Vinebots

supercharge Filevine with automation

Vinebots' Court Calendars automation for Filevine adds case information to calendar

What are Vinebots?

Vinebots are cutting-edge Filevine automations that listen and respond to changes natively in the platform. Exclusive for Filevine clients, the Vinebots pre-built library of automations help your firm optimize legal case management operations.

Meet Vinebots

Learn how Vinebots Filevine automations enhance case management with user-friendly automations that can be live in a matter of days.

Vinebots for Every Type of Legal Practice

Vinebots Get Weather automation generates weather reports directly in Filevine

Use Cases for Personal Injury Firms

Get Weather Button
Quickly use the Incident Date + Location of Incident fields to automatically generate and upload a weather report for the date and time of the incident.

Create Collection Item

  • Take quick notes regarding Insurance information in the Intake section, then generate a collection item in the “Insurance” section with one click
  • Enter first responders (such as Ambulance or Hospital) into Intake, then automatically generate entries in the “Medical” section

Change PhaseWhen referring cases to another law firm, enter the referral attorney information and click one button to automatically change the project phase to “Referred Out.”

Use Cases for Worker's Comp Firms

Add to Calendar Button
When hearing date, time, location, and attendees are added into the Hearings section, you can click one button to create a Calendar Event with that information.
Add Person to Team
The “Person” field in Filevine templates is commonly used to identify “Hearings Attorney”, “Assigned Paralegal” etc. for reporting and document generation purposes. The “Add Person to Team” button allows firms to update the Team section to match those Person fields with one click, ensuring each assigned team member has the appropriate permissions and don’t miss deadlines or auto-tasks.
Dynamic Sections
When the project phase changes to “Court Appeals”, the Pleadings, Discovery, and Depositions sections will appear automatically.

Use Cases for Mass Tort Firms

Parent Projects Sync
Mass Tort firms often create master projects to store high-level case details. With the Parent Projects automation, individual projects for injured parties/plaintiffs can be linked to the master project and update automatically when data such as case status or settlement details is updated.

Vinebots Dynamic Sections automation for Filevine

Uses Cases for Family Law Practices

Change Phase
When referring cases to another law firm, enter the referral attorney information and click one button to automatically change the project phase to “Referred Out.”
Add Person to Team
The “Person” field in Filevine templates is commonly used to identify “Hearings Attorney”, “Assigned Paralegal” etc. for reporting and document generation purposes. The “Add Person to Team” button allows firms to update the Team section to match those Person fields with one click, ensuring each assigned team member has the appropriate permissions and don’t miss deadlines or auto-tasks.
Dynamic Sections
When the project phase changes to Litigation, the “Pleadings” “Discovery” and “Depositions” Sections appear automatically.
Field Sync
Mirror project information between sections to avoid duplicative data entry.
Duplicate Collection Item
When filing documents with the court, the fee associated with certain filings is often the same. Duplicate Collection Items automaton duplicates items and changes relevant information, reducing data entry time.
Add to Calendar Button
Click one button to create a Calendar Event when a deposition date, time, location, and attendees are added to the Depositions section.
Activity Updater
When a new item is created in a collection section, such as a new Pleading being entered into the “Pleadings” section, a note will get posted on the Activity Feed for the project’s subscribers to get updates.
Get Location Data
Easily use defendant addresses to determine method of service based on home county in Parties collection section.

Social Security Disability Use Cases

Change Phase
Automatically update the phase of a project to “Reconsideration” when an initial disability claim is denied, thus triggering the Reconsideration automatic tasks.
Add to Calendar Button
Create a calendar event with one click when hearing date, time, location, and attendees are added to the hearings section.
Duplicate Collection Item
When filing documents with the court, the fee associated with certain filings is often the same. Duplicate Collection Items automaton duplicates items and changes relevant information, reducing data entry time.
Add Person to Team
The “Person” field in Filevine templates is commonly used to identify “Hearings Attorney”, “Assigned Paralegal” etc. for reporting and document generation purposes. The “Add Person to Team” button allows firms to update the Team section to match those Person fields with one click, ensuring each assigned team member has the appropriate permissions and don’t miss deadlines or auto-tasks.
Dynamic Sections
Ensures the Team section is set up correctly and assigned team members have the appropriate permissions and don’t miss deadlines or auto-tasks.
Activity Updater
Alerts project subscribers when a new item is created in a collection section, such as a new Award being entered into the “Awards” section by posting on the Activity Feed.

Add to Calendar Vinebot Automation for Filevine

Use Cases for Any Law Practice

File Sync
Backup Filevine documents and files and automatically sync them to a storage providerChange Phase
When referring cases to another law firm, enter the referral attorney information and click one button to automatically change the project phase to “Referred Out.”
Add Person to Team
The “Person” field in Filevine templates is commonly used to identify “Hearings Attorney”, “Assigned Paralegal” etc. for reporting and document generation purposes. The “Add Person to Team” button allows firms to update the Team section to match those Person fields with one click, ensuring each assigned team member has the appropriate permissions and don’t miss deadlines or auto-tasks.
Dynamic Sections
When the project phase changes to Litigation, the “Pleadings” “Discovery” and “Depositions” Sections appear automatically.
Field Sync
Mirror project information between sections to avoid duplicative data entry.
Duplicate Collection Item
When filing documents with the court, the fee associated with certain filings is often the same. Duplicate Collection Items automaton duplicates items and changes relevant information, reducing data entry time.
Add to Calendar Button
click one button to create a Calendar Event when a deposition date, time, location, and attendees are added to the Depositions section
Activity Updater
When a new item is created in a collection section, such as a new Pleading being entered into the “Pleadings” section, a note will get posted on the Activity Feed for the project’s subscribers to get updates.
Get Location Data
Easily use defendant addresses to determine method of service based on home county in Parties collection section.

