Solo practice

For the one-person chamber — where the clerk, the researcher and the biller are all you

Nobody rings you at 9 pm to say your matter is at item 47 tomorrow. Nobody checks whether the judgment you found last week has since been overruled. Nobody raises the invoice. A solo practice does not lose cases to better lawyers; it loses hours to work that has no lawyer in it.

The short answer

A solo advocate has no clerk to check three cause lists at 9 pm, no junior to trace whether an authority survives, and no accounts person to raise a GST invoice. Lawgger does those four jobs in one subscription at Rs 1,999 a month, which is less than most single research subscriptions.

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The four jobs

The work a chamber of one still has to do

Every chamber does these four jobs. In a larger one they are spread across four people. In yours they are all after 8 pm.

Job one

The evening list check

You appear before more than one forum, so the list check is not one list. It is the district court, the High Court, and whichever tribunal has your commercial matter — each on its own schedule, each published in its own shape. Lawgger matches your matters against the day's listings across 527 courts and 426 benches and gives you one list: what is listed, before which bench, at what serial. From 10.30 am the boards go live so you can follow item numbers without standing in a corridor. See cause list by advocate and live display boards.

Job two

Research you can put in a written submission

Not a summary. A citation. You need the judgment, the paragraph the proposition actually comes from, and confidence that it has not been overruled since. Lawgger answers over 2.07 crore judgments from the Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts, pins every answer to the page, and marks each authority still good law or overruled. Paste a whole brief into Authority Check and you get a Table of Authorities with a verdict against each entry. See research and good-law checking.

Job three

The clock nobody else is watching

In a chamber with staff, someone else keeps the limitation diary. In yours, the appeal period runs whether or not you have remembered it. Lawgger tracks 21 statutory clocks, rolls a due date past weekends, gazetted holidays and court vacations rather than landing it on a closed day, and flags where section 5 condonation will be needed. That is the single most expensive thing a solo practice can drop. See the limitation calculator.

Job four

Getting paid

Solo practices under-bill, not because the work was small but because nobody wrote down the two hours spent on a reply on a Sunday. A live timer runs against the matter, the time becomes a GST invoice with the fields a chamber actually needs, and a Razorpay link goes out with it so the client can pay from a phone instead of promising a cheque. See practice management.

The arithmetic

Do the sum with your own numbers

Legal research in India has been priced for institutions. SCC Online, Manupatra and LexisNexis are commonly quoted to Indian chambers in the range of Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 3 lakh a year for research alone — no diary, no drafting, no billing. Take the bottom of that band. Rs 1.5 lakh a year is Rs 12,500 a month.

You know what a first-year junior in a chamber like yours is paid a month. Put that number beside Rs 12,500 and finish the sum yourself. That comparison is the reason a first-generation advocate starting out in a district court usually has no research subscription at all, and works instead from a borrowed login, a photocopied commentary, or whatever a free search throws up without telling them whether it still stands.

Lawgger is Rs 1,999 a month, or Rs 19,999 a year — about Rs 66 a day — and that price is not for research alone. It carries the listings, the deadlines, the drafting and the billing with it. We are not claiming the established publishers are worse products; they have decades of editorial work behind their headnotes and their reporters' pagination, and we say so plainly. We are saying the price was set for a firm with a library budget, and a one-person chamber is not that. Compare the numbers properly on what legal research costs in India, or read the direct comparisons for SCC Online and Manupatra.

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Honestly

The parts you should ignore

Lawgger has a whole side built for chambers with staff, and if you practise alone you should leave it switched off. Approval workflows exist because in a firm a filing goes out under a senior's name and somebody has to gate it; when you are the senior and the junior, an approval gate is a form you fill in to give yourself permission. Roles and permissions matter when a clerk should see hearing dates but not fee arrangements; alone, there is nobody to restrict. Team chat is a slower way of talking to yourself.

If you later take on a junior or an accounts person, those parts are already there and cost nothing extra — that is the point at which law firm software becomes the page to read. Until then, ignore them. A product page that pretends every feature is for every buyer is trying to sell you a tier. There is only one tier here, so we can afford to tell you which half of it you will use.

