pitch.gigs.attorney
Legal work that fits your life.
The daylight porch for the attorney — and the USPTO patent agent — who wants independent work to be the practice itself. No day job required, and none assumed. One door: gigs.lawyer/join.
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Some attorneys want work that fits around a day job. This porch is for the other reader — the one who wants the independent work to be the thing itself, claimed when it suits them and set down when it does not. Four postures of one person:
Every existing form of independent legal work smuggles the firm back in. Solo practice demands business development and a book. Contract lawyering sells weeks of presence, not minutes of judgment. Improvised side matters demand the full apparatus — coverage, conflicts, engagement letters, invoicing — priced for a firm and carried by one person. The reader who chose independence gets offered precarity, and told it is the same thing.
gigs.attorney makes no offer of its own — by doctrine, not omission. The legal cell has one supply door, one membership, one intake: gigs.lawyer. This porch shows one audience that claim-grain work can carry a practice, describes that door's terms, and hands the reader through. There is no application endpoint on this domain — by construction, not restraint.
The porch serves today — a preview build that says so on the page: "Preview build — a recruiting page. The one application lives at gigs.lawyer/join." Browsers get HTML; every other client gets the same content as markdown.
The porch declares its own role in a typed liveness probe: role: "supply-porch", funnel: "https://gigs.lawyer/join". The doctrine is machine-readable, not just copy.
GET /substrate returns a live JSON check of the api.lawyer demand substrate — {"live":true,"target":"api.lawyer","via":"service-binding"} — a probe run at request time over a Service Binding, not a cached badge. The page labels it as a check, not a demo.
What follows is how work is designed to be posted on gigs.lawyer, described so this reader can weigh it as a practice. It is that door's design, restated — not a second offer.
Designed, not bound. The same gate the sibling records carry: the claim posts when the policy is bound and the insured is named. Nothing is signable before then.
▮▮▮posts when stack#1 §A5 resolves · ▮▮▮posts when first ninety days of measured completions resolves — this deck carries no fee figures and no turnaround figures: the structure is a design fact stated in the indicative; figures are measured behind the sibling records' gates, then published. Worn openly: the live porch posts an indicative review-length band and speaks of the economics in the present tense, ahead of both the cell's gates and the intake's own candour — that root-surface seam is queued in the program doc, and this record does not repeat the present tense.
Every supply surface of the cell is B2H2A — business to licensed human to agent — because a statute names a person. The porch changes where the path starts, not where it goes: this reader arrives on the credential's own name — attorney — reads the claim-grain answer, and converts at the sibling door's intake. On the cell's fulfilment path, A2H2A, the member recruited through this porch is the required supplier the statute demands.
substrate — api.lawyer
calling agent or business system
demand — reserved acts of law as typed calls
licensed attorney or USPTO patent agent, every posture
supply — the membership, the offer, the ONE intake
the employed attorney, after hours
an audience — objections answered, then routed to the one door
the independent-minded attorney or patent agent
an audience — the claim-grain practice shown, then routed to the one door
A brand here is one ICP and one motion, distinct by rule from its siblings: gigs.lawyer is keyed on the occupation and owns the offer for every posture of the license; moonlight.lawyer is keyed on the employed audience and owns that reader's objections-first conversation; this porch is keyed on the independent-flexible audience and owns the practice-shape conversation. api.lawyer sells to machines; nothing is sold here at all. USPTO patent agents are first-class on this porch — no law degree, no asterisk — and their door is still the same door.
ADR 0005 in the vertical's docket settled the door question: attorneys and patent agents buy the same sentence, and legal's liquidity matrix — 51 jurisdictions crossed with dozens of practice areas — is the sparsest in the portfolio, so a second supply door would fragment thin supply without adding language. One door, and multiplicity lives elsewhere: demand-side as Mints like patent.click, family-scale across verticals (gigs.claims, gigs.expert).
The family map still files this domain under that ruling's first draft: "staged Tier-2 · defensive redirect → gigs.lawyer." The live apex has outgrown the filing — it serves a recruiting porch with genuinely divergent language (flexible-first, where the membership door leads with the license and the mirror porch leads with the day job) while honoring the ruling's substance to the letter that matters: no marketplace, no offer, no application endpoint, every CTA to the one intake.
Worn openly: ADR 0005 is proposed and unopposed, not ratified, and both it and the gigs family map still file gigs.attorney as a redirect with "recruiting language identical to gigs.lawyer" — which the shipped porch contradicts in letter and honors in substance. The reconciliation is queued (one ratification pass covers this porch and moonlight.lawyer); this record says so rather than quoting the filings selectively.
The one door serves today — "gigs.lawyer — your license earns on your terms," recruiting independent attorneys and USPTO patent agents.
The one intake answers, and answers honestly. gigs.lawyer/join lands on the first of five steps — and that page states plainly: "Matching is not live yet — no matters are being assigned." The porch funnels to an honest door.
The cell's demand rail serves today — the substrate this porch live-checks on every /substrate call.
The mirror porch serves today — same network, same single intake, the day-job-first reader.
Everything the porch describes — coverage, conflicts machinery, the flat Legal Fee — goes live only behind the cell's gates, which the sibling records carry in full: entity formation and licensure, the first jurisdiction's ethics opinion, the E&O program bound. The porch recruits ahead of the cell; this record says so even where the porch's own copy runs ahead of it.
The claim that will matter posts when it has happened — a reader who arrived at this porch, joined at the one door, and completed a paid review after the cell's gates close — with the attribution in evidence. Until then this brand claims an audience position, not conversions.
If nothing changes: independence keeps meaning precarity — a book to hustle, hours to bill, or improvised outside work with no coverage — and the credential earns at someone else's grain or not at all.
If it works: a practice at the claim grain — work claimed when it fits, declined without demerit, paid flat the same day, coverage in force — a license earning on its holder's own terms, with no firm attached.
The porch is gigs.attorney — it serves today. The one door is gigs.lawyer/join.
If this was forwarded to you: gigs.attorney is the recruiting porch for attorneys and USPTO patent agents who want independent, claim-it-when-you-want legal work to be the practice itself — between roles, part-time, contract-minded, or fully on their own terms. It sells nothing and hosts no marketplace; it describes the flat-fee, nothing-assigned terms of the network's one supply door and routes every reader to the single application at gigs.lawyer/join. Its mirror, moonlight.lawyer, serves the employed attorney moonlighting after hours. Every claim above carries its own state and evidence, and the ambers are worn openly. If you know a lawyer or patent agent who wants the license without the firm: forward this.