Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Legal software for advocates in Lucknow

A bench of the largest High Court in the country, and lists long enough to make finding your own matter the day's first job.

In a paragraph

The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow bench sits here, serving the Awadh districts, while the principal seat stays at Prayagraj. Lawgger carries both sittings — evening cause lists, live display boards during court hours, CNR digests — together with district courts across Uttar Pradesh, research, drafting and chamber billing at Rs 1,999 a month. There is no Lucknow office; the company is in Jammu & Kashmir.

Two sittingsLucknow and Prayagraj, one watchlist
2.07 crore+judgments, full text
Rs 66a day, on the annual plan
The local fact that shapes the day

The longest lists in the country

The Allahabad High Court has the largest sanctioned judge strength of any High Court in India. More judges means more courts sitting, and more courts sitting means longer lists. The Lucknow bench carries its share of that volume, and every advocate here knows what it produces: a list that cannot be read, only searched.

The daily reality is banal and expensive. You open a long document on a phone at nine in the morning. You scroll, looking for a party name you half remember, in a list arranged by court and item. You find one of your three matters. You miss the second because it is under the other party's name, and you learn about the third from a colleague at eleven.

This is the problem this page is about. It is not a research problem or a drafting problem. It is the problem of locating your own work inside a very large list, every working day, before the boards start moving. Everything else a chamber in Lucknow needs — authority, dates, billing — sits behind it.

Two sittings, one court

Lucknow bench, or Prayagraj?

The Lucknow bench hears matters arising from a defined group of districts in the Awadh region. Matters from the rest of Uttar Pradesh go to the principal seat at Prayagraj. It is one High Court with two sittings, and where a matter goes is decided by where it comes from, not by preference.

For most Lucknow advocates that means a practice concentrated at the bench with a tail of matters at Prayagraj — an appeal, a connected writ, a client whose business straddles the line. Held manually, that tail becomes two rosters: the one you check every day and the one you check when you remember. The second roster is where dates get missed.

In Lawgger there is one watchlist. A matter saved at Prayagraj behaves exactly like a matter saved at Lucknow: it appears in the evening when the next day's list is published, and its live board can be watched during court hours. You are not asked to remember which sitting a case belongs to in order to be told about it. See the Allahabad High Court page.

The board

Court View — the board here has its own name

Most benches in India call it the display board. At the Allahabad High Court it is commonly called Court View, which is why Lucknow advocates search that phrase rather than the generic one. The thing itself is the same: a live view of which item is on in which court right now, updating as the day moves, during court hours — typically 10:30 to 16:30 IST.

What a board tells you is not whether your matter will be heard. It tells you the rate. A court at item nine at half past eleven is behaving differently from a court at item forty, and the difference decides whether a junior can be sent to a district court in the afternoon or whether the whole chamber waits. Read alongside the day's list, it is the most useful ninety seconds an advocate spends before lunch.

Lawgger carries live boards for 527 courts and 426 benches — the Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts including both Allahabad sittings, and the NCLT, NCLAT and CAT sittings. See how live display boards work.

How it works in the app

Finding your own matter

Four steps, done once. After that the list finds you rather than the other way round.

1

Pick the sitting

Lucknow bench or Prayagraj. Both are covered, and a chamber that works at both can keep matters from either on the same watchlist.

2

Search by party, advocate or case number

Search the day's cause list instead of scrolling it. Searching by advocate name is how most chambers find everything of theirs at once, including the matters listed under a party name nobody remembers.

3

Save it

A saved matter keeps its history, its next date and its papers. Add it by CNR number if you have it, and the case status comes with it.

4

Get tomorrow's list in the evening

When the next day's list is published, the entries touching your matters are surfaced — court number, item number, sitting. The nine-o'clock scroll stops being part of the morning.

Below the High Court

District courts across Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh has the largest district-court footprint in the country, and a Lucknow chamber of any age has work spread across a good part of it — a sessions matter in one district, an execution in another, a motor accident claim somewhere else. Very little of it is attended personally.

Lawgger covers around 700 district courts nationally, across 722 districts in 35 states and union territories. Pull a cause list for any covered court on any date. Track a matter by CNR and read a plain-words digest of the last order rather than reconstructing it from a torn order sheet a fortnight later. See case status by CNR and case tracking.

