You only pay for your attorneys.
Two products: Practice management runs the firm (per attorney) and Marketing gets you clients (a flat price per firm). Take either or both. AI power and autonomy are included and scale to your workload automatically — not a tier you pay to unlock. Staff seats and matters are free; you only pay per attorney. Your clients’ portal logins are always unlimited and free.
Your clients’ data is never used to train a model and is never retained by an AI provider. AI runs under contract in a confidential, zero-data-retention environment, scoped to your firm, with every action logged.
A different cost structure — not a discount.
LexSteward isn’t a cut-rate version of the usual stack. It’s cheaper because it’s built differently: the AI is included instead of resold per seat, one product does the work of four, and there’s no sales machine to fund.
AI included, not resold per seat
Everyday AI is in the price and covers your whole team — there’s no per-seat AI upcharge. Only heavy frontier work is metered, with a spend cap you set. (A self-hosted model that would make even heavy use free is on the roadmap.)
One price replaces a stack
The usual firm stack is four separate subscriptions and four bills. LexSteward is one — so you’re not paying four vendors to do one job.
Self-serve by design
No sales team, no implementation fee, no onboarding consultant to pay for. You set it up and run it yourself — and that low overhead is why the price stays low.
Use one part, two, or all three.
LexSteward is three modules in one product, toggle to see what each delivers. Any combination — Practice management is per attorney, Marketing is a flat price per firm — and you can add the others any time.
Yes, use just Marketing, Practice management + Client portal. Practice management per attorney, Marketing flat per firm; add more any time.
Explore your setup: Marketing →Practice management →Client portal →
Intake, matters, deadlines, documents, time & earned-fee billing, the client portal, and Ward (your governed AI) — you approve every piece. Billed per attorney; staff, matters, and client logins are free.
An AI-built, AI-search-optimized website + lead-gen calculators + AI intake + a research-first content engine. A flat price per firm — not per lawyer. Take it with Practice management and every lead flows straight in as a matter — no re-keying, no lost leads.
Everything, plus dedicated AI capacity, single sign-on, a signed security agreement and DPA, and a contractual service level. On-prem / private-cloud is delivered by engagement. The one tier with a human on our side of the table.
Export anytime, on every plan (automated backup and point-in-time recovery are on the roadmap, not running yet). · At launch: 14-day free trial · no charge until day 14 · then a 30-day money-back guarantee · cancel anytime · no contracts, no sales calls. Annual billing is 2 months free and includes a free guided migration for a standard move — you run one export from your current system and we map, stage and check it with you; larger or complex migrations (active trust balances, multiple systems, or messy data) are quoted (how switching works). AI is billed only for what you use, with a spend cap you set. Matters and storage are fair-use and unlimited; you only pay per attorney — every staff seat, and every client login, is free.
Switching is the hard part. We make it the easy part.
The reason firms stay stuck on software they’ve outgrown is the move, so we do the hard part with you. You run one export from your current system — we show you exactly where it is — and we map, stage and check your entire practice before anything commits. Your current software is never touched (we never connect to it at all), nothing is silently dropped, anything that can’t map is flagged for you, and it is still there if you change your mind.
Open and closed matters, contacts, and the full history, mapped into your new system, not retyped.
Files, notes, and attachments come across attached to the right matter.
Calendared dates come over too, then re-verified before any of them count as a real deadline.
Their portal logins keep working through the switch, so nobody gets locked out.
Think of it like the gears in a car.
The AI is geared to pull its weight, for a solo, a small team, an established firm. In that range it does exactly what it should: it drafts, summarizes, triages your intake, and surfaces what needs you. As the work gets heavier, more matters at once, longer documents, finer judgment calls, you push that gear toward its red line. That’s where it shifts up a gear: a more capable, more accurate mode that takes the longer documents and the patterns across all your matters in stride, without straining.
You never pay for power you aren’t using, and you’re never stuck in the wrong gear, move up or down anytime.
