Acquit began inside a working Queensland criminal practice. We built it for our own firm before it was ever a product.
Andrew George has been a lawyer since 2011, and run a criminal practice in Brisbane since 2020. Anyone else would spend their free time in Niseko or Stradbroke Island, but he had an idea. It came from the mundane daily routine of checking the law lists, scanning the names, and hoping he didn't miss an appearance. That idea had a name: Law List Alerts.
Later, the idea grew, as he contemplated the constant stream of messages in group chats, with lawyers looking for a town agent or advice. It continued evolving, as he re-typed 109 charges from a QP9 into a registry committal application, and updated his tasks spreadsheet for the hundredth time that week.
LEAP, Smokeball and Actionstep are good at running the back end of a firm. This part of the job had no tool at all.
Acquit ran inside George Criminal Lawyers first. It was pressure-tested with real-life work and hard-earned experience. The lists checked themselves. Matches arrived as alerts. Documents came out pre-filled. Life became that much easier.
Acquit was built for one firm's week, and it is now ready for the whole profession. No matter what software you already use, Acquit aims to stand apart as the one app every lawyer wishes they had been using for decades.
Every feature exists because a practising lawyer needed it in the practice of criminal law. If the idea has merit, it gets built. If it doesn't exist yet, we would love to hear from you.
The practice of criminal law is constantly evolving, and it's hard to keep track. Our goal is to unify the shared knowledge of the profession in a central place, fostering a community of lawyers who aren't competitors, but colleagues in an ever-changing legal landscape.
Acquit runs alongside LEAP, Actionstep, Smokeball, or whatever you already use. Nothing migrates, nothing to unlearn. We don't lock you in, and your data will always be yours to keep: no hidden fees, no keeping you hostage at the end of a contract.
Our ambition is bigger than the software: a place for Queensland's criminal lawyers to call home.
Not another tab to check: the place a criminal lawyer starts the day, with the work and the people who share it in the same place.
Precedents, practice notes and hard-won answers, added to the profession's collective knowledge instead of one firm's folder.
Criminal practice runs on goodwill between colleagues, opponents and agents. We build to encourage it, and the friendships that form along the way.
Our goal is to integrate directly with the QLD courts, registries and police prosecutions we all deal with every day, so information is made freely available and shared amongst us all, not just with the Crown.
Reducing the burden on lawyers who do this work means they can be a better presence for the people who need them.
Start the free trial. You'll see your own practice in it, and just how good it really is.