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Codeeo offers legal services app development Chicago firms can put in front of clients without loosening their grip on confidentiality or trust money. We build iOS and Android apps, plus the staff dashboard behind them, for Loop litigation shops, neighborhood practices and in house teams. Intake, conflict screening, consultations, documents, matter updates and invoices sit in one place, designed against the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct and the ARDC's expectations rather than a generic booking template.
Our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and works remotely with Chicago clients. Discovery, design reviews and sprint demos all run by video call, with written notes after each one so partners who missed the call can catch up and approve decisions in their own time.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Inside the app
Illinois lawyers carry a duty of technology competence: the Illinois Supreme Court added the comment on understanding the benefits and risks of relevant technology to Rule 1.1, effective January 2016. ABA Model Rule 1.6(c) and its Illinois counterpart ask for reasonable efforts to stop unauthorized disclosure of client information. So every feature below is designed with the attorney who signs off on it in mind. A client in Pilsen filing a workers' compensation claim and a general counsel in River North reviewing a contract both get a clear, private channel, and the firm keeps a record it can defend if the ARDC ever asks how client data was handled.
New enquiries give names of the parties involved first, and that data runs against your conflicts database before the app invites a full narrative. Under Rule 1.18, even a prospective client is owed confidentiality, so collecting the minimum until conflicts clear protects the firm.
Fewer disqualification risks from facts the firm should never have received.
Lawyer booking app development Chicago firms ask for usually covers more than one calendar: a Loop office, a suburban branch in Schaumburg or Oak Brook, and video slots. Clients choose the format, answer intake questions and get reminders timed for a commute on the L or Metra.
First meetings start with the paperwork already in the file.
Chicago has large Spanish and Polish speaking communities, and many practices serve both. We build translated intake flows and notices with the English version kept as the record, and flag which staff member reads each language so messages land with someone who can answer.
Clients describe their matter in the language they think in.
The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act sets strict written consent and retention rules for face scans and fingerprints. Where you need to verify a client's identity, we prefer document checks and device login that keeps biometrics on the phone, and only add selfie matching with a BIPA compliant consent and retention policy.
Identity is verified without creating a biometric data liability.
Clients photograph medical records, leases or contracts and send them straight to the matter, encrypted in transit and at rest. Staff tag, review and request missing pages from the dashboard, and nothing lives in a paralegal's personal inbox.
One file per matter instead of email threads.
Once conflicts clear and a lawyer accepts the matter, the app sends the engagement letter for signature on the phone. Scope, fee basis and who is responsible for the work are shown in plain language, and the signed copy is filed to the matter automatically with a timestamp.
Representation starts with a signed letter, not a verbal yes.
Advance retainers and earned fees take separate routes: unearned funds go to the IOLTA or a client trust account, earned fees to operating. Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and ACH are supported, with processing charges kept away from trust balances.
Payments that match how Illinois Rule 1.15 expects money to move.
Plain stages for each matter, upcoming hearing dates at the Daley Center or other Cook County courthouses, and what the client must bring. Updates are written by staff, so the app never offers a legal opinion on its own.
Fewer "where are we" calls to the front desk.
Role based access for partners, associates, paralegals and billing staff, with assignment queues, response time tracking and an audit log of who viewed which file and when.
Supervision under Rules 5.1 and 5.3 is visible, not assumed.
App store listings, push messages and in app content about results or specialties count as communications about your services under Illinois Rules 7.1 to 7.3. We keep that copy editable in the dashboard so a partner can approve it, and we add a clear notice that submitting an enquiry does not create an attorney client relationship.
Marketing copy inside the app gets the same review as your website.
Who we build for
Chicago's legal market runs from large firms near LaSalle Street to single attorney offices on neighborhood commercial strips, with suburban practices in DuPage and Lake counties serving clients who commute into the city. The app that suits a plaintiffs' firm taking calls from across the South Side is not the app a corporate department needs. These are the four starting points we see most often, and how the first release changes for each one.
Firms handling injury and Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission claims field many enquiries, often in Spanish, often from a phone on a lunch break. The first release focuses on fast intake, conflict screening, medical record upload and status updates, so intake staff spend their time on viable claims rather than chasing paperwork. Referral sources are tagged at intake, so the firm can see which channels bring signed cases.
Volume makes structured intake pay for itself fastest.
Corporate, real estate and finance practices serve clients who expect a portal, not a phone tree. Law firm app development Chicago business clients notice tends to center on shared document rooms, approval requests, e-signature and invoice history, with company accounts that hold several authorized contacts and permissions per matter.
Company accounts matter more than individual logins here.
Small offices serving residents directly need something staff can run without an IT department. We keep the scope tight: multilingual booking, document checklists, payment plans that respect trust rules and reminders. The admin side is simple enough for a two person office to manage between client meetings. Eviction and immigration matters move on fixed deadlines, so reminders are tied to the dates staff enter for each case.
Corporate legal teams headquartered in the city often want an internal app for business units to request contract reviews, NDAs or advice. We build request routing, service levels and reporting, connected to the identity system your company already uses, so legal sees demand by department.
Internal apps live or die on single sign-on.
Ways to work with us
A fixed scope first release suits most firms: you know what is being built and what it depends on. After launch, a monthly retainer covers fixes, new features and OS updates. Larger firms and corporate departments sometimes take a dedicated team that works inside their own backlog. Cost depends on the number of integrations, how many languages the app supports, whether payments touch trust accounts, and how much of your current practice management data has to be migrated. We explain each of these drivers in the discovery write up, so the partners approving the budget can see which features add the most work and decide what waits for a later release.
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 build native or cross platform apps depending on your device mix, with a secure cloud backend and APIs into practice management, document, e-signature and accounting tools. Stack choices are written up so your firm, or another developer later, can own the app without us.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on the integrations and the number of client flows in the first release.
A focused first version with intake, booking, documents and status updates moves faster than one that also covers payments into trust, multilingual flows and a practice management sync. We fix the scope in discovery, then commit to dates in writing once designs are approved. The slowest parts are usually waiting on third party API access and on Apple and Google review, so we start those requests early.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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