Laymans for Legal Professionals
Laymans doesn't just serve individuals - it empowers the professionals who serve them.
Whether you're a solo practitioner looking to expand your client base, a mid-size firm seeking efficient case management, a paralegal offering unbundled services, or a legal tech company building tools for the access-to-justice movement - Laymans gives you the infrastructure to scale your practice without scaling your overhead.
Our platform connects you with clients who are already organized, funded, and ready to work - while providing the tools to manage multiple cases, automate intake, and deliver services at transparent prices.
⚖️ Guided Workflows for Legal Professionals
Step-by-step guides tailored for your practice:
- Earning Money - Set up your organization, advertise services, manage analytics
- Leading Movements - Create and lead class action movements
- Educator Guide - Create seminars and educational content
Why Laymans is Different
Traditional legal practice models force you to choose: high-volume, low-touch (document mills, limited scope) or low-volume, high-touch (full representation, expensive). Laymans enables a third path: scalable, client-centered legal services where AI handles the administrative burden, clients arrive prepared, and you focus on the work only you can do.
What sets us apart:
| Traditional Practice | Laymans-Powered Practice |
|---|---|
| Cold leads from marketing | Clients with organized evidence and clear legal issues |
| Hours spent on intake paperwork | AI-assisted intake with automated document analysis |
| Clients surprised by costs | Transparent pricing with crowdfunding/financing options built-in |
| Scattered case files across systems | Unified platform for case management, billing, and client communication |
| Solo practice isolation | Collaboration tools for movements, briefcases, and shared resources |
| Limited reach to underserved markets | Direct connection to pro se litigants who need unbundled services |
The result: You can serve more clients, at lower prices, with better outcomes - while actually reducing your administrative burden.
Who Benefits from Laymans
Laymans serves every role in the legal ecosystem. Select your path:
Solo Practitioners & Small Firms - Expand your practice without hiring staff
Your challenge: You have expertise but limited capacity. Marketing is expensive, intake is time-consuming, and you can't compete with BigLaw on price.
Laymans solution:
- Direct client pipeline - Clients discover you through our marketplace, filtered by practice area and location
- Pre-qualified leads - Clients arrive with organized casefiles and funding in place
- Automated intake - AI handles initial consultations and produces intake briefs
- Transparent pricing - List services at competitive rates; clients pay directly or via campaign funds
- Reputation building - Ratings, reviews, and engagement analytics track your success
Start here: Earning Money Guide
Paralegals & Legal Service Providers - Offer unbundled services directly
Your challenge: You have skills to help clients with discrete tasks (document review, research, form preparation), but no platform to offer these services independently.
Laymans solution:
- Unbundled service marketplace - Advertise specific services (document review, legal research, notarization) without full representation
- Clerical automation - Manage administrative tasks efficiently
- Client management - Use briefcases to organize and serve multiple clients simultaneously
- Flexible pricing - Charge by the task, by the hour, or subscription
Start here: Advertise Your Services
Remote Legal Professionals - Build a location-independent practice
Your challenge: You want to work remotely, but maintaining a virtual practice requires expensive infrastructure for client communication, document management, and billing.
Laymans solution:
- All-in-one remote infrastructure - Video conferencing, secure document sharing, encrypted communications
- No upfront costs - No practice management software subscriptions or video conferencing licenses
- Location flexibility - Serve clients across jurisdictions while maintaining secure, compliant workflows
- Asynchronous collaboration - Clients access casefiles, upload documents, and review work on their own schedule
Learn more: Laymans for Remote Work
Legal Educators & Content Creators - Monetize your expertise
Your challenge: You have knowledge to share, but platforms like YouTube or LinkedIn don't pay well, and creating courses is time-consuming.
Laymans solution:
- Seminars platform - Host educational sessions for laypeople and professionals
- Content syndication - Automatically post across social platforms while building a legal-focused audience
- Reputation benefits - Educational content builds your profile and drives service inquiries
- Dual revenue streams - Charge for seminars while attracting clients for paid services
Start here: Educator Guide Workflow
Class Action Attorneys & Movement Organizers - Organize collective legal actions
Your challenge: Finding plaintiffs, organizing collective actions, and managing pre-litigation outreach is expensive and logistically complex.
Laymans solution:
- Movement infrastructure - Create and lead movements for class actions or public interest litigation
- Anonymized coordination - Organize potential plaintiffs securely before filing
- Shared resources - Distribute templates, research, and strategy documents within the movement
- Collective funding - Bundle case funds and crowdfunding for shared litigation costs
- Lead generation - Clients join movements actively seeking representation
Start here: Movement Leader Guide
Litigation Financiers & Case Funders - Invest in cases with real-time tracking
Your challenge: Finding meritorious cases, conducting due diligence, and monitoring funded cases requires expensive manual processes.
