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Legal apps for London firms whose clients are busy, mobile and often abroad.

Codeeo provides legal services app development in London for solicitor firms, barristers' chambers and in house legal teams. We build iOS and Android client apps with a staff dashboard behind them: onboarding, identity checks, consultation booking, secure document exchange, matter updates and payments. The aim is simple. A client in Canary Wharf, Croydon or Dubai should be able to instruct you, send papers and see progress without a single chasing email.

London clients compare your firm with the banking and travel apps on their phone. They expect to act from anywhere, at any hour, and still know their information is safe. We design for that expectation while keeping every step consistent with the SRA Standards and Regulations and UK GDPR.

Built for
SRA regulated firms, barristers' chambers, legal consultancies and in house legal teams across Greater London.
Typical timeline
We agree the first release and its delivery plan during discovery, write both down, and revisit them openly at every sprint review.
What you own
The firm owns the code, the store listings, the admin system, the cloud subscriptions and every client record from day one.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

Inside the app

Built for the pace and mix of London legal work.

Legal work in London runs at two scales at once. City firms handle cross border transactions, regulatory investigations and disputes in the Business and Property Courts at the Rolls Building, while high street practices in every borough handle leasehold flat purchases, immigration applications, housing problems and family matters. Both deal with clients who are short of time and often outside the UK.

The features below are chosen for that reality. Onboarding has to cope with overseas passports and complex ownership structures. Payment screens have to resist the bank detail fraud that targets property transactions. Updates have to reach clients who may never visit your office. We combine these into one product and connect it to the practice management, accounting and document systems your firm already runs, so the app adds a channel rather than another place to type the same information.

Explain your project
  • Remote onboarding for UK and overseas clients

    Clients scan passport chips or upload documents, complete a liveness check and answer source of funds and source of wealth questions inside the app. Company clients add directors and beneficial owners, checked against Companies House where relevant. Your compliance team reviews each file before the matter opens, in line with the Money Laundering Regulations and your firm's risk assessment.

    New clients are verified before work begins, wherever they live.

  • Conflict check before the first meeting

    Names of the client, the other side and connected parties are captured at intake and passed to your conflict search before a consultation is confirmed. Fee earners only see the enquiry once it has cleared, which matters in a city where large firms often act against each other.

    No meeting is booked before conflicts are cleared.

  • Consultation booking across offices

    Lawyer booking app development in London has to handle several offices and many diaries. Clients choose a practice area, a solicitor or the next available specialist, and pick a video call or an office meeting. Reminders, rescheduling and pre meeting questions run automatically, and late cancellations free the slot for someone else.

    Diaries fill without reception juggling calls and emails.

  • Leasehold purchase tracker

    Much of London's housing is leasehold, so a flat purchase depends on management packs, lease extensions, service charge information and freeholder replies. The tracker shows buyers each enquiry raised, who it is waiting on and what is still outstanding before exchange and completion, so delays are explained before the client asks.

    Flat buyers understand why a purchase is waiting and on whom.

  • Verified bank details and payment requests

    Conveyancing fraud often starts with a fake email changing the firm's bank details. The app shows client account details inside an authenticated screen, warns clients never to trust emailed changes, and takes card or Open Banking payments for fees. Client money still follows the SRA Accounts Rules through your own accounts system.

    Clients pay the right account and fraud attempts lose their usual route.

  • Secure document room

    Contracts, witness statements, immigration evidence and board papers are uploaded with encryption, version history and per matter permissions. Clients can sign engagement letters and simple forms electronically, and you decide which documents need a wet signature or a witness.

    Papers stay in one access controlled place, not across inboxes.

  • Matter timeline and messaging

    Each matter has a plain language timeline, from instruction to filing, hearing or completion, plus a message thread visible to the whole team on the file. A trainee can answer a routine question while the partner is at the Royal Courts of Justice, and the exchange stays on the record.

    Clients see progress and get answers without chasing one person.

  • Multilingual client screens

    Londoners speak a very wide range of languages, and a client who struggles with English legal forms is more likely to drop out of intake. We can add translated intake forms, help text and notifications for the languages your clients actually use, such as Arabic, Polish or Bengali, while legal advice and engagement terms stay in the language your solicitors approve.

