Notes compete with cross-examination and advocacy
Trying to capture verbatim handwritten notes during an intense client consultation or disciplinary hearing distracts from observing demeanor, spotting contradictions, and testing evidence.
NoteWave for Legal Practices
Verifiable transcription for every consultation, hearing, and brief.
Turn client consultations, disciplinary hearings, and voice memos into timestamped, speaker-aware transcripts and structured case notes. Confidential by design and never used to train public AI models.
No credit card required · 14 days of full Business features · POPIA-aligned
Verifiable consultation audio
Every spoken statement stays tied to the source recording
Speaker attribution, exact timestamps, and synchronized audio playback ensure transcripts remain a dependable source of truth.
Structured case intelligence
Action items, court deadlines, and matter records in one workspace
Keep consultations, client instructions, evidence folders, and counsel follow-ups connected.
Workspace
HomeTasksTeams
Workspace snapshot
Team work, at a glance
My queue
06
Team queue
14
Shared spaces
12
Team activity
Created and completed work
Actions
24
Completed
18
Most active: Thursday18 completions this week
Built around legal practice
Attorneys & law firmsLitigation & commercial teams
Advocates & counselTrial strategy & Rule 35
Chairpersons & HRLRA disciplinary inquiries
Arbitrators & mediatorsCCMA & dispute records
The reality of modern practice
Why conventional note-taking breaks down in legal proceedings
High-stakes consultations and inquiries demand exact factual precision. Manual scribbles and unindexed recordings create unnecessary exposure.
Multi-hour recordings are impossible to search
Finding one critical concession, timeline discrepancy, or oral undertaking inside a two-hour arbitration recording shouldn't mean scrubbing through the entire audio track.
Legal professional privilege requires strict data boundaries
Privileged attorney-client discussions and sensitive commercial disputes cannot be fed to consumer AI tools that retain data for public model training.
Practice workflows
One platform for the conversations behind every matter
NoteWave is tailored for the high-stakes, confidential discussions that define South African legal and labor practice.
Client consultations and taking instructions
Capture initial instructions, commercial agreements, and dispute chronologies with complete fidelity. Free attorneys to evaluate legal grounds and client credibility rather than furiously taking notes.
Disciplinary hearings and internal inquiries
Create an accurate, chronological record of evidence, witness testimony, procedural rulings, and cross-examination aligned with the Labour Relations Act (LRA).
CCMA and arbitration preparation
Review recorded pre-dismissal meetings and conciliation discussions to pinpoint contradictory statements, timeline gaps, and pivotal admissions before arbitration.
Advocate briefings and counsel strategy
Record strategy conferences between instructing attorneys and counsel, capturing agreed litigation steps, heads of argument focus areas, and evidentiary gaps.
Attorney voice dictation and file notes
Upload voice memos recorded between court appearances or consultations. NoteWave structures spoken recollections into clear, timestamped file notes for the matter folder.
Commercial negotiations and mediation sessions
Maintain a dependable account of concessions, agreed undertakings, and settlement conditions before drafting formal contracts or consent papers.
Source of Truth
What was spoken is what remains on record.
In contentious legal matters, the integrity of the transcript is everything. NoteWave pairs every sentence with its underlying timestamp. If an oral admission or timeline is disputed, counsel can click directly to the audio to hear the exact words spoken.
Click-to-play audio synchronization across all speakers
Sentence-level timestamps for precise citation in affidavits
Speaker separation distinguishing counsel, witnesses, and chairpersons
Preservation of specialized legal terminology and statutory references
Separate matter folders and workspace access permissions
Matter #CON-2026/89
Labour Arbitration & Dismissal Dispute
TranscriptActionsMinutes
Matter Record
Consultation summary and directives
05
Admissions
03
Directives
04
Speakers
Assigned case follow-up
Owner · deadlineFile CCMA referral documentation (Form 7.11)
Adv. Sithole
Serve formal Section 189(3) response notice
Candidate Attorney
Index and bundle arbitration hearing exhibits
Instructing Attorney
A dependable legal workflow
From audio recording to reviewed case record
Capture oral testimony once, then produce the verifiable records your team needs to act with speed and confidence.
01
Record or upload the matter audio
Record an in-person consultation, upload a voice memo or hearing recording (MP3, M4A, WAV), or use supported online workflows for Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet.
02
Generate the verifiable transcript
NoteWave produces a speaker-aware transcript with sentence-level timestamps and an executive summary of key discussion points and assertions.
03
Review and verify evidence
Click any sentence in the transcript to play the exact source audio. Correct keyterms, confirm dates, and verify witness statements against the original recording.
04
Structure actions and export
Organise matter records in folders, generate formal hearing minutes or action checklists, and export polished PDF or Word (.docx) documents for the matter file.
LEGAL PRIVILEGE & DATA PRIVACY
Confidential by default. Guarded like a rhino.
Legal practice demands absolute confidentiality. NoteWave does not use your client audio or transcripts to train general AI models, enforces strict row-level access control, and encrypts all data in transit and at rest.
Zero Model Training
Your client audio, testimony, and transcripts are never fed into public AI training datasets.
Row-Level Isolation
Row-Level Security (RLS) guarantees that matter files remain accessible solely to authorized members.
POPIA-Aligned & South African
Operated by a South African company under South African jurisdiction with local Rand invoicing.
Global Coverage
99+ languages.
One platform.
From English and Afrikaans to Zulu, Xhosa, and Northern Sotho. NoteWave transcribes the languages your legal practice actually speaks, and switches between them mid-conversation.
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