Laymans solution:
- Case fund marketplace - Advertise funding opportunities directly to litigants and attorneys
- Automated due diligence - Review organized casefiles with AI-generated case summaries
- Real-time case updates - Track funded cases with automatic reporting
- Pro se + attorney pipeline - Fund self-represented litigants and attorneys in the same marketplace
Learn more: Laymans for Litigation Financiers
Legal Tech Companies & Developers - Build on our infrastructure
Your challenge: Building legal tech requires expensive infrastructure, compliance frameworks, and user acquisition - all before proving product-market fit.
Laymans solution:
- API access - Integrate your tools with our case management, document storage, and client communication infrastructure
- Built-in user base - Reach clients and attorneys already using Laymans
- Compliance framework - Leverage our encryption, verification, and security systems
- Data insights - Market research capabilities for understanding user needs
Learn more: Laymans for Legal Tech
Government Agencies & Public Defenders - Serve constituents at scale
Your challenge: Limited budgets, high caseloads, and the need to serve vulnerable populations who struggle with traditional legal processes.
Laymans solution:
- Constituent case management - Help constituents organize their legal issues before intake
- Public resource distribution - Share templates, guides, and self-help materials
- Triage automation - AI-assisted intake identifies urgent cases
- Cost-effective service delivery - Reduce administrative overhead with automation
Learn more: Laymans for Government Agencies
Core Professional Features
1. Organization Setup & Professional Profiles
Your Organization is your professional presence on Laymans - think of it as your law firm's storefront, LinkedIn profile, and intake system combined.
What you can customize:
- Professional credentials - Bar admissions, certifications, practice areas
- Service offerings - List specific services with transparent pricing
- Reputation tracking - Ratings, reviews, case outcomes, engagement analytics
- Payment processing - Stripe integration for direct billing
Verification Required
To advertise services or receive payments, you must complete our verification process. This includes bar admission checks for attorneys and background verification for paralegals.
Start here: How to Setup Your Organization
2. AI-Powered Client Intake
The problem with traditional intake: Clients arrive unprepared, you spend billable hours gathering basic information, and half of consultations don't convert to paying clients.
Laymans intake automation:
- AI agent conducts initial consultation - Leyla asks screening questions based on your intake templates
- Document analysis - Automatically extracts facts from uploaded evidence
- Conflict checks - Flags potential conflicts before you invest time
- Intake briefs - Receive summarized client profiles with evidence organized
How it works:
- Client discovers your services on Laymans marketplace
- AI agent conducts preliminary intake using your templates
- You receive a brief with organized casefiles and client information
- Accept or decline the case based on automated summary
- If accepted, client is added to your briefcase for ongoing management
Learn more: AI Intake for Professionals
Understanding How Clients Build Cases
Clients arrive having used one of three methods to build their case:
- AI Conversation - Talked to Leyla for conversational case building
- Project Details Form - Edited case variables and attachments directly
- Text Editor - Wrote with AI-assisted editing
Knowing their approach helps you assess preparation quality before accepting a case.
3. Case Management with Briefcases
Briefcases are Laymans' answer to traditional case management software - but designed for the way legal professionals actually work.
Key capabilities:
- Multi-client management - Add multiple clients to one briefcase
- Template distribution - Apply standardized documents across similar cases
- Mass updates - Edit multiple cases simultaneously
- Shared resources - Distribute research, templates, and strategy documents
- Client collaboration - Clients access their casefiles, upload evidence, and communicate securely
Why this matters: A solo attorney handling 20 eviction defense cases can use a single briefcase to distribute template answers, track deadlines, and manage client communications - without paying for expensive practice management software.
Learn more: Laymans for Case Management
4. Service Marketplace & Transparent Pricing
List your services with transparent, upfront pricing - no more awkward "it depends" conversations during consultations.
Service types you can offer:
- Discrete tasks - Document review ($200), demand letter ($500), contract drafting ($1,000)
- Hourly services - Consultations, legal research, court appearances
- Subscription services - Ongoing advice, monthly retainers, compliance monitoring
- Bundled packages - Trademark registration (search + filing + monitoring = $2,500)
Pricing advantages:
- Clients can crowdfund your services through campaigns
- Case funds provide financing for qualified clients
- Payment processing handled through Stripe integration
- Analytics show which services convert best
Competitive Pricing Strategy
Because Laymans reduces your overhead (no marketing costs, automated intake, efficient case management), you can offer lower prices than competitors while maintaining profitability. This expands your addressable market to underserved populations.
Start here: How to Advertise Your Services
5. Lead Generation & Client Discovery
Traditional marketing is expensive: Google Ads cost $50-$150 per click for legal keywords. SEO takes months. Referral networks are hit-or-miss.
Laymans' built-in discovery:
| Discovery Method | How It Works | Your Investment |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplace Search | Clients filter by practice area, location, price | Profile setup only |
| Movement Participation | Lead movements; members become clients | Time organizing |
| Seminar Attendees | Educational content drives service inquiries | Content creation |
| Campaign Connections | Clients with active crowdfunding campaigns seek services | Service listing |
| Content Syndication | Your posts reach legal-focused audience + social media | Content creation |
No advertising costs. No bidding wars. No sales pressure.
