Keep the theme, fix the flow
Same navy/red/gold identity, same .card / .badge / .table vocabulary from assets/doj.css — nothing about the brand changes. What changes is structure: every role today gets one long scrolling stack of stacked cards (see Website Roles) that mixes daily tasks, notifications, queues, and admin tools in whatever order they were built. This variant moves that same content into a persistent left-rail workspace — a fixed nav of named sections, one focused pane at a time, with an Overview that actually tells you what needs you first.
Orientation over scrolling. A private attorney dashboard today is 12+ stacked cards. Nobody remembers where "Retainers" was. A named sidebar item is always in the same place.
One job at a time. Panes separate "what needs me now" (Overview) from "let me work a queue" (Intake, Cases) from "reference" (Library, Training) — instead of interleaving them top-to-bottom.
The pattern travels. The same rail shape holds for Clerk, Judge, and Citizen below — only the nav labels and Overview content change per role, so a returning user's muscle memory transfers between accounts.
Overview
My Cases
Intake Queue
Marcus Reyes CID CW77413 · requested counsel from booking desk
Charge: Grand Theft Auto · Requested 22 min ago
Requested 3h ago
Requested yesterday
Retainers
Training
Voir Dire, Objections, Discovery Motions, Plea Bargaining, Cross-Examination…
My Firm
3 members · Owner: Diane Cortez
Library & Case Law
Notifications
2h ago
4h ago
Yesterday
Yesterday