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A legal services mobile app connecting clients with attorneys — case management, secure messaging, and meeting booking, built in two months

A full-stack legal services platform built in React Native — client-facing mobile app, attorney admin panel, and superadmin oversight layer, all in one system. Clients submit cases, book meetings, and message their attorney directly. Attorneys review, respond, and manage their caseload. The superadmin assigns, monitors, and controls everything.

Months from brief to full deployment

Layers built — client app, admin panel, superadmin panel

Languages supported — English and Spanish

Challenge

Three completely different users — client, attorney, and superadmin — all on one platform

Legal services apps carry a specific set of expectations. Clients are often under stress — they need to find the right help quickly, communicate clearly, and feel confident their information is private. Attorneys need a clean workspace where they can manage multiple cases without losing context. And the firm needs oversight of everything — case assignments, attorney workloads, and client communications — without being in the way of either side. Building all three experiences in one coherent system, in two months, was the challenge.

C-01

Three user types with completely different needs

Clients need guided onboarding and a simple, reassuring interface. Attorneys need structured case management and communication tools. Superadmins need oversight and control across the entire platform. One codebase serving all three without any role feeling like an afterthought.

C-02

Case assignment across a three-tier hierarchy

Cases submitted by clients needed to flow correctly to the superadmin for assignment, then to the right attorney — with visibility, status tracking, and case numbering maintained at every stage. Getting the assignment workflow right without building separate apps for each role required careful access control architecture.

C-03

Secure communication across all three roles

Clients message their assigned attorney. Attorneys respond, review, and can initiate calls. Superadmins monitor messaging at a platform level. All three communication flows had to work correctly and securely, with messages routed to the right people and no cross-contamination between cases or clients.

C-04

Two months. A complete product

The client needed a production-ready platform — not an MVP. Client app, attorney admin panel, superadmin oversight layer, push notifications, Google Meet booking integration, bilingual support, and secure authentication all had to be live and working at handover. Scope discipline was non-negotiable.

How it works

From case submission to resolution — every role has a clear path

STAGE — 01 / DETECT

Client registers

Email or Google login, onboarding screens explain the service

Case submitted

Client opens a new case with details, case number generated automatically

Case assigned

Superadmin reviews and assigns the case to the appropriate attorney

Attorney engaged

Attorney reviews case history, messages client, books a meeting via Google Meet

Communication ongoing

Push notifications keep client informed, messages and calls handled in-app

Case resolved

Attorney updates case status, client sees resolution, full history retained

Technical tension

Three access levels, one codebase — and every role seeing only what they should

The access control architecture was the most important decision made early on. Client, admin, and superadmin each needed to see a completely different interface, with completely different data, from the same React Native codebase. A client should never see another client's case. An attorney should only see assigned cases. The superadmin needs full visibility across everything. Getting this right meant designing the role-based permission system before any screen was built — the data model, the API layer, and the navigation structure all flowed from that decision. The Google Meet booking integration had to feel native rather than a redirect. Meeting booking from the attorney side triggers an invitation to the client, with confirmation handled in-app and push notifications sent at the right moments — booking confirmation, meeting reminder, and status updates as the case progresses. Push notifications across the platform needed to be contextual — the right message, to the right user, at the right point in the case lifecycle — which required a notification event system mapped to every meaningful case status change rather than a simple broadcast layer.

case-assignment — superadmin routing

01// superadmin assigns case to attorney

02 const assignCase = async (caseId, attorneyId) => {

03const caseRecord = await db.cases.findById(caseId)

04 if (caseRecord.status !== 'PENDING') {

05 throw new Error('Case already assigned')

06}

07 await db.cases.update(caseId, {

08 assignedTo: attorneyId,

09 status: 'ACTIVE',

10assignedAt: new Date()

11})

12// → push notification sent to client

13 // → case appears in attorney's admin panel

14 // → case number confirmed · history log updated

15}

KickeR-THE CASE LOOP

Every case follows the same closed loop — from submission to resolution

From the moment a client submits a case to the moment it's resolved, every step moves through the same structured loop — with the right person in control at each stage and full visibility maintained throughout.

Capabilities

Four things the platform does — built for a law firm that needed to move faster than email

CLIENT APP

Case submission and attorney communication

Bilingual onboarding, Google and email login, new case submission, active case tracking with status indicators, secure in-app messaging with the assigned attorney, meeting booking via Google Meet, and push notifications throughout. Everything a client needs without anything they don't.

ATTORNEY ADMIN

Caseload management and client communication

Assigned cases surfaced with case numbers, client details, and full message history. Attorneys can message, call, and book meetings with clients directly from the admin panel. Case status updated in real time. A clean workspace that handles multiple active cases without losing context.

SUPERADMIN PANEL

Full platform oversight and case assignment

All submitted cases visible in one view. Superadmin assigns each case to the appropriate attorney, monitors messaging activity across the platform, manages attorney access, and maintains oversight of every active and resolved case. The control layer that keeps the firm running.

NOTIFICATIONS & MEETINGS

Push notifications and Google Meet integration

Contextual push notifications at every meaningful case event — submission, assignment, new message, meeting booked, status update. Google Meet booking integrated natively into the attorney workflow, with invitations and confirmations handled in-app without leaving the platform.

Results

Full three-tier platform delivered in two months. Client app, attorney admin, and superadmin all live at handover.

The complete platform — client-facing mobile app, attorney admin panel, and superadmin oversight layer — was delivered and deployed in two months across iOS and Android. Case submission, assignment, attorney communication, Google Meet booking, and push notifications were all live and working from day one. The bilingual English and Spanish interface was fully implemented at launch. The role-based access control system correctly separated client, attorney, and superadmin data from the first session. The two-person development team — one full-stack, one frontend — delivered a production-ready platform that the firm could operate immediately without further development work required at handover.

2mo

Full platform delivered across three user tiers

Roles built — client, attorney, superadmin

Languages — English and Spanish at launch

Codebase for iOS, Android, admin, and superadmin

Building a platform where clients, practitioners, and administrators all need to coexist — securely?

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