6. Content Management & Reputation Building
Position yourself as a thought leader while generating leads and additional income.
Content tools:
- Automatic social media sync - Post once on Laymans, distribute to LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.
- Legal-focused audience - Your content helps pro se litigants and attracts clients
- Engagement analytics - Track which topics resonate with your audience
- SEO benefits - Your Laymans profile ranks for your practice areas + location
Monetization options:
- Charge for premium seminars
- Offer subscription access to your content library
- Convert content engagement into service inquiries
Learn more: Laymans for Content Management | Additional Income Streams
7. Movement Leadership & Class Actions
Pre-litigation organizing is the hardest part of class actions: finding plaintiffs, educating potential class members, and coordinating collective action - all while maintaining confidentiality.
Laymans Movements provide infrastructure for:
- Anonymized organizing - Potential plaintiffs join movements without revealing identity
- Shared resources - Distribute educational materials, templates, and legal research
- Attestation forms - Collect standardized evidence from movement members
- Collective funding - Bundle resources for shared litigation costs
- Community building - Build trust and engagement before filing
Example use cases:
- Employment discrimination class actions
- Consumer protection lawsuits
- Civil rights movements
- Environmental litigation
Start here: How to Create and Manage a Movement
8. Secure Client Communication & Document Management
All client data on Laymans is end-to-end encrypted with blockchain-based verification.
Security features:
- Encrypted casefiles - Client documents stored with zero-knowledge encryption
- Secure video conferencing - Built-in video calls for client meetings
- Blockchain verification - Prove document authenticity and timestamps
- Audit trails - Track all document access and modifications
- Multi-device access - Clients and attorneys access files from any device securely
Compliance benefits:
- Meets attorney-client privilege requirements
- HIPAA-compliant for medical records in cases
- Satisfies bar ethics rules for client confidentiality
Getting Started as a Legal Professional
| Step | Action | Guide | Time Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Create your free account | Start Registration | 5 min |
| 2 | Set up your organization profile | Setup Your Organization | 15 min |
| 3 | Complete verification process | Contact support for verification | 1-3 days |
| 4 | List your first service | Advertise Your Services | 10 min |
| 5 | Configure Stripe for payments | Stripe Integration | 20 min |
| 6 | Create your first seminar or movement | Create Seminar | 30 min |
Follow the Earning Money Workflow
The fastest way to start generating revenue is to follow our Earning Money workflow - it walks you through organization setup, service listing, and analytics tracking in 15 minutes.
Specialized Use Cases
Explore how Laymans serves specific professional roles:
| Role | Primary Benefits | Key Features | Learn More |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solo Practitioners | Client pipeline, intake automation, low overhead | Marketplace, AI intake, briefcases | Additional Income |
| Paralegals | Unbundled service marketplace | Service listings, clerical tools | Clerical Services |
| Remote Attorneys | Location-independent infrastructure | Video conferencing, secure docs | Remote Work |
| Legal Educators | Monetize expertise, build reputation | Seminars, content syndication | Content Management |
| Class Action Attorneys | Pre-litigation organizing, plaintiff recruitment | Movements, attestations, funding | Movement Leadership |
| Litigation Financiers | Case discovery, due diligence automation | Case funds, real-time tracking | Litigation Financiers |
| Legal Tech Companies | Build on existing infrastructure | API access, user base, compliance | Legal Tech |
| Government Agencies | Constituent service at scale | Triage, self-help materials | Government Agencies |
| Market Researchers | Legal market data and insights | Analytics, trend tracking | Market Research |
| Case Managers | Multi-client efficiency | Briefcases, mass updates, templates | Case Management |
Why Professionals Choose Laymans
Real Value Propositions
"I doubled my client base without hiring staff." - Solo practitioner using AI intake and briefcase management
"Clients arrive organized and funded - I spend time on legal work, not chasing paperwork." - Family law attorney
"I built a $50K/year side practice offering unbundled services remotely." - Paralegal with full-time job
"We organized 200 plaintiffs for a class action in 6 weeks." - Employment discrimination attorney
"Laymans gives me the infrastructure of BigLaw at a fraction of the cost." - Remote-first attorney
Professional Resources
| Resource | Purpose | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Earning Money Workflow | Complete setup guide for monetization | Start Workflow |
| Movement Leader Guide | Class action organizing workflow | Start Workflow |
| Educator Guide | Create and monetize seminars | Start Workflow |
| Service Analytics | Track performance and revenue | Manage Analytics |
| Client Briefcases | Multi-client case management | Add Clients |
| Account Settings | Customize your experience | Settings |
Ready to transform your practice? Create your free account and follow the Earning Money workflow to start generating revenue in 15 minutes.