Business law solos wear a lot of hats. One week you're filing an LLC, the next you're reviewing a commercial lease, the next you're handling a shareholder dispute that's threatening to turn into litigation. Your caseload is diverse, your clients are other businesses (who have high expectations and low patience), and your billing is a mix of flat fees for transactional work and hourly for litigation.
Generic practice management tools struggle with this. They're built for the case lifecycle of personal injury or criminal defense — linear matters with a clear beginning and end. Business law is more like an ongoing relationship: you form the entity, you handle their contracts, you help them through disputes, you update their operating agreement when a partner leaves. One client, many matters, over many years.
Steadfast Practice's 11-field business law intake captures entity type, business age, number of owners, the type of matter (formation, contract review, dispute, compliance), transaction size if relevant, urgency, and prior legal representation. It's designed to work for a prospective client calling about a new LLC formation as well as an existing client calling about a contract dispute.
Business Law Features That Match How You Work
Entity-matter organization. Organize your practice around clients and their entities, not individual matters. See all open and closed work for a given company in one view.
Contract and document management. Store executed agreements, operating documents, and correspondence organized by entity. Search across your full document library when a client calls with a question about an agreement you drafted two years ago.
Mixed billing modes. Quote flat fees for formation and simple contract review. Switch to hourly for litigation support. Both billing modes work in Steadfast Practice without reconfiguring the system.
Business client portal. Sophisticated clients don't want to email PDF attachments back and forth. The Steadfast Practice client portal gives business clients a secure place to share documents, sign agreements, and track matter status.
A Clio subscription with the billing, document management, and client portal features a business law solo needs runs $150+/month. Steadfast Practice is $49/month, all features included, no negotiation required.