How your lawyer keeps your details safe using Praxis
Your lawyer uses Praxis, a practice-management tool with security safeguards, to run their practice — keeping track of court dates, deadlines and matter files in one organised place. This note explains, in plain terms, what that means for the information you share with your lawyer.
1. What is stored
To manage your matter properly, your lawyer may record in Praxis:
- Your contact details — your name, phone number, email and address, and where required for identity ("know your client") checks, ID numbers;
- Information about your matter — what the case or brief is about, court and hearing dates, deadlines, fees and payments, notes, and links to documents.
Nothing more than your lawyer chooses to record is stored.
2. Your lawyer stays in charge of your information
Your information belongs to your relationship with your lawyer, not with the software company. Your lawyer:
- remains fully responsible for your information (in data-protection terms, your lawyer is the "data controller" under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (NDPA));
- remains bound by the professional duty of confidentiality and legal professional privilege that protect everything you tell them — using software does not change or weaken those duties in any way.
3. What the software company does (and does not do)
Praxis is operated by Praxis Digital Solutions Ltd, a Nigerian company. Its role is strictly limited:
- it stores and processes your information only on your lawyer's instructions — it does not use it for its own purposes, and it does not sell it or share it for advertising;
- the database enforces access rules (known as "row-level security") so that each lawyer's account can only see and change its own records — no other lawyer or user of Praxis can view your information;
- it is a software provider, not a law firm — it gives no legal advice and has no lawyer-client relationship with you.
Like most modern software, Praxis runs on established cloud infrastructure providers (Supabase, Cloudflare and Resend), each of which handles data only as needed to run the service.
Praxis is a new service currently in an early-release ("beta") phase; your lawyer continues to keep their own independent professional records and diary, as their professional rules require.
4. How long your information is kept
Your information stays in Praxis for as long as your lawyer decides it is needed for your matter and their professional record-keeping obligations. When your lawyer instructs that it be deleted, it is removed — first to a recoverable "trash" (in case of mistakes), and then permanently on your lawyer's instruction (residual copies may remain for a short period in routine system backups before being overwritten in the ordinary course).
5. Questions? Talk to your lawyer first
If you would like to know what information is held about you, or want it corrected or deleted, speak to your lawyer — they are responsible for your information and are best placed to help. You also have rights under the NDPA, which you can exercise through your lawyer.
For questions strictly about the software itself, Praxis Digital Solutions Ltd can be reached at [FILL IN: official contact email].
This note is provided by Praxis Digital Solutions Ltd for lawyers using Praxis to share with their clients. It is a plain-language summary, not a contract.