Family Law Support Staff Handoff Board.
An app idea for family law practices.

What the search found

Who pays

Family law firm owner or office manager

The problem

A family law paralegal with 179 active cases said she did everything alone: billing, phones, scheduling. Another posted asking for task management help while supporting three attorneys.

The gap

General legal project management tools and case management suites exist, but they are built around matters and billing, not around the daily handoff between paralegal, assistant and attorney in a small family firm. The paralegal posts show the gap is real and unsolved in their firms.

Already out there

• Legaltech Hub work allocation legaltechnologyhub.com

  Covers work allocation software for assigning matters and tasks. Aimed at larger firms, not small family practices.

• Bloomberg Law project management pro.bloomberglaw.com

  Recommends general project management software for legal teams. Not built for family law handoffs.

• MyCase paralegal software mycase.com

  Case management suite with billing and time tracking. Broad product, not a handoff board.

  What else MyCase leaves open

People asking for it

• Task Management HELP reddit.com

  Family law paralegal to three attorneys in CA asks for task management help.

• 179 active cases reddit.com

  Paralegal describes doing billing, phones and scheduling alone on 60 family law files.

• Chaotic work flow reddit.com

  Paralegal asks for real examples of how to deal with their work flow.

The big assumption

Small family firms will move off email and sticky notes to a separate task board.

Test it this week

Offer to run one firm's handoffs on a shared spreadsheet for two weeks and see if they keep using it.