Nerve for solo lawyers
Run your solo practice with an agent team for the work that isn't billable.
Intake calls, client followups, document tracking, invoice management. Nerve handles the operations layer so the time you spend on the practice stays on actual legal work.
The problem
Why this is broken today
Running a solo or small-firm practice means every hour you spend on operations is an hour you didn't bill. New-client intake, followups on outstanding documents, status emails to existing clients, invoice management, the matter that needs a check-in this quarter even though it's been quiet. None of this is billable; all of it is necessary; most of it falls into the cracks when you're heads-down on actual legal work.
The standard answer is to hire a paralegal or an office manager. Both work, both cost money you'd rather not spend, both require onboarding time that takes you away from billable work in the short term, and neither replicates your judgment on the gray-area calls.
The actual constraint isn't the legal work. It's the structural layer around the legal work. An agent team can absorb the structural layer without onboarding cost and without erosion of your hourly rate.
What Nerve does
What changes when an agent team is in the loop
Per-matter context, isolated by default
Every active matter lives in its own scope. The agents working on Matter A literally cannot access Matter B's correspondence. Confidentiality boundaries match the legal ones, not a permissions setting you have to configure.
Client communications drafted and queued
Status emails, document requests, billing followups. Nerve drafts in the voice you've established with that client and queues them for your approval. The communication layer that used to swallow your Friday afternoons becomes a five-minute approval pass.
Intake calls structured into matter starts
After a new-client intake call, Nerve drafts the engagement letter, populates the matter setup, queues the document requests, and surfaces the calendar holds you need. The hour of post-intake structural work happens while you're already on the next call.
Built by an operator who's done client-facing work
Patrick spent years running client-services engagements. The patterns of solo legal practice (per-matter scoping, billable-vs-not, confidentiality) are first-class in Nerve's architecture.
How it works
Three steps to the agent team running
Add your matters
Each matter is its own workspace. Connect your billing system (Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther), Gmail, Calendar. Nerve reads the matter substrate per workspace.
Daily briefing replaces the operations review
Matters needing followups, documents waiting on clients, invoices outstanding, the quiet matter that needs a check-in this week. Five minutes per day instead of the Friday catch-up.
Approve drafts between billable hours
Client emails, document requests, billing nudges. Nerve drafts; you approve in seconds. The practice runs at a higher cadence without your billable hours shifting.
What people are saying
Signal from operators in the same orbit
I billed 30 more hours last quarter without working more. The agents took back the time I was losing to administrative work.
Solo attorney, transactional practice
The post-intake matter setup used to take me an hour. It's ten minutes of review now and the new client feels taken care of from day one.
Solo lawyer, family law
I caught two overdue invoices that would have aged out. The agent flagged them in the morning briefing.
Solo IP lawyer
FAQ
Common questions
What about attorney-client privilege?
Per-matter scoping is architectural. Data from one matter cannot enter the context of another. We don't train on your data, don't pool it, and don't share it with other customers. Privilege scopes are preserved at the data layer, not at the policy layer.
Does this integrate with my practice management system?
Yes. Common integrations include Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, and Smokeball. If your system isn't supported, the most common path is Gmail-only integration; Nerve reads matter context from your inbox without requiring practice-management integration.
Will it send emails to clients without my approval?
No. Every external communication is a draft you approve. Legal communications carry too much weight to autopilot.
Can I share matter access with a paralegal or co-counsel?
Yes, scoped per matter. You can grant access to specific matters without exposing others. Permissions are per-workspace, not all-or-nothing.
What about regulated data (PII, PHI for medical malpractice, etc.)?
Per-matter isolation, SOC 2 controls, and no training on customer data. For specifically regulated data (HIPAA-covered for example), deployments can be configured to meet the additional controls. Talk to us if you need that level of compliance documentation.
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