AI Services for Family & Collaborative Law Firms
After a 2-hour four-way meeting, the attorney spends another 2 hours on the paper trail. That's production work. We build AI agents that handle it so you stay focused on the people dynamics.
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After the four-way meeting
A collaborative family law practice in the Pacific Northwest runs on four-way sessions: both spouses, both attorneys, often a coach and a financial neutral. The attorney's value is in the room, reading the emotional dynamics, keeping the process constructive when tempers flare, protecting the agreement from collapsing back into litigation. The work after the session is essential, but it's mechanical. Session summary drafted and distributed, disclosure tracker updated, revised agreement sections prepared with tracked changes, action items by party logged, and a next-session agenda assembled.
Each output goes to a different audience. The coach needs the emotional dynamics section. The financial neutral needs the updated asset tables. Each spouse needs their own action items in plain language. Each attorney needs the term sheet deltas with redlines. The attorney who just spent 2 hours facilitating the session now spends another 2 hours assembling and splitting these outputs before the next session in 2 weeks.
With a custom collaborative-case agent in place, the attorney records 30 minutes of voice notes after the session, uploads the signed disclosures, and reviews the drafts. Within an hour, the session summary is drafted and ready to split by audience, the tracker is updated, the revised agreement sections are marked, and the next-session agenda is prepared. The attorney's review moves from 2 hours of typing to 15 minutes of judgment.
Why AI fits family and collaborative practice
Collaborative practice is administratively repetitive in the best way. Every session generates the same 5 outputs. Every divorce moves through the same disclosure stages. Every parenting plan rests on the same set of recurring decisions. The agents don't touch the emotional judgment, the strategy, or the client relationship. They handle the production work around it so the attorney can spend 100% of their time where they're irreplaceable.
Intake is the other pressure point. Family law leads are emotionally heavy, and response speed matters. An intake triage agent scores leads against your fit criteria, flags conflicts in your practice management system, and drafts a warm first response in the minutes after the form arrives. The consult is on your calendar within minutes of the form arriving. Family-law data is privileged and sensitive, so agents run in your account under SOC 2 and HIPAA controls, with zero data retention from our model providers and drafts-only output.
Agents we've built for family law practices
These agents apply to family and collaborative law firms. Most teams start with intake triage and a custom session-summary agent, then add the disclosure tracker and client communication agent once the first 2 are running.
Intake & Growth
See function overview →Intake Triage Agent
Scores new leads, runs a conflict check, drafts the first-response email, and prepares a consult memo in the minutes that matter most for conversion.
Learn moreCase Viability Screener Agent
Scores each new matter against your firm's case-acceptance criteria and surfaces the borderline ones for partner judgment.
Learn moreConflict Check Agent
Scans every new matter against your firm's full conflicts database and ethical walls before you commit.
Learn moreFee Agreement Drafter Agent
Generates the right engagement letter for the matter type, jurisdiction, and fee structure, with the clauses your partners insist on baked in.
Learn moreReferral Engine Agent
Tracks every referral source, drafts the thank-you note when a case closes, and surfaces the partners worth taking to lunch.
Learn moreReviews & Reputation Agent
Asks the right satisfied clients for a Google review at the right moment, drafts the polished response to every review, and surfaces complaints before they go public.
Learn moreDeadlines & Compliance
See function overview →Docketing & Deadlines Agent
Computes every response deadline, statute of limitations, and court-rule trigger across your active matters and surfaces what needs attention before it slips.
Learn moreCourt Rules Monitor Agent
Tracks rule changes, standing orders, and judge-specific procedures across the courts where your firm practices and notifies the affected matter teams.
Learn moreEthics Guardian Agent
Watches the patterns that lead to bar complaints (silence gaps, fee disputes, missed deadlines, unreturned funds) and surfaces them before the complaint lands.
Learn moreFiling Readiness Agent
Pre-checks every filing for the formatting, signatures, exhibits, and certificates the court requires before the clerk rejects it.
Learn moreStatute of Limitations Tracker Agent
Watches every active claim against the right SOL clock and escalates the warnings as the window closes.
Learn moreTrust Account Reconciler Agent
Reconciles your IOLTA monthly, flags any negative balance per matter, and produces the audit-ready ledger your state bar wants to see.
Learn moreClient Communications
See function overview →Client Communications Agent
Drafts proactive client updates on every active matter, surfaces clients who haven't heard from you in too long, and keeps the relationship warm without burning attorney hours.
