Development Update November 2026 – OneLaw

Overview

This product webinar gives New Zealand law firms a practical update on OneLaw's 2026 progress and roadmap. It covers the key features in version 4.4, the deep-dive webinar series that follows it, and the development priorities planned after 4.4.

The session also previews OneLaw AI, including AI Search, AI Chat, and an MCP connection to the AI assistants firms already use. It explains how OneLaw AI handles confidentiality and where data is processed, and ends with company news, including the new OneLaw Premium Plan, updated terms of use, and customer and team growth.

In this video, you'll learn

What is in version 4.4, including folders, AML/CFT and Party setup improvements, the new Outlook add-in, and InfoSheet formulas.
When version 4.4 is planned for release, and which deep-dive webinars follow it.
Which development priorities are planned after version 4.4.
How AI Search finds documents by meaning, not just exact words.
How AI Chat answers questions about a Matter or the whole firm, using skills and custom prompts.
How the MCP connection lets Microsoft Copilot, Claude and ChatGPT work with OneLaw Matters and documents.
How OneLaw AI follows existing permissions and confidentiality settings, and where data is processed.
What the OneLaw Premium Plan and the updated terms of use mean for firms.

Presented by Louisa Taylor, Chief Operating Officer; and Tony Rogers, Chief Technology Officer

Webinar length: approximately 50 minutes

Recorded on 3 November 2026

Key Takeaways

Version 4.4 is in beta and planned for release in the week of 16 November 2026, with improvements across folders, AML/CFT and Party setup, Outlook, InfoSheet formulas, Conflict Search, single sign-on and reporting.
Folders will let firms create folders as they need them, or set a structure with folder templates based on Party Type for Parties and Fee Type for Matters.
After version 4.4, development will focus on OneLaw AI. The next set of priorities will include address lookup, automatically categorising incoming documents and managing them into folders, a refreshed user interface, workflows for Matters and built-in PDF editing.
OneLaw AI will work within each user's existing permissions, and firms will be able to exclude a Client, a Matter or a single document from AI.
The built-in AI will run on Claude under Anthropic's commercial terms, so firm content is not used for training, and a full data security overview is available on request.
AI Search will find passages in documents by meaning as well as exact words, within a Matter, across Matters or across the firm, once documents are indexed for AI.
AI Chat will answer questions about a Matter or the whole firm using Matter and Client information, financials, documents and InfoSheet data, and will include skills from OneLaw and custom prompts.
The MCP connection will let Microsoft Copilot, Claude and ChatGPT work with OneLaw Matters and documents, with every change reviewed by a user before it reaches OneLaw.
OneLaw AI trials with two firms begin in November 2026, with an early adopter programme planned for the first quarter of 2027.
Version 4.4 requires cloud hosting and acceptance of OneLaw's updated terms of use, which confirm that a firm's data remains its own and is not used to train AI.
The new OneLaw Premium Plan includes Debtor Management, the Power BI gateway and single sign-on, and firms that already license Debtor Management move to it automatically with no change in price.
In the year to November 2026, the number of firms using OneLaw grew by 21% and users by 24%, the average firm reached 12.41 users, and OneLaw's team doubled to 40 people.
By the time of the webinar, 95% of licensed users had moved to the cloud, ahead of on-premises support ending in July 2027.

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