Built for mid-sized legal firms with 50 to 99 attorneys

Client intake and CRM for the 50-to-99-attorney firm where specialty practices, UST reporting, and multi-office governance converge.

Mid-sized legal firms with 50 to 99 attorneys occupy a operational tier: too big for solo-and-small-firm tools, too small for the AmLaw stack weight. Specialty practices (bankruptcy, restructuring, white-collar, environmental, maritime) carry federal-court workflows with structured deadline cadences and committee representation patterns. Strkr's mid-sized-firm template covers that specialty complexity with multi-office governance on the flat per-seat line.

What this audience is actually dealing with

The pains that bring buyers here.

Mid-sized legal firms with 50 to 99 attorneys often emphasize specialty practices that drive their market position: bankruptcy and restructuring, white-collar criminal defense, environmental litigation, maritime, Indian law, immigration, and specialty tax. Each specialty carries federal-court or federal-agency workflows that general-practice intake templates do not model. A 72-attorney Boston bankruptcy and restructuring firm we spoke with handles 180 active Chapter 11 cases plus 240 active Chapter 7 cases plus committee representations in another 94 cases, with monthly UST (United States Trustee) reporting obligations, 341-meeting cadences, and plan-confirmation deadlines running across the portfolio. The managing partner, Dr. Jennifer Rossi, had been running a specialty bankruptcy case-management tool plus a general-practice CRM plus manual UST reporting that consumed 60 analyst-hours monthly. The pain points below cover the shape of mid-sized specialty-practice firms.

Specialty-practice federal-court workflows

Chapter 11 intake needs bankruptcy-specific primitives.

Chapter 11 intake captures debtor information, pre-petition creditor list, secured claim schedule, employee counts, union status, lease and executory contract list, and petition timing. General-practice intake forms force the structured data into free-text fields. Strkr's bankruptcy intake form captures the structured Chapter 11 data natively with ECF (Electronic Case Filing) integration readiness.

UST reporting cadence

Monthly operating reports for every Chapter 11 debtor.

Chapter 11 debtors file monthly operating reports with the US Trustee covering cash receipts, disbursements, accounts receivable aging, inventory status, and tax compliance. Attorney coordination with debtor financial staff on MOR assembly consumes significant monthly time. Strkr's UST reporting workflow structures the MOR cadence with 20th-of-month filing deadlines, structured financial-data capture, and MOR template generation.

341-meeting scheduling

First meeting of creditors runs on strict cadence.

Section 341(a) meetings run 21 to 40 days after petition filing per the bankruptcy code with location set by the UST. Attorney preparation, debtor coaching, and creditor-committee attendance management run on tight timelines. Strkr's 341-meeting cadence captures the schedule from ECF data, triggers debtor-preparation workflows at 7 and 3 days pre-meeting, and tracks attorney attendance.

Committee representation

Creditor committees and equity committees have distinct workflows.

Representing creditor committees or equity committees in Chapter 11 cases differs from debtor representation: committee counsel captures committee composition, member identity, voting dynamics, information-sharing restrictions under Bankruptcy Code Section 1102, and fee-application cadence under Section 328 or 330. Strkr's committee representation workflow captures the distinct structural requirements.

Plan-confirmation deadline tracking

Disclosure statement to confirmation runs tight.

Chapter 11 plan-confirmation deadlines (disclosure-statement approval hearing, ballot deadline, confirmation hearing, effective date) run tight with multi-party coordination. Missing a deadline or filing error cascades. Strkr's plan-confirmation workflow tracks each deadline with cadenced reminders and multi-party coordination.

Multi-office governance at mid-size

Boston, New York, DC, LA offices need coherent intake.

Mid-sized firms with 2 to 5 city offices need coherent intake governance: office-specific conflict scope (local counsel work has narrower conflict surface than firm-wide representation), per-office retention per state-bar rules, cross-office matter staffing. Strkr's multi-office governance applies the right office-specific rules while maintaining firm-wide visibility.