Language

Hindi first

District practice in and around Lucknow runs substantially in Hindi. The client speaks Hindi, the instructions are taken in Hindi, and a large part of the record below is in Hindi. Software that insists on English before it will answer a question is asking the advocate to do translation work that has nothing to do with the case.

Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages. A research question can be asked in Hindi and the reasoning read in Hindi. The plain-words digest of an order — the line you send the client — works in Hindi. The judgments themselves stay in the language of the original record, because a pin cite has to point at the real page and not at a translation of it. See how the AI is built.

Research, deadlines and the chamber

The rest of what a chamber runs on

Research

2.07 crore judgments

Full text, the Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts, every answer pin-cited to the page. Plus 1,607 central and state acts across 37 jurisdictions. How research works.

Verdicts

Good law, or not

Every authority carries a verdict — still good law or overruled. Paste a brief and get a Table of Authorities with a verdict against each entry. Good-law checking.

Dates

21 limitation clocks

Appeal, revision, review, execution and the rest, rolling past weekends, gazetted holidays and court vacations, with section 5 condonation flagged. How limitation is computed.

Practice

Matters, clients, tasks

A matter file per case, a tasks kanban the juniors can see, approval workflows, team chat and WhatsApp client updates. Practice management.

Money

Billing timer and GST

Time recorded as it is spent, GST invoices raised against the matter, Razorpay payments so a client can settle without a cheque.

Drafting

3,500+ Indian formats

Across 61 categories, prompt to intake form to finished draft, with OCR and document tools and a private chamber vault. Drafting.

Price

Rs 1,999 a month, everything included

Rs 1,999 a month or Rs 19,999 a year — about Rs 66 a day, one subscription for research, good-law checking, cause lists, boards, case tracking, limitation, drafting and practice management. There is a 14-day free trial with no card. GST invoices are issued and you can cancel at any time.

The established research services in India have typically been quoted at one and a half to three lakh a year for research alone, for a single user. See pricing, or read what Lawgger does for advocates and how it compares.

Questions

What Lucknow advocates ask

No. The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court hears matters arising from a defined group of districts in the Awadh region. Matters from the rest of Uttar Pradesh go to the principal seat at Prayagraj. Both are the same High Court. Lawgger carries the cause lists and live boards for both sittings on one watchlist.

Court View is the name commonly used for the Allahabad High Court's live display of what is being heard right now — the item number and court number currently on, court by court. It runs during court hours, typically 10:30 to 16:30 IST. Lawgger shows the same live board information inside the app, for both Lucknow and Prayagraj. More on display boards.

Yes. Save a matter at either sitting and it goes on the same watchlist. The next-day cause lists for both come to you together when they are published in the evening, and you can watch either live board during court hours. A practice that spans the bench and the principal seat keeps one roster instead of two.

Yes. Uttar Pradesh has the largest district-court footprint in the country, and it is covered as part of around 700 district courts nationally across 722 districts in 35 states and union territories. You can pull a cause list for any covered court on any date and track a matter by its CNR number.

No. Lawgger has no office, address or telephone line in Lucknow. The company is registered in Jammu & Kashmir and serves advocates across India as software. Everything described on this page happens inside the app. Written queries go to anubhav@lawgger.com.

Yes. Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages, and Hindi is central to how it is used in Uttar Pradesh. Research questions can be asked in Hindi and read in Hindi, and the plain-words digest of an order works in Hindi too. Judgments stay in the language of the original record so that pin cites point at the real page.

Rs 1,999 a month or Rs 19,999 a year, about Rs 66 a day, covering research, good-law checking, cause lists, live boards, case tracking, limitation, drafting and practice management. There is a 14-day free trial with no card. GST invoices are issued and you can cancel at any time. Pricing.

Lucknow

Stop scrolling the list

Search it, save what is yours, and get tomorrow's entries in the evening — Lucknow bench and Prayagraj together. Rs 1,999 a month. 14-day trial, no card.

Lawgger is software for advocates. It is not a law firm and gives no legal advice. It has no office in Lucknow; the company is registered in Jammu & Kashmir, India.