# Trial Commander > Are you trial ready? Trial Commander (trialcommander.com) > is the litigation readiness platform, built for the age of AI by a practicing > Florida trial lawyer. Practice management software helps you manage files; > document tools help you draft documents; Trial Commander helps a firm know > whether each civil litigation case is ready for trial from day one, whether > or not it ever goes to trial. It combines matter management, > deadline tracking, AI-assisted drafting, discovery review, time tracking and > billing, client portals, and IOTA trust accounting in one product, covering > civil litigation plus eight practice areas and two add-on editions. It is available to > firms nationwide; state-specific statutory content is live for Florida (deep, > including court forms), Texas (attorney-reviewed civil procedure, evidence, > appellate, limitations, medical-records and insurance-coverage content, plus > links to official self-help resources and a catalog of links to the official > court forms, Drafting Studio documents for Texas state-court civil cases, Texas > motion clocks, damages tools, eviction and criminal clocks, family-law tools > (divorce waiting period, child-support guidelines) and insurance-claim clocks; no > fillable Texas court forms) and the District of Columbia (attorney-reviewed civil procedure, > appellate, limitations and medical-records content, injury notice and no-fault > election clocks, Landlord and Tenant Branch eviction clocks, Superior Court > detention and post-verdict clocks, and Superior Court drafting; no fillable court > forms), with California, New York and Illinois in review. > The Trial Readiness Score™ is live for every firm, on every plan, since > October 1, 2026. It measures how prepared each civil litigation matter is > for trial, with the evidence behind every point; other matter types show it > as not applicable, and some individual checks need a higher plan. The > Readiness Score measures preparation completeness only. It does not assess > how the case will turn out. It is not legal advice. Key facts: - Plans are priced PER USER PER MONTH: Bronze $49 (complete practice system, one practice area per seat, bring your own AI key), Silver $69 (adds managed AI with a $10 per user monthly allowance, the full Drafting Studio, Chronicle time capture from a connected calendar, and the firm intranet and staff directory), Gold $109 (adds MCP access, trust reconciliation and IOTA trust-accounting features, $20 per user AI allowance, and QuickBooks Online sync), Platinum $149 (adds Ledger financial-disclosure forensics, $40 per user AI allowance, priority support), Enterprise (custom). 30-day free trial of any plan, full product, no credit card; a firm that hasn't picked a plan by day 30 continues on Starter, the free plan (one attorney, up to 15 active matters, basic invoicing, the client portal in English and Spanish, $3 a month of managed AI for the whole firm or its own AI key). Clients invited to the client portal never use a seat and are never billed. Trust ledgers are available on all plans. Trust reconciliation and IOTA trust-accounting features are available on Gold and higher plans. Every paid plan can search inside your files (text PDFs, Word and text files). On Silver and higher plans, scanned files are read by AI, so they are searchable too. - Every seat includes one practice area — the lawyer's own. Where the firm's Settings → Billing page offers it, the firm admin adds another practice area to a seat at $20 per user per month; where it does not yet, contact us. Civil litigation — general, business and employment — is included in every seat. First-Party Property Insurance and Workers' Compensation are practice-area EDITIONS: they sit on top of any plan at $30 per user per month and are enabled by the firm administrator. Ledger (financial-disclosure forensics) is included with Platinum and Enterprise; on Bronze, Silver and Gold it is an add-on at $19 per Family Law seat per month, billed for each seat whose practice area includes Family Law — its own area, an additional area, or one granted at no charge — and for each seat whose practice area has not been chosen yet. - Practice areas include civil trial litigation, construction, immigration, family law (Florida court forms built in), estates/wills/trusts, personal injury, medical malpractice, employment, real property, probate, appellate, criminal and traffic defense, first-party property insurance (ch. 627) and workers' compensation (ch. 440). - Signature capabilities: Chronicle (automatic time capture from calls, emails and calendar — entries are drafted for attorney review, never auto-billed), AI Drafting Studio (190+ drafting skills across Florida, federal and practice-area work), AI