The flagship practice platform · first firms now forming
Practice software that pays the firm.
Marlow runs the whole practice: matters, docket, documents, books. Then it does the two things no practice software has done: it brings work, and it brings revenue.
Every other system in your firm sends an invoice. None of them has ever sent a matter.
The problem
Everything in the practice costs. Nothing in it brings.
You bought a system of record, and it records. It does nothing about the two facts that actually set the shape of a small firm: where the next matter comes from, and what the bench earns between matters. Rainmaking stays on you. The trough stays on payroll. And every month, the software sends its invoice.
The pipeline
Feast or famine, and the software is a spectator to both. A practice-management dashboard has never once contained a new client. It waits for your data entry about the demand you found yourself.
The bench
Payroll is annual. Matters are episodic. The gap between the hours your firm sells and the hours it pays for is felt every month and measured never, and no tool you own has ever put an idle week to work.
The ledger
The software line on your P&L runs in one direction. It has for thirty years, at every vendor, in every firm. That is not a pricing problem. It is what practice software has been for.
What Marlow does about it
Your software bills you. Ours brings you matters.
Two things, and neither is a feature. They are what the platform is built out of.
Underneath both: a docket that counts 30 days out, 14 days out, then daily, and closes only on evidence. Books derived from a record that already proves the work. Conflicts screened structurally, not by a name search. Marlow gives no advice and signs nothing; no mechanism in it can commit past a lawyer’s refusal.
What your firm sees
One console. The whole practice, and both new lines on it.
Below is Marlow as a firm runs it. The firm is fictional; the arithmetic adds; the promises are structural.
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The day
The morning at Marrow & Voss LLP. Two matters arrived overnight, conflicts already screened and consent on file. The docket shows every live deadline and whether today’s acknowledgment is in. The bench line shows what the firm’s lawyers signed this week, and what it paid.
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The docket
A deadline here cannot lapse silently. The ladder counts 30 days out, 14 days out, then daily, and a rung closes only on evidence, never on a checkbox. Inside the final week a named human acknowledges every day, on the record. When no one owns a date, the docket says VACANT out loud until someone does.
03
The matter
Every matter is a journal. Its stage is computed from the record, never typed in, and the record is append-only: what you see is what a successor, an insurer, or an auditor would see, and it would hold.
04
The money
Prices posted flat, like a fee schedule, and a charge for a filing releases only when the filing exists. Beside them, the month’s signing work: each fee fixed before it was taken, each the acting lawyer’s own, consolidated to the firm under your comp plan.
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The final week
The last seven days before a statutory date ask for a named human every day. One tap, journaled. Silence is a state the docket refuses to render as safety.
The money
Flat, posted, and never a share of any fee.
Stated exactly or not at all. Three sides to it, and a boundary.
- What Marlow costs
- Flat prices per filing, put in front of your cohort in full before anything is signed, invoiced separately, and never scaled to any fee your firm earns. A charge tied to a filing releases only when the filing exists: no filing, no charge. Government fees pass through at cost, itemized, never marked up.
- What Marlow pays
- The signing work carries a flat fee per act, fixed and disclosed before anyone takes it, 100% the acting lawyer’s own. Consolidation to the firm follows Rule 5.4’s one native exemption, fee sharing among lawyers in the same firm, and stops exactly there: the firm view consolidates the record under your declared comp plan, and each fee remains the acting lawyer’s to invoice. A paid, reasoned refusal counts the same as a signature.
- How your firm bills
- Your firm bills its own clients however it lawfully bills them, hourly included, and holds client funds in its own trust account at its own bank. That is your firm’s business, and Marlow keeps it that way: Marlow’s own money never touches your trust account, by construction.
- How your firm leaves
- The complete client file, portable, surrendered on demand. Rule 1.16(d) is the floor of this promise, not the ceiling: docket, documents, correspondence, and record leave with you, readable without us.
Proof
Claims you can have checked.
Under Marlow runs a published engine, and every structural promise on this page runs against it as a public, continuously re-verified test with a posted grade: A+ today, the highest issued. You do not have to take our word for any of it. Hand this page to your IT consultant or your malpractice carrier and ask them to go look: the verdicts are public, and they are current.
The posted grade
api.lawyer · the engine under Marlow
A+
10 of 10 checks passing · the highest grade issued
Re-verified continuously, in public
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Join the first firms.
Marlow opens to firms in cohorts, patent practice first, run beside whatever your firm runs today. Joining is additive, not a migration: your book of record stays where it is until the day you notice you stopped opening it. Requesting access records your firm, and we come to you as your cohort forms.
The access register is used to contact your firm as its cohort forms, and for nothing else; the record goes nowhere beyond this door, and a recorded firm can ask for its entry, or for its removal, at any time: partners@marlow.legal.
Where this stands
Access requests are live. Bounded on purpose.
The form above is live: submitting records your firm to the access register today, with your role and the size of your firm, and we contact firms as their cohort forms. Patent practice opens first; the practice areas behind it form as their cohorts do. This page promises the record and the product it depicts; it does not promise a docket of matters waiting for your firm on day one, and it never will until that sentence is true.
What the first firms shape is concrete: the posted fee schedule, the order the practice areas open, and the form of the comp-plan declaration. The cohorts behind them inherit those terms.
The partner memo: this page as plain text, citation-grade, written to be forwarded to your partners or your ethics counsel before you decide anything.