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Legal Services Marketplace

Lexium

A full-stack marketplace connecting citizens with verified legal professionals, covering the whole journey from finding a provider and booking a consultation to filing a case, tracking it, leaving a review and releasing the escrowed payment.

Provider types
6
User roles
3
Test transactions
50+
Role
Design and development, end to end
Team
Solo
Timeline
Apr 2026 — May 2026
Status
Live

Overview

Lexium is a full-stack legal services marketplace designed to connect citizens with verified legal professionals such as advocates, mediators, arbitrators, notaries, document writers, and tax consultants.

The platform supports the complete journey from discovering a professional and booking a consultation to filing a case, tracking its progress, completing the service, leaving a review, and releasing the associated payment.

Three roles

The platform is built around three distinct roles: citizens, legal professionals, and administrators.

  • Citizens can browse approved professionals, view their profiles and services, book consultations, file and track cases, and submit reviews.
  • Providers have their own dashboard for managing incoming cases, appointments, active cases, profiles, reviews, and earnings.
  • Administrators supervise the platform by approving providers, managing users, monitoring cases and transactions, and controlling the release of escrowed payments.

Case lifecycle and escrow

A major part of Lexium is its case lifecycle and escrow system. When a citizen files a case, it moves through defined stages such as pending, under review, in progress, awaiting documents, resolved, and closed, with timeline entries recording important updates.

Once a consultation is completed, the associated payment enters escrow and can only be released by an administrator after the linked case reaches an eligible resolved or closed state.

Compliance and performance

  • Providers get performance badges and leaderboard ranking, compliance notices and guidance, and a transparent earnings ledger alongside their dashboard analytics.
  • Administrators handle complaint moderation and resolution, and can escalate issues with warnings, earnings deductions, or escrow holds. They also have leaderboard and performance analytics, and audit trails for all compliance actions.

Architecture

System architecture

  1. Client

    React 19 + Vite

    Vercel

  2. API

    Laravel 13 REST API

    Render

  3. Data

    MongoDB Atlas

    Primary database

  4. Auth

    Firebase Authentication

    Separate flow for admins

  • React 19 + Vite → Firebase Authentication — citizen / provider identity
  • Sync
  • Async
  • Auth

Firebase Authentication handles citizen and provider identity, while administrators use a separate authenticated flow.

Stack

Frontend
React 19, Vite, Tailwind CSS v4, Framer Motion
Backend
Laravel 13, PHP 8.2+
Database
MongoDB Atlas (via laravel-mongodb)
Auth
Firebase Authentication (citizens and providers), separate admin flow
Tooling
Docker
Deploy
Vercel (frontend), Render (backend)