AI agents for law firms
Matters move on documents and deadlines; profitability dies in unbillable admin. Agents take the intake, the drafting scaffold, and the chasing — your lawyers keep the judgment and the signature.
Unbillable intake
Every new enquiry needs conflict-check details, matter type, and urgency triaged — before anyone knows if it's worth a partner's time.
Document assembly
Cost agreements, engagement letters, standard clauses — assembled from precedent, checked against the file, formatted again.
Chasing everyone
Clients for documents, counterparties for responses, your own matter list for the things going quietly stale.
Drafts grounded in your precedents and your matter records — nothing client-facing moves without a lawyer's approval.
- →Triages new enquiries — captures the facts, flags conflicts-check inputs, and books the consult with the right practitioner
- →Drafts from precedent — cost agreements, engagement letters, routine correspondence — assembled from your templates and matter data, queued for review
- →Chases outstanding items — client documents, signatures, undertakings — politely, persistently, and logged on the file
- →Watches the matter list — surfaces stale matters and looming dates before they surface themselves
- →Answers routine client questions — from the file — 'has it been lodged?' — without consuming fee-earner time
Privilege and the Privacy Act are load-bearing
Client communications may be privileged; client data is regulated. WeBuild agents for legal practices run with hard gates: every client-facing document is human-approved before it moves (draft-only is permanent for this vertical, not a proving-run phase), data stays in your systems in your tenancy, and deployment can be on-premises where the firm requires it. Nothing in the build gives WeBuild standing access to matter data after handover. The full gate spec is published on The Cage page — bring whoever owns compliance to the call.
The split is simple: the agents take the repetitive work, your people keep the judgment. Nothing we build makes a decision a human should make — it drafts, checks, chases, and books, so your team does the work you actually hired them for.
For client-facing legal documents — always, permanently. The agent's job is to make the draft arrive complete and checked against the file, not to practise law. The efficiency is in the assembly, not the approval.
In your systems: your practice-management tool, your document store, your tenancy. The agent gets least-privilege access to the workflows it runs, and the audit log shows every read and write.
It can watch dates in your systems and prepare lodgement bundles for review. Actual lodgement stays a human action — that's a deliberate gate, not a technical limit.
Map where an agent pays back first
A Foundations Session against your actual workflows — ranked opportunities, payback math, fixed quote. The plan is yours to keep.
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