Corporate housing for legal
Trial teams and document reviewers within walking distance of the courthouse.
What the work needs from the housing
- Walkable to the courthouse
- Options measured from the courthouse steps. Trial mornings don’t absorb traffic risk.
- A quiet room to work late
- Somewhere to spread exhibits and take privileged calls that isn’t a hotel lobby.
- Month-to-month during trial
- Trials overrun and settle early in equal measure; the housing follows the docket.
- Secure building
- Controlled access and packages signed for — case files travel with the team.
- One invoice per matter
- Billing mapped to the matter number for clean client recovery.
Why apartments, not hotels.
Living space
One room. Bed, desk, bathroom.
A whole apartment: separate bedroom, living room, kitchen, usually a washer and dryer.
Cost over a month or more
A nightly rate on every night, plus lodging tax, parking and meals out.
A monthly rate, usually lower per night, with utilities and Wi-Fi in and occupancy tax reduced or exempt in many jurisdictions.
Keeping the team together
Rooms spread across whichever floors are free that night.
The trial team in one building near the courthouse, with a shared 2BR as a war room where wanted.
Privacy
Sleeping, working and taking calls in the same room.
Privileged calls behind your own front door, and a separate room where the case doesn’t follow you to bed.
Length of stay
By the night, re-booked as the project runs on.
From a couple of weeks to a year or longer, with extension and early-exit terms agreed up front.
Paperwork
A folio per room per stay for finance to reconcile.
One contract and one monthly invoice for the whole requirement, itemised by unit.
Typical stay lengths and unit mix
- Stay
- 2 weeks to 4 months
- Unit mix
- 1BRs, some 2BRs for shared war rooms
- Where
- Within walking distance of the courts: the Loop in Chicago, Downtown in Detroit, and courthouse districts across the other metros.
- Extensions
- Month to month against the docket — extend through deliberations, leave when it settles.
Options within one business day.
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- Already have an RFP
- rfp@cohauz.com
- Want to talk it through first
- Book a fifteen-minute scoping call