# Your bench earns between matters. > Firm supply · pre-launch Enrolled openly, conflicts cleared once at the firm grain, under your own comp plan. The firm is an envelope: your members stay the actors, each on their own license, each with their own Register. Your bench already moonlights. The only open question is whether the firm can see it. *Pre-launch preview: a firm-envelope porch with no live enrollment; the profile-aware waitlist is planned, not yet open.* - [The individual door: gigs.lawyer](https://gigs.lawyer) **The verb ledger.** Three owners, never mixed. The boundary is the design. - **Your firm** (the envelope): enrolls · declares · consolidates · views - **Your members** (the actors): clear · claim · review · sign · decline - **The platform** (the burden): matches · verifies · carries · meters · pays A firm never signs, never claims, never attests, never holds a Register. ## The idle bench, and its covert shadow. Payroll is annual. Matters are episodic. The difference is invisible in every system your firm owns, and the unsanctioned channel is already open: associates moonlight covertly because the outside-practice clause forecloses the honest version. Rule 1.10 imputes your whole firm either way, whether you sanctioned the outside matter or never learned it existed. - **The managing partner.** Pays for a trained bench that sits idle between matters. The gap between the hours the firm sells and the hours it pays for is felt every month and measured never. - **The small-firm owner.** Hired for the busy season and carries the slow one. Every associate kept through a trough is a bet the next matter lands first. Every associate lost is training capital handed to a competitor, or to a shingle. - **The practice-group lead.** Knows exactly which members are light this month and has no sanctioned channel to put that judgment to work. Also knows, because everyone knows, that some of them moonlight anyway. ## The firm is an envelope, never an actor. Everything reserved stays individual, by design. The envelope adds the things only a firm can add: bulk enrollment, a roster view, routing preferences, consolidated payout. Nothing else. - **Individuals remain the actors:** Every attestation, license, Register, and Conflicts Ledger is personal and non-transferable. The member who cleared and claimed is the member who reviews, signs, sends back, or declines. A firm never signs, never claims, never attests, and never holds a Register. - **Open enrollment replaces covert moonlighting:** Your firm enrolls its bench openly and members claim under declared firm policy. The outside work you already answer for moves where you can see it: sanctioned, screened, on the record. The compliance liability becomes the channel. - **Conflicts cleared once, at the firm grain:** Enrollment adds a firm-grain conflicts pre-screen ahead of the member-grain Clearance that still fires on every matter. The envelope buys your firm visibility and an earlier screen. It waives nothing: Rule 1.10 imputation stands exactly as it did before enrollment. - **Reputation is derived, never asserted:** The roster view your firm reads is derived from member Registers: acts signed, turnaround, send-back quality. Coverage in force is shown alongside, and a refusal is never scored, in either direction. There are no firm-level scores, no firm-held Registers, and no substitution of one member for another mid-Gig. ## You declare. Your members act. Three steps, none of them a project: you declare once, your members act. 1. **Declare the envelope.** Your firm states its posture once: outside-work policy, comp-plan treatment, routing preferences. Governance you already own, written down where it can do work. 2. **Enroll the bench openly.** Members verify individually, bar admission or USPTO registration against the official roster, each under their own credential. Bulk enrollment is your convenience; the credential and the record stay personal. 3. **The bench earns between matters.** The firm-grain pre-screen runs ahead of every match. Member-grain Clearance fires every time. The member claims, reviews, and signs, or declines, under your declared policy, and the roster view shows it. ## Flat fees, a named insured, one lawful consolidation. Stated in the ratified terms or not at all. Where the doctrine is expressly undecided, this page says so instead of papering over it. - **The fee promise:** The Legal Fee is flat, fixed at post time, disclosed pre-claim, and 100% the Signer’s own. The platform’s Product and Platform Fees are flat, separately invoiced, and never scaled to a legal fee. Government fees pass through at cost, never marked up. - **The remittance boundary:** Rule 5.4’s one native exemption is fee-sharing among lawyers in the same firm, so consolidated Legal-Fee remittance to your firm is lawful precisely there: intra-firm, under your comp plan. Where the Merchant-of-Record designation sits on the State Rail, with the individual Signer or with the firm, is an expressly open question awaiting platform counsel. This page does not resolve it. - **The coverage promise:** The platform-held Umbrella E&O program names the acting member as the insured, and coverage must be verified in force before anything is signable. The coverage question that makes covert moonlighting a hazard is answered by structure, in the member’s name. - **The side promise:** Your firm is never a Tenant and never on the demand side of routing. A firm buying products is a Customer; supplying its bench makes it an envelope, never a partner in any fee-touching sense. ## Pre-launch. Honestly. bench.lawyer is a pre-launch porch. Enrollment is not live: this page takes no application, sells nothing, and mints nothing. When the firm door opens, it opens as a profile-aware waitlist. It will ask who stands on the porch, managing partner, firm owner, or practice-group lead, and the size band of your bench, so firm-scale interest is legible as exactly that. No date is promised. Until then there is no live enrollment here, and an attorney who wants this for their own license starts at the individual door, gigs.lawyer, which stays primary. Firms that declare their posture early set the terms their bench works under. Firms that wait inherit whatever posture their members improvised. - [The individual door: gigs.lawyer](https://gigs.lawyer) ## For machines This page content-negotiates: browsers get HTML, every other client gets this markdown. GET /healthz is a typed liveness probe; GET /og.png is the share card. There is no enrollment endpoint here: bench.lawyer is pre-launch, and the individual door is gigs.lawyer. --- bench.lawyer is a pre-launch porch for the firm envelope over the gigs.lawyer substrate (ADR 0014, proposed). The firm never signs, never claims, and never holds a Register; individuals remain the actors. Reserved acts are described here, never sold, and no enrollment is live. bench.lawyer · the firm envelope door for gigs.lawyer, built on api.lawyer · [gigs.lawyer](https://gigs.lawyer) · [api.lawyer](https://api.lawyer)