Is LeanLaw Billed Monthly or Annually, and Is There a Contract?

LeanLaw is priced per user, per month, and month-to-month is available on every plan: Core at $55 per user per month, Pro at $75. You aren’t required to sign a long-term agreement to start, and every plan opens with a 14-day trial that doesn’t require a credit card.

What “month-to-month” actually means

Month-to-month billing means your firm is charged on a recurring monthly cycle without being locked into a fixed term to keep using LeanLaw. That’s the plain reading of the phrase, and it’s what LeanLaw publishes on its pricing page: no minimum term is required to get started, on any of the four plans.

For a firm that’s been burned by a multi-year software contract before, this matters more than the sticker price. The question worth asking isn’t only what it costs per seat, but what happens if headcount or needs change next quarter. Month-to-month billing gives that a straightforward answer: your subscription follows your firm’s roster, not a term you signed a year ago.

How per-user pricing works

LeanLaw charges per user, per month, and the rate depends on which plan you’re on. Core and Pro list published per-user rates; Contingency and Elite are quoted against your firm’s scope. Because pricing scales with seats, the harder question for most firms is usually who actually counts as a user rather than the rate itself — partners and associates, certainly, but also anyone who touches billing or trust without ever logging billable time.

Say, hypothetically, a six-attorney firm puts three partners and three associates on Pro at $75 per user per month. That’s a monthly line that scales linearly with headcount: add a seventh attorney, add one more unit of $75. There’s no volume discount built into that math, at least none LeanLaw has published, so budgeting for growth is mostly a matter of multiplication rather than negotiation.

Is there a contract if you’re month-to-month?

By definition, a month-to-month arrangement isn’t a fixed-term contract. You’re billed monthly, and neither side is holding the other to a year or more of payments. A one-time onboarding fee sits outside that recurring subscription and follows its own scope; it doesn’t turn month-to-month billing into a term commitment, since it’s charged once, not spread across a contract period.

What this depends on

• Which plan you’re on (Core, Pro, Contingency, or Elite) and whether its published rate or a custom quote applies
• How many people at your firm count as billable users versus occasional or read-only access
• Whether a one-time onboarding fee applies for your plan and firm size, and how that scope shakes out
• Timing: whether you’re evaluating now, or planning around the renewal cycle of an existing tool

What matters more than whether month-to-month exists is what your firm’s growth plans over the next year do to your seat count; that’s the number worth modeling before you sign anything.

Related questions

So for monthly, if we can cancel at any time, is it $75 a user? Pro is published at $75 per user per month, and month-to-month means you aren’t locked into a longer term to get that rate. Your actual monthly total depends on how many users you put on the plan.

Do you do yearly agreements, or month by month? Month-to-month is the option LeanLaw publishes, on all four plans. If your firm wants to discuss a different arrangement, that’s worth raising directly rather than assuming the pricing page is the whole conversation.