Employment cases, already built. You practice law.
Clients build their case files on Cloud Counsel — organized timelines, indexed evidence, AI claim analysis — before you ever see them. Browse the marketplace, propose representation, and take on winnable cases without the unbillable workup.
Free to join — no subscription required. We get paid when you do.
Prefer to talk first? Call (703) 910-5062 for a walkthrough with the founder.
You know the math on plaintiff-side employment work
Intake eats your margin
Screening calls, chasing documents, reconstructing timelines from a shoebox of emails — hours of unbillable work before you can even evaluate a claim.
Good cases walk away
Meritorious claims get turned down every day because the workup cost is too high for the expected fee — especially for solos and small firms.
The back office never sleeps
Deadlines, status updates, fee reporting, settlement disbursement — the administrative load grows with every matter you take.
Cases, not just software
The case marketplace lists anonymized employment matters built by real clients on Cloud Counsel. Every listing is backed by a structured case file — you evaluate evidence, not a two-line intake note.
- 34 timeline events across 14 months
- 27 documents indexed — reviews, emails, termination notice
- 3 corroborating witnesses contributing statements
- Wigmore AI: 2 claims identified, element-level evidence scoring
- Statute-of-limitations tracking on every claim
Evaluate in minutes, not days
Browse listings filtered to your jurisdiction and practice focus. When a case fits, request access with client consent, review the full file, and propose representation — all inside the platform.
Your firm becomes counsel of record. The client relationship is yours; the infrastructure is ours.
And the AI isn’t freelancing. Every claim Wigmore identifies is matched against our proprietary Claims Library — elements, limitations periods, remedies and caps, fee-shifting metadata, and anticipated defenses, each vetted by a licensed attorney before the engine is allowed to rely on it. When a listing says “2 claims identified, element-level evidence scoring,” that scoring runs against attorney-verified law, not a model’s recollection of it.
Packet-ready referrals: sign and send
Some marketplace cases arrive packet-ready from our Demand Desk. That means the workup is done before you accept the case:
- A drafted demand letter, ready for your review and signature
- Exhibits stamped, labeled, and assembled into a single packet
- Damages statement and evidence-preservation demands included
- Wigmore AI claim analysis and SOL tracking behind every assertion
You exercise independent professional judgment on every packet — edit, revise, or rebuild as you see fit. The point is that the first draft, the exhibits, and the organization are already done.
A drafting bench that knows the case file
Wigmore doesn't just analyze — it drafts. Every document starts from the case file itself: the timeline, the indexed exhibits, the claim elements, the damages chronology.
First drafts on demand
- Grounded in the record. Drafts draw on the timeline events, documents, witnesses, and claim analysis already in the file — not a blank prompt.
- Editable where you work. Export any draft as a Word document (.docx) or send it straight to Google Docs in your own Drive.
- Litigation tracking built in. Proceedings, docket entries, filing deadlines, and discovery sets with per-request response status.
- Your judgment, always. Every document is a first draft for your review, revision, and signature — the platform never files anything.
Drafting is included on every referred case. On your own caseload, subscribed firms purchase generations per document — with firm-admin controls over which seats can draft, per-request approvals, and monthly caps. High-volume firm? Contact us for custom premium pricing.
Transparent economics, in writing
Every number below appears in the network agreement you sign — no negotiation surprises, no fine print discovered later.
Network membership
No subscription. No monthly fee. Ever required.
Join free, browse the marketplace, and take referred cases — or originate your own with a fee-share arrangement. We only get paid when you recover a fee.
Standard marketplace referral
Client-built case file, no demand packet
Our share is a percentage of your contingent fee — never a percentage of the client's recovery. You recover nothing, you owe nothing.
Packet-ready referral
Includes drafted demand letter + assembled exhibits
The higher rate reflects the completed workup. Also available as a contingent election on matters your firm originates and runs through the Demand Desk.
Optional: run your own caseload on our tools. Once you've seen the platform work on referred cases, a subscription lets your firm bring its own clients onto Cloud Counsel with no fee division at all — Wigmore AI, document management, and the Demand Desk on every matter you originate. Solo at $199/mo, Team at $499/mo, Growth at $999/mo. Add or cancel anytime; your membership never depends on it.
Settlement funds are handled for you. Proceeds are wired to J. Madison PLC's attorney trust account with the client's advance written consent. Costs are reimbursed, your net fee is remitted directly to your firm, and the client is paid from trust — no invoicing between firms, no collections.
We run the back office, so you don't
Standard agreements
Rule 1.5(e)-compliant co-counsel and fee-division agreements, generated per matter with client consent built in.
Automated check-ins
Scheduled status updates on active matters keep everyone informed without another email thread to manage.
Fee reporting & disbursement
Recovery reporting, allocation, and trust disbursement are handled through the platform end to end.
Getting-started kit
New firms receive a guided onboarding checklist and a knowledge base covering every workflow on the platform.
Do well by doing good
Employment cases are how ordinary people hold the powerful to account. When you take one of these matters, you enforce the civil-rights laws Congress wrote to be enforced by private citizens — discrimination on the basis of race and sex, retaliation against those who speak up, wage theft from workers who can least afford it. Courts call plaintiffs in these cases private attorneys general for a reason: you are doing the public's work.
