Your role
Court clerk
Your work as a law firm's court clerk: the court diary for every advocate, the outcomes and next dates, and the filing costs.
Kila describes the role: “Keeps the diary of court dates for every advocate, records outcomes and next dates, files and records filing costs as expenses. No fees.” At Wanjiru & Otieno Advocates, Joseph Kamau is the court clerk.
When you sign in
Link to this section: When you sign inKila opens the Court diary: “Court dates, bring-ups and meetings. A court date closes only with its full record.” Records to complete lists the “Court dates gone by without their record: attendance, outcome, orders, the next date, follow-ups, deadlines and the client update.” Add to the diary puts a new date in.
Your menu has My work (My dashboard, My work, Court diary, Deadlines and Inbox), Practice (Matters, Clients, Litigation, Documents and Registry) and Client money. It has no Time and no Billing.
Your work
Link to this section: Your work- Record what happened at a court date: the outcome, the next date and what follows.
What you can do
Link to this section: What you can doEverything the role is allowed to do
- Customers
- View customers
- Services
- View services and bookings; Book and manage appointments
- Practice
- Keep the court diary and deadlines for every advocate and matter; Keep the registry: documents received and dispatched, and where the files are
- Finance
- View the client account: balances held per client and matter, and the client ledger; Submit expenses
What needs someone else
Link to this section: What needs someone elseNo approval limits: anything that needs approval goes to someone else.
- Advocate: whose court dates you keep.
- Legal practice: how Kila works for a law firm.