The specialty-practice intake primitives

What a mid-sized specialty-practice firm has to model.

The cards below cover what Strkr ships natively on the mid-sized-firm template with specialty-practice emphasis.

Bankruptcy intake forms

Chapter 7, 11, 13, 15 structured capture.

Chapter-specific intake forms capture debtor identity, filing-type analysis (voluntary vs involuntary), pre-petition creditor list structure, secured claim schedule, employee counts, union status, lease and executory contract list, and petition timing. Chapter 7 intake captures asset threshold analysis. Chapter 13 captures three-to-five-year plan proposal structure. Chapter 15 captures foreign main proceeding analysis.

ECF integration readiness

PACER account linkage with case-status pull.

ECF integration pulls bankruptcy case-status data from PACER into the client record: case number, judge assignment, docket entries, scheduling orders, filed deadlines, hearing dates. The integration surfaces court-driven data on the matter record without manual PACER lookups. Deadline cadences fire from docket data automatically.

UST reporting workflow

Monthly operating report generation.

UST MOR workflow captures monthly financial data (cash receipts, disbursements, accounts receivable aging, inventory status, tax compliance) with structured input from debtor financial staff. MOR template generation produces the required reports with cover-page attestation, financial schedules, and attachment compilation. 20th-of-month filing deadlines cadence with 10, 5, and 2-day reminders.

341-meeting cadence

Debtor preparation and attendance tracking.

Section 341(a) meeting cadence captures the UST-set schedule, triggers debtor-preparation workflows at 7 and 3 days pre-meeting (financial-affairs-statement review, likely-question anticipation, documentation gathering), tracks attorney attendance, and captures meeting-outcome notes. Follow-up actions (SOFA amendments, additional-document production, examiner-questioning follow-up) workflow from meeting notes.

Committee representation

Creditor and equity committee workflows.

Committee representation captures distinct structural data: committee composition, member identity, voting dynamics, information-sharing restrictions under Section 1102, retention application cadence under Section 1103, fee-application cadence under Section 328 or 330, committee counsel communication protocols. Separate retention and fee-application workflows preserve the distinct billing structure.

Plan-confirmation workflow

Disclosure statement to effective date.

Plan-confirmation workflow tracks the sequence of deadlines: disclosure-statement filing, disclosure-statement objection deadline, disclosure-statement approval hearing, ballot distribution, ballot deadline, confirmation objection deadline, confirmation hearing, effective date. Multi-party coordination surfaces (debtor, committees, major creditors, UST, equity holders) run on structured task assignment.

Multi-office governance

Office-specific conflict scope and retention.

Multi-office governance applies office-specific rules: office-specific conflict scope (local-counsel work narrower than firm-wide representation), per-office retention per state-bar rules (Massachusetts 7-year, New York 7-year, DC 5-year, California 5-year), cross-office matter staffing with office-specific billing rates. Firm-wide visibility rolls up office-level data for managing-partner review.

Specialty tax practice workflows

IRS Appeals, Tax Court, state-tax dispute cadence.

Specialty tax practice workflows capture tax-controversy intake (IRS examination appeal, Tax Court petition, state-tax administrative appeal), statute-of-limitations tracking under IRC 6501 and 6531, Appeals-level settlement authority tracking, and Tax Court trial-session scheduling. Multi-year tax-controversy matters run on the long-cycle matter object.

White-collar criminal defense workflows

DOJ investigation, grand jury, plea negotiation.

White-collar criminal defense workflows capture pre-indictment investigation representation, grand jury appearance preparation, document-production coordination with DOJ, plea-negotiation tracking, cooperation-agreement structure, and sentencing-advocacy preparation. Multi-defendant cases run with parallel-representation tracking.

Where Strkr fits the mid-sized legal firm

The shape of a Strkr-fit mid-sized firm.

