Legal AI
Legal AI should draft, file, and follow up from the systems your firm already runs. FirmOps builds that as a managed firm brain: read-first, human-approved, yours. People keep the phones.
Built from the COO seat at Conduit Law. This is operations content, not legal advice.
A working definition
Legal AI is software that prepares or routes law-firm work: intake notes, records requests, chronologies, client updates, document drafts, and status answers. If it cannot see your case system, email, and documents, it can only help with whatever someone remembers to paste in.
That is why most legal AI seats go quiet after a month. The model was never the bottleneck. Context was. A firm brain is legal AI connected to the stack you already pay for, managed so staff do not have to become an AI shop.
The map
Start with the job, not the vendor list. Each category below is a real search and a real page. The managed offer sits under all of them.
Prep work a paralegal would otherwise do by hand: records chasing, chronology, intake notes, and drafts staged for review. Not a licensed paralegal. Not legal advice.
AI legal assistantAI that lives inside Clio, Filevine, or SmartAdvocate can help inside that app. The file still leaks into email, docs, and billing. The useful layer reads all of them.
Case management automationLetters of representation, provider letters, subrogation, demand prep. Drafted from the matter, dropped into a person's email drafts, never sent alone.
Document automationCapture, qualify, follow up, sign, open. The first leak is usually the handoff, not the form. Control first, then automation.
Intake automationPick one workflow, set the data boundary, run read-first, measure what staff actually use. Expansion comes after trust, not after a kickoff deck.
Legal AI adoptionThe owner or attorney asking for a thinking partner is a different job from AI for the firm. Both matter. Do not sell one as the other.
AI for lawyersWhat it is not
Public proof
The only public product proof is from the COO seat at Conduit Law: case launch from 2.5 hours to 10 minutes, 1,000+ cases processed, 47 steps to 1 click. Supervised the whole way.
Read the Conduit Law case studyQuestions owners ask
Legal AI is software that drafts, summarizes, files, or follows up on law-firm work. The useful version reads the systems the firm already runs and stays behind a person. A chatbot in a tab that has never seen your matters is a demo, not an operating layer.
An AI legal assistant is one category of legal AI: paralegal-level prep across intake, records, drafts, and follow-up. Legal AI also covers case-system features, document automation, research tools, and adoption work. FirmOps builds the assistant as part of a managed firm brain.
No. It should take repetitive, cross-system work so people spend time on clients, judgment, and cases. FirmOps does not sell headcount cuts. Live client calls stay with people.
No. FirmOps is not an AI receptionist. Humans own live client calls. AI runs the work behind the phone: logging, drafts, records, and follow-up, all approval-gated.
One workflow the team already hates, with a clear owner and an approval gate. Intake handoff, records chasing, or a client-update draft are common first proofs. Book a 15-minute live demo if you want to see that against your stack.
Next step
The 15-minute live demo runs a firm brain against one real job, so you can see legal AI on your own systems before you decide anything.