2025 Year in Review
As Smokeball closes out 2025, we’re celebrating everything you accomplished. The matters opened, documents organized, deadlines managed, and conversations that kept your clients moving forward. Behind every click and every case was your commitment to delivering exceptional legal service, and we’re proud to support that work.
This year, Smokeball focused on delivering updates that gave you more control, deeper customization, smoother workflows, and smarter automation. Whether your firm needed greater visibility, more flexible matter management, or tools that cut manual effort, 2025 brought meaningful improvements to help you work with confidence and clarity.
Before we look ahead, let’s take a moment to recognize the incredible momentum you created.
Your Year in Numbers
- 91M+ emails attached to matters
- 93M+ files uploaded and organized
- 3.4M+ events scheduled
- 1.5M+ notes added
- 747K+ matters created
- 350,000+ questions answered by Archie AI
2025 Product Highlights: Saving time, gaining flexibility, and driving your firm forward
This year’s enhancements focused on helping your firm operate more efficiently, stay better organized, and tailor Smokeball to the way you work.
Greater visibility & control
Updates like additional matter roles and enhanced permissions gave your team more precision in how information is seen, shared, and managed. Clearer ownership and access meant smoother workflows across your firm.
More flexible firm & document organization
From customizable document containers for multi-branch firms to branded portal emails, 2025 brought new ways to shape Smokeball around your structure and client experience.
Smarter automation & streamlined templates
Improvements to online template customization and access to a richer template library meant creating consistent, polished documents with fewer steps and errors.
AI Innovation that strengthens productivity and accuracy
Archie AI continued to transform everyday legal work, answering 350,000+ questions, speeding up drafting, summarizing documents, and helping reduce time spent on routine communication.
And this year, we expanded the way AI supports your practice with the introduction of LawY: a legal research tool that allows you to validate AI-generated insights with real human legal professionals, giving your team an added layer of confidence and security.
Together, Archie and LawY will bring both speed and reliability to your practice.
Looking Ahead to 2026
We’re entering the new year with big plans:
- Strengthen security and access control so you can confidently manage who sees what across your firm.
- Streamline communication and email workflows with more intuitive design and smarter, built-in support where you work most.
- Enhance the client experience by making your portal an even more seamless, centralized hub for collaboration.
- Bring deeper insights and smarter automation to help your team operate with greater accuracy, visibility, and productivity.
- Improve mobility and flexibility, giving you a cleaner, more relevant experience when working on the go.
Stay tuned for relevant notifications on these updates through 2026.
Thank you for being part of the Smokeball community. Your dedication inspires every update we build, and we’re honored to support the meaningful work you do.
What update made the biggest difference for your firm this year?
Share in the comments — we’d love to hear!