Two more honest limits. This website cannot show you a live board or a cause list — those run inside the app during court hours, against official court records. And Lawgger does not replace a court-accepted reporter's headnotes or page numbering; it gives you the judgment text, the paragraph, and whether the authority survives.

A week with Lawgger

A mixed district and High Court week, concretely

Not a demo script. The actual sequence of actions for a practice with a few live matters in each forum.

Monday, 7.50 am — one list, three forums

Open the consolidated list. Two district matters are listed, one High Court writ is not. You know before you leave the house whether the day is a district day. Cause list by advocate.

Monday, 6.10 pm — add the new brief by CNR

A client hands you a matter someone else was conducting. You type the CNR, and the matter comes in with its history rather than you reconstructing it from a torn file. Case tracking by CNR.

Tuesday, 11.00 am — the clock on that new brief

First question on any inherited matter: what has already run out. Run the limitation check, see which period applies, whether a vacation shifts the date, and whether you are already in section 5 territory. Limitation calculator.

Wednesday, 4.20 pm — the authority, and its verdict

Research the point for the reply. Take the two judgments that actually help, note the paragraph numbers, and check both still stand before they go into the draft. Research and good law.

Thursday, 10.00 am — draft from a format, not a blank page

Pick the format, answer the intake questions about the facts, edit the draft that comes out. 3,500+ Indian formats across 61 categories. Format library and drafting.

Friday, 7.30 pm — the invoice, while it is still true

The week's recorded time is already against the right matters. Raise the GST invoice, attach the payment link, and stop carrying the receivable in your head. Practice.

From a phone

Between two boards, standing up

A solo advocate's most productive twenty minutes are spent standing in a corridor between two courts, and the laptop is in the chamber. What you can actually do from a phone is the test of whether software fits a litigating practice.

On a phone you can watch the live board for the court you are about to enter, read the plain-words digest of an order passed in another matter that morning, check what a matter's next date is before the client rings, start and stop the billing timer so the time is recorded while it is still accurate, and send a client an invoice with a payment link. WhatsApp updates carry listing alerts and order digests to the number you already look at, which matters more than any notification screen — a solo advocate reads WhatsApp between hearings, not a dashboard.

What a phone is not for is drafting. Do that at a desk, from a format.

Questions

What solo advocates ask before paying

A solo advocate needs four things covered: the daily cause list across every court they appear in, research that can be cited with a paragraph and a good-law verdict, a limitation clock nobody else is watching, and a way to raise a GST invoice and get paid. Lawgger covers all four at Rs 1,999 a month.

Some of it is not for you. Approval workflows, roles and team chat exist for chambers with staff, and a solo can leave them switched off entirely. What a solo actually uses is research, cause lists, case tracking, limitation and billing. The price is the same either way, with no per-seat charge to avoid.

Yes. Plenty of solo advocates use nothing but research and the good-law verdict, and treat the practice side as something to grow into. There is no research-only price, because there is only one plan.

No. Setting up is adding your matters, and the fastest way is by CNR number, which pulls the matter and its history in without typing. Most solo advocates get their live matters in over one evening. There is no installation, no server and nothing for a clerk to maintain.

Yes. Time recorded against a matter on the billing timer becomes a GST invoice with the fields a chamber needs, and a Razorpay payment link can go out with it so a client can pay from a phone. You also receive a GST invoice for your own subscription.

Yes, Rs 1,999 a month. The annual plan is Rs 19,999, which is about Rs 66 a day. Monthly suits a practice with uneven receipts because there is no lock-in and you can cancel at any time; annual suits a settled practice that would rather pay once. Both are on pricing.

Access to the product stops. Your matters, documents and drafts are not deleted when a subscription lapses, and you can export what is yours. Nothing you stored is used as AI training data, whether you are paying or not. See security and trust.

Yes. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial of the full product and no card is required to begin. After the trial Lawgger is Rs 1,999 a month or Rs 19,999 a year, and you can cancel at any time.

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