Legal Case & Document Management System — $500 Fixed Budget

📌 PROJECT OVERVIEW We are looking for an experienced Legal Technology / Case Management Software Developer with a ready-made, working Legal Case & Document Management System that can be demonstrated and customized for our client. Our client is an attorney/law office looking for a secure platform where lawyers can manage legal matters and documents, while clients can securely log in, view case updates, receive documents, upload requested documents, raise questions, communicate with their legal team, and make payments. ⚠️ IMPORTANT: We are NOT looking for a freelancer or agency that has only built generic CRM, document management, Laravel, or business applications. We specifically want candidates who have ALREADY BUILT AND DEPLOYED a very similar legal case management / legal document management / attorney-client portal application. A working application/demo is strongly preferred. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR You should already have a working application or an existing codebase covering most of the following: 👨‍⚖️ Attorney / Lawyer Portal Manage clients Create and manage legal cases/matters Assign attorneys and staff Update case details Upload legal documents Document categories Document version control Secure document sharing Client communication Internal notes Tasks and deadlines Case timeline Document requests Client notifications Billing/invoices Payment tracking Case activity/audit history 👤 Client Portal Clients should be able to: Sign up / receive an invitation Login securely View their legal matters View case status Receive case updates View/download authorized documents Upload requested documents Respond to document requests Raise questions Communicate with lawyers Complete forms View invoices Make online payments Receive email/SMS notifications View important dates and tasks 👑 Super Admin Manage law firms Manage attorneys Manage staff Manage clients Manage cases/matters Manage roles and permissions Manage document categories Manage system settings Manage payment gateways Manage notifications View audit logs Manage subscriptions/settings where applicable System-level reporting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📂 DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS The document management component is particularly important. The application should ideally support: 📄 Secure document upload 📁 Document categorization 🔐 Document-level permissions 👁️ Client visibility controls 🔄 Document versioning 📥 Secure downloads 🔎 Document search 🏷️ Document tagging 📑 PDF/document preview 📝 Document requests 🗂️ Matter-based document organization 📋 Document activity/audit history Internal attorney documents must be kept separate from documents shared with clients. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 CLIENT ↔ ATTORNEY COMMUNICATION The system should support matter-specific communication between attorneys and clients. For example: Client: "I have a question regarding the document you uploaded." Attorney: "Please review section 4 and let us know if you need any clarification." The communication should remain associated with the appropriate legal matter. The system should distinguish between: 🔒 Internal attorney/staff communication and 👤 Client-facing communication. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💳 PAYMENT INTEGRATION Our target application requires payment functionality. Preferred integrations: 💳 Stripe 💳 Razorpay The system should support, where applicable: Online payments Invoices Payment records Payment status Receipts Refunds Payment webhooks Experience integrating both Stripe and Razorpay is a strong advantage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 SMS & EMAIL The system should have notification capabilities for: 📧 Email notifications 📲 SMS notifications Examples: New document uploaded New document request New client message Attorney response Upcoming deadline Payment received Invoice generated Appointment reminder Account invitation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔐 SECURITY REQUIREMENTS Because this is a legal application, security and authorization are extremely important. The existing application should ideally include: 🔐 Role-based access control 🔐 Matter-level permissions 🔐 Document-level permissions 🔐 Secure/private file storage 🔐 Audit logging 🔐 Login/security history 🔐 MFA/2FA or ability to add it 🔐 Secure document downloads 🔐 Data isolation 🔐 Secure API architecture The application must prevent one client from accessing another client's cases or documents. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ TECHNOLOGY Our preferred technology stack is: Laravel / PHP MySQL or PostgreSQL React / Vue / Livewire or similar REST API Redis AWS S3 or equivalent secure object storage However, the most important requirement is previous experience building this exact type of application. If your existing product is built using a different technology stack, you may still apply if the application is already working and can be customized. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 BUDGET Fixed Budget: $500 We are specifically looking for a ready-made application/codebase that can be demonstrated and customized. We are NOT looking to spend $500 developing a complete legal case management system from scratch. The $500 budget is intended for an existing/ready-made solution that can be: Demonstrated Installed/deployed Rebranded/customized Configured for our client's workflow Modified where necessary 👉 If you have already built a similar application, please show us what you have. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨 VERY IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING We will give preference to candidates who can provide: ✅ A live demo ✅ Screenshots/video of the application ✅ Existing source code ✅ Previous legal software project ✅ Attorney/law-firm case management experience ✅ Client portal experience ✅ Legal document management experience ❌ Do NOT apply if you have only built generic Laravel applications. ❌ Do NOT apply if you have only built CRM systems. ❌ Do NOT apply if you intend to develop the entire application from scratch for this budget. ❌ Do NOT send a generic portfolio containing unrelated websites/apps. We are specifically looking for something you have already built that is very similar to this requirement. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR PROPOSAL Please provide the following information: 1️⃣ Existing Application Briefly describe the legal case/document management application you have already built. 2️⃣ Demo Provide a live demo URL or video walkthrough. 3️⃣ Similar Projects Tell us about previous legal/law-firm applications you have developed. 4️⃣ Technology Mention the exact technology stack used. 5️⃣ Customization Explain what can be customized within the existing application. 6️⃣ Source Code Confirm whether the source code is included. 7️⃣ Deployment Explain whether you can deploy the application on our server/AWS. 8️⃣ Integrations Mention whether Stripe, Razorpay, SMS and email integrations are already available. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌎 YOUR LOCATION Please mention your current country and city/location in your proposal. Example: 📍 Hyderabad, India or 📍 New York, USA We are open to candidates worldwide. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕐 WORKING HOURS Please mention your normal working hours and timezone. Example: 🕐 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM IST Also mention how many hours you can overlap with our working hours. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💻 TECHNOLOGY STACK Please list the technologies used to build your existing application. Example: Laravel PHP MySQL React Vue Redis AWS S3 Stripe Razorpay Twilio REST API ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ REQUIRED EXPERIENCE We are looking for someone who has already delivered similar legal technology software, not someone who simply believes they can build it. The ideal candidate will have experience with: ⚖️ Legal Case Management Systems 📂 Legal Document Management 👨‍⚖️ Attorney/Law Firm Software 👤 Client Portals 🔐 Secure Document Sharing 💬 Attorney–Client Communication 💳 Stripe/Razorpay Integration 📲 SMS & Email Notifications 🛡️ Role-Based Security & Audit Trails 🚀 Ready-Made / White-Label Software ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧩 10 REQUIRED SKILLS ⚖️ Legal Case Management Software Development 📂 Legal Document Management Systems 👨‍⚖️ Law Firm / Attorney Software Development 👤 Client Portal Development 🔐 Role-Based Access Control & Security 💻 Laravel / PHP Development 🗄️ MySQL / PostgreSQL Database Development 💳 Stripe & Razorpay Payment Integration 📲 SMS & Email Notification Integration 🔄 API & Third-Party Integration ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏆 IDEAL CANDIDATE The ideal candidate is someone who can say: "We already built this. Here is the demo. Here is the source code. Here are the legal workflows already implemented. We can customize it for your client." That is exactly the type of candidate we are looking for. If you already have a working legal case/document management platform, we want to see it. If you don't have a substantially similar application already built, please do not apply. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 PROJECT TYPE Ready-Made Software / Existing Application + Customization 💰 BUDGET $500 Fixed Price 🎯 PRIMARY OBJECTIVE Acquire and customize an existing, proven Legal Case & Document Management System for an attorney/law-office client rather than developing the complete system from scratch.