Tabs3 Software

What It Does

Tabs3 is legal billing and practice management software for small to mid-sized US law firms, built by Software Technology Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska. The suite covers time and billing (Tabs3 Billing), trust accounting and ledgers (Tabs3 Financials), case and matter management (PracticeMaster), client intake (Tabs3 CRM), and payments (Tabs3Pay). It is sold as on-premises server software, hosted, or via Tabs3 Cloud. The company has operated since 1979 and acquired cloud practice-management vendor CosmoLex.

Who It’s For — Persona Workflows

Solo Practitioner / Small Firm
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Workflow fit: Time capture → billing → trust accounting → payments → case management
Strengths: Long-established time-and-billing engine with integrated trust accounting;
           modular so firms buy only the components they need.
Gaps: On-premises heritage; firms wanting cloud-native should compare Tabs3 Cloud
      against newer SaaS competitors.

In-House Legal Ops
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Workflow fit: Not designed for in-house teams. Skip this one.

What We Found

Tabs3 is one of the longer-running names in US legal billing software and is listed across review sites including Software Advice, Capterra, and the ABA Legal Technology Buyers Guide. It is owned within the Thompson Street Capital Partners portfolio, which also brought CosmoLex into the Tabs3 family. Pricing is modular and quote-based; the vendor publishes deployment options (cloud, hosted, on-premises) but not full per-module pricing.

Company Info

• Sector: Legal Tech
• Founded: 1979 (Software Technology Inc.)
• HQ: Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

What We Haven’t Verified

This page was assembled from publicly available information. Feature claims and workflow mappings are based on what the vendor and third-party listings publish — not hands-on testing or practitioner feedback.

• Per-module pricing — not fully published
• Specific review-site ratings and counts — not captured in this pass