Founding Firm Program
Start your own firm.
Not from scratch.
For licensed lawyers who want to own a plaintiff-side practice. The drafting runs on the swarm. The judgment is yours: you review, decide, and sign. Your firm opens with a working drafting operation behind it, not a plan to build one.
Docket Entry is a technology company, not a law firm. The lawyer decides.
Who it is for
A licensed lawyer who wants to own the practice.
Years in practice, a book of business, a staff: none of them is the test.
Newly admitted
Open your own practice from the first case.
Associate
Do not wait years for partnership.
Senior associate
Thinking of leaving? Open with the drafting already in place.
Partner
Open a boutique without hiring a drafting team first.
Solo lawyer
Build something larger than a one-lawyer practice.
Starting over
Restart or reposition with the drafting built in.
The idea
An established firm has to change how it works to get here.
A founding firm starts here.
A new litigation firm runs out of capacity almost at once. The founder writes every brief alone, hires before the revenue is there, or turns cases away. Here the first draft arrives finished and cite-checked, and your hours go to review, judgment, and the signature.
The division of work
Your swarm drafts. Your lawyer decides.
Your swarm
The first substantial draft.
Finished and cite-checked. For an ordinary opposition to a motion to dismiss, within the hour.
Your lawyer
You review, revise, approve, and sign.
The practice, the clients, the judgment. Docket Entry does not run your firm and does not replace your judgment. You decide what the firm argues and what goes to the court.
What a founding firm gets
Not a login. A working drafting operation.
- A guided setup, done with you.
- Your own templates and formatting.
- Your drafting preferences and workflow.
- Substantial drafting capacity from the start.
- Adjustments as the practice takes shape.
How it starts
A new way to litigate, from the first case.
- The work
The work comes first.
Try it on your real work. Once security is verified with you, your swarm drafts, at no charge from Docket Entry.
- The review
Your lawyer reviews each one.
Within the hour for an ordinary motion to dismiss. You change what needs changing.
- The conversation
Ask about the program.
Qualified firms can begin now and pay over time. The rest is a private conversation.
- The start
A guided start.
Docket Entry sets up the drafting operation with you.
Founding Firm Program
See the work before you decide.
Ask about the program, or try it and see the work first.