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.
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.
legal fee schedule–·–posts when stack#1 §A5 resolves · median review turnaround–·–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.
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
substrate — api.lawyer
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).
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 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.
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.