About LawFirmly
Practice software for Kenyan advocates. Matters, diary, billing, bundles and research in one place, built around how a Kenyan practice actually runs rather than how an American one does.
62 to 74
hours worked a week by a Kenyan advocate
22.5
of those hours lost to administration
38%
of time that is actually billable
4.2
disjointed government portals used daily
Why we built it
Kenyan advocates are not short on legal knowledge. They are drowning in logistics. A Sunday evening could be spent reloading the cause list portal. Friday afternoon on Advocates Remuneration Order scale arithmetic in a spreadsheet. Wednesday night hand-numbering a sixty page book of authorities. Two hours every evening go to typing a case update to different clients on WhatsApp...
None of that is law. All of it is software. And all the tools available to remove it were built for the American jurisdiction: they do not know the Limitation of Actions Act, they cannot compute an instruction fee under Schedule 6, they have never heard of a bench bundle, and they do not take M-Pesa.
Take the drag away and a two-person firm can serve clients who currently cannot afford anyone at all. That is the whole point. Access to justice is an operations problem long before it is a legal one.
What we believe
Every answer cites its source
Page, paragraph and authority. An answer you cannot check is an answer you cannot file.
The advocate stays responsible
The software drafts and calculates. Counsel decides, and counsel signs. We will never blur that line, least of all in marketing.
Client files are confidential
Strict per-firm isolation enforced at the database layer, not hidden in the interface. Your matters are never used to train a model.
Built here, for here
Cap 22 limitation periods, the Advocates Remuneration Order, the Judiciary cause list, M-Pesa. Not a foreign product with a Kenyan flag on it.
What it reads from
Research answers are grounded in an indexed corpus of the Laws of Kenya: over 3,400 provisions across the Constitution, the Civil Procedure Act and Rules, the Evidence Act, the Employment Act, the Land and Land Registration Acts, the Law of Succession Act, the Companies Act, the Advocates Act and the Advocates Remuneration Order, among others. Every answer is cited to the section. Bundle answers are grounded only in the documents you upload to that matter.
Who builds this
LawFirmly is built by Timothy Mwirabua, a legal tech innovator in Nairobi with more than fifteen years of engineering and running world-class software systems. The software is built to compute, retrieve and organise; the advocate on record remains responsible for everything filed. Where it touches the law directly, as with limitation periods or fee scales, it shows the provision it relied on so you can check it in ten seconds, and it declines to answer rather than guessing.
Here is his track record and why you should trust this software with your privileged client files:
Microsoft, 2021 to 2023
Built the Live Persona Card, the profile surface embedded in over 50 Microsoft products, serving hundreds of millions.
Personal data at a scale where a mistake is visible to hundreds of millions of people.
Kent County Council, 2016-present
Built SoundProgress, an assessment platform for UK primary schools that has been operational for over a decade. Nearly 500 schools in the UK have used it to deliver ~150k tests to their pupils as at 2026.
Regulated data about minors, held for a public authority under UK data protection rules. Timothy is still maintaining it and updating it ten years later, with no data loss or corruption.
Nairobi IO, 2014 to 2020
Co-founded a Nairobi software consultancy delivering for UK, US and Kenyan clients, managing teams of 5 to 10 engineers.
A business that had to survive, not a side project. Twelve years of the same phone number.
HiiL Innovating Justice Forum, 2015
Second runner-up against 250+ innovators worldwide in the SME Empowerment Challenge, presented in Nairobi, Lagos and Amsterdam, and awarded a $10,000 grant at the Peace Palace in The Hague.
Eleven years working on justice and access problems, not a recent arrival to the sector.
JSConf EU, Berlin, 2015
Selected to speak on writing software that works for African conditions - low connectivity, low bandwidth, low-end devices - to an audience of 1,000+ world-class engineers from around the world.
The constraints here are the design brief, not an afterthought.
Questions we have not answered here?
Onboarding, data handling, or a feature you need before you can switch. A human answers.