Mid-sized firms span a range of specialty-practice emphases. The cards below describe which shapes fit Strkr with the mid-sized-firm template.

Bankruptcy and restructuring

50-99 attorneys with Chapter 11 emphasis.

50-to-99-attorney bankruptcy and restructuring firms with meaningful Chapter 11 debtor and committee representation fit the template cleanly. The bankruptcy intake, ECF integration, UST reporting, 341-meeting cadence, and plan-confirmation workflow all run natively.

White-collar criminal defense

Federal criminal defense specialists.

Mid-sized white-collar criminal defense firms serving federal criminal defense fit the template with DOJ investigation workflows, grand jury preparation cadence, and sentencing-advocacy preparation. Multi-defendant case tracking handles the parallel representation common in white-collar matters.

Environmental and natural resources

EPA, state environmental agency, tribal practice.

Mid-sized environmental and natural resources firms serving EPA matters, state environmental agency matters, and tribal environmental practice fit the template with structured regulatory-agency counterparty tracking and permit-cycle cadence.

Maritime and admiralty

Federal maritime practice specialists.

Mid-sized maritime and admiralty firms serving federal maritime practice fit the template with vessel-identification tracking, limitation-of-liability action workflows, cargo-claim cadence, and marine-insurance-related matters.

Immigration specialty

50-99 attorney immigration practices with EOIR work.

Mid-sized immigration firms with meaningful EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review) practice fit the template with USCIS case-status integration, EOIR docket integration readiness, and immigration-court appearance scheduling. Multi-year asylum and removal defense matters run on the long-cycle object.

When Strkr does not fit

Pure retail boutique or single-specialty shop.

Pure retail boutique firms or single-specialty shops at the mid-size tier may find the practice-area template (law-firm-crm or legal-crm) a better fit than the mid-sized-firm template with its broader specialty-practice coverage. The specialty coverage adds overhead without value for a focused single-practice shop.

How a 72-attorney bankruptcy firm runs on Strkr

The weekly rhythm at a Boston restructuring practice.

The cards below describe the weekly rhythm at the Boston 72-attorney bankruptcy and restructuring firm referenced earlier.

Monday petition intake

New Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 petitions reviewed.

Monday morning the firm reviews new petition inquiries. Chapter 11 debtor intake runs the structured debtor-information capture with pre-petition creditor list, secured claim schedule, and petition timing. Chapter 7 intake runs the asset-threshold analysis. The intake decision runs on structured economics with firm resource allocation visibility.

Tuesday ECF monitoring

PACER-pulled docket entries for active cases.

Tuesday ECF integration pulls docket entries from PACER for the 180 active Chapter 11 cases. New scheduling orders, hearing-date changes, and filed-document entries surface on matter records. Deadline cadences fire from new scheduling orders automatically.

Mid-month UST MOR assembly

Monthly operating report preparation for debtor cases.

By the 15th of each month the UST MOR workflow kicks into high gear. Each Chapter 11 debtor case assembles the monthly operating report with debtor financial staff input (cash receipts, disbursements, AR aging, inventory, tax compliance). The 20th-of-month filing deadline cadences fire with 10, 5, and 2-day reminders.

Weekly 341-meeting preparation

Debtor coaching and attendance tracking.

Each week the firm has 341 meetings scheduled across new cases. Debtor-preparation workflow fires at 7 days pre-meeting (financial-affairs-statement review, likely-question anticipation, documentation gathering) and 3 days pre-meeting (final rehearsal, questions-the-UST-might-ask review). Attorney attendance and meeting-outcome notes capture on the matter record.

Plan-confirmation deadline review

Weekly review of upcoming confirmation deadlines.

Weekly the restructuring team reviews upcoming plan-confirmation deadlines across the 180 Chapter 11 portfolio. Disclosure-statement filings, approval hearings, ballot deadlines, confirmation hearings, and effective dates cadence with multi-party coordination (debtor, committees, major creditors, UST, equity holders).

