ParaPlus is an AI paralegal you talk to the way you already work — by email. Cc it on the intake thread, forward the ECF notice, ask for the trust balance. It replies in plain English, and the matter file, time entries, conflict checks, and invoices fall out behind the scenes.
Already use Claude or ChatGPT? Connect ParaPlus in a click and work it from there instead. Same brain. Same audit trail. Docketing, trust accounting, and document assembly included. Pay by the hour. If the AI doesn't work, you don't pay.
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Skills
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Conflict screens
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If you don't use it
§ The case against your software stack
Yet here you are — toggling between practice management, e-billing, document management, QuickBooks, and a spreadsheet that tracks the things your software can't.
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Six apps, none of them talk
Practice management, e-billing, document storage, accounting, calendaring, intake forms. Every change re-keyed three times.
02
One pair of hands, a hundred matters
Solos can't justify a paralegal's salary, so the work falls on the lawyer. Firms that have one watch every intake, conflict check, and draft queue up at the same desk. Either way, throughput caps at one human's day.
03
Hours that vanished
Phone call Tuesday, email thread Wednesday, three rounds of edits Thursday. By Friday you've forgotten what was billable.
04
Trust accounting roulette
IOLTA reconciliation in a spreadsheet. One commingled penny and the bar grievance committee is reading your emails.
05
The deadline you didn't see
An ECF notice arrives at 4:58 p.m. Twenty-one days to respond — not including the three-day mail-rule extension or the court's holiday calendar. Calculate by hand, hope.
06
Per-seat tax on slow months
$99/user/month for six logins, whether the firm closed five matters or fifty. The software bill arrives on the first regardless.
What if your AI did all of it — and only billed you when it did?
§ How it works
Email it, or wire it into Claude or ChatGPT. Then just describe what you want done.
Set up paraplus@yourfirm.law and start emailing it like a co-worker — or connect it to Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, or ChatGPT with a click. Both paths share the same brain and audit trail.
"Run a conflict check on Acme." "Draft a discovery response from the template." "What did I bill on Henderson this month?" Email it, type it in Claude, dictate it to ChatGPT — the language is the same.
Intake by email, phone, or web form. ParaPlus triages each inquiry, runs the conflict check, opens the matter, and only flags the ones that need your judgment.
Documents land in your matter file. Time entries post. Invoices generate cleanly — nothing half-done. Every change is audit-logged with old and new values. Bring your CPA.
Same brain, every channel — shown here in Claude
Same session over email reads the same way — just threaded replies instead of bubbles.
§ Capabilities
For solos, it's your first paralegal. For firms that have one, it's the force multiplier that turns one desk into five.
Full client and matter lifecycle. Search by name, address, phone, email, or anything in the matter description — instant, even on a firm with thousands of matters.
Direct client match. Opposing party in prior emails & documents. Former client within two years. Related-party (judges, opposing counsel, witnesses). Citable trail for every check.
Log hours by voice, by text, or after the fact. Automatic rate lookup per lawyer per matter. Unbilled WIP at a glance, by matter, attorney, or firm.
Every invoice posts in one move. Line items, billed-time updates, and the audit log all save together — or none of them do. No half-billed time entries to chase down at month-end.
Templates with placeholders → finished .docx files. Complaints, discovery requests & responses, engagement letters — drafted from matter data in seconds.
Find that email about indemnification across every matter in the firm. Searches by exact words and by meaning — so "indemnification" surfaces drafts that talk about being held harmless even when the word itself isn't there.
Events, court appearances, discovery deadlines, statute-of-limitations clocks. Calculated, not guessed. Overdue items surface every morning.
Jurisdiction-aware docketing. Mail rule, holiday calendars, business-day math, chained deadlines off a single triggering event — all handled.
Paste an ECF notice. Out the other side: matter linked, document indexed, deadline chain calculated, calendar populated. The thing that used to ruin Fridays.
Case law, statutes, and topic research via Tavily — surfaced inside the same conversation where you're drafting. No tab-switching to Westlaw mid-thought.
Judges, opposing counsel, witnesses, experts. Linked to matters, searchable across the firm, and counted in conflict checks.
Email it like a co-worker, ping it in Claude, or add it to ChatGPT. Same brain, same audit trail — you choose the surface.
Tell ParaPlus how your firm bills, drafts engagement letters, talks to clients — once. Every conversation across every matter applies the same firm-specific instructions. “We bill in 0.1-hour increments” lands as firmly as a hard-coded rule.
Bundle a workflow — new-client intake, standard discovery review, a flat-fee closing checklist — into a named playbook with typed inputs. Anyone picks it from the menu, fills the blanks, gets your steps.
Update your firm's voice and playbooks through Claude in plain English. Every edit snapshots a new version; roll back last quarter's billing guidance in one move. No SQL, no engineer, no ticket queue.
§ Document assembly
Upload your firm's complaint, discovery, engagement letter, and demand letter templates once. ParaPlus learns the placeholders. From then on, "draft a complaint for the Acme matter" produces a finished .docx with caption, parties, claims, prayer, and signature block — ready for your review.
