soon
Client conferences and calls with counsel, sealed in the same way as your messages.
Lawyers owe their clients a duty of confidentiality under the Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules, and legal professional privilege can be lost through careless handling. Omega Legal is being designed to keep confidential communications confidential and to support your obligations under the Privacy Act 1988, the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, and the Legal Profession Uniform Law or your state's legal profession legislation.
Trust accounting and file retention stay in your practice management system, where your regulator expects them. We'll publish a plain-English privacy and security statement for firms before launch.
The keys that open your conversations are made on your own devices and stay there. Our servers pass sealed messages along and hold no key that can read them.
Each message and file gets its own key before it leaves your phone.
Our servers store and deliver the sealed message without being able to open it.
Only the devices it was addressed to can unwrap the key and read it.
No. Your matter records, trust accounting, time recording and billing stay where they are. Omega Legal handles the conversations and the documents that travel with them.
Nothing. The client portal is free. A client who wants the full Omega messenger for their own use can upgrade inside the portal for a personal subscription.
Yes. Use Omega Legal for the clients and matters where it helps most and keep email for everyone else. Conveyancing settlements and family law are good places to start.
Privilege depends on the purpose and content of a communication, and no app can decide that for you. Omega Legal keeps confidential communications confidential, which is one of the things privilege needs.
Messages and documents are encrypted on the device that sends them and our servers can't open them. Account details for Australian firms are held in Australia.
You set the firm's hours. Outside them, clients see your away message and an after-hours contact if you offer one.
Omega Legal is still being built. Register your interest and we'll let you know when it's ready, or apply to join the beta and try it before anyone else.
Please don't include any client or matter details in these forms.
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