What to do now that winra is sunsetting in 2025
Your guide to replacing winra and transferring your legal work.
Wolters Kluwer has officially confirmed that winra will be phased out in 2025, a move that marks a significant shift for legal teams who’ve relied on the platform to manage matters and contracts for years.
But this isn’t just the end of a product. It’s the end of a way of working.
Winra was built for a different era — one where legal work happened in silos, tracked through folders and shared drives, not integrated workflows.
As legal teams evolve, their tools need to do more than store information. They need to be integrated with their email or document management system, supporting automation, to connect people, process and performance.
What's driving the shift?
While Wolters Kluwer is steering winra users toward Legisway, now's the perfect time to explore ways to optimize your legal department.
Here's what's changed:
› Legal teams need to do more with less, and need better visibility to do it
› Stakeholders want faster answers, easier processes, and self-service
› The inbox has become a Pandora's box – legal work needs structure
› Point solutions are piling up – and legal operations are getting more fragmented, resulting in multiple silo's of 'semi-truths'
If you’re replacing winra, start with a better foundation
Here’s what to prioritize when choosing your next legal platform:
✅ Cloud-native centralized repository with enterprise-grade security
✅ Legal work structured around matters, not just contracts
✅ Integrated legal intake and triage – especially from Outlook
✅ One 'single source of truth', for contracts, disputes, advice, spend and reporting
✅ Fast, proven implementation and migration
✅ Automation that enhances your process
✅ Reporting built for legal, not finance or IT
Why Xakia is the best replacement for winra
Xakia is your all-in-one-legal database for Legal Matter Management, Spend Management and also Contracts
and helps you improve collaboration between teams, approval on matters, contracts or budgets to mitigate risks and gain efficiency.
Designed for in-house teams, Xakia brings together all your legal work in one structured view, with Inbox-native intake, matter-centric workflows, and the visibility to manage risk, priorities, spend, track legal team capacity and more.
Smart legal intake – straight from Outlook
› Centralize requests from the business with dynamic intake forms, conditional workflows, and instant triage all from your email. No more tracking work in inboxes.
Full matter and contract visibility
› See everything in one place: tasks, documents, contracts, deadlines, budgets, status.
› Contracts are treated as part of legal work, not managed in a separate silo
Legal spend and vendor oversight
› Track invoices, approve budgets, and compare firms without needing a separate tool. Stay in control of your external legal spend, right down to the matter level.
Reporting that helps you lead
› Monitor team capacity, turnaround times, risk profiles, and more with dashboards built specifically for legal operations.
Built-in automation (that doesn’t require IT)
› Use conditional logic and templates to streamline intake, approvals, and workflows. Automate the admin, keep control of the process.
Works with the tools you already use
› Xakia integrates with Microsoft 365, DocuSign, NetDocuments, and more so your team doesn’t need to change how they work.
From inbox chaos to legal clarity
Legal teams don’t just need new software. They need better structure, better visibility, and better ways to work.
Xakia gives you the tools to standardize how legal work flows from the moment a request is made to final reporting and analysis. And with our rapid onboarding and migration support, you can make the transition from winra without disruption.
👉 Book a personalized demo to see how Xakia can help you upgrade your legal workspace.
Remember: The right matter management system isn't just about organizing work – it's about transforming how your legal department operates. Choose wisely, and your future self will thank you (probably with a much lighter inbox).
Try Xakia and join the matter management revolution
Ready to revolutionize your legal department with a matter management solution that actually works? Here's how to join our slightly obsessive club:
Remember: Your matter management system should be like your favorite legal precedent – reliable, powerful, and occasionally surprising in its effectiveness. Unlike your legal precedents, however, it should definitely be from this century.
Simple. Powerful. Affordable. Try Xakia.
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