Services · Mobile app development · Legal services apps
Codeeo offers legal services app development in Edinburgh for solicitor firms, advocates' clerks and in house legal teams who want clients to book, send papers and follow their matter without chasing the office. We build iOS and Android apps with a staff dashboard behind them, designed for Scottish procedure from the start: missives, executries, guardianships and Court of Session work, not an English template with the words changed.
Scotland has its own legal system, its own regulator in the Law Society of Scotland and its own vocabulary. An app that talks about probate and completion to an Edinburgh client feels wrong on the first screen. We plan the wording, the steps and the data handling for the way your firm practises in Scotland.
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What the app can do
A residential purchase in Edinburgh moves through a note of interest, an offer, a closing date and concluded missives. An executry needs confirmation from the sheriff court before the estate can be ingathered. A continuing power of attorney has to be registered with the Office of the Public Guardian (Scotland). Each of those has its own documents, its own waiting points and its own questions from anxious clients.
The features below are the ones Edinburgh firms ask about most. We pick the set that suits your practice areas, connect it to the systems you already run, and keep the first release small enough for your staff to adopt in their normal week. Client confidentiality and the Law Society of Scotland's practice rules shape the access model, the storage choices and the audit trail from the first sprint.
New enquiries start with categories your clients recognise: buying or selling a home, executries, adults with incapacity, family actions, employment, commercial leases and disputes. Guided questions gather the facts a solicitor needs in plain words, then route the enquiry to the right department in your Edinburgh office.
Enquiries reach the right solicitor already sorted and complete.
Lawyer booking app development for Edinburgh firms usually starts here: clients pick a slot for an office meeting or a video call, answer a short set of questions in advance, and get reminders. Fee earners see the answers before the meeting, so the first conversation covers advice, not form filling.
Fewer calls to reception and better prepared first meetings.
For firms that sell and buy homes, the app shows each stage of a Scottish transaction: Home Report requested, notes of interest, closing date, offer accepted, missives concluded and date of entry. Sellers see viewing feedback, buyers see what is outstanding, and nobody needs to phone for a status.
Property clients follow their transaction without calling the office.
Executors see where the estate stands: assets being valued, the inventory prepared, confirmation applied for, funds being ingathered and distribution planned. Requests for bank statements or death certificates appear as tasks with a clear upload button, which cuts the long email threads executries tend to produce.
Executors know what is needed from them and when.
Clients capture passport or driving licence images and a selfie inside the app, and answer source of funds questions before a transaction proceeds. The results sit on the matter for your compliance team, matching the client due diligence the Law Society of Scotland expects as anti money laundering supervisor.
Client checks are done before work starts, not chased later.
Continuing and welfare powers of attorney, and guardianship applications under the Adults with Incapacity rules, involve several parties: the granter, attorneys, a certifier and sometimes a medical report. The app lists who must sign what, tracks registration with the Office of the Public Guardian (Scotland), and lets attorneys download the registered document once it returns.
Families see each step of a power of attorney without repeated calls.
Titles, wills, tenancy agreements and court papers move between client and firm through encrypted upload, with each file labelled to the matter and visible only to permitted staff. Clients ask questions in a message thread attached to the same matter, so a paralegal can answer while a partner is in court at Parliament House, and nothing privileged sits in personal inboxes or phone galleries.
Papers and conversations stay inside one controlled, logged record.
Clients see fee notes and outlays, pay by card or bank transfer, and keep a history of what is settled. Money received for clients is reconciled with your accounting system so your cashroom keeps control under the Society's accounts rules.
Fee notes are seen sooner and settled with less chasing.
One admin view shows new enquiries by department, outstanding identity checks, matters waiting on clients and unpaid fee notes. Partners see workload across the firm, and staff can reassign matters when someone is on leave.
Every enquiry has an owner and a visible next step.
Adjustable text size, high contrast, screen reader labels and short explanations of each legal term help clients who are elderly, unwell or new to the law. We design to WCAG 2.2 and the Equality Act duty to make reasonable adjustments, so the app works for a retired client in Corstorphine as well as a busy professional in the city centre.
More clients complete tasks without needing someone to help.
Who this is for
The city's legal market is unusually concentrated. The Court of Session, the High Court of Justiciary and the Faculty of Advocates sit at Parliament House, many established firms work from the New Town and the financial district around Lothian Road, and private client and property work runs across every neighbourhood from Leith to Morningside. These are the situations we hear about most often from Edinburgh firms and in house teams.
Many Edinburgh firms market homes as well as handle the conveyancing, often listing through ESPC alongside their own website. Their clients want viewing updates, closing date news and missives progress in one place. We build an app that covers the sale and the legal work together, and connects to the property and case systems your team already updates, so nobody types the same information twice.
Sale and conveyancing updates in a single client view.
Wills, powers of attorney, executries and trusts generate long matters with older clients and grieving families. The priority is clarity: large text, simple tasks, plain explanations of confirmation and inventory, and the option for a family member to help with the client's consent. We design for patience and accessibility before anything else, and we keep the number of screens low so a client who opens the app twice a year still knows where to tap.
Firms with Court of Session, sheriff court and tribunal work need to keep clients informed about hearings, deadlines and what counsel needs. The app gives clients a timeline of their action, reminders before diets and a secure route for sending productions, while your team controls exactly what each client can see. Where an advocate is instructed, the clerk can be given limited access to the papers relevant to that instruction rather than the whole file.
Edinburgh is home to banks, asset managers and public bodies with internal legal teams. Their users are colleagues, not consumers: business units requesting contract reviews, approvals and advice. We build an internal request app with triage, service levels agreed by the team and reporting for the general counsel, with access controlled through your existing sign in.
Built as an internal tool, not a public app.
How we work together
Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi. We do not have an office in Scotland; we work remotely with Edinburgh clients, and discovery, design reviews and demos all run by video call. Most firms begin with a fixed scope first release, then move to a monthly retainer for improvements. Larger practices sometimes take a dedicated team for a longer programme covering several departments.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We choose native or cross platform tools based on your clients' devices, your practice management and accounting systems, and who will maintain the app after launch. UK hosting is agreed with you so data location fits your confidentiality obligations, and every service we connect is listed in a register your firm keeps.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on scope, and we fix the plan before design starts.
A focused first release, for example booking, intake and document upload for one department, is quicker than a full client portal covering property, executries and litigation. The other big factors are how many systems the app must connect to, how many staff roles you need, and how quickly your team can review designs. We agree the release plan in discovery and you see working software at the end of each cycle.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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