Litigation workspace · macOS
Lexware takes a brief from delivered ZIP to a matter you know cold — documents, chronology, pleadings, key passages and drafts — in one workspace built for the way barristers actually work.
Local-first by design: your matter content stays on your Mac unless you explicitly turn on a cloud feature, per matter.
The core loop
Lexware is built around a single workflow. You can use as much or as little of it as a matter needs — many find their footing with just brief in → documents → chronology.
Import an eBrief Ready ZIP, a compiled court book, or point at a folder of documents. Sections, tab numbers and dates are picked up automatically; court books split into one document per bookmark.
Lexware proposes candidate dates from the documents — or import a chronology you already keep in a spreadsheet. Either way you confirm each entry; nothing lands on the timeline without your say-so — the human gate is the feature.
Import the claim and defence. Lexware rebuilds the allegation tree and computes the dispute matrix — admitted, denied, not admitted, in issue — paragraph by paragraph.
Capture key passages to a scratchpad with backlinks, build a hearing bundle, and draft with an optional, consent-gated assistant — all from the mastered matter.
A look inside
A few of the places you'll spend time. Illustrative views, built from a synthetic sample matter — Meridian Foods v Harlow Logistics — never real client material.
Documents
Read PDFs, Word documents and Outlook email side by side in one pane — with Excel and PowerPoint viewing on the way. Files are indexed in place and read-only, so your originals are never moved or changed.
Chronology
Lexware proposes candidate dates from the documents and holds them in Review. You decide what's true about the matter — nothing reaches the chronology until you confirm it.
Scratchpad
Select any passage and press E. It becomes a card — the quote, your note, a colour and a backlink that reopens the document at the exact spot. Promote a card to a chronology event, or copy it with its citation.
What's inside
Each part stands on its own and feeds the next. Built for litigation, not retrofitted from a note-taking app.
Point Lexware at a brief and read it in one pane — PDFs, Word documents (.docx) and Outlook email (.msg), with Excel and PowerPoint viewing on the way. Files are indexed in place, read-only — your originals are never moved or changed. Give a document a short nickname; its real title is always kept.
Timeline, calendar or list over the matter's events. Dates are extracted locally by default, and you can bring in a chronology you already keep in Excel — Lexware reads your columns (date, description, source, paragraph, quote). Either way, everything waits in Review until you confirm it — so the chronology is built deliberately, not auto-populated behind your back.
Import the claim, defence and reply. Lexware rebuilds the numbered allegation tree, proposes which response answers which allegation, and computes the dispute matrix. Hand the analysis to co-counsel as a single file.
Select a passage in any document — a PDF or an Outlook email — and press E: it becomes a card with the quote, your note, a colour and a backlink that reopens the document at the exact spot. Promote a card to a chronology event or copy it with its citation.
Browse daily transcripts with a day/witness outline, full-text and pattern search, and colour-coded highlights. Import Outlook .msg correspondence into a searchable, network-isolated viewer that can't beacon out on open.
An optional, per-matter assistant that drafts from your mastered matter. Off by default for every matter — until you flip the consent switch, it only prepares local files. You decide, matter by matter, what (if anything) is shared.
The part that matters most
No Lexware server. No account. No telemetry. No analytics. Everything — documents, parsed text, the chronology, pleadings, excerpts — lives in a local database on your Mac. For privileged work, that isn't a feature. It's the whole point.
Date extraction runs on a local model on your Mac out of the box. No part of a matter is transmitted unless you switch on a cloud feature yourself.
The two cloud options are off until you turn them on, and they're independent. Vertex extraction is a global provider choice; the Claude assistant is enabled per matter. By default, nothing is shared.
Logs record paths and events only — never document content. The email viewer is network-isolated and can't beacon out on open. The working assumption is simple: anything privileged stays put.
Read the full stance, in plain language → How Lexware handles your data
Private beta
Lexware is in private beta with a small group of barristers. It runs on Apple Silicon Macs. If you'd like to kick the tyres, request access and we'll be in touch.
Apple Silicon Mac required for this round · No payment, no account