Documents, discovery, research, drafting, billing, phones and the courtroom in one system, on a server in your office or a data center you control. Your files stay with you. Nothing is hosted by us.
Talk to us See what it replacesBuilt by a Dallas trial lawyer. Running in his firm since 2024. Opening to a small number of Texas firms.
Most litigation firms run on a stack of subscriptions that don’t know about each other: a research service, a document system, a review platform billed by the gigabyte, practice management, a phone system, transcription, a few more. Each one holds a piece of the file, and someone at the firm is the integration layer.
Praesidium is the whole practice on one data model. A filing becomes a docket entry, a deadline, a task and a billing event without anyone re-entering it. The work moves; the context stays attached.
| What firms pay for today | What runs on the box |
|---|---|
| Document management | Matter-organized DMS with full text search, version history and email filing |
| eDiscovery hosting, per gigabyte | Production intake, review sets, tagging, privilege screening and production, on your hardware |
| Legal research | A library of more than nine million state and federal opinions, with citations verified against the text |
| Practice management and calendaring | Matters, projects, tasks, deadlines read from scheduling orders, docket tracking |
| Billing and trust accounting | Time proposed from the work itself, invoices, trust ledger, cost recovery |
| Phones, fax, video, transcription | Extensions, voicemail, fax with proof of service, conferencing, deposition transcripts |
| Trial presentation | Exhibit sets, stickers, print sets and courtroom displays from the same record |
The system holds one model of the matter and renders the view the moment requires. Three examples from the working product, with the client names changed.
Start with the finding and work backward to the proof. Pleadings and the jury charge become an issue map; the issue map drives discovery, research, drafting, exhibits and the next action, all against the same record.
A document register that knows what is next. The instrument, the party, the version, the delivery and the follow-up live in one ledger, so the deal stays legible when it gets busy.
Find the series, not just the hit. Exact language, semantic neighbors and the evidence graph are searched together, so a hypothesis can be tested across a decade of email without handing the corpus to a chat window.
We don’t host your files. We don’t resell anyone’s data or content. Public-records, court-filing and practice-content integrations use the firm’s own accounts and licenses, so the vendor relationship and the permissible-use record stay with the firm.
We don’t ask you to replace your research subscription on day one. Firms typically run Praesidium alongside what they have and decide at renewal, with their own usage in front of them.
Praesidium started as one attorney trying to recover the hours lost to a fragmented stack: logging in, saving, importing, rebuilding context that should have carried forward. It became a practice system because the practice kept asking for the same thing.
It runs The Holmgren Law Firm today, on a live docket with real trials and real productions. The firm is the first customer and remains the test. Praesidium Legal is independently owned, with no outside investors.
Clear the context window of the work below your pay grade so strategy, judgment and the courtroom can have the attention they deserve.The reason Praesidium exists