Practice system
Real Estate & Construction, run as a system.
Purchases, sales, leasing, development and construction: date-of-the-essence transactional work.
Contract-created dates where time is of the essence. Missing a contingency date doesn't get you sanctioned, it silently waives your client's rights: the cascade protects option value, not compliance.
Stage
Diligence expires
6d
Closing date
Sep 3
Earnest money at risk
$25,000
Computed: Critical-Date Runway
Days to the next unwaived contingency, plus the earnest-money risk state.
Posture
One question decides how the whole matter reads.
Transaction: do we represent the buyer, seller, landlord, tenant, or lender? Construction: owner, GC, subcontractor, or surety?
What it tracks
The documents this practice actually produces.
Purchase & sale agreement
Title commitment
Amendments & extensions
Lien waivers & pay applications
Closing statement
Computed
Critical-Date Runway
Days to the next unwaived contingency, plus the earnest-money risk state.
Opening checklist
What starts moving on day one.
- Conflicts incl. dual-agency issues
- Every contract date extracted and confirmed
- Title ordered, inspections scheduled
- Objection letter tracked to its deadline
- Recording confirmed post-closing
Questions
Before you book the call.
- Do you build a matter management system specifically for real estate & construction practices?
- Yes. It runs on the same MATTER Method as everything else I build, configured for how real estate & construction actually moves: Contract-created dates where time is of the essence. Missing a contingency date doesn't get you sanctioned, it silently waives your client's rights: the cascade protects option value, not compliance.
- What does the system actually track for a real estate & construction matter?
- Every stage from contract to post-closing, the facts that matter most for this practice (diligence expires, closing date, earnest money at risk), the document set the matter actually produces, and one computed read: critical-date runway, days to the next unwaived contingency, plus the earnest-money risk state.
- Can I get this through MatterOS, or does it need a custom build?
- Both. It ships as a configured practice pack inside MatterOS for solo and small-firm workflows, or as a private, purpose-built system when a firm needs more control over data, integrations or workflow. Either way, we start with a short call to see which fits.
- Do you also handle litigation technology and expert witness work for these matters?
- Separately, yes, under the same practice. If a matter needs digital evidence structured or presented in a US courtroom rather than just tracked, that is the second half of what I do. See the Services page for how that engagement runs.
Bring me the real estate & construction matter. I've probably built this before.