Monthly committee representation review

Fee applications and retention status.

Monthly the committee-representation partner reviews the 94 committee representations: fee-application cadence under Section 328 or 330, retention-application compliance, information-sharing restrictions, voting-dynamic analysis for upcoming committee decisions.

Head-to-head

Strkr vs specialty bankruptcy tool + horizontal CRM.

The typical mid-sized bankruptcy and restructuring firm stack runs a specialty bankruptcy case-management tool (BestCase, NextChapter, Jubilee) plus a horizontal CRM plus manual UST reporting plus DocuSign. The comparison runs that stack against Strkr Scale with the mid-sized-firm template.

Feature Strkr BestCase + horizontal CRM + manual UST + DocuSign
Chapter-specific intake forms Native 7/11/13/15 schemas BestCase forms only
ECF integration readiness Native PACER pull BestCase or manual
UST MOR workflow Native with 20th cadence Manual Excel
341-meeting cadence Native preparation workflow Calendar reminders
Committee representation Native separate workflow Shared with debtor
Plan-confirmation workflow Native multi-party coordination Spreadsheet tracking
Multi-office governance Native office-aware rules Workspace-level
Marketing attribution Native per-matter Horizontal CRM
Retention per office state-bar Native office-specific clocks Workspace-level
Flat per-seat pricing One line Scale tier Four invoices stacked
How teams use Strkr

How mid-sized legal firms run Strkr.

The firms below picked Strkr for the mid-sized-firm template's combination of specialty-practice primitives, multi-office governance, and firm-wide visibility.

Boston bankruptcy and restructuring, 72 attorneys

UST MOR assembly dropped from 60 to 11 analyst-hours monthly.

Dr. Jennifer Rossi, the managing partner at a 72-attorney Boston bankruptcy and restructuring firm with 180 active Chapter 11 cases, had been running UST MOR assembly through a 60-hour monthly analyst sprint. Strkr's UST reporting workflow with structured financial-data capture and MOR template generation reduced monthly assembly to 11 hours. The 49-hour monthly savings reinvested into higher-value restructuring work. Monthly billable realization lifted 7 percent in the second full quarter.

New York white-collar defense, 54 attorneys

DOJ investigation workflow cut document-production errors to zero.

A 54-attorney New York white-collar criminal defense firm had been handling DOJ document-production coordination through Microsoft Word checklists that caught coordination errors in roughly 4 percent of productions. Strkr's DOJ investigation workflow with structured production coordination eliminated the error rate across the Q2 and Q3 2025 production cycles.

Seattle environmental, 68 attorneys

EPA matter cadence tracked permit cycles cleanly.

A 68-attorney Seattle environmental firm had been managing EPA matter permit cycles through calendar reminders that drifted from the actual regulatory schedule. Strkr's structured EPA matter workflow with permit-cycle cadence and regulatory-agency counterparty tracking produced on-time deadline compliance at 99 percent in Q2 2025 against the prior 87 percent baseline.

Los Angeles maritime, 58 attorneys

Limitation-of-liability action tracking surfaced coordination gap.

A 58-attorney Los Angeles maritime and admiralty firm had been managing limitation-of-liability actions through legacy case-management tooling that did not surface multi-defendant coordination. Strkr's limitation-action workflow with structured coordination tracking identified three cases where parallel defendant representation had coordination gaps. The firm resolved the gaps before trial-posture reviews surfaced them.

Client intake and CRM for the 50-to-99-attorney firm where specialty practices, UST reporting, and multi-office governance converge.

Request a mid-sized-firm demo with the specialty-practice template loaded. Chapter 7/11/13/15 intake forms. ECF integration with PACER pull. UST MOR workflow. 341-meeting cadence. Committee representation workflow. Plan-confirmation deadline tracking. Multi-office governance. Flat per-seat Scale tier with Strkr AI included.

Common questions

What buyers in this bucket ask most.

How does the ECF integration actually work?

