How escrow payments protect both sides of a legal engagement

The hardest moment in any professional engagement is the payment. Pay everything upfront and the client carries all the risk. Pay at the end and the professional carries it. Most disputes between lawyers and clients trace back to this imbalance.

Docket resolves it with escrow. When a client and counsel agree on a fee, the client pays into escrow — the funds are secured, but not yet released. Counsel can begin work knowing the fee is real and reserved. When the engagement is complete and the client confirms it, the funds are released.

What this changes

For clients: you never pay for work that was not delivered, and you know the total cost — counsel's fee plus Docket's transparent service fee — before anything starts. For counsel: no more chasing invoices after the work is done. The engagement starts with the money already secured.

Payments are processed through Paystack, one of Nigeria's leading payment providers, supporting cards, bank transfer, and USSD.