Glossary

This page collects the platform-specific words that show up across Kalivar — in the sidebar, in emails, on the billing pages, and in the rest of these docs. Use it as a quick lookup when a label or status isn't quite obvious.

Archetype

The role you picked at onboarding: Attorney, Medical expert, or Administrator. It determines what you see in the app — your sidebar, the pages available to you, and the actions you can take. You choose it once at signup and it isn't meant to change afterward.

Bar credentials

The professional details captured during attorney onboarding: states you're admitted in, practice areas, and firm size. Kalivar uses these to filter case visibility and to surface the right plan options for you.

Case

A litigation matter posted by an attorney for expert opinions. Cases carry a specialty, a brief, and a Matter ID, and they're what medical experts evaluate in the Case Feed. See Creating cases for the attorney workflow.

Case Feed

The expert's stream of matched cases. The sidebar label is literally "Case Feed". Cases appear here when their specialty matches yours and when you're eligible to opine on them.

Case merit

The expert's read on whether a case has merit — that is, whether the medical facts support the legal claim. It's the substantive question most opinions are answering.

Conflict declaration

The statement a medical expert makes that they have no conflict of interest before accepting a case or introduction. Kalivar requires this before any work is shown unmasked, and it's recorded for audit.

Dormant firm

A law firm whose subscription has lapsed. Service is blocked for member attorneys until the firm is reactivated by an owner or admin. See Managing a law firm for reactivation steps.

Double-blind matching

The mode in which attorney identity and expert identity are mutually hidden until an introduction is accepted. It's how Kalivar protects both sides from premature disclosure during the matching phase.

Earnings

Payouts owed to medical experts for Rewarded opinions and completed introductions. The Earnings page in the sidebar is where you'll find the running total, the ledger, and your payout method. See Earnings and payouts.

Enterprise plan

Invoice-billed, per-organization pricing for law firms. Pricing is negotiated per firm rather than picked from a public tier. See Billing and plans.

Expert network

An organization of medical experts. Networks manage the roster and — depending on the network — credential context for their members. Networks don't pay subscription fees; only law firms do. See Managing an expert network.

Fee schedule

An expert's prices for opinions and introductions. Always displayed in dollars. See Credentials and profile.

Introduction

A direct request from an attorney to converse with a specific medical expert about a case. Introductions are separate from opinions — they're a one-to-one conversation, not a written read. See Requesting introductions.

Law firm

An organization of attorneys. The firm pays for member cases and introductions under one plan, so individual attorneys in a firm don't carry their own subscription. See Managing a law firm.

Ledger

The earnings record showing each line item: Rewarded opinion, completed introduction, refund, and so on. The ledger is the source of truth for what you were paid, when, and for what.

Matching breadth

How widely an attorney casts the net when they pick a case's specialty: one specific subspecialty, a whole field, or a subspecialty across any field. Breadth decides which experts a case reaches and who can opine on it. Attorneys choose it in the specialty picker (see Choosing the right specialty); experts can read what it means for them in Which cases you can opine on.

Matter ID

An identifier you attach to a case to map it to your firm's matter-management system. Required when you create a case. Kalivar treats it as opaque metadata — it never leaves the case.

NPI

National Provider Identifier. Required for licensed physicians during onboarding so Kalivar can verify credentials. Other clinicians (nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and similar) can skip it during signup.

Opinion

A medical expert's written read on a case. Each opinion is the expert's take on case merit and any related medical questions the attorney has asked. See Writing opinions.

Owner / Admin / Member

The three organization roles. Owner has the broadest powers — transferable settings, audit log, member controls. Admins manage day-to-day operations. Members participate in the firm's plan but don't manage settings.

Patient population

An age band an attorney can set on a case — Pediatric, Neonatal, Adolescent, or Geriatric (Adult is the default) — orthogonal to the specialty. It narrows matching to age-specific experts (a pediatric case reaches child specialists), using the age-specific sub-specialty where one exists and the whole field otherwise. See Choosing the right specialty.

PAYG plan

Pay-as-you-go for solo attorneys. You're charged per case and per introduction, with no monthly subscription. See Billing and plans.

Pro plan

The monthly subscription tier available to solo attorneys and law firms. Includes bundled credits each cycle. See Billing and plans.

Quality projection

A platform-generated estimate of an opinion's quality, shown as a grade. It's informational — a signal to help attorneys triage — and not a verdict on the expert's work.

Reviewed

The outcome label for an opinion the attorney did not select. The work was read; another opinion better matched this particular case. Experts see "Reviewed" rather than anything harsher because the work has value even when it isn't picked.

Rewarded

The outcome label for an opinion the attorney accepted. The expert is paid, and the line item shows up on the ledger. See Reviewing opinions.

Roster

The list of experts affiliated with an expert network. Network admins manage the roster — adding members, removing them, and (in some networks) shaping their displayed credentials.

Settlement

The financial settlement of a Rewarded opinion or completed introduction. Settlement is what actually gets paid out to the expert on your scheduled cadence.

Specialty

The medical specialty matched between a case and a medical expert. Required on every case, because matching only works when both sides agree on the field of medicine in question.

Sub-specialty

A narrower specialization a medical expert picks at onboarding (for example, interventional cardiology under cardiology). Kalivar uses sub-specialties for stronger matches on cases that need them.