Fast, everyday AI that helps where you point it and preps your routine busywork.
The most capable gear: long documents, and reasoning across every matter in your book at once.
An optional top gear for the heaviest work, free to switch on, metered only for what you point it at, under a no-retention agreement, with a spend cap you set.
Two things never change as you climb: your clients’ data stays private and governed at every tier, and nothing legal, billed, or client-facing happens without your one-click approval.
When AI makes you faster, the gain is yours.
The efficiency lands differently depending on how your firm bills — so pick your side and see what it means for you. Either way, LexSteward bills per attorney, not per user: we don't meter your gains, and staff and matters are free.
You bill contingency or flat fee? You keep the gain.
If you work contingency or flat fee — like most workers' comp claimant, injury, immigration, SSDI, and consumer practices — every hour Ward saves you is profit you keep, on every matter. The recovery is the same; the time to earn it drops.
Same recovery rate. Fewer hours per matter. Higher effective hourly. Every efficiency gain goes straight to your bottom line.
Same invoice. Less time to deliver it. Higher margin per matter — and the same client experience or better.
You only pay per attorney — staff and matters are free. As AI handles more routine work, your cost per matter drops. We don't take a cut of the upside.
You bill by the hour? Same team, more matters.
If you bill hourly — like most insurance-defense, employer-side, and corporate-defense practices — the win isn't fewer hours, it's doing more with the team you already have. The same lawyers carry a larger docket, answer insurers and clients faster, and keep every matter’s billing clean and current — without new hires or a bigger software bill.
Ward drafts intake replies and status updates, assembles documents, and takes the first pass at routine drafting, so the same headcount carries a larger caseload without adding staff.
Time and fees accrue against each file in one place, so a defense team keeps a clean, current picture of every matter. Carrier e-billing (LEDES) export and outside-counsel-guideline checks are coming as an opt-in module.
Add staff and matters without adding to the bill — you only pay per attorney, the opposite of per-seat software that taxes you for every hire.
LexSteward runs both sides of the “v.” See how defense firms run on it →
You run legal for the business? Do more in-house.
If you’re a fractional GC or a small in-house team, you don’t bill clients — you control what legal costs the business. The win is keeping more work in-house and managing outside counsel tightly, without adding headcount or a per-user software bill.
An internal front door triages the business’s requests and Ward drafts first passes over your own documents, so more work stays in-house instead of going out to counsel.
Every matter you send out — who has it, what it costs, and where it stands — in one place, so you manage the panel and the spend instead of chasing them.
You pay per attorney for the whole department, configured as an internal cost center rather than client billing. A larger department is a considered purchase — we’ll walk you through it.
Running legal for a company, not a firm? See the in-house setup →
This is a capability, not a guaranteed outcome. Results depend on your practice, volume, and how you use the system. No fabricated statistics.
Your AI, sized to your firm — not your headcount.
Every plan includes the whole platform and unlimited seats. What grows as you move up isn't access — it's how powerful the AI is, how much it does for you, and how much it can handle. You're never billed per person.
If your firm outgrows a plan's AI, that's a good problem — we'll tell you and help you size up. No surprise bills, no lockouts.
Confidentiality is standard — not an upsell.
The same confidentiality architecture ships on every plan. Not a premium add-on, not a checkbox — the default.
- Governed AI. Your clients’ data is processed under a signed BAA with zero-data-retention terms — never retained, never trained on, isolated to your firm.
- Minimum-necessary redaction. Unneeded personal details are stripped before processing.
- Zero-retention. Prompts and answers aren’t kept after the work is done.
- Matter isolation. One client’s data can never surface in another’s case.
- Privilege ledger. A tamper-evident record of every AI action, per matter.
Answer three questions.
The full platform: Practice management per attorney, plus flat Marketing. Staff and matters are free.
One signed client pays for the year.
