Satchel

Your law practice, in order.

Conflict checks, time, bills, files and deadlines for a small law firm, in one place.

100% free, open source alternative to Clio, MyCase and PracticePanther

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Free and open source, MIT licensed.

100% free.

MIT licensed. Every line is yours to read, run and change.

MIT License

Conflicts first.

Search clients, adverse parties and aliases. Your conclusion is recorded with the matter.

Open a matter

Harbor Bakery LLC
Delmar Leasing Co.

0 possible matches

Matter opened with recorded conflict review

Time to bill, in one review.

Prepare a bill from unbilled work, approve the exact lines, download the CSV.

October work · $375.00

approved

Lease review$375.00

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Every original, every version.

Keep a file for the whole matter, or for you and the principal only.

Lease agreement.pdf

matter

Download version 2

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Deadlines a lawyer confirms.

Record the date, timezone and citation. A lawyer confirms it and notes what was done.

Answer due

confirmed

2026-11-09 · America/New_York

Summons served Oct 19

Move in from Clio.

Preview your contacts, commit the reviewed file, undo it any time.

Dry run

Commit reviewed import

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Yours to keep.

Download the whole firm archive and restore it into a new installation.

Backup & restore

Download firm archive

Also included

Matter access
Lawyers and assistants
Agent preparations
Bill corrections
Document erasure
Recent activity

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