MyCase

What it is

MyCase is a cloud practice management platform for solo and small law firms, sold on published per-seat prices. It covers matters, contacts, calendaring, time entry, invoicing, trust accounting, a client portal and document storage, plus intake forms, a legal CRM and e-signature on its upper tiers. Its center of gravity is consumer-facing practice — personal injury, family, criminal defense, immigration — where intake volume and client communication weigh as much as the matter record. The vendor says more than 19,000 firms use it.

The owner changed its name, not the product’s direction. AffiniPay, the LawPay payments company, bought MyCase from Apax-advised funds in June 2022, together with CasePeer (personal injury), Docketwise (immigration), Woodpecker (document automation) and Soluno (billing). In August 2025 AffiniPay renamed itself 8am, and the product is now sold as 8am MyCase. Its AI ships under the same brand as 8am IQ, running on OpenAI models: a Writing Assistant on Pro, and a Case Assistant plus a Discovery Assistant with OCR on Advanced. The category leader it most resembles is Clio; MyCase is the one you can price without a sales call.

Why it shows up in Legal Ops stacks

• Every tier has a published price. Basic, Pro and Advanced all carry a number on mycase.com/pricing, with month-to-month billing, no setup fee and a 10-day trial without a credit card. A managing partner can size a budget in minutes. Clio publishes only its entry tier; Smokeball publishes none.
• Payments and trust accounting come from the payments company. LawPay costs $0 per month with processing fees on top, and because 8am owns both products, a payment lands in the matter and the trust ledger without a third-party sync.
• The AI works on the firm’s own files. The June 2026 update added OCR because, per 8am, 35% of documents uploaded to MyCase are scans or images that search could not read. The Case Assistant now answers questions across a matter’s documents and communications. It is not a legal research tool, and 8am does not claim it is.

Pricing reality

mycase.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-11, per user per month:

• Basic — $50 billed annually, $60 monthly. Case and contact management, time entry, invoicing, trust accounting, online payments, reporting, unlimited storage, a limited client portal.
• Pro — $100 annually, $120 monthly. Adds unlimited e-signature and document generation, automated workflows, intake forms and legal CRM, 2-way texting, premium billing, the 8am IQ Writing Assistant and 70+ integrations.
• Advanced — $130 annually, $150 monthly. Adds the 8am IQ Case Assistant and Discovery Assistant (5,000 OCR pages per user per month; another 5,000 pages for the whole firm costs $30), advanced document automation, a desktop drive, conflict-check tracking, split billing and the open API.
• Add-ons. MyCase Accounting is $39 per user per month. LawPay carries no monthly fee.

The old four-tier ladder that opened at $39 is gone: the entry price rose 28% and the Premium tier disappeared. Several review sites still quote $39 / $89 / $109, so budget off the live page, not those. Annual billing saves 13-17%, and nothing public points to negotiated discounts at small-firm seat counts, so list price is close to what firms pay (estimate). In practice a solo lawyer on Pro pays $1,200 a year, a five-lawyer firm on Pro pays $6,000, and the same firm on Advanced with accounting pays $10,140. A firm buying MyCase for intake or AI needs Pro at minimum, because Basic has neither.

Best for

• Managing partners and firm administrators at consumer-facing firms of 1-20 lawyers — personal injury, family, criminal defense, immigration — who want intake, billing, payments and a client portal in one system at a price they can read off a web page.
• Firms already processing payments through LawPay.
• Not for in-house legal teams (this is firm-side software built around time and trust accounting), transactional or corporate practices that need deep document management, or firms that want legal research inside the matter.

Versus the alternatives

• vs Clio. The market-share leader. After its $1B vLex acquisition, Clio Work puts legal research and drafting inside the matter, and accounting is included from Starter at $49. But Core, Signature and Elite — the tiers with AI — are quote-only. Pick Clio when research and drafting are part of the work you are automating, or the firm is heading toward 50 lawyers; pick MyCase when a predictable price and intake matter more. The full breakdown is in Clio vs MyCase.
• vs PracticePanther. The closest match on published pricing: Solo $49, Essential $69, Business $89 and Business Pro $114 per user per month billed annually, with accounting bundled into Business Pro. Its pricing page lists no AI features. Pick it when full accounting inside the subscription matters more than AI; pick MyCase when you want 8am IQ.
• vs Smokeball. Quote-only across four plans (Bill, Boost, Grow, Prosper+), strongest for document-heavy practices, with its Archie AI assistant sold as an add-on. Pick it for automatic time capture and document automation, and expect a sales process to get a number.
• vs Filevine. Built for plaintiff firms running thousands of active matters on templated workflows. At that volume MyCase is the wrong shape; 8am’s own CasePeer is its answer for personal injury.
• Alongside EvenUp or Eve. The fastest-growing entrants in this buyer’s budget are plaintiff AI, not practice management: EvenUp was valued above $2B in October 2025 and Eve above $1B a month earlier. They draft demands and medical chronologies; MyCase holds the matter, the calendar and the trust ledger. A personal injury firm that buys one still needs the other.

Watch-outs

• The API and the stronger AI sit on the top tier. Pro gets only the Writing Assistant; the Case Assistant, OCR and the open API are Advanced-only. A firm that buys Pro and later needs to sync with a system outside the 70+ integrations pays $30 more per seat. Guard: list every integration and AI use case before the trial, and pick the tier against that list.
• 8am IQ sends documents to OpenAI, and OCR cannot be undone. Customer data does not train third-party models, but 8am’s FAQ reserves the right to use inputs and outputs to improve its own products, and OCR already applied to documents cannot be reversed. Guard: check the FAQ and data-processing terms against your engagement letters, and switch 8am IQ off in Firm Settings before migrating sensitive files until that review is done.
• No official MCP server. The only MCP connector is an open-source community project (Oktopeak, MIT-licensed, May 2026) that authenticates with API credentials, so it needs Advanced. Guard: treat it as unsupported, request read-scoped credentials, and keep it away from privileged matters until 8am ships its own.
• Accounting costs extra. The $39 per user add-on nearly doubles a Basic seat. Guard: if you need a general ledger and operating accounting, price Clio Starter and PracticePanther Business Pro, where it is included, before assuming MyCase is the cheaper option.