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Ongoing hourly engagements or scoped flat-fee projects. You choose the matters, the rates, and the hours.

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Hourly Engagements

Become a firm’s ongoing remote associate: research, drafting, hearings, and long-running matters at the hourly rate you set.

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Typical engagements run $90 to $300 per hour, billed weekly through the platform.
$90–300 / hr
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Most firms re-engage the same attorney. One good matter becomes a pipeline.
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Flat-Fee Projects

Scoped deliverables with a posted price: briefs, memos, contract reviews, discovery responses. Accept what fits, skip what does not.

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  • Posted price, no negotiation chase
  • Clear scope & deadline up front
  • Work under the attorney of record
  • Build ratings with every delivery
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How hiring works

Three steps to your first matter

Free to join. Most attorneys land their first engagement within two weeks.

01

Build your profile

Verify your bar admission, add writing samples, set your rates and jurisdictions. About twenty minutes.

02

Apply or get matched

Browse 2,400+ monthly matters or let firms find you. Apply to what fits your practice and your calendar.

03

Deliver and get paid

Work under the hiring attorney of record. Time and deliverables run through the platform; you are paid every two weeks.

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Matters posted daily in every major practice area. Set your jurisdictions and let the work come to you.

Business & Corporate Law

Drafting operating agreements, by-laws, corporate resolutions, and assisting with entity formation.

310+ matters monthly · $95–240/hr
  • Entity formation
  • Operating agreements
  • M&A diligence
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Litigation

Handling civil, criminal, and appellate matters, including motion drafting, deposition summaries, and discovery.

520+ matters monthly · $80–220/hr
  • Motion drafting
  • Deposition summaries
  • Discovery responses
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Personal Injury

Preparing demand letters, handling settlement documentation, and drafting complaints.

260+ matters monthly · $75–190/hr
  • Demand letters
  • Settlement documentation
  • Complaint drafting
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Family Law

Drafting petitions, motions, and separation agreements.

290+ matters monthly · $70–180/hr
  • Petitions & motions
  • Separation agreements
  • Custody documents
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Immigration Law

Preparing and reviewing petitions, applications, and supporting documents.

240+ matters monthly · $75–185/hr
  • Visa petitions
  • RFE responses
  • Naturalization filings
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Estate Planning

Drafting wills, trusts, and Powers of Attorney.

230+ matters monthly · $80–200/hr
  • Wills & trusts
  • Powers of attorney
  • Probate filings
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Mass Tort

Managing complex multidistrict litigation (MDL) and class action projects.

140+ matters monthly · $90–230/hr
  • MDL case management
  • Plaintiff intake
  • Bellwether preparation
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Bankruptcy & Real Estate

Drafting real estate leases, handling bankruptcy filings, and contract review.

210+ matters monthly · $75–195/hr
  • Bankruptcy petitions
  • Lease drafting
  • Title review
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Why LAWCLERK

Freelance, without the chase

No business development, no invoicing fights, no trust accounting. The platform handles the mechanics; you do the lawyering.

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A pipeline that fills itself

2,400+ matters posted monthly. Apply to what fits, or let firms reach out to you directly.

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Protected engagements

Conflict checks and confidentiality agreements run before work starts. The hiring attorney stays attorney of record and supervises.

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Paid every two weeks

Log time or deliver the project; payment lands on a fixed biweekly cycle. No invoices, no collections.

Your engagementStep 3 of 3
Motion to dismiss
Litigation · NV · flat fee · $850
96% fit
Deposition summaries (4)
Litigation · CA · hourly · $120/hr
93% fit
Appellate brief, second chair
Litigation · AZ · flat fee · $1,400
91% fit
Three new matches in your practice areas this week.
Conflict check cleared for you
NDA executed automatically
Hiring attorney supervises of record
Protected. You practice; the platform papers it.
Pay period · Jun 1–14
2 engagements · 26.5 hrs logged
$3,180
$120Your rate /hr
26.5Hours logged
Jun 16Deposit date
StatementPaid ✓
Deposited. Next cycle begins automatically.
By the numbers2018

Eight years of steady work

The largest marketplace for U.S. freelance legal work, founded by practicing attorneys in 2018.

2,400+Open matters monthlyAcross every U.S. jurisdiction
20,000+Matters completed≈46 engagements per week in 2025
50States coveredWork from anywhere you are admitted
14-dayPay cycle, like clockworkNo invoicing, no collections

I left BigLaw two years ago. LAWCLERK keeps my calendar full with work I choose, at rates I set, from anywhere.

Danielle · Freelance Litigator · Denver
Full pipeline · zero business development
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★★★★★ 4.83–4 matters every month
Three or four matters a month, every month. My pipeline is steadier than it ever was at the firm.
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Freelance PI Attorney · Atlanta
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