ECF integration pulls docket data from PACER into the Strkr matter record using firm PACER account linkage. New docket entries (filed documents, scheduling orders, hearing-date changes, judge assignments) surface on the matter record within hours of filing. Deadline cadences fire automatically from new scheduling orders. The integration respects PACER access rules and user-specific access scope. For firms with existing specialty bankruptcy case-management tools (BestCase, NextChapter, Jubilee) running PACER integration, Strkr integrates bidirectionally with the specialty tool so the firm does not maintain duplicate PACER sync infrastructure.

What about UST reporting workflow for Chapter 11 debtors?

The UST monthly operating report workflow captures structured monthly financial data (cash receipts, disbursements, accounts receivable aging, inventory status, tax compliance) with input from debtor financial staff through a structured debtor-portal form. MOR template generation produces the required reports with cover-page attestation, financial schedules (Schedule A debtor cash, Schedule B disbursements, Schedule C receivables, and so on), and attachment compilation. 20th-of-month filing deadlines cadence with 10, 5, and 2-day reminders. Firms with large Chapter 11 portfolios can batch-generate MORs across the portfolio with structured data pulled from each debtor-portal submission. The MOR submission to the UST system runs through the regional UST office portal integration.

How does 341-meeting cadence actually work?

341-meeting cadence captures the UST-set meeting schedule from ECF data, triggers debtor-preparation workflows at 7 days pre-meeting (financial-affairs-statement review, likely-question anticipation, documentation gathering, debtor coaching), 3 days pre-meeting (final rehearsal, questions-the-UST-might-ask review, final documentation check), and tracks attorney attendance. Meeting-outcome notes capture on the matter record with follow-up actions (SOFA amendments, additional-document production, examiner-questioning follow-up) workflowing from the notes. The cadence supports the 100-plus-cases-per-month 341-meeting volume typical at a 72-attorney bankruptcy firm.

What about committee representation versus debtor representation workflows?

Committee representation workflows preserve the distinct structural requirements of representing creditor committees or equity committees in Chapter 11 cases. Committee counsel captures committee composition, member identity, voting dynamics, information-sharing restrictions under Bankruptcy Code Section 1102(b)(3), retention application cadence under Section 1103, fee application cadence under Section 328 or 330, and committee counsel communication protocols. Separate retention and fee-application workflows preserve the distinct billing structure (fee applications filed with the court on committee counsel vs debtor counsel; billing cadences differ). The managing-partner view shows debtor representation and committee representation separately for firm-wide practice-area analysis.

How does multi-office governance handle different state-bar rules?

Multi-office governance applies office-specific rules per state-bar requirements: Massachusetts 7-year retention post-matter-close, New York 7-year, DC 5-year, California 5-year, Virginia 5-year, Texas 5-year for business records, Florida 6-year. The office-aware retention runs the correct clock per office. Office-specific conflict scope recognizes that local-counsel work has a narrower conflict surface than firm-wide representation. Cross-office matter staffing uses office-specific billing rates. Legal holds propagate firm-wide across all offices with cross-office audit. The managing-partner firm-wide view rolls up office-level data for governance review.

What is the pricing math at a 72-attorney firm?

A typical 72-attorney mid-sized bankruptcy and restructuring firm stitching a specialty bankruptcy case-management tool at $65 per seat plus horizontal CRM at $100 per seat plus manual UST reporting (60 analyst-hours monthly at $75 per hour = $4,500 monthly operational cost) plus DocuSign at $45 per seat lands near $230 per seat per month equivalent, annualizing to $199K at 72 seats. Strkr Scale at $125 per seat with the mid-sized-firm template includes Chapter-specific intake, ECF integration, UST MOR workflow, 341-meeting cadence, committee representation, plan-confirmation workflow, and multi-office governance on one line, annualizing to $108K at 72 seats. The 72-seat annual delta of $91K compounds as the firm scales matter throughput without proportional stack-cost scaling.

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