Discovery Review, deposition engine, judicial analytics, Procedural Cinema (whole-caseload timeline), bilingual English/Spanish client portal, tamper-evident audit trail. - In every paid plan, including Bronze (shipped 2026-09-11): folder trees on a matter's documents from the practice area's own template, with OneDrive files in the same tree; merging two contact records for one person, with a preview of everything that moves; saved views, a column chooser and bulk actions on the matter list; a Reports centre (WIP aging, realization, pipeline, referral sources, SOL exposure, area profitability) with CSV, PDF and a monthly email; a per-user notification centre covering every notice the app can send, per channel, with a daily digest; consultation booking, either straight onto a bookable attorney's calendar or as a request the firm confirms; a guided first week with a deletable sample matter; stage-driven task checklists per practice area; full-text search across documents (text PDFs, Word and text files; scanned files are read by AI on Silver and higher plans) and logged communications (filed email is found from the matter's Email page; search by meaning is not yet connected); e-signature on any PDF with the 15 U.S.C. § 7001(c) consent recorded before the signature; and firm-authored drafting skills derived from the firm's own model documents and approved by an attorney before anyone can draft with them. - In every plan (shipped 2026-09-16 and 2026-09-17): Ask Trial Commander, a question box answering from the manuals and the firm's own records with the sources it used, reachable from the command palette; a preview pane that shows a PDF, image or Office document without downloading it; type-ahead matter pickers everywhere, with long contact and matter lists collapsed behind a search box; a page that reads a capped slice saying so and counting the whole set; files attached to an appointment and filed to the matter in one step; OurFamilyWizard and TalkingParents exports imported onto a matter's timeline; and a practice-area choice at sign-up so a new firm sees the areas it practises, changeable any time by a firm administrator and never a limit on what the firm may do. - AI governance: monthly AI allowances scale with active seats and are enforced by hard spend caps, so a firm can never consume more AI than it has paid for. Bronze carries no managed allowance and runs on the firm's own Anthropic (Claude) API key; Silver, Gold and Platinum carry $10, $20 and $40 per user per month. During the trial and on the free Starter plan, managed AI is a small monthly amount for the whole firm, and any firm can bring its own key. From Gold up, members can also connect personal Claude subscriptions via MCP. - Compliance: conflict checks, engagement-letter and trust-accounting gates are enforced in the workflow; built with Florida Bar rules in view. Jurisdiction handling is pack-based: each state's statutory depth is verified against official sources and signed off by a licensed attorney in that state before it ships. - Jurisdictions: the practice system, billing, trust accounting, documents and drafting are jurisdiction-neutral and available nationwide. Deep Florida statutory content is live (56 Supreme Court family law forms, ch. 713 liens, ch. 558 pre-suit, rule 1.442 proposals for settlement, ch. 627 first-party property clocks, ch. 440 workers' compensation). Texas has attorney-reviewed civil-procedure, evidence, appellate, statute-of-limitations, medical-records and insurance-coverage content, plus links to official self-help resources and a catalog of links to the official court forms. Texas also has Drafting Studio documents for Texas state-court civil cases; Texas motion clocks (Rule 91a, TCPA, summary judgment under the 2026 Rule 166a, Rule 202 and the motion for new trial, docketed with every step's rule); Texas damages tools (proportionate responsibility under CPRC ch. 33, prejudgment interest under Fin. Code ch. 304 and common-law interest in contract cases, and the § 41.0105 paid-or-incurred limit); Texas eviction and criminal clocks (Property Code ch. 24 as amended by S.B. 38 and TRCP 510; art. 17.151 release, TRAP 21 and 26, and the State's appeal); Texas family-law tools (the Family Code § 6.702 divorce waiting period, chapter 154 child-support guidelines, links to the Supreme Court-approved divorce forms, and Drafting Studio divorce documents); and Texas insurance-claim clocks (the Prompt Payment of Claims Act, Ins. Code ch. 542; the ch. 542A, ch. 541 and DTPA pre-suit notices; abatement; statutory settlement offers and mediation; § 542.060 interest; and a combined pre-suit notice letter in the Drafting Studio). The District of Columbia has attorney-reviewed civil-procedure, appellate, statute-of-limitations