Welcome to Laminar
Laminar is practice management software for law firms that do a lot of transactions. Not ten files a month. Hundreds. Maybe thousands.
If juggling 200 balls and keeping them in the air is just a regular Tuesday for your team, this is the tool that was built for that specific problem.
What Makes It Different
Section titled “What Makes It Different”You’ve probably used legal software before. Maybe PCLaw, Clio, The Conveyancer, LawyerDoneDeal, or ProLegis. Most of those tools treat a file as a container: you open it, do stuff in it, and eventually close it. The file sits there whether you need it today or not, and it’s on you to remember what needs attention.
Laminar works differently:
Your work comes to you. Instead of scanning every open file for what’s urgent, Laminar surfaces the tasks that need attention right now. Everything else stays out of your way until it’s relevant.
Every matter moves through stages. Not just “open” and “closed.” A residential purchase might move through Leads, Document Preparation, Signing, Closing, Reporting, and Completed. You can see where every transaction sits at a glance, and spot the ones that are stuck. Stages are fully configurable per matter type and per firm.
Every task has one owner. No more “I thought you were handling that.” Every piece of work is assigned to a person or a team, with a clear record of who’s responsible.
Nothing disappears. Every change, assignment, and status update is logged automatically. When someone asks “who moved this forward?”, the answer is already there.
Who Uses Laminar
Section titled “Who Uses Laminar”Laminar is built for everyone in the firm, not just lawyers.
Most legal software hard-codes job titles: you pick “Lawyer” or “Clerk” from a dropdown, and that decides what you can do. That works until your firm doesn’t match the software’s assumptions. Laminar instead composes what each person can do from the roles they actually hold: team memberships, responsible-lawyer designations, approval authority, delegations. The system adapts to how your firm works, not the other way around.
In practice:
If you spend most of your time working through tasks (updating statuses, uploading documents, moving matters forward), you’ll live in your task list and the matters assigned to you or your team.
If you oversee matters and approve transactions (reviewing what’s progressing and what’s stuck, signing off on trust expenditures), you’ll use the matter views, approval queues, and your team’s workload dashboards.
If you’re responsible for setting up and managing the firm (configuring workflows, managing users and teams, controlling who can do what), you’ll work in the administration settings.
Where to Go Next
Section titled “Where to Go Next”If you’re brand new, start with these in order:
- Key Terms will give you the vocabulary. Laminar uses some familiar words in specific ways, and a few new ones worth learning upfront.
- Your First Day walks you through the interface so you know where things are.
- Concepts covers the building blocks in more depth: matters, workflows, tasks, trust accounts, and how they fit together.
- Guides walks you through common tasks step by step.
When you need a specific feature, the sections down the sidebar go deep: Communications for email and fax on your files, Documents & Forms for files, document generation, and client questionnaires, Billing for fees through invoices, Contacts & Clients for the client portal, and Teams & Channels for how specialized teams receive and work orders.
If you’re an administrator setting up the firm, head to the Your Firm section after you’ve read through the basics.