Billable Hours

Every match here ends the same way: with an itemized invoice. You are a lawyer, the computer or a friend is the lawyer across the table, and each of you has a client with nine hours of retainer to spend. Whatever you do is billed to your own client, and most moves make the other side do work that gets billed to theirs. Serve Papers, a Motion to Dismiss or a Surprise Deposition sits on the table for one turn, and if it goes unanswered it lands and costs more. A Document Dump taxes every move until a Protective Order clears it, a Phone Call slips past a shield, and a Settlement Offer can end things early. The first client to run dry loses; if the court date comes first, more retainer left wins.

Each day brings one case for everyone, with an invented matter like custody of a houseplant named Gerald or the comma in clause 14(b). You can also pick your opponent from a row of made-up lawyers, The Billboard Guy and The Six-Minute Man among them, at Easy, Medium or Hard, or send a match to a friend by link and take turns when you're both free. It's satire about legal billing, written for grown-ups, and nobody in it is real. A match takes a few minutes and costs nothing in the browser. We're a very small Long Island studio. Tap How it works under today's case to watch a short match before you take one.