Move the sliders to your own numbers. The marketing engine is $1,188 a year, so the only real question is how many extra signed clients it takes to pay for itself. (Usually: one.)
At these numbers the platform more than pays for itself, the rest is upside.
Illustrative projection based only on the numbers you enter, not a forecast, revenue promise, or guarantee. Actual results depend on your market, practice area, and follow-up. The platform price shown is the current annual rate and may change.
Only pay for your attorneys.
Case-management tools charge per user; a marketing agency is a separate retainer on top. LexSteward is both — per attorney, with staff and matters free — and the gap grows with every user a per-seat tool would bill you for.
| Firm size | LexSteward | Clio1 | MyCase1 | Smokeball1 | + marketing agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 attorneys + 2 staff (4 users) | $397/mo | ~$596/mo | ~$436/mo | ~$476/mo | + $1,000+/mo |
| 5 attorneys + 5 staff (10 users) | $844/mo | ~$1,490/mo | ~$1,090/mo | ~$1,190/mo | + $1–3k/mo |
| 15 attorneys + 15 staff (30 users) | $2,334/mo | ~$4,470/mo | ~$3,270/mo | ~$3,570/mo | + $1–5k/mo |
1 Practice-management only, at each vendor’s intake/AI-inclusive tier, from each vendor's published per-seat list price on annual billing, verified 22 July 2026: Clio Complete $149/user, MyCase Advanced $109/user, Smokeball Grow $119/user. Monthly billing costs more at every vendor. Prices change, confirm current rates with each vendor. Agency retainers are industry-typical ranges.
| Capability | LexSteward | Clio | MyCase | Smokeball |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matters, calendar, documents, contacts | included | included | included | included |
| Time, billing & payments | included | included | included | included |
| Client portal | unlimited client logins, free | included | included | included |
| Deadline / court-rule docketing | included | add-on / higher tier | add-on / higher tier | included |
| Conflicts checking | included | included | included | included |
| AI drafting / assistant | sent to a hosted model | sent to a hosted model | sent to a hosted model | sent to a hosted model |
| Built-in client-acquisition engine | included | not offered | add-on / higher tier | not offered |
| AI intake interview | included | add-on / higher tier | add-on / higher tier | add-on / higher tier |
| Pricing model | per attorney (staff free) | per user | per user | per user |
| Trust accounting (IOLTA) | not offered | included | included | included |
What one subscription replaces
Clio (or MyCase or Smokeball) runs your firm. An agency finds you clients. LexSteward does both, with private AI woven through, for less than either one alone — and you only pay per attorney, with staff and matters free.
Pricing questions
Do I pay per lawyer?
Yes — but only per lawyer. Practice management is billed per attorney; every paralegal, clerk, and staff seat is free, every matter is included, and your clients’ portal logins are always unlimited and free. Clio and MyCase charge for every user; you pay per attorney.
What are the two products?
Practice management runs the firm (per attorney), and Marketing gets you clients (a flat price per firm). Take either or both — each at its own price, no bundle discount. What you get together is integration: Marketing brings you the client and it flows straight into Practice management as a matter, no re-keying and no lost leads. Client portal, AI, and compliance are included in Practice management, not billed separately.
Is anything ever done automatically without me?
Only routine, reversible, internal or marketing work, and only when you opt in. Anything legal, client-facing, billing, or a deadline always waits for your one-click approval.
What about my clients’ privacy?
Your clients’ data is never used to train a model and is never retained by an AI provider. AI runs under contract in a confidential, zero-data-retention environment, scoped to your firm, with every action logged. At launch that model is Anthropic’s Claude via Amazon Bedrock, under a signed BAA in a confidential, zero-data-retention configuration — never a consumer chatbot, and never anything that learns from your matters.
How is the AI billed?
Routine AI work is included in the price. Heavier frontier work is billed only for what you actually use, with a live meter and a spend cap you set, so there is no surprise bill. (A self-hosted model that would make heavy use free is on the roadmap, not live today.)