Better Together: LawToolBox and ECFX automate the legal back office by automatically saving emails to SharePoint and filing court notifications and attachments with Intelligent Automation

DENVER, Aug. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- LawToolBox, the best-in-class provider of court rules that transforms Microsoft 365 into a matter management platform for legal, announces a strategic partnership with ECFX and a new integration with their industry-leading filing solution and flagship product, ECFX Notice. This collaboration brings a synergistic and complimentary solution that streamlines the law firm "back office" by automating important business functions.

LawToolBox creates ai-ready legal matters in Microsoft 365, automating for each matter a Microsoft Group, Teams workspace, Outlook calendar, SharePoint site, and OneNote. LawToolBox has data governance tools that integrate with Microsoft Purview, allowing firms to configure data governance policies when new matters are created. This ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, structures data, enhances security, streamlines document retention policies, helps avoid data sprawl, and prepares legal data for Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI.

Amplifying these LawToolBox capabilities, ECFX Notice endeavors to help law firms "never miss a filing or document" by automatically downloading, naming, storing, and distributing court documents in electronic court filing (ECF) notices. The integration empowers ECFX Notice users to seamlessly track deadlines, generate detailed calendar reports, and utilize Microsoft 365 tools such as Microsoft Teams, Tasks/Planner, and Files to enhance their billable hours. 

Legal organizations that combine LawToolBox and ECFX Notice will experience significant benefits from automating their back-office workflow:

• Legal professionals can link their existing ECFX Notice accounts to Microsoft 365 via LawToolBox, leveraging a single system record or source of truth for matters
• Emails to and from clients, co-counsel, opposing counsel will be automatically saved using the LawToolBox flow to matter-specific folders (1 min video)
• Court notifications and documents will be automatically processed and saved to matter-specific folders by ECFX Notice (2 min video)
• Deadlines are extracted from court notifications by LawToolBox AI, rules-based deadlines can be automatically calculated, and important events are added to the matter calendar and synchronized to the relevant user's Outlook calendars
• This combined solution (5 min video) can be leveraged across a family of LawToolBox integration partners who leverage the LawToolBox for Microsoft 365 solutions
• This combined solution creates ai-ready buckets of matter data so that firms leveraging Microsoft 365 Copilot and LawToolBox AI will generate response anchored in their legal matter data.

"At ECFX, we are committed to eliminating inefficiencies in legal operations, and our integration with LawToolBox is a perfect example of that," said Dan O'Day, CEO & Co-Founder at ECFX. "By combining ECFX Notice's automated court notice management with LawToolBox's industry-leading deadline management, we're empowering legal teams to work smarter - reducing risk, saving time, and ensuring they never miss a critical deadline or filing."

"Partnering with ECFX and their extensive network of law firms marks an important milestone for us," said LawToolBox CEO and Founder Jack Grow. "Merging our expertise in legal calendaring and deadline management with ECFX Notice's streamlined notice automation solutions equips our customers with unmatched efficiency, reduces the amount of time spent on procedural issues, and allows them to dedicate more time to the substantive issues that will determine the outcome of the case."

One law firm that has implemented this combined product is the SMGB Law firm, which is known as one of the "the most AI driven offices" in the country. "Combing LawToolBox and ECFX drives back-office efficiency and reduces administrative burden by creating ai-ready legal matters in Microsoft 365, automatically filing case emails in the appropriate matter containers, using AI to extracting deadlines from filing notifications to the matter calendar, and using intelligent automation to automatically file court notifications and their attachments to the right matter folders," says SMGB Law's founding partner, W. Scott Simpson, Esq.

This integration signifies a commitment from both LawToolBox and ECFX to leverage advanced technology to enhance productivity and accuracy in the legal industry, ushering in a growing suite of advanced capabilities in legal practice management. LawToolBox and ECFX are better together, where "the whole exceeds the sum of its parts," providing law firms and enterprise legal departments the ability to leverage the best-of-breed solution for each need.

For more information, please visit: LawToolBox.com/ecfx

About LawToolBox: Established in 1998, LawToolBox is a trusted name in legal calendaring and deadline management software, serving over 8,000 law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies globally. LawToolBox offers a suite of tools designed to manage court, administrative, transactional, and regulatory deadlines, activate matters from document management and accounting software, and facilitate seamless collaboration among team members. LawToolBox natively integrates with Microsoft 365, including Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and SharePoint, as well as other prominent legal software platforms. The company has been acknowledged for its innovation, receiving multiple Microsoft accolades, such as "2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalist," "Best SharePoint Solution," and "Best Office Integration."

About ECFX: ECFX was founded by legal and technology experts with a single goal: to address unmet automation needs in the legal industry. It is committed to filling in gaps in legal workflows with intelligently automated solutions, enabling firms to save time, gain control, mitigate risk, and improve visibility. Its premier product, ECFX Notice, automates the downloading, profiling, storing, and distribution of court documents in ECF notices for both State and Federal courts—saving firms hundreds of hours a week to focus on the work clients value.

Press Contact: Carol Lynn Grow, COO, 303-759-3572, [email protected]

SOURCE Lawtoolbox.com, Inc.