We built Cloud Counsel so that doing the right thing and building a sustainable practice are the same decision. The economics are honest, the workup is done, and the cases are real. Whether your sense of purpose comes from faith, from humanist conviction, or simply from a refusal to watch the vulnerable get run over — this is a place to put it to work. Win cases. Protect people. Get paid for it.
A turnkey private attorney general's practice
The hardest part of hanging a shingle isn't the lawyering — it's everything else. The network is built so a capable litigator can leave a firm on Friday and be fighting for real clients on Monday:
- Cases from day one — a marketplace of built case files, some packet-ready
- No fixed overhead — membership is free, and we share fees only when you recover
- A full toolset — AI analysis, the drafting bench, document management, docket tracking
- The back office handled — agreements, check-ins, fee reporting, trust disbursement
You bring the license and the judgment. The infrastructure — the part that keeps most would-be solos from making the jump — is already built.
Membership today is a seat at what comes next
Cloud Counsel exists to help its affiliates win cases — and the roadmap runs well past drafting. The practice of law is changing, and we intend for our affiliates to meet it first:
- Rehearse the argument before you ever make it — in rooms that don't require travel.
- Evidence that arrives ready for discovery — straight from inboxes, phones, and machines, with provenance intact.
- Resolution paths that move at the speed of the record, not the docket.
We don't announce features before they're ready. But affiliates are the first to see each one — and founding firms help decide what ships next.
Join as a founding firm
The affiliate network is new, and we are selecting its first members deliberately. Founding firms get more than early access:
- Today's referral rates and subscription pricing, locked in as your founding terms
- Direct line to the founder — your feedback shapes the roadmap
- First position on marketplace cases in your jurisdiction
“I built Cloud Counsel because my own plaintiff-side practice needed it. My firm runs on this platform every day — I'm the first affiliate, and every case in the marketplace was built with the same tools I use to litigate.”
Jacob M. Small
Founder, J. Madison PLC · Trial practice in the E.D. Va. “Rocket Docket” & W.D. Va. · Fourth Circuit appellate experience · Practicing since 2013
Questions attorneys ask us
Fee division follows Rule 1.5(e): the client consents in writing through a standard per-matter co-counsel agreement, and the total fee the client pays never changes. J. Madison PLC’s share is a percentage of your firm’s contingent fee — never a percentage of the client’s recovery. Standard marketplace referrals are 25% of your fee; packet-ready referrals (which include a drafted demand letter, assembled exhibits, and AI analysis) are 40%.
You do. When you propose representation on a marketplace case and the client accepts, your firm becomes counsel of record. J. Madison PLC serves as co-counsel under a written agreement the client signs, and the platform handles the administrative side — fee reporting, status check-ins, and settlement disbursement.
Clients build their case on Cloud Counsel before you ever see it: an interactive timeline of events, uploaded and indexed documents, named witnesses and contributors, and Wigmore AI claim analysis with element-level evidence scoring and statute-of-limitations tracking. Packet-ready cases additionally include a drafted demand letter and exhibit-stamped documents assembled for signature.
Yes. The drafting bench generates first drafts grounded in the case file — complaints, Rule 26(a)(1) initial disclosures, interrogatories, requests for production and admission, position statements, demand letters, motions, and briefs. Every draft exports as an editable Word document (.docx) or straight into Google Docs in your own Drive, so you revise in your own tools and exercise your own professional judgment on every filing.
On cases referred through the network — including everything in the marketplace — drafting is included; it’s part of the fee-share arrangement. On matters your subscribed firm originates and runs on its own caseload, each generation is a per-document purchase billed to your firm’s saved card, and firm administrators control which seats (attorney, staff) can trigger billed generations, require per-request approval, or set a monthly cap. Large firms with volume drafting needs should contact us for custom premium pricing.
Nothing. Joining the affiliate network is free — no subscription, no monthly fee. You can browse the marketplace, take referred cases, and originate your own matters under a fee-share arrangement, and we only get paid when you recover a fee. An optional subscription ($199/month solo, $499 team, $999 growth) is for firms that want to run their own caseload on Cloud Counsel’s tools — Wigmore AI, document management, Demand Desk — with no fee division on those matters. You can add or cancel it anytime without affecting your membership.
Settlement proceeds are wired to J. Madison PLC’s attorney trust account in the first instance, with the client’s written consent obtained up front. From trust, documented costs are reimbursed, your net fee is remitted directly to your firm, and the client receives the remainder — no invoicing between firms, no chasing payments.
Everything runs on Google Cloud infrastructure with encryption in transit and at rest. Access is enforced in layers: database-level security rules restrict every read and write to the matter’s own participants, and every sensitive operation — document access, agreement signing, billing, drafting — is re-authorized server-side before it executes. Signed agreements are recorded with a content hash, timestamp, and signer IP in tamper-evident audit records. Card payments are tokenized through LawPay (AffiniPay), so card numbers never touch our servers, and settlement funds move through an attorney trust account under Rule 1.15. We run recurring adversarial security reviews of the platform as part of our development process.
We review your application — bar standing, malpractice coverage, and practice focus — and typically respond within a few business days. Approved firms review and sign the subscription agreement during onboarding, complete a short getting-started checklist, and can begin browsing the case marketplace immediately.
Ready to see the cases?
Applying takes about five minutes: bar standing, malpractice coverage, and practice focus. Most applications are reviewed within a few business days.