The LawVu Gmail add-in is built for anyone who uses Gmail and wants to save important email conversations and attachments directly into LawVu. With the add-in, you can create new matters or contracts straight from your inbox or save and track email chains.
In this article:
Upgrade to the new Gmail add-in
We’ve rebuilt the LawVu Gmail add-in to make it faster, more reliable, and easier to use.
Quickly capture email conversations and attachments into LawVu.
A cleaner, more intuitive interface.
Access LawVu’s native matter and contract intake forms directly in Gmail, with conditional logic and flexible team/manager assignment.
The new Gmail add-in is currently available under Early Access and can be side-loaded manually alongside the current add-in.
You can switch back to the generally available add-in at any time.
If you wish to take part in this Early Access program, please contact your customer success manager who will provide instructions for your Google Workspace admin on how to install and deploy the EA add-in.
Note:
Whenever you want to work with a contract - such as adding one or saving emails to it-make sure you first click the Contracts button in the add-in:
Set your default saving preference
You can choose how emails are saved by default when using the quick save option in LawVu for Gmail.
Click the three-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner.
Select Saving preferences.
Under Quick save preference, choose one of the following:
Save and track this conversation – saves the email and automatically tracks all future replies in the conversation.
Save only this email – saves just the selected email without tracking future replies.
Click Save. Your decision will be used as your default for future saves.
You can change this preference at any time by returning to Saving preferences.
How does this impact your saving process?
Your selected preference changes what the quick save / track button does by default.
You can change this at any time in Saving preferences.
Track an email thread against a matter or a contract
Tracking an email conversation ensures that all future replies and forwards to that email will be automatically saved in LawVu.
Tracking can be disabled at any time.
To track a conversation, open the email you want to track and click on the "Track conversation" icon.
You’ll see a confirmation message, and from then on, all replies in that conversation will be automatically saved to the Files tab of the chosen matter or contract.
Advanced tracking options
If you want more control over your tracking preferences:
Open the email you want to track.
Select a matter or contract from your recent list, search for one, or create a new one.
Choose “Save and track this conversation.”
You can also choose to:
Save only this email, or
Save the email and store attachments separately.
The email thread will now continue to automatically update with each new entry into the Files tab of this matter.
A tracked email thread can only be saved into the Files tab of a single matter or contract.
As the email thread is saved into LawVu, every reply or forward you make is saved as the current version of the file.
Note: You can also choose the folder or subfolder where the email conversation will be saved.
A label will update in Gmail on the thread indicating that it is being tracked along with the matter/contract name and LawVu ID. If you wish to discontinue tracking, simply click the Stop tracking option. Once you turn the tracking off, no new replies will be saved in LawVu.
Create a matter or contract starting from an email
You can create matters or contracts directly from the LawVu Gmail add-in.
Select the desired email and click Create new:
You'll be forwarded to LawVu where you'll be able to fill in the Create form as usual:
Important: After following the above process to create the matter or contract, in order to actually save/track the email you’ll need to return to the Gmail add-in and refresh the list of matters/contracts to find your newly created record. You may then save/track the email to that record as usual.
We will soon be releasing an update to streamline this process.