Cases
The number, the practice area, and everyone on it — client, opposing party, counsel, the judge — with the role each holds. Pick the practice area and Thistle already knows the steps that usually follow.
Product
The system a firm runs on.
Everything a matter touches is filed against it. Nobody has to remember where the letter went, which drive holds the exhibit, or whether that hour ever got billed. If your firm is moving from another system, we move your existing records for you, at no charge.
Built around how your firm works.
Every firm gets its own database. Your checklists, your rates, your terminology — configured for your practice rather than a shared default.
Supervision and relationships built in.
Everyone has an inbox that flags new messages from colleagues and from clients, tied to the case at hand.
You can’t spend one client’s trust money on another’s case.
Thistle won’t let it happen. Every entry stays on the record, corrections included, if the bar ever asks.
Trust accounting →The file
Contacts
Enter a person once. They’re on every case they belong to, and you can label them the way the court does: Respondent Mother, Lawyer-Guardian ad Litem, Petitioner.
Calendar
Hearings, deadlines and appointments, with where each one is. See your own week, the attorneys you support, or the whole firm. Book two things against the same person and Thistle says so before you find out in the hallway.
Tasks
Who’s doing it, when it’s due, and what’s late. A hearing can’t be ticked off like a to-do, because it happens whether anyone’s ready or not. Time logged on a task becomes money on the bill.
Case checklists
The steps your firm takes on a guardianship, an eviction, an estate. Offered when you open a case, never forced on one, and yours to change.
Documents
Filed under the case, every version kept. What a client sends waits for someone to look at it before it lands in the file.
Messages
What you sent and what came back, on the case it concerns. Notes between your own staff stay separate from correspondence that leaves the building.
The money
Billing
The hour gets recorded where the work happened — on the hearing, the task, the call — and turns into a charge, then an invoice. You can see what’s been billed, what’s been paid, and what’s still owed.
Trust accounting
A real ledger. Nothing is edited or deleted; a mistake is corrected with an entry that stays visible beside it. Balances are worked out from the entries, so there’s no second figure to disagree with the first.
Rates
Set a rate for the firm, for a person, for a case, or for a single charge — the more specific one wins. A rate you negotiated on a case holds for whoever does the work. Someone whose time you don’t bill won’t quietly bill at the firm’s rate.
The client
Client portal
Your client signs in and sees where things stand, in words you wrote. Their hearings. What you still need from them. The documents you chose to share — one at a time, nothing by accident. Nobody on the other side of the case can be let in.
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Built for firms that want one system, not seven.
$80per seat, per month
Billed monthly, automatically. Choose your seats at signup and change them whenever the firm does — a new paralegal in March costs you one click, not a phone call. Month to month. Cancel anytime. After canceling, your firm has 90 days to sign in and take a complete export.
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