Do I need a case management system?

No. Many solo customers run entirely on a storage connector pointed at their matter folders. If you add Docketwise or Clio later, the connector is a four-minute setup.

How long until it pays for itself?

At a $45 burdened hourly rate and a 15-hour assembly baseline, roughly one merit petition a month covers the Solo Practice subscription. The ROI calculator lets you model your own numbers.

What if I only file a few petitions a month?

Solo Practice covers up to fifteen assembled petitions a month, which is well beyond what most solo practices file. If you file two, you still get the full product — there is no reduced tier that removes criteria packs or cross-checking.

By practice structure

A virtual senior paralegal, without the payroll.

In a solo practice every assembly hour is an hour not spent on legal work or client development, and there is nobody to delegate to. The constraint is not skill — it is that a fourteen-hour O-1A assembly caps you at roughly four petitions a month regardless of how much work is available.

Written for: Solo immigration attorneys handling both business and family matters

2.1×
Monthly petition volume: 38 hrs
Hours reclaimed monthly: $0
Payroll added

Where it hurts, and what changes

Four constraints, four answers.

You are the paralegal

Renaming files, checking translations, typing indexes and Bates stamping are all yours, and they all happen at the end of the matter under deadline.

Start without a case management system

Point Docket Build at a Google Drive, Dropbox or Box folder. No migration, no platform decision, four minutes of setup.

Hiring is a four-to-six month bet

A new immigration paralegal takes months to reach productivity on merit petitions, and the fully loaded first-year cost runs well above the salary line.

Criteria packs as your checklist

Open a matter against the pack and the coverage view becomes the document-chasing list you send the client in week one.

Volume caps at assembly capacity

Fourteen hours per O-1A means four petitions a month, whatever the demand looks like.

A mechanical second reader

Forty-two form fields cross-read against the exhibits, plus translation and signature checks on every document. The catch nobody else is there to make.

No second pair of eyes

There is no colleague to catch the wage discrepancy or the missing translator certificate before it goes out.

Pricing built for one

Solo Practice is a flat firm fee, not per seat. It pays for itself after roughly one merit petition a month.

Adoption

How firms in this segment actually start.

Most of the value shows up in the first fortnight. Nothing here requires a migration.

01
Point it at a folder
Watch the matter folder in Drive, Dropbox or Box. Client uploads flow into the intake queue as they land.
02
Open against a criteria pack
The coverage gaps become your first client document request rather than a week-twenty surprise.
03
Assemble and review
The binder, index and draft brief arrive together. Your time goes into the argument, not the formatting.
04
Export and file
E-filing bundle or print-ready split set, generated from the same binder.

Coverage

Classifications this segment files most.

Full visa library →

Classification	Governing standard	RFE rate	Median binder	Manual	Docket Build
O-1A O-1A Extraordinary Ability in Sciences, Education, Business or Athletics	Eight regulatory criteria with comparable evidence provision 8 CFR 214.2(o)(3)(iii)	28.4%	285 pp	16 hrs	40 min
EB-1A EB-1A Extraordinary Ability	Kazarian two-step review against ten regulatory criteria 8 CFR 204.5(h)(3); Kazarian v. USCIS, 596 F.3d 1115 (9th Cir. 2010)	28.4%	610 pp	22 hrs	55 min
EB-2 NIW EB-2 National Interest Waiver	Matter of Dhanasar three-prong framework 26 I&N Dec. 884 (AAO 2016)	28.4%	340 pp	18 hrs	45 min
I-130 I-130 Petition for Alien Relative — Marriage Based	Bona fide marital relationship by a preponderance of the evidence 8 CFR 204.2(a)(1)(i); Matter of Chawathe, 25 I&N Dec. 369 (AAO 2010)	18.9%	175 pp	9 hrs	24 min
I-485 I-485 Adjustment of Status	Admissibility, lawful status continuity and an immediately available visa number 8 CFR 245; INA 245(a) and 245(k)	16.4%	130 pp	7 hrs	20 min
H-1B H-1B Specialty Occupation	Specialty occupation criteria plus beneficiary qualification 8 CFR 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A)	14.0%	120 pp	8 hrs	22 min

Customer story

Juno Legal

Seattle, Washington

“I am the attorney, the paralegal and the office manager. Docket Build is the only reason I can take an O-1A and a marriage case in the same month and still leave the office at a reasonable hour.”

Elena Sarkis · Principal

Read the case study

2.1×
Monthly petitions: 38 hrs
Hours reclaimed monthly: $0
Payroll added

Questions

Solo practitioners, specifically.

Book a demo

No. It is a flat firm fee covering three seats, so bringing on a part-time assistant or a contract paralegal never increases your bill. Per-seat pricing punishes exactly the firms that benefit most from assembly automation.

Start free trial

Stop losing flat-fee profit to manual PDF formatting.

Upload one messy client folder. Get back an audit-ready, Bates-stamped exhibit packet with a two-tier index and a matched cover letter — in about three minutes.

Start free trial Explore demo

14-day free production trial · no card · real matters · no watermark

Software for licensed attorneys. Not legal advice.