Bedrock Brings Case Management to iOS and Android
Bedrock, the case management software division of Rock MS, has released a new legal mobile app designed for solicitors who rarely stay tied to a desk. Available through both Apple and Android app stores, the Bedrock Case Management Mobile App gives legal professionals secure, real-time access to their caseloads wherever they are. Instead of waiting to return to the office, users can open matters, review case information, and action key tasks from their phones. The move directly addresses the legal sector’s growing shift toward mobile-first workflows, where smartphone access is no longer a convenience but an operational necessity. By extending existing Bedrock functionality to handheld devices, Rock MS is positioning the app as an integral part of day-to-day practice rather than a lightweight companion, ensuring law firms with mixed device estates can standardise their digital workflows across platforms.
Core Features: Notes, Email, Documents and Calendars On the Go
The Bedrock legal mobile app focuses on everyday case management tasks that typically require a desktop. Solicitors can create attendance and telephone notes immediately after client meetings, record calls, and file emails directly to the relevant matter from their phones. The app also supports uploading documents and attachments, enabling evidence, forms, or signed papers to be added to files on the spot. A built-in planner and calendar sit alongside time and billing widgets, giving lawyers a consolidated view of appointments, deadlines and performance indicators. Shared calendars can be updated and reviewed in real time, helping teams stay aligned when schedules change at short notice. By mirroring the workflows of the main case management software, Bedrock’s mobile interface functions as a full-featured solicitor productivity app rather than a limited viewer, allowing legal professionals to manage both client work and administrative obligations while on the move.
Supporting Modern, Mobile-First Legal Workflows
The design of the Bedrock case management software reflects how modern legal professionals now work across multiple locations in a single day. Solicitors often need to update files, respond to emails, and manage matter-related administration while travelling between offices, courts and police stations, where desktop access may be impractical. Rock MS managing director Judy Matthews emphasises that the app was built to support this reality, consolidating key case management functions into a single, secure mobile platform. By enabling updates in real time, the app reduces duplicated administrative work when fee earners return to their desks and must reconcile handwritten notes or unfiled emails. The integration of compliance, HR, accounts and practice management data into the wider Bedrock ecosystem also highlights a broader trend in professional workflow tools: bringing administrative, financial and regulatory processes together so legal teams can manage the full lifecycle of matters from wherever they are working.
Police Station Live and Real-Time Collaboration in the Field
One of the most distinctive features of the Bedrock legal mobile app is its Police Station Live functionality, currently in beta. This module is tailored to criminal defence and similar practice areas where multiple solicitors may attend the same police station simultaneously. Through Police Station Live, teams can coordinate attendance, share updates, and manage live case activity from their phones, ensuring that each lawyer has up-to-date information about interviews, custody timelines and client instructions. Combined with instant note-taking, document uploads and shared calendar access, the feature turns the app into a live matter management tool rather than purely a back-office extension. Software development lead Adam Makepeace notes that attendance notes, document uploads, email filing and appointment updates all align directly with existing Bedrock workflows, allowing teams to collaborate in real time in high-pressure environments such as busy courts or police stations without sacrificing data consistency or security.
Implications for Solicitor Productivity and Practice Management
By embedding full case management capabilities into a legal mobile app, Rock MS is advancing a broader shift toward flexible, location-agnostic legal practice. For fee earners, the ability to manage tasks, update matters and track time during client meetings, court appearances or travel can significantly reduce downtime and prevent backlogs of administrative work. Shared calendars and billing widgets give practitioners better visibility into workloads and performance, supporting more informed decisions about scheduling and resource allocation. For law firm leaders, the app’s alignment with the wider Bedrock platform underscores a strategy of integrating practice management, compliance, HR and finance into a single ecosystem, rather than relying on disconnected tools. As professional workflow tools continue to converge around mobile access and real-time data, Bedrock’s expansion to smartphones illustrates how case management software can evolve from static office systems into always-available solicitor productivity apps that underpin remote and hybrid working models.