Your role
Pupil
Your work as a pupil at a law firm: the matters on your team, your time, drafts and the diary, with your messages to clients approved before they go.
Kila describes the role: “Works under a principal on the matters on their team: logs own time, drafts documents, keeps the diary. No fee notes and no client money.” At Wanjiru & Otieno Advocates, Naomi Wairimu is a pupil under Tom Otieno.
When you sign in
Link to this section: When you sign inKila opens My dashboard, with your Overdue tasks, what is Due today, what is To sign off, My deadlines (3 weeks) and the Approvals waiting. Below are Court this week, your Deadlines, My tasks and your Recent documents.
Your menu has My work (My dashboard, My work, Court diary, Deadlines, Time and Inbox), Practice (Matters, Clients, Litigation, Documents, Knowledge and the AI assistant) and Practice areas. It has no Approvals and no Fees and client money.
Your work
Link to this section: Your work- Record your time.
- Draft a document from a template and ask for its review.
- Send a message to a client: at Wanjiru & Otieno Advocates, a pupil’s messages to clients wait for a second person: “Messages to clients are approved before they go.”
What you can do
Link to this section: What you can doEverything the role is allowed to do
- General
- View dashboard
- Catalog
- View products and services
- Stock
- View stock
- Customers
- View customers
- Services
- View services and bookings; Book and manage appointments; Work on assigned job cards
- Legal practice
- Use the AI assistant on matters they can open
What needs someone else
Link to this section: What needs someone elseNo approval limits: anything that needs approval goes to someone else.
- Partner: who approves your messages and reviews your work.
- Legal practice: how Kila works for a law firm.