Acquit is not a practice management system. It's the add-on that every criminal lawyer in Queensland has been missing. We check the law lists, link you to available town agents, and handle the paperwork, so you can focus on what matters.
It's 7am on a Monday. Acquit's email just landed in your inbox and confirms your clients were all found (and the one you forgot). Your town agencies in Cairns and Southport were confirmed a week ago. And the registry committal you'd been putting off is ready to draft from the QP9 you uploaded yesterday.
LEAP, Smokeball and ActionStep are good at running the back end — trust money, correspondence, billing — and Acquit works happily alongside any of them. But the practice of criminal law is something only a criminal lawyer can truly understand, and it's exactly why Acquit was developed.
Every Queensland court list read the moment it's published. Town agents automatically matched instead of phone calls and group chats. Registry committals, s651 applications and bail documents drafted straight from a file upload. Years in the making, and built just for you.
LEAP, Smokeball, ActionStep, or sticky notes — they're better together.
| The job | Acquityour partner in crime | Practice managementLEAP · Smokeball · ActionStep |
|---|---|---|
| Queensland court lists scanned and matched to your clients | Every QLD list, matched automatically with instant alerts | No |
| Town agency coverage for regional appearances | State-wide marketplace with outcome reports | No |
| Charges extracted from a QP9 or bench charge sheet | Uploaded, extracted, matched to penalties | No |
| Registry committals, s651 applications, bail documents | Pre-filled from the client's file | Generic templates at best |
| Offence, penalty & election lookup | The GOAT tool, built in | No |
| Who's sitting at which court | Judiciary tracking, updated daily | No |
| QLD criminal caselaw feed, benchbooks, local court knowledge | The Community library | No |
| Auto-filling QLD courts & corrections website forms | Chrome extension | No |
| Trust accounting | No — that stays with your current system or accountant | Yes |
| Time recording, billing & invoicing | No | Yes |
| General matter correspondence & document management across practice areas | We help generate but don't store it | Yes |
| Precedent libraries for family, conveyancing, wills | No thank you | Yes |
Everything in the practice-management column stays right where it is — nothing migrates. The Acquit column is the time you get back.
Files, billing and trust stay put. Acquit imports your clients from LEAP in a few minutes and takes care of court management from there. Lists, agents, documents. Nothing to unlearn.
Moving to Smokeball or Clio? Pick whichever office system suits you best — Acquit slots in beside any of them from day one, so the court management is covered while you settle in.
Some criminal lawyers don't operate with a full practice management system. Sole practitioners can run Acquit, Outlook, Dropbox and accounting software and call it a day.
One plan. $149 a month per user. Everything included.
No tiers, no per-client fees, no lock-in. The first listing it catches for you will feel like it paid for the year. The 14-day trial is the full product. Pricing details here.
Import your clients tonight. Tomorrow's lists come pre-checked. Full product for 14 days, cancel anytime.