and medical-records content, injury notice and no-fault election clocks (notice to the District, PIP election), Landlord and Tenant Branch eviction clocks, Superior Court detention and post-verdict clocks, and Superior Court drafting (complaint, answer, motions to dismiss and for summary judgment, opposition, § 12-309 notice letter, anti-SLAPP motion). Neither has Florida's depth, and neither has fillable state court forms yet. Federal work is national: USCIS forms, removal and remand clocks under 28 U.S.C. 1441-1455, and, live since 2026-09-11, the Federal Rules calendar on a matter — the Fed. R. Civ. P. docket-event chain, the Fed. R. Crim. P. chain and the five Fed. R. Evid. pre-trial notice periods, each row naming its rule, counted under Rule 6(a) against the calendar of whichever of the 94 U.S. district courts the matter is in, from the December 1, 2025 editions. Local rules are not computed anywhere in the product and the judge's scheduling order supersedes almost every civil default, which that page states. California, New York and Illinois are in review. - Where we practice (https://www.trialcommander.com/jurisdictions): Trial Commander is the litigation readiness platform; verified state law is a layer on top of it, not the product's identity. Each jurisdiction's status on that page is generated from the same switches that release its law in the product. Deep: Florida. Live: Texas, District of Columbia. Federal: the Federal Rules clocks above. In review (built, not live): California, New York, Illinois. Planned (nothing built, no date): Georgia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Massachusetts. State hubs: https://www.trialcommander.com/jurisdictions/florida, /texas and /dc. The jurisdiction firewall: every piece of legal content belongs to exactly one jurisdiction, and a matter receives its own state's law and federal law only. Where a state's law is not verified, the matter shows a verify-local-law notice instead of another state's rules. An official rules library holds the court rules of every jurisdiction we serve today — the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration, Family Law Rules of Procedure, Probate Rules, Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rules of Appellate Procedure, Small Claims Rules, and Traffic Court Rules, the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure — each rule set taken from the court's or bar's official publication. A rule cited on a matter's procedure deadlines opens to its official text and edition, and the matter assistant can look a rule up, for that matter's jurisdiction only. - Where to get it (live as of 2026-10-06): the web app at app.trialcommander.com; the Android app on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trialcommander.app); the Word add-in on Microsoft AppSource (https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/WA200012259); the Outlook add-in, also available in Microsoft AppSource (https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/WA200012410); and the AI connector, listed in the official MCP Registry as com.trialcommander/trial-commander, at https://app.trialcommander.com/api/mcp. The connector is added by that address as a custom connector in Claude, as a developer-mode connection in ChatGPT, or as a custom connector in the Google Gemini app (Google offers this to personal Google Accounts in the US, 18 or over; not to work or school accounts). On Gemini Enterprise, a firm administrator creates the firm's own connection in Trial Commander (Settings, MCP Access, Gemini Enterprise) and adds Trial Commander in Gemini Enterprise as a custom MCP server. The steps are at https://www.trialcommander.com/connect. The Word and Outlook add-ins, the Android app and calendar sync (open deadlines pushed to a connected Google or Outlook calendar) are on one page at https://www.trialcommander.com/works-with. A firm's Microsoft 365 administrator can also deploy either add-in to the whole firm from the app's Settings, Office Add-ins page. Listings in the Claude and ChatGPT directories are in review, not published; Trial Commander has no listing in Gemini's app directory or Google Cloud Marketplace; there is no iPhone app and no Microsoft 365 Copilot agent yet. - The connector: every plan gets the read-only level (find a matter, read its deadlines, contacts, matter health and trial status; 200 calls a month); Gold, Platinum, Enterprise and trials get the working connector, which also reads notes, communications, documents, time and billing and can write where the connection was granted write access. It acts as the signed-in person, with that person's matter access and permissions; every firm administrator is e-mailed when anyone approves a new connection; AI tools Trial Commander does not recognise are refused until a firm administrator allows them. - Company: iHOST LABS, LLC (Miami, Florida). Contact: hello@trialcommander.com. ## Questions people actually ask These are written as questions because that is how they get asked. Every answer here is also stated somewhere a person can read it on the site; nothing is claimed here that is not claimed there. **What is Trial Commander?