Dye & Durham (Do Process / Unity) is a transaction workflow platform for real estate closings, corporate filings, and wills/estates. Atticus is a complete practice management platform for Ontario lawyers — with Canadian legal AI, LSO-compliant trust accounting, and full matter management across all practice areas.
Dye & Durham is built for real estate, corporate, and wills/estates transaction workflows — not full practice management. Atticus covers the complete practice lifecycle for Ontario lawyers with Canadian legal AI and LSO-compliant trust accounting built in.
Dye & Durham (Do Process / Unity) excels at real estate closing workflows, corporate filings, and wills/estates transactions. It does not provide general practice management — time tracking, billing, matter management across practice areas, or litigation support. Atticus covers the full practice lifecycle for Ontario lawyers across all practice areas.
Dye & Durham is a data and transaction workflow platform — it does not include Canadian legal AI. Atticus includes AI document analysis, an AI practice assistant that knows your files and deadlines, and Canadian legal context (Ontario Limitations Act, LSO trust accounting rules) as part of the core $149 CAD monthly price.
Atticus is built for Ontario LSO By-Law 9 trust accounting requirements across all client matters — not just real estate trust funds. Mixed trust accounts, monthly reconciliation, trust ledgers per client, and reporting formats familiar to Ontario lawyers. No configuration required.
Dye & Durham is designed around transaction-based billing, not hourly time tracking. Atticus provides integrated time tracking and billing — capturing billable hours against matters, generating HST-compliant invoices, and managing unbilled time across your practice.
Atticus AI reads uploaded documents and automatically identifies and flags Ontario limitation periods — service dates, accident dates, breach dates — under the Limitations Act 2002. Dye & Durham tracks transaction closing dates but has no AI-assisted limitation period detection.
Dye & Durham pricing involves per-transaction fees, per-seat licensing, and data subscription costs across multiple products. Atticus is $149 CAD per lawyer per month — complete practice management, LSO-compliant trust accounting, AI document analysis, and the Atticus chat assistant all included.
See how Atticus compares to Dye & Durham / Do Process for Ontario solo and small law firms — full practice management with Canadian AI vs real estate and corporate transaction workflow software.
| Feature | Atticus | Dye & Durham |
|---|---|---|
| Practice management | ✓Full integrated practice management for all practice areas | Transaction-focused (real estate, corporate, estate); limited general practice management |
| Ontario trust accounting | ✓Built-in, LSO By-Law 9 compliant; mixed trust, monthly reconciliation | Real estate trust accounting in Do Process; general trust account management limited |
| HST billing | ✓Native HST with CRA-compliant invoices built in | Transaction disbursement billing; general invoicing not core product focus |
| Time tracking | ✓Integrated time and billing; AI-assisted time capture | Limited time tracking; focused on transaction workflow, not hourly billing |
| AI legal work | ✓Canadian legal AI: document drafting, summarization, limitation period flagging, LSO compliance, chat assistant | No Canadian legal AI features; data and workflow platform |
| Matter management | ✓Full matter lifecycle from intake to close, all practice areas | Matter management scoped to real estate, corporate, wills/estates transactions |
| Document management | ✓AI document analysis, summarization, and entity extraction; semantic search across all files | Document generation from precedents; no AI document intelligence |
| Limitation period alerts | ✓Ontario Limitations Act 2002 built in; AI extracts dates from documents | Transaction closing dates tracked; no general limitation period management |
| Conflict checking | ✓Automated AI-assisted conflict search | No dedicated conflict checking module |
| LSO compliance | ✓Built for Ontario LSO requirements; Canadian data residency; LSO AI guidance considered | Ontario real estate and corporate transaction workflows; LSO compliance partial |
| AI assistant | ✓Atticus chat: answers questions about your practice, clients, deadlines, and trust balances | No conversational AI assistant |
| Pricing (CAD) | ✓$149/lawyer/month (all-in, including AI) | Per-transaction and per-seat pricing; module and data subscription costs additional |
| Data residency | ✓Canadian servers by default | Canadian company; data hosting varies by product and subscription tier |
| Practice scope | ✓All Ontario practice areas: litigation, corporate, real estate, family, criminal, immigration | Real estate closings, corporate filings, wills/estates — transaction workflow focus |
Trust accounting built for LSO By-Law 9. HST billing. AI document analysis. Limitation period tracking. Conflict checking. All practice areas. All in one platform at $149 CAD per lawyer per month. Try Atticus free for 14 days.
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