Solo law firm software for your whole business, not just your caseload

It depends on what you practice. For general practice, that's usually a connected system like 8am MyCase, covering case management, intake, time tracking, billing, and a client portal in one place. Firms concentrated in a single specialty are often better served by software built around that specialty—8am CasePeer for personal injury, or 8am DocketWise for immigration—rather than a general tool stretched to fit. Whichever base you choose, pair it with a payment system built for legal trust accounting, like 8am LawPay, rather than a generic processor.

It replaces guesswork with a real-time picture of what's coming in against what you've actually billed. Trust accounting with automatic three-way reconciliation, built into 8am MyCase and 8am CasePeer, keeps client funds separated and compliant without a manual spreadsheet. For fuller bookkeeping, MyCase Accounting extends that visibility into a general ledger; most solo attorneys, though, get most of the benefit just from having billing and payments live in the same system rather than two.

Look for built-in timers tied to specific matters, invoices that generate automatically from time entries rather than a separate spreadsheet, online payment options that include ACH and eCheck alongside cards, and trust accounting that reconciles automatically. 8am LawPay adds next-business-day funding and 50-state-bar-endorsed compliance on top of that, so getting paid isn't the slowest part of the process.

When a new lead's contact information and intake answers flow directly into an open matter, follow-up happens in minutes instead of whenever you get back to your inbox. For a solo attorney answering their own phone, that speed is often the actual difference between a signed client and one who called the next firm on the list. Read more on running a one-attorney practice.

Plan on roughly $50 to $80 a month for practice management, depending on whether your work is general practice or a specialty like personal injury or immigration, plus payment processing on what you collect. 8am MyCase Basic runs $50/user/month billed annually ($60 month-to-month); 8am CasePeer and DocketWise start at $79 and $69/user/month. 8am LawPay is bundled at $0 with a MyCase subscription, so there's no separate payments line item to add, and none of these require a long-term contract to start. See more on budgeting when starting your own law firm.

The time you log in, MyCase becomes an invoice without you re-entering it anywhere, and that invoice connects directly to LawPay so a client can pay online in one step. Because the two are bundled, that connection doesn't add a second software bill, and the money lands in your account the next business day instead of sitting in a batch.

It's built to run without a dedicated admin team behind it: Intake, matters, time tracking, billing, and a client portal all live in the same system, so nothing requires a second login or a manual export. Lifetime time tracking and up to 10 concurrent timers mean billable time doesn't quietly disappear, and the client portal is simple enough for clients who aren't especially comfortable with technology.

Funds land in your account the next business day rather than the two-to-seven-day wait common elsewhere, and trust funds stay separated from operating funds automatically, with three-way reconciliation handled for you. LawPay is endorsed by 50 state bar associations, so a solo attorney can accept credit card, ACH, and eCheck payments without building their own compliance process from scratch.