Australian legal practice management software provider LEAP has unveiled Ruffle, an innovative new tool designed to transform how lawyers review and analyse financial disclosure.
Ruffle will be exclusively integrated with LEAP, streamlining what the latter calls “one of the most time-consuming, tedious, and error-prone aspects of family law practice”.
The tool will consolidate all client bank statements into a single, searchable, and sortable interface, thereby enabling lawyers to quickly interpret financial data with unprecedented clarity.
It will empower practitioners to, among other things, generate Part N of the financial statement using actual spending history, review Part G expenses, challenge the other side’s financial statement, and identify gaps in disclosure and pinpoint wastage expenditure.
By replacing hours of manual document trawling, LEAP said in a statement, Ruffle allows family lawyers to focus on strategic legal work and client outcomes.
At the heart of Ruffle is an intelligent algorithm capable of analysing bank statements – including PDFs, scans, screenshots, and transaction lists – “in seconds”, LEAP said.
Speaking about the launch, Ruffle Technology chief executive Athol Birtley (pictured) said: “Reviewing financial disclosure has always been labour-intensive and error-prone.
“Ruffle fundamentally changes that. It gives family lawyers fast, accurate insights that improve not just efficiency, but also the quality of advice they can give their clients.”
Preparing Part N of the financial statement is a “critical, but often stressful step” in spousal maintenance and property settlement matters, LEAP said, and Ruffle extracts real spending data directly from disclosure documents, allowing lawyers to complete Part N accurately and efficiently, “and to critically assess the other side’s Part N with confidence”.
The tool consolidates all bank statements into a unified review platform, allows users to view total spend by category and discover trends through dynamic graphing tools, and has pre-built filters tailored to family law matters.
Looking ahead, LEAP Family Law head of product Farhana Khan said that Ruffle is the “breakthrough solution family lawyers have been waiting for, removing hours of repetitive manual work while unlocking insights that traditional approaches simply can’t deliver”.
“It marks a meaningful step forward in how practitioners handle disclosure and achieve greater financial accuracy,” she said.
Using Ruffle, family lawyers will be able to produce “clearer, more defensible” financial assessments, strengthen their case preparation, and deliver better client outcomes in less time, the provider said.
