Practice management  ·  Solo & small firms

The two things legal software never got right, finally built in.

Court-ready bundles assembled from your matter in one click. Trust accounting that refuses to let a violation happen. Around them, everything a practice runs on, in one platform, at one price.

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Docketstone
DashboardCalendarIntakeMattersDocumentsCourt BundlesBillingTrust AccountingAudit Log
Trial Bundle — Hearing Sep 14v3 · 214 PAGES · READY
Contents changed since last build — rebuild to produce v4
Cover & hyperlinked indexi–ii
Pleadings — Original Petition1
Pleadings — Defendant's Answer12
Exhibits — A · Services Contract19
Exhibits — B · Email Chain41
Exhibits — C · Deposition Excerpts58
⛔ Disbursement blocked

$4,000.00 would overdraw matter 2026-0114 — client funds held: $3,000.00. The entry was refused, not flagged after the fact.

trust_ledger · rule-based · logged to audit chain
§ 01 — The wedge

No US practice management platform has court bundling. This one does.

Everyone else makes the bundle someone else's problem: a fourth subscription, an afternoon in Acrobat, a paralegal with a page counter and a prayer. Docketstone assembles court-ready bundles from the documents already on your matter.

  • Continuous pagination stamped across every page, independent of each document's own numbering
  • Hyperlinked index and nested bookmarks, generated with the bundle, never assembled by hand
  • Version control: the bundle knows when its contents changed and rebuilds to a new version with a verifiable history
  • The unbundler: split any received PDF back into named, classified, filed documents by page range
PAGINATEDINDEXEDHYPERLINKEDBOOKMARKEDVERSIONED
Index AUTO-GENERATED
Cover1
Pleadings3
Original Petition3
Defendant's Answer12
Exhibits19
A — Services Contract19
B — Email Chain41
SHA-256 RECORDED · BUILD HISTORY v1 → v3 · EVERY LINE CLICKS THROUGH
Trust Ledger — Matter 2026-0114 IOLTA
Retainer received+$5,000.00
Filing fees — District Clerk #1042−$2,000.00
⛔ BLOCKED: disbursement of $4,000.00 would overdraw matter 2026-0114 (trust balance $3,000.00)
Payment of invoice INV-2026-0087−$1,200.00
THREE-WAY ✓ BANK = LEDGER = CLIENT BALANCES · CHAIN VERIFIED
§ 02 — Why firms stay

Compliance is the product. Not a report about it.

Trust accounting errors are the leading source of bar discipline, and every incumbent handles them the same way: a report that tells you about the violation after it happened. Docketstone is built to make the violation impossible to record.

  • Overdraw blocking — a disbursement that would take any client's matter below zero is refused at write time
  • Append-only ledger — corrections are linked reversing entries that honor the same guardrails; nothing is ever edited
  • Three-way reconciliation — bank, ledger, and per-client balances proven equal, outstanding items computed, never typed in
  • The one-click audit packet — ledgers, reconciliations, and a cryptographic integrity attestation in a single PDF, ready for the bar examiner
§ 03 — A principle, not a feature

Deterministic where it counts. AI only at the edges.

Trust math, conflict logic, deadlines, and pagination are rule-based, auditable, and explainable. You can always see why the system produced a number or a date. In a profession being sanctioned over hallucinated citations, that discipline is the point.

AI may draft. AI may summarize.
AI touches the ledger — never. AI touches the docket — never.
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The standard

Software should meet the profession where it practices.

Courtrooms run on pagination, deadlines, and accounts that balance to the cent. So does Docketstone.

§ 04 — The floor, included

Everything a practice runs on. One price, no tier traps.

The incumbents gate core capability behind $179-per-user tiers. Our position is simpler: if a capability is core to running a practice, every plan has it.

Matters & clientsCorporate-family aliases, responsible attorney on every record
Conflict checkingExact, fuzzy, and phonetic matching with a permanent audit record
Client intakePublic portal to conflict-screened matter in two clicks, not a separate SKU
Time & billingRates captured at entry, a matter's unbilled time swept to an invoice in one action
Trust accountingIOLTA ledgers, overdraw blocking, reconciliation, audit packet
DocumentsVersioned, privilege-classified, integrity-hashed at upload
Court bundlingPaginated, indexed, hyperlinked, versioned — plus the unbundler
E-signatureESIGN-compliant with certificate pages and full event trails
DeadlinesStatutes of limitation always critical, daily digests until done
ReportingRealization, collection, A/R aging, trust activity — exportable, explained
Ethical wallsEnforced screening with logged, alerted breach attempts
Audit logAppend-only and hash-chained: provably unaltered since writing
§ 05 — Side by side

What "all-in-one" actually means.

CapabilityDocketstoneClioMyCaseSmokeball
Court bundling, native✓———
Overdraw blocked at entry✓———
One-click bar audit packet✓———
Tamper-evident audit trail✓———
Intake included✓ADD-ONADD-ONTIERED
Published pricing✓✓✓—
Support identical on every plan✓———
Full export, published schema✓PARTIALPARTIALPARTIAL

Comparison reflects publicly documented capabilities and pricing pages as of mid-2026. Verify against current vendor documentation.

§ 06 — In writing

Promises the incumbents won't make.

PROMISE / 01

Migration performed, not offered.

We move your data, validate every trust balance against your prior system, and hand you a reconciliation report proving nothing moved. Parallel operation until you cut over. Your transition is our work, not your risk.

PROMISE / 02

You can always leave.

Complete export in a documented open format: matters, ledgers, custom fields, audit history, everything. A platform you can leave is a platform you can trust arriving at. The schema is published →

PROMISE / 03

Support is not a tier.

Named onboarding contact, published response times, identical support on every plan. Staff seats priced as staff seats, so your paralegal doesn't cost attorney rates.

Antique books on a shelf

Bundling gets you in the door. Trust compliance is why you stay.

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