Fourteen emails, five calls, three PDF versions, and a client who asks what their last offer was. The dispute has a state — email cannot hold it. Kashtab holds it, and shows you the whole matter on one screen.
Founding cohort. We are onboarding a small number of firms alongside the first real matters.
Their stated demand. Your client's official offer. The last counter. What is already agreed. What remains open. What trade would most likely close it — across all six axes, not just cash.
Your workroom with your client. Invisible to the other side, and not part of the shared record.
On the record, timestamped, identical for both sides. No more “I never got that email.”
Documents described in neutral language — the same words shown to both parties.
Amount, timing, work, property, structure, release — checked together, so deals that cash alone would miss still close.
We check the licence number and status you give us against the public directory for the jurisdiction of the matter — name, number, admission date, and standing.
We look for your appearances in the federal docket archive. This is the source you cannot fill in yourself, which is the point of including it.
Until then you can look at everything, and be added to nothing. A party can never be told a verified lawyer is present when one is not.
It is not an endorsement, a rating, a ranking, or a recommendation. We do not tell any party that you are good, and we will not put you in front of a party who did not ask for you by name.
And that is a deliberate legal choice, not just a launch discount.
No money moves between us. In either direction.
No subscription. No per-matter fee. No referral fee. No percentage of your fee or of any settlement. We do not pay you and you do not pay us.
Arrangements in this category that have been unwound by state bars were unwound over a money flow — how a payment was characterised, whether a marketing fee functioned as a share of a legal fee — and not over the software. In the best-known case, regulatory objections in eight states preceded the service being withdrawn.
We are not going to be clever about that line. We are going to stand a long way from it while we find out whether the product works at all. If we ever introduce a price, we will say exactly what it buys, and it will not be a share of your fee or of anyone's settlement.
We run both checks by hand right now, because there are few enough of you that a human should look. Expect a reply to the address you gave. If you would rather email us directly, we are at hello@kashtab.com.
No, and structurally it cannot become one without us changing what we said above. Parties are not routed to you, you are not ranked, and nothing is sold. You appear in a matter only when a party invites you by name.
No. The shared lane is a record both sides can see; it is not a joint representation and Kashtab is not a neutral appointed in your matter. Your obligations to your client are unchanged.
No — and we say so on every screen. Federal Rule of Evidence 408 limits how compromise communications may be used to prove liability; it is not a privilege, and communications with a non-lawyer platform are not attorney–client privileged. Your own communications with your client in the private lane are between you and your client; we do not read them and we do not put them in the record.
Not yet, deliberately. Mediation confidentiality only attaches when the process legally qualifies as mediation, and the rules differ by state. Labelling a room “mediation” before that is settled would give people a protection they do not actually have. The roles exist in our data model and are switched off in the product.
Harassment, discrimination, unpaid wages, safety issues affecting others, matters involving minors, criminal conduct, and anything touching a government investigation. Those go to counsel, not to a settlement tool.