    More clients complete intake without a relative translating.

  • Portal for corporate and repeat clients

    Company clients can add several authorised contacts, see every open matter across departments, request new work and download reports. Access is removed when someone leaves the client business, and the general counsel sees spend and status in one place.

    Repeat clients instruct you more easily than a competitor.

  • Fee earner and management dashboard

    Partners and practice managers see enquiries by source and department, conversion to instruction, stalled onboarding files and overdue tasks. Supervisors can reassign work and spot matters waiting too long on the client.

    Bottlenecks show up while there is still time to fix them.

Who this is for

Four London practices this kind of app suits.

The legal market in the capital stretches from the Inns of Court and Chancery Lane to firms above shops in Walthamstow and Kingston. Clients range from international investors to tenants facing eviction. The same app cannot serve all of them, so we start from the client you most need to serve better.

01

Residential property firms across the boroughs

Conveyancing teams handling leasehold flats and first time buyers need fewer status calls and stronger defences against payment fraud. We build onboarding, identity checks, the leasehold tracker and verified bank details first, then add estate agent and broker updates once the client side is working. Publishing price and service information on your website is required under the SRA Transparency Rules, and the app can link clients back to it.

Fewer status calls, safer completion money.

02

Immigration and private client practices

Clients applying for visas, settlement or citizenship send large volumes of evidence, often from abroad, and worry about deadlines. A document checklist per application type, with reminders and secure upload from any country, saves your team hours of sorting. Private client teams use the same pattern for wills, lasting powers of attorney and estates, where executors may live in different countries and need to sign and send documents without travelling to London.

03

Commercial firms with international clients

Firms acting for overseas companies and investors need fast, defensible onboarding: beneficial ownership, sanctions and politically exposed person screening, and source of wealth evidence. We build onboarding around your chosen screening provider, so new instructions do not wait on email exchanges with clients in other time zones. Matter updates for the client's board or family office can be shared through the same portal, with each contact seeing only what you authorise.

04

Chambers and in house legal departments

Barristers' chambers can give solicitors and direct access clients a clean way to send instructions and papers to the clerks' room, with booking of conferences by video. In house teams at London businesses use the same building blocks internally: a request app for contract reviews and approvals with triage and reporting for the general counsel.

The same core, configured for different users.

Our six step route from discovery to a working app.

  1. 01Remote discoveryVideo sessions with partners, the COLP or compliance lead, finance and front desk staff. We map how instructions arrive, where onboarding stalls and which client groups to serve first.
  2. 02Regulatory and data reviewWe record the SRA, UK GDPR and anti money laundering points that shape the design, agree hosting and data location, and confirm who approves legal wording.
  3. 03Prototype and testClickable screens are tested with a few real clients or staff acting as clients, so we fix confusing steps before any code is written.
  4. 04Build and integrateClient app, staff dashboard and links to your case management, accounting, identity and signing tools are built in short cycles with a demo after each.
  5. 05Security testing and launchPenetration testing by your chosen provider or ours, accessibility checks against WCAG 2.2, store submission and staff training, followed by a controlled launch to one department before the rest of the firm.
  6. 06Measure and extendUsage data and staff feedback show where clients still email or phone. The next release targets those steps, and further departments join once the first is settled.

Technology

What we build this with.

We choose the stack around your existing systems, your security requirements and whoever will support the app later. Hosting in the UK, staff login through Microsoft or Google accounts, and integrations with established identity, screening, signing and payment providers are all available, and each supplier is listed so your compliance team can review it.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Questions London firms raise before building.

Onboarding, booking and secure documents, then updates and payments.

Most firms get the fastest return from removing friction at the start of a matter: identity checks, conflict searches, engagement letters and a first consultation. Once new clients flow cleanly, matter updates and payments reduce the calls that follow. We help you choose the order based on where your staff lose the most time today and which practice area has the most clients on mobile. A clear first release also gives your staff time to adapt before the next set of features arrives.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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