Smokeball Grow and Prosper+ Releases April 2026

29th April, 2026

The Conveyancing NSW pack from Lexon Insurance has been removed from the Smokeball Precedent Library until further notice. For more information on the pack's availability, please contact Lexon Insurance directly.

23rd April, 2026

The new Aged Unbilled Disbursements report is now available in the Smokeball Web App. This report enables your firm to track and analyse unbilled cost recoveries as of a specific date, supporting audit, compliance, and financial management needs. 

Available Columns: Date, Matter Number, Client, Matter Description, Practice Area, Matter Type, Subject, Description, Person Responsible, Billable?, Net Value, GST Value, Gross Value, and Ageing Buckets (0-30, 31-60, 61-90, and 90+ days, based on entered date relative to the "As At" date).

Available Groupings: Group by Person Responsible, Matter, Client with subtotals.

17th April, 2026

The following updates have been made to the Precedent Library and Smokeball Desktop App Reports:

• The NSW Annexure A for Commercial Lease 2021 and Retail Lease 2021 forms have been updated to include the Annexure A for the Retail Lease and for the Commercial Lease.

• The QLD Conveyancing Critical Dates Report now includes the following additional date fields:

  • Cooling Off Expiry Date
  • Auction Date
  • Unconditional Date

  These fields are also available in the Included Columns filter.

• The AML Report has been updated to include a new “Risk Assessment” filter. The “Save Filters as Firm Default” functionality has also been incorporated into this filter.
•  The Event List Report has been updated with the following:
  • A new “File Type” filter, allowing you to filter results by selecting Matters, Leads, or All from the dropdown options. By default, the report now includes both Matters and Leads, with the option to filter by file type as needed.
  • Matter Type and Matter Tag fields are now available within the Included Columns filter.

14th April, 2026

Version 9.16 of the Smokeball Desktop App is now available for all users, and contains the following new features and refinements.

New Features

Prevent duplicate emails from being saved to a matter

When multiple staff save the same email to the same matter, the email will be saved one time, preventing duplication of emails that clutter the documents list. 

An email is flagged as a duplicate if all three of the following conditions are true:

1. The email has already been saved to the same matter
2. The email is stored in the same folder within that matter
3. The email has the same file name

If it does not meet all these conditions, it will continue to be saved to the matter.

Save and duplicate option when creating time/fee/disbursement entries

You can now quickly duplicate a time, fee or disbursement entry when you need to record the same or very similar work on another matter.

Note: The Save & Duplicate action is not available for Timers, Grouped Time Entries, editing the Time/Fee/Expense on the right-hand-side panel, or Archie/AutoTime-generated entries.

Refinements

New Outlook Integration - send emails directly from Word

You can now compose and send emails (with documents such as body text, Word or PDF attachments) to New Outlook when clicking on the Send button in Microsoft Word. 

Sortable columns in Time & Fees and Disbursement tabs

You can now sort the Matter Number, Matter, Billable and Billed columns of the Time & Fees and Disbursement tabs.

2nd April, 2026

The Agency – Child Protection matter type has been released for the Child Protection (VIC) matter type.