The practice platform · access requests open
Hang your own shingle.
A practice is a lawyer and an office at the same time, and only one of those bills. The robots do the office work. You do the lawyer work.
You didn’t hang a shingle to run an office.
The unbilled office
The office nobody staffs.
The moment the sign goes up, you inherit a second job: dates that must be watched, papers that must reach an agency, records that must survive scrutiny. The office work is real work. It is simply work no client pays for, and no lawyer went to law school to do.
The staffing alternative buys the whole office at salary prices before the revenue exists to carry it. Improvising it makes you the practice’s calendar, courier, and filing clerk. The office is machinery. Machinery should be bought, flat-priced, and watched by something that never sleeps.
The practice platform
Casework on rails.
shingle.legal is the agent-native practice platform, built on the same journaled rails that power the gigs.lawyer network, arriving for one independent practice. Three nouns carry the whole design, and every capability on the board below hangs from them, each carrying its own stage.
The spine. Every matter opens as a case, and every act lands in its journal: enrolled assets, fired rungs, filings, receipts, acknowledgments. The file a practitioner wants to be holding if anyone ever asks how the practice was run.
The unit of casework. Work moves as reviews, the engine built to meter flat-fee review work across the gigs.lawyer network, pointed at your own matters. The office machinery prepares the work; it reaches you as a review; you decide, and only you sign.
The record. Drafts, filings, and government receipts kept as evidence in the case file, not scattered across an inbox.
Deadline watch
A clock, not a worry.
Deadline watch runs one deterministic deadline ladder over every asset that carries a statutory date: patents, marks, entity good standing. Rungs close on evidence, never on optimism. We watch; you decide.
The ladder is built and deterministic; the watch opens with your cohort. Request access
The rate card · flat prices
Flat prices. Filings on the receipt.
The watch meters flat by the month; the filing rails release their meter only on the government receipt: no filing, no charge, and the receipt lands in your record. Every product fee on this card is flat, disclosed in advance, and separately invoiced. Never scaled to a legal fee. A solo can put the whole office on a rate card before taking the matter.
Each rail’s stage hangs at the board below.
The back office
What hangs on the board.
One back office for a one-lawyer practice. Each capability carries its own stage at the row: early build or coming. A stage label is a fact, never a promise.
- Deadline watchEARLY BUILDCOHORT ACCESS
- One deterministic ladder over every asset with a statutory date, closed by evidence. $12 per monitored asset, per month. Request access
- Filing railsEARLY BUILD
- Receipt-metered filing, starting with the $199 provisional. Charged only on the government receipt. Everything reserved is described, never sold.
- CasesCOMING
- The first spine noun to ship: each cohort matter opens as one journaled case, and everything the watch and the rails record lands in its journal.
- ReviewsCOMING
- Arrives on the case spine: casework reaches the cohort as reviews, metered flat by the engine the gigs.lawyer network runs today.
- Documents and recordsCOMING
- Fills from the rails: every receipt the meter releases on is kept to its case file, so the record builds itself as the practice runs.
- Conflicts toolingCOMING
- A solo’s conflicts records kept as carefully as any firm’s.
You buy software and vendor rails as a Customer. Never routing access, never a Tenant seat, and never legal services. No reserved act lives anywhere in the product; the licensed practitioner is you.
The agreement
Fine print, first.
Six promises, each one built into the design rather than appended to it.
- The price promise
- Every product price is flat, disclosed in advance, and separately invoiced. Never scaled to a legal fee.
- The pass-through promise
- Government fees pass through at cost. Never marked up.
- The receipt promise
- Filing rails charge on the government receipt. No filing, no charge.
- The boundary promise
- Zero reserved acts in the product, zero legal advice, zero legal services. Your clients are yours, your judgment is yours, your fee arrangements are yours.
- The dead-air promise
- A watched docket always has a named owner. If it doesn’t, the system says so: vacancy is an alarm, never a default.
- The independence promise
- Your practice’s records are your practice’s records. Buying the rails buys you software; it costs you nothing of your independence.
Where this stands
The office opens in cohorts.
Access requests are live: submitting the form below records your request to the intake register today, with the posture you hold, and the office opens in cohorts as practitioners arrive. This page promises the record and the build, not a dated launch; each capability on the board carries its own stage.
- Hanging it soonLeaving with clients, competence, and a lease, about to meet the office.
- Already soloAlready good at the law, spending nights on the part no client pays for.
- The gigs.lawyer graduateYou practiced on rails, attorney or USPTO practitioner alike. Independence shouldn’t mean giving them back: the Conflicts Ledger you kept on the network stays yours, and the tooling to keep keeping it is coming. The rails you practiced on: gigs.lawyer
The practice you wanted is the one the office work is eating.