KLF Core Is Live — Legal Practice Management Built For Civil Law Jurisdictions
Civil law practitioners have been running their practices with tools that weren’t built for them. General-purpose software like Excel was never designed for legal work. Western practice management platforms — often built for common-law US or UK firms — can cost $50–200 per user per month and still miss the fundamentals: multi-language names, multi-currency accounting, customizable court hierarchies, retainer-based billing.
The result is a gap. Lawyers running civil law practices in MENA, Europe, and other civil-law jurisdictions end up with spreadsheets glued to notebooks glued to paper receipts. Partners lose visibility. Clients get invoices that don’t match what’s owed. Hearings slip.
What Is KLF Core?
KLF Core is cloud-based practice management software **built by a practicing lawyer, designed for civil law jurisdictions**. It started as an internal tool at a working law firm and grew into a full platform — 21 integrated modules covering everything from client intake to final invoice.
The product runs in the browser, needs no installation, and is free for solo practitioners. Teams pay a flat monthly rate, not per-seat.
Designed for civil law court structures
Civil-law court hierarchies — from single-judge tribunals (for example, *al-qadi al-munfarid* in Arabic-speaking jurisdictions) up through courts of cassation — are first-class entities in KLF Core. Court types, regions, and hearing purposes are all customizable lookups, not hardcoded. The same module that fits a Lebanese firm tracking cases at the Beirut Court of First Instance fits an Egyptian firm at the Cairo Court of Appeal, a French firm at the Cour de Cassation, or a German firm at the Amtsgericht.
Multi-currency, by default
Most legal SaaS assumes one currency and one banking system. KLF Core doesn’t. Expenses, advances, and invoices are recorded in whatever currency the transaction actually occurred in, then converted to the firm’s base currency using date-specific exchange rates.
That matters anywhere practitioners bill in more than one currency — LBP and USD side-by-side in Lebanon, EUR and USD for European firms serving international clients, AED and USD across the Gulf. The product ships with 22 country-default currencies and a full exchange rate table for jurisdictions where daily rates move.
Multi-language, not translated
Client names, matter titles, and notes can be entered in any language — Arabic, English, French, and more. Arabic gets native right-to-left support with a dedicated name field, so bilingual data entry works without Unicode surprises. Data entry, search, and export all round-trip consistently.
21 Modules, One Platform
**Practice Management.** Clients, matters, court hearings, appointments, calendar, diary.
**Financial Management.** Expense tracking, advances and retainers, invoicing, receivables, reports and statements, Excel export and JSON backup.
**Compliance & Administration.** Conflict of interest check, corporate secretary (shareholders, directors, resolutions), team management with role-based permissions.
**Productivity.** Timesheets, task management, deadline tracking, customizable lookups for court types, regions, purposes, and expense categories.
What Makes KLF Core Different
– **Built by a working lawyer.** The founder is a practicing civil law attorney, actively managing a law firm on KLF Core. Product decisions come from the same day-to-day friction our users face.
– **Civil-law fit.** Court hierarchies, retainer-based billing, multi-language entry, multi-currency accounting — not bolted on, core to the data model.
– **Fair pricing.** Free forever for solo practitioners. $29/month for firms up to 5 users. $79/month for firms up to 15 users. No per-seat pricing, no feature gating.
– **Data portability.** Full Excel export and JSON backup any time. Your data is always yours.
– **Privacy, globally.** Compliant with Lebanese Law 81/2018 on data protection; privacy architecture is aligned with GDPR-equivalent principles for EU and international use.
Supported Jurisdictions
KLF Core supports 22 countries out of the box:
– **MENA (12):** Lebanon, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Morocco, Tunisia
– **Europe (3):** France, Germany, United Kingdom
– **Asia-Pacific (2):** India, Australia
– **North America (2):** United States, Canada
– **Africa (2):** Nigeria, South Africa
Civil-law jurisdictions (most of MENA, France, Germany, etc.) get the native fit. Common-law jurisdictions (US, UK, Canada, Australia) are supported for bilingual or international practice, but common-law specifics like IOLTA trust accounting aren’t built in.
Court types, regions, hearing purposes, and currencies are customizable lookups — so firms can adapt KLF Core to local legal systems without developer support.
Origin
Malek Kallas is a practicing lawyer. He built the first version of KLF Core to manage his own firm’s cases, expenses, and client relationships when no tool on the market fit the combination of multi-language data, multi-currency accounting, and civil-law court structures. Colleagues asked if they could use it. He decided to make it available to everyone.
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Users |
|—|—|—|
| Solo | Free forever | 1 user |
| Firm | $29/month | Up to 5 users |
| Enterprise | $79/month | Up to 15 users |
All 21 modules are included in every plan. No feature gating.
Try KLF Core Today
Visit **[klfi.app](https://klfi.app)** to create a free account — no credit card required. Watch module walkthroughs at **[klfi.app/demos](https://klfi.app/demos)**. Firms and Enterprise customers can book a 15-minute demo at **[klfi.app/demo](https://klfi.app/demo)**.