Find out which Vinebots plan is right for your firm.

Vinebots Filevine Automation Benefits

Filevine-Native

Native Filevine automations ensure users are working on the highest value tasks.

Pre-built library

The prebuilt Vinebots library ranges from simple actions to premium automations.

Easy to Use

Vinebots are user-friendly—no technical or development knowledge required!

Custom Automations

Neostella can work with Vinebots customers to develop custom Filevine automations.

Included Support

Neostella’s Vinebots client support is included at no extra cost (including upgrades!)

FREE Client Portal

Referring partners and end clients can access critical case data while remaining in Filevine.

Vinebots Automation Library

Included

Standard

Premium

Custom

Change Phase Button

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Automatically advance the project to the next project phase with a single click

Instead of the dropdown features, use a button to change a change a project phase, allowing you to put the control of that action in the context of the project and use logic in the project to determine when and where it shows.

Get Weather Button

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Include accurate weather data in case files

Click a button to add the weather report for an accident time and location into your case.

Add to Calendar Button

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Click a button to create calendar events from project data

Increase the visibility of important dates and events by sending that data to the project calendar in Filevine and any synced third party calendars—all with a button click.

You can also use project-level field codes in the content of the event created so when viewing those events in a third party calendar (Ex: Outlook), there is a differentiation by project in the event’s description.

Create Item Button

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Create a collection item pre-filled with field data

Ensure consistency and save time entering data into multiple fields by clicking a button to create a collection item pre-filled with data from other fields in your project.

Add Person to Team Button

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Add/Update project team members in one click

Click a button to add one or more person fields (such as Primary Attorney) from your Staff Assignments to a preconfigured team level and org role for the current project.

Duplicate Collection Item

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Save time repeating data entry by copying a collection item into another collection

Use a button in any collection, and simply click it to duplicate that item into another collection.

CSV Collection Item Import

 
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Manage large collections with ease

Use a csv to bulk create/update collection items in Filevine for data use, reporting, and integrity.

Field Sync

 
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Sync data to eliminate redundant entry

Sync static section data to other static or collection sections within a project. Triggered either by the source field being updated or a new collection item created in the destination collection section.

Parent Projects

 
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Push master data from one project to multiple related cases

Auto sync data from defined sections of a “Parent” project to all its children in the same template. That parent-child project relationship is defined by either a project list field or a report.

Dynamic Section Visibility

 
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Create a better user experience by only showing relevant case data

Add toggle section visibility based on phase change or field input to keep your project sidebar limited to the sections relevant to that case.

CMS 1500

 
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Specific to Neurology Clinics using “Elite” template

Save valuable time by generating CMS 1500 documents with your Filevine data.

Get Location

 
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Get the county or geocode for an address with just one click

Create a button to retrieve the county or geocode for an address, and easily use defendant addresses to determine the method of service based on home county in Parties collection section.

Collection Calendar

 
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Ensure calendar data is up-to-date

Simplify calendar management by automatically creating calendar events when items are added to a specified collection section. This automation also updates corresponding calendar events when the items in the collection section are updated, and removes calendar events linked to collection items that are updated to a specific value in their watched field.

Activity Updater

 
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Keep users informed of important project changes

Create a Note or a Task in the activity feed for subscribed events in a project such as phase changes, watched field changes, new calendar events and new collection items.

Advanced Links

 
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Easily create links using project data

The Advanced Links automation is designed to create dynamic links that include data from your Filevine project as parameters or values within the link. These fields can be any field from any static section within the Filevine project.

Auto Case Number

 
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Easily generate customized case numbers

Upon the creation of a Filevine project, automatically generate an incremented case number based on a variety of supported patterns, such as by template, year, or client.

Add Team to Project

 
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Ensure the correct team has access to a project

Automatically add or remove a Filevine team to a project based on project data triggered by a button click, phase change, or field value.

Project Sync

 
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Ensure consistency across sections and fields in related projects

Update sections and fields in child projects automatically based on any changes made in the parent project.

Simply Convert Integration

 
 
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Save time and ensure data accuracy between systems

Sync data from SimplyConvert to Filevine and Filevine to SimplyConvert.

LA Court Calendar Sync

 
 
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Never miss a court appearance!

Identifies changes to LA County Court Calendars and syncs those changes to Filevine and, in turn, to your calendar using Filevine’s integration. Compatible with Outlook or Google calendars.

Scan to Project

 
 
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Improve file security and save time manually scanning, uploading, and organizing files

Securely scan documents of any size directly to your Filevine projects. With user-defined preferences and customizable options, this bot streamlines the process of organizing and storing your scanned files in Filevine.

API Intake

 
 
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Automatically create projects in Filevine from data sent by referring firms

Accept full case data, including documents, via a single API endpoint, which is mapped for a specific source. Our source-based mapping system allows flexibility in the structure of the data received in order to accommodate the wide variety of possible structures from other systems including the ability to complete lookup functions to ensure duplicate contacts are not created.

File Sync

 
 
 
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Backup and interact with Filevine files

One-way or two-way sync of Filevine documents to AWS, SharePoint, or Dropbox– as well as the ability to interact with these documents via local network shares on your computer.

Learn more about File Sync for Filevine

Data Stream

 
 
 
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Securely stream your case data

Securely stream all Filevine project changes to another storage system for disaster recovery.

Data Stream Aurora

 
 
 
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Keep a secure copy of your case data

Maintain a copy of your Filevine data (including historical roll-back) for audit, search, analytics and BI reporting in an AWS Aurora database controlled by you.

Collection Item Sync

 
 
 
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Keep specific field data in sync across collection items in different sections

Collection Item Sync links the 2 related collection items and keeps the specific fields synced.