People do not have legal problems on a schedule. A car accident happens at 11pm. A spouse announces they want a divorce on a Sunday. An employee receives a termination letter on a Friday afternoon. The person on the other end of that experience is not going to wait until Monday morning to find representation — they are going to call until someone answers.
Most law firms are not set up to answer. The front desk goes home at five. The after-hours voicemail fills up. The attorney’s personal cell is not the answer. By the time the office opens the next morning and someone returns the calls, a significant percentage of those prospective clients have already retained another firm.
AI intake agent answers every call — including the ones that come in after the office closes
Your AI intake agent answers every inbound call within seconds, qualifies the prospective client — practice area, matter type, urgency, basic facts — and schedules a consultation directly into the attorney’s calendar without requiring anyone in the office to be available. A person calling about a DUI at 10pm gets an immediate, professional response. A potential personal injury client calling on a Saturday gets qualified and booked before they have the chance to call the firm down the street.
The agent captures name, contact information, matter type, and relevant case details. Every conversation is logged and delivered to your CRM. Complex or high-urgency matters can be flagged for immediate attorney callback based on criteria you define.
RESULT: Every inbound inquiry handled professionally within seconds, 24 hours a day. No prospective client lost to voicemail, no intake missed because the front desk was unavailable.
Consultation follow-up that converts prospects who did not retain immediately
Not every prospective client retains after the first consultation. Some are comparing firms. Some need time to discuss with a spouse. Some are waiting on a financial decision. Without a follow-up system, those prospects simply disappear — and the firm that stays in touch is usually the one that gets the retainer.
An automated follow-up sequence sends timely, professional messages to every prospective client who has had a consultation but has not yet retained. The messages are written in your firm’s voice, reference their specific matter type, and are timed appropriately — not aggressive, but consistent. The sequence stops the moment they sign or reach out. You stay in front of the decision without an attorney or paralegal manually tracking every open intake.
RESULT: Firms with consistent post-consultation follow-up retain a meaningfully higher percentage of the prospects they consult with — not by being pushy, but by simply being the firm that stayed in contact.
CRM that tracks every prospective and active client without manual data entry
Law firm CRMs fail for the same reason as every other professional service CRM: no one updates them. Intake coordinators are busy. Paralegals are managing active files. Attorneys are not logging their own calls. The result is a CRM full of outdated records, missed follow-ups, and prospective clients who fell through the cracks because nobody could remember where they were in the pipeline.
An AI-integrated CRM updates itself. Every intake call is transcribed and logged. Every form submission creates a new contact. Every consultation moves the prospect to the correct pipeline stage. Every signed retainer triggers an onboarding workflow. Your CRM becomes a live, accurate view of every prospect and active client — not a system your staff avoids because it takes too long to update.
RESULT: A complete, accurate picture of your intake pipeline at all times — without your intake coordinator spending two hours a day on data entry, and without prospects falling through the cracks between stages.
Past client outreach for referrals and repeat matters
Most law firm clients have more than one legal need over the course of their life. The client you helped with a real estate closing three years ago may now be going through a divorce. The business owner you helped incorporate may need a commercial lease reviewed. The personal injury client from two years ago may have a family member who just had an accident. Most firms have no system to stay in front of those relationships after the matter closes.
An automated past client outreach program sends periodic, relevant communication to your closed client list — legal updates relevant to their matter type, annual check-ins, and gentle reminders that your firm handles related practice areas. The outreach is professional, automated, and runs without attorney involvement.
RESULT: Past client outreach consistently surfaces new matters and referrals from clients who had no active legal need at the time of contact — but who thought of your firm first when one arose.
Primarily by capturing the intakes that are currently being lost to after-hours voicemail and slow follow-up after consultations.
An AI intake agent answers every inbound call at any hour, qualifies the prospective client, and schedules a consultation without requiring anyone in the office to be available. Post-consultation follow-up sequences keep your firm in front of prospects who did not retain immediately. Together, these two systems recover a meaningful percentage of the intake volume that most firms are currently generating but not converting — not because the firm is not a good fit, but because the logistics broke down between the first call and the signed retainer.
Yes — with a system designed specifically for legal intake, which handles qualification and scheduling without providing legal advice.
The AI intake agent does not practice law. It answers the phone, collects basic case information, determines whether the matter falls within your practice areas, and books a consultation with an attorney. It does not advise on legal strategy, predict outcomes, or make representations about the firm. The intake agent operates the same way a trained receptionist would — it gathers information and schedules the right next step. Attorneys remain fully in control of the substantive client relationship from the moment of consultation forward.
Any practice area where prospective clients feel urgency — which includes most of them.
Personal injury, family law, criminal defense, and immigration practices see the most immediate impact because the people calling often feel a time-sensitive need and will move quickly to the next available firm. Estate planning, business law, and real estate practices benefit more from the CRM and follow-up side — matters where a prospective client may take weeks to decide and where staying in front of the relationship is what determines who they eventually hire. The intake agent and follow-up systems are configured for your specific practice areas and the intake criteria your firm actually uses.
It handles intake and scheduling — not legal assessment. Complex or high-urgency matters get flagged for immediate attorney follow-up based on criteria you define.
The intake agent is configured with your firm’s specific intake criteria. Matters that meet defined urgency thresholds — an active criminal matter, a domestic violence situation, an impending court date — can be flagged for immediate attorney callback rather than standard scheduling. The agent does not attempt to assess the legal merits of any matter. It collects the information your intake coordinator would collect and routes the prospect to the right next step based on rules your firm sets in advance.
Both — the systems are built for any firm where a missed intake represents real revenue.
Pro-How works with solo practitioners, small firms, and growing practices. Solo attorneys often see the most immediate impact because every after-hours call they were missing was a potential client they generated and then lost entirely. Larger firms benefit more from the CRM and pipeline visibility side — knowing exactly where every prospective client is at any stage of intake. The setup is scoped to your firm’s size, practice areas, and intake process, not a generic template.
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