The paperwork becomes a case file
A client's paperwork now lives in a matter, and you build the case files on top of it without duplicating a single document.
This JUDLEX release starts where everything in a firm starts: the papers.
A client turns up with a pile of documents long before there are any proceedings, and often before anyone knows how many sets of proceedings will come out of them. JUDLEX now gathers those documents into the matter, that client's folder with everything of theirs together and classified, and you build the case files on top of it when you need them.
The paperwork starts in the matter
The matter holds all of a client's documents before you decide which proceedings they belong to. You put the mixed paperwork in there, keep the originals together and work on a classified folder tree; anything JUDLEX cannot identify stays visible as unclassified rather than being filed on an assumption.
JUDLEX puts forward where each piece belongs, with its reason and the quotation behind it, and you confirm them one by one. JUDLEX settles nothing on your behalf, and a placement you have fixed is not moved by a later run.
JUDLEX builds each piece's name from its date, type, issuer and subject. The date comes first, so the tree you export reads in chronological order outside the application too.
One document can serve several case files
You build the case file over the matter's paperwork and pick the pieces that belong to it, so the same document can form part of two different case files.
JUDLEX keeps each relationship separately: the annex, which is each numbered document inside a case file, has its own code, its order and its folios in every one of them. There is still one file on disk, and creating a case file from a folder duplicates nothing and leaves the matter it came from untouched.
The case type proposes the numbering
When you create a case file you choose one of the types in the catalogue — civil, criminal, tax, administrative, notarial or registry, among others — and the type proposes a numbering family and a display format. You can change that choice inside the case file itself whenever it suits you.
What changes is the presentation, not the identity of the annex: the same document can appear as "Document no. 7", "Doc. 7" or "7." and still be the same document, so a reference you have already written into a pleading is not left stranded.
Where the type works with an official reference, JUDLEX shows it next to the annex code. It does not manufacture identifiers that an authority has to issue.
What does not change
Changing the numbering scheme rewrites nothing that is already stored and renumbers no protected case file, meaning one whose numbering you have fixed because you have already cited its annexes in a pleading you filed. The foliation rules stay as they were: folios follow the pages, not the format an annex is shown in.
Classification by artificial intelligence uses the provider key the firm holds, and the request goes from your computer straight to that provider. JUDLEX does not sit in the middle.
To get started, create a matter from the client record and add the paperwork there. From its folders you can build the case files you need.