Overview
This product webinar gives New Zealand law firms a practical update on OneLaw’s second development update of 2026. It covers business and team growth, recent integration progress, changes to the 2026 release schedule, and the key features planned for versions 4.3.1 and 4.4.
The session also demonstrates upcoming improvements for trust accounting, upload-to-bank workflows, cash balance visibility, and document assembly template authoring. It explains how OneLaw is approaching AI across both the business of law and the practice of law, including built-in AI tooling, API-led integrations, and support for firms choosing their own AI providers.
In this video, you'll learn
- How OneLaw’s customer base, user base, and internal product development team have grown in 2026.
- What has changed in the 2026 release schedule, including the July 4.3.1 release and the November 4.4 release.
- Which features are planned for version 4.3.1, including cash balance, upload to bank, new precedent authoring tools, and early AI trials.
- What is planned for version 4.4, including AML and client relationship improvements, document folders, the new Outlook add-in, reporting improvements, and general availability for built-in AI.
- How OneLaw’s AI strategy separates business-of-law tooling from practice-of-law AI integrations.
- How cash balance helps firms view trust funds separately from other matter transactions.
- How upload to bank supports bulk payment and IBD deposit file creation for supported banks.
- How the new Word-based template authoring tools simplify precedent, template, field, clause, signature, and invoice template maintenance.
Presented by Kane Smith, Sales Executive; Tony Rogers, Chief Technology Officer; and Shelley Robinson, Product Owner
Webinar length: approximately 50 minutes
Recorded on 19 June 2026
Key Takeaways
- OneLaw’s team has continued to grow in 2026, including new support, sales, office management, product ownership, engineering, and test automation roles.
- OneLaw’s customer base has grown to more than 250 firms and more than 3,000 users, with continued migration activity from other practice management systems.
- Realaml, LawCyborg, Quillio, and Jude are part of OneLaw’s expanding integration and AI ecosystem.
- Version 4.3.1 is planned as a smaller July release and will be the last significant release for on-premises customers.
- Version 4.4 is planned as a major November release, with improvements across client setup, AML, document management, Outlook, reporting, and AI.
- Cash balance gives firms an optional way to view available trust cash separately from broader matter trust balance activity.
- Upload to bank allows firms to collect trust payments and IBD deposits into bank-ready bulk upload files, reducing manual entry into banking systems.
- The new template authoring tools move template administration into a simpler Word side panel, reducing reliance on manual field lists and special codes.
- OneLaw’s AI strategy focuses on keeping OneLaw as the system of record while allowing firms to connect to the AI tools they choose.
- Built-in AI is expected to support business-of-law workflows such as trust accounting, billing, reporting, workflow support, matter context, and narration suggestions.