Real .docx, not Markdown
Headers, footers, page numbers, line numbering, exhibit captions — preserved from your template. Filer-ready out of the box.
Versioned in the matter file
Every draft is stored against the matter, encrypted at rest. Deleted documents stay recoverable for thirty days. The audit trail records who edited what, when.
Iterate by conversation
"Tighten paragraph 14." "Add a third cause of action for tortious interference." ParaPlus revises in place — you watch the diff, you approve.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
ACME HOLDINGS, INC.,
Plaintiff,
v.
NORTHSTAR LOGISTICS LLC,
Defendant.
Case No. 3:26-cv-04412
COMPLAINT
FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT
DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL
I. JURISDICTION AND VENUE
1. This Court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332, as the matter in controversy exceeds $75,000 and the parties are citizens of different states.
2. Plaintiff Acme Holdings, Inc. is a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Palo Alto, California.
3. Defendant Northstar Logistics LLC is a Nevada limited liability company…
— filled by ParaPlus from M-2026-0143 —
§ AI client intake
Prospective clients reach you by email, phone, or web form. ParaPlus triages every inquiry: gathers facts, runs the conflict check, and decides whether it's a matter you'd take. You're only paged for the calls that actually need you.
Handled automatically
M. Rivera
Web intake form · 10:47 PM
Conflict check ran. Consult booked. K. Reyes was never interrupted.
Escalated to attorney
D. Tan
Email intake · 2:11 AM
K. Reyes · Claude
Reply drafted, consult booked, engagement letter queued.
24/7 answer rate
Prospective clients get a real reply within minutes, day or night — not a voicemail callback Monday.
Conflict-checked first
Every intake runs the four-way check against prior clients, opposing parties, and related parties — before anyone takes a call.
You handle decisions
Fee structure, novel issues, edge-case ethics calls. Everything else is intake-to-matter without you lifting a finger.
§ Trust accounting
Real double-entry IOLTA bookkeeping — per-client ledgers, three-way reconciliation, no commingling. Not a spreadsheet. Not QuickBooks bolted on.
Per-client trust ledgers
Every retainer, every disbursement, every earned-fee transfer posts against the client's ledger. Pull a statement on demand — or just ask ParaPlus to email it to the client.
Three-way reconciliation
Bank statement, trust ledger, sum of client balances — reconciled monthly. Variance flags surface immediately, not at audit time.
Commingling prevention, built in
The system refuses to overdraw a client's trust balance. Earned-fee transfers require an invoice. Operating-account moves are guarded by separate permissions.
Just ask the AI
"What's the trust balance on Henderson?" "Run a three-way for March." "Apply $4,200 from Acme's retainer against INV-1042." ParaPlus runs it, audit log records it.
IOLTA — Trust Ledger
Henderson Family Trust · M-2025-0089
Current balance
$8,420.00
Initial retainer
2026-02-04 · ACH from Henderson
Earned fees · INV-1042
2026-03-22 · transfer to operating
Filing fee disbursement
2026-04-02 · USDC NDCA
Earned fees · INV-1058
2026-04-30 · transfer to operating
Bank stmt
$8,420.00
Sum of ledgers
$8,420.00
Variance
$0.00 ✓
§ The QuickBooks tax
Clio is $99–149/user/mo. LawPay/MyCase add $30–50. QuickBooks is another $35–235. They still don't reconcile.
ParaPlus replaces all of it. One database. One ledger. One AI agent that understands every entry.
§ The diff
One agent replaces practice management + e-billing + DMS + accounting + intake.
| Clio / MyCase / ProLaw + QuickBooks | ParaPlus | |
|---|---|---|
| Interface | Dashboards, forms, modals | Email, Claude, or ChatGPT |
| Trust accounting | Separate module or QuickBooks | Built-in three-way reconciliation |
| Conflict check | Name match on a list | Four screens across emails, documents & related parties |
| Document assembly | $$ add-on (HotDocs, etc.) | Template → .docx in one prompt |
| Docketing | Manual or another add-on | Docketing engine & ECF parsing built in |
| Intake | You answer or pay a service | AI triages 24/7, escalates when needed |
| Audit trail | Partial — some modules log, some don't | Every change, old & new values, exportable |
| Pricing | $99–149 / user / month always | By the hour of AI use |
| Setup | Migration project · weeks | Under 10 minutes |
§ Pricing
One price for the whole firm — every attorney, paralegal, and staff member gets full access. No per-seat fees. No annual contract. If the AI doesn't work, you don't pay.
Hourly, like you
Billed monthly for actual usage. No minimums.
Every person at the firm uses it. No per-seat fees, ever.
Everything included:
7-day free trial · Cancel anytime · No contracts
For comparison: a three-attorney firm on Clio + LawPay + QuickBooks pays roughly $5,400–9,000/year just in software. Most ParaPlus firms spend a fraction of that — and trust accounting is included.
No more juggling apps. No more midnight time entry. Email ParaPlus the way you'd email a co-worker — or pull it into Claude or ChatGPT — and let it run the back office while you handle the casework.
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