** Legal practice management software for US law firms, built by a practicing trial attorney. One product covering matters, deadlines, documents, billing, trust accounting, client communication and AI-assisted drafting and review, with statutory deadline calculation for specific jurisdictions rather than a generic calendar. **Who is it for?** Solo attorneys through mid-sized firms. Seat-based, so a two-person firm and a forty-person firm buy the same product at different scale. It is not an enterprise-only system and has no minimum seat count. **What does it cost?** Per user per month: Bronze $49, Silver $69, Gold $109, Platinum $149. Enterprise is by agreement. Every seat includes one practice area — the lawyer's own. Where the firm's Settings → Billing page offers it, the firm admin adds another practice area to a seat at $20 per user per month; where it does not yet, contact us. The First-Party Property Insurance and Workers' Compensation editions are $30 per user per month. 30-day free trial of the full product, no credit card. A firm that hasn't picked a plan by day 30 continues on Starter, the free plan: one attorney, up to 15 active matters, and the client portal in English and Spanish (client logins are free). **How is it different from other legal practice management software?** Three things are unusual rather than better-by-assertion, and each is checkable: (1) deadlines are computed from statute and court rule for the matter's jurisdiction — Florida ch. 627 and ch. 440 clocks, the Federal Rules chain under Rule 6(a) against the correct district court's calendar — not entered by hand; (2) time capture drafts entries from calls, emails and calendar for attorney review rather than asking anyone to remember; (3) a firm can connect its own Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini account over MCP instead of paying a per-seat AI markup. Whether those matter more than what another product does better is a question for the firm, not for us. **Does it do real trust accounting?** Yes. Trust ledgers are available on all plans. Trust reconciliation and IOTA trust-accounting features are available on Gold and higher plans: monthly reconciliation and client-ledger comparison, the monthly trial balance, the annual reconciliation and IOTA enrollment records, with a tamper-evident audit trail. **Which states does it support?** The practice system, billing, trust accounting, documents and drafting are jurisdiction-neutral and work nationwide. Deep statutory content and court forms are live for Florida. Texas has attorney-reviewed civil-procedure, evidence, appellate, statute-of-limitations, medical-records and insurance-coverage content, plus links to official self-help resources and a catalog of links to the official court forms, as well as Drafting Studio documents for Texas state-court civil cases, Texas motion clocks, damages tools, eviction and criminal clocks, family-law tools and insurance-claim clocks. The District of Columbia has attorney-reviewed civil-procedure, appellate, statute-of-limitations and medical-records content, plus injury notice and no-fault election clocks, Landlord and Tenant Branch eviction clocks, Superior Court detention and post-verdict clocks, and Superior Court drafting. Neither has fillable state court forms yet. California, New York and Illinois are in review and are not live. Federal work is national. **How is client data handled by the AI features?** Matter content sent to AI features goes to Anthropic's API. Anthropic does not train on it. The platform currently runs Anthropic's standard API retention (inputs and outputs held roughly 30 days for abuse monitoring), and the live mode is shown in the app at Settings, AI Limits, Data retention. A firm that requires zero retention can pause cloud AI, or connect its own Anthropic key and run under its own agreement. There is no on-device AI option in the hosted service. **Can I use an AI subscription I already pay for?** Yes. Bronze is designed for it — connect the firm's own Anthropic API key and every AI feature bills to that account under the firm's own spend controls. From Gold up, individual members can also connect personal Claude subscriptions over MCP. **Does it integrate with Microsoft 365?