What Our Services Cost
We understand that customers like to know how much things cost. Our basic rate is $150/hour, with discounts for non-profit and access to justice related work. While Docassemble is free, we find that developing forms for Docassemble takes a similar amount of time as developing forms for HotDocs. The difference? No per-user license fees. Flexible hosting. Infinite customizability and an end product that is attractive and modern.
What kind of projects does Lemma Legal handle?
Finally, we help customers with custom API integrations. For example, using location data to find the nearest courthouse, government office, or setting up an appointment in Office 365.
Common Project Pricing
Template Libraries | Interactive legal apps / wizards | |
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Typical final number of project hours | 10-20 forms, 30-50 hours | 1-2 forms, 30-200 hours |
Final end product | A library of simple related forms, such as client letters, pleading papers, draft motions, with information drawn from a database or case management system | A wizard-like interview that walks an unsophisticated end user through entering the right information into a computerized form, PDF, Word Document, or database. Will include helpful guidance and data validation. |
Who is the user? | A paralegal or attorney in your firm, who has received training on using the system. | A customer who expects a modern, user-friendly interface. |
Setup time | 10-20 hours (less for a case management system we have integrated in the past) | 5-20 hours |
Discovery | ~ 3 hours | 3-10 hours |
Time to automate and test first form | 3-5 hours (for typical document of 5-10 fields) | 20-50 hours (depends on number and complexity of fields) |
Time to automate each additional form | 1-5 hours (for typical document of 5-10 fields) | Depends on how much content is shared |
Iteration, feedback, and user testing | Likely not needed after first form | 20%-50% of overall time |
Typical project timeline | 1-3 months | 4-9 months |
Custom Development
By definition, each custom coding project is something we haven’t tackled before. These typically range from 5-40 hours. Adding a new API for a project we’ve already partially integrated with Docassemble (such as Legal Server, Microsoft Graph, Google Apps, Clio, or Stripe) would be on the lower side. Adding a new API integration for a project we’ve never worked with before may take longer.
Hosting
Hosting is not our core business, but we are happy to help you with a place to put your interviews. Contact us for pricing. We are also happy to set up Docassemble for you on a server of your choice for a fixed one-time fee of $150 with per-incident support billed hourly.