Learn moreBilingual Translator Agent
Drafts client communications in the client's preferred language and translates incoming documents back into English for the matter file.
Learn moreCourt Date Reminders Agent
Sends every client a personalized court-date reminder cadence with the address, the dress code, and the documents to bring.
Learn moreMeeting Prep Brief Agent
Pulls the matter file, researches every external attendee, and drafts the 1-page briefing 60 minutes before each meeting.
Learn moreSettlement Explainer Agent
Translates a settlement offer into the plain-English picture your client can actually evaluate, with the breakdown they need to decide.
Learn moreOperations & Billing
See function overview →Inbox & Meetings Agent
Triages every overnight email, briefs you on every meeting before it starts, and drafts the follow-ups when it's over. Two of the loudest workflows, handled.
Learn moreBilling Reconciler Agent
Reviews every draft invoice for missing time, write-down patterns, and billing-guideline compliance before it goes to the client.
Learn moreSubpoena Manager Agent
Drafts subpoenas, coordinates service, tracks responses, and surfaces the recipients who haven't produced on time.
Learn moreTime Capture Agent
Reconstructs the day's billable activity from email, calendar, and document edits and drafts the time entries for attorney review.
Learn moreVendor Coordination Agent
Manages the back-and-forth with court reporters, process servers, expert witnesses, and investigators on every matter that uses them.
Learn morePractice Intelligence
See function overview →Practice Intelligence Agent
Rolls up matter health, partner workload, settlement velocity, and revenue per practice area into a Monday-morning picture you can act on.
Learn moreMatter Profitability Agent
Computes the true profit per matter and per matter type, accounting for billable rates, write-downs, costs, and partner time.
Learn morePipeline Forecasting Agent
Projects the next 90 days of fee revenue from the open pipeline using historical conversion and settlement velocity per matter type.
Learn moreReferral Source ROI Agent
Computes the lifetime value of every referral source and the ROI on every business-development investment, so the marketing budget gets sharper every quarter.
Learn moreWorkload Balancer Agent
Surfaces uneven workloads across attorneys and recommends matter reassignments before someone burns out or a matter stalls.
Learn moreCasework & Drafting
See function overview →Mediation & Settlement Prep Agent
Assembles the mediation brief, the opposing-party leverage analysis, the BATNA memo, and the settlement-position one-pager before every mediation or settlement conference.
Learn moreTrial Prep Agent
Assembles the trial notebook from the matter file: witness list, exhibit list, jury instructions, voir dire questions, and opening and closing outlines.
Learn moreAppellate Brief Drafter Agent
Drafts the statement of facts, the standard-of-review section, the argument, and the table of authorities for an appellate brief.
Learn moreClosing Binder Agent
Assembles the matter closing binder when a case resolves: signed agreement, distribution statement, lien releases, file index, and the client-facing summary.
Learn moreDeposition Prep Agent
Builds the witness profile, the prior-statement cross-reference, and the question outline before every deposition.
Learn moreDiscovery Builder Agent
Drafts interrogatories, requests for production, and requests for admission tuned to the case theory and the opposing party's posture.
Learn moreDiscovery Response Agent
Drafts responses and objections to incoming discovery, organizes the document production, and keeps the privilege log current.
Learn moreMotion Drafter Agent
Drafts the motion, the brief in support, and the proposed order with the right citations and the right local format.
Learn morePleading Drafter Agent
Drafts complaints, answers, and amended pleadings with the right causes of action, the right defenses, and the right local format.
Learn moreHow we'd build this for your firm
We start with Blueprint, a 2 to 3 week engagement where we watch 3 or 4 real matters move from intake through a collaborative session or a mediation prep and map where agents would land. You leave with a prioritized roadmap and a written scope for the first build.
Build is 4 to 8 weeks. We stand up your first 2 or 3 agents in your account, connect them to your practice management system, your intake sources, and your document storage, and run them in shadow mode while we tune. Session summaries ship in your voice, not a generic template.
Managed is the ongoing operating mode. We monitor the agents, refine prompts as your process evolves, add new agents as your needs grow, and absorb the work of keeping the fleet running. You get a monthly review with what the agents handled, where they escalated, and what we'd change next.
Frequently Asked Questions
The agent captures what's on the record: disclosures exchanged, terms agreed, action items assigned, deadlines set. The nuance, the emotional turn, the client who is suddenly ready to settle, the moment to pause and reset, stays with the attorney. The agent writes the paper trail. You shape the process.
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