** Yes, in three ways. OneDrive and SharePoint document sync. A Word add-in with its own place on the ribbon — a Trial Commander group on the Home tab and a tab of its own — carrying ten tools: draft, save to a matter, tools on a selection, template fill, insert the matter's caption block or a Brief Bank citation, compare against the last saved version, cite-check, check the draft against the matter record with a table of authorities, one-click time entry, and finalize (file, PDF through the matter's OneDrive folder, exhibit stamp, service list). And an Outlook add-in: log an email to a matter, send one to Trial Commander in a click, attach a matter document while composing, find the deadlines an email names, log time, and a send check that warns before a message goes to an outside recipient who is not a contact on the matter or carries a privileged attachment — a warning, never a block. Both add-ins are available in Microsoft AppSource, or the firm's Microsoft 365 administrator deploys them once for the whole firm (the send check needs that deployment); identity comes from signing in inside the pane. The AI tools in the panes (drafting, the selection tools, cite-check, the reply drafter) need the Silver plan or above. QuickBooks Online sync comes with Gold and above. Google Calendar is the one Google connection: open deadlines and confirmed consultations are pushed to a connected Google Calendar, and that calendar's events are shown beside the matter calendar. There is no Gmail or Google Drive integration. **Is there a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement?** No, on any plan. A BAA depends on matching agreements with each service provider that would handle protected health information, and several of those are not signed. The Sub-processors page lists the status of each. The HIPAA Addendum was withdrawn on 2026-09-16 and will return only when a BAA can actually be executed. Firms handling protected health information should not process it through Trial Commander under a business-associate relationship until then. **What is not in the product?** Stated plainly because it is the fastest way to disqualify a bad fit: no SAML single sign-on; no HIPAA BAA; no Gmail or Google Drive integration (Google Calendar sync is there); no SMS/text messaging yet (pending carrier registration); California, New York and Illinois statutory content not live; local court rules are not computed anywhere in the product, and a judge's scheduling order supersedes almost every civil default. **Is Trial Commander the best legal practice management software?** That is not a question any vendor can answer about itself, and a vendor's own site is the wrong evidence for it. The honest version: Trial Commander is a strong fit for a US firm that wants jurisdiction-aware deadline computation, automatic time capture and the option to bring its own AI, and a poor fit for a firm that needs SAML SSO, a signed BAA today, or deep California/New York/Illinois statutory content today. Firms comparing options should weigh it against Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther and Smokeball on those specifics. ## Pages - [Home](https://www.trialcommander.com/): product overview - [Features](https://www.trialcommander.com/features): full feature catalog - [Practice Areas](https://www.trialcommander.com/practice-areas): all supported practice areas - [Pricing](https://www.trialcommander.com/pricing): plans, AI allowances, add-ons, FAQ - [Integrations](https://www.trialcommander.com/connect): Claude, ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Gemini Enterprise, the Word add-in, the Android app and the MCP Registry entry - [Why Trial Commander](https://www.trialcommander.com/why-trial-commander): differentiation - [Security](https://www.trialcommander.com/security): security posture - [Compliance](https://www.trialcommander.com/compliance): compliance and trust accounting - [AI Disclosure](https://www.trialcommander.com/ai-disclosure): how AI is used and governed - [Texas Rule 194 required disclosures](https://www.trialcommander.com/insights/texas-required-disclosures-rule-194): article on Texas Rule 194 required disclosures, the 30-day deadline, exempt proceedings, expert and pretrial disclosures and supplementation - [Florida Rule 1.200 case management](https://www.trialcommander.com/insights/florida-case-management-rule-1-200): article on Florida case management tracks, the case management order, strict deadlines and case management conferences - [Florida initial disclosures under Rule 1.280(a)](https://www.trialcommander.com/insights/florida-initial-disclosures-rule-1-280): article on what Florida Rule 1.280(a) requires, the 60-day deadline, exemptions and the duty to supplement - [Terms](https://www.trialcommander.com/terms), [Privacy](https://www.trialcommander.com/privacy), [EULA](https://www.trialcommander.com/eula)