The assistant on its own
Contracted elsewhere for three more years? Start anyway.
The same assistant that sits inside the platform, run inside the system your firm already has. Nothing is migrated.
Meet Henry
Henry is the assistant, named for Henry de Bracton, whose treatise first gathered the decisions of the English courts into order. He works inside your files with the permissions your firm gives him.
Ask him a question about a matter and he answers from the papers on that file, naming each paper he relies on so that you check it rather than take it on trust. He drafts in your firm's style from your own precedents, reads the post as it arrives and sets it against its file, reads a letter before it goes out if you send it to him, and sits in a pane beside the document in Word. Each answer is recorded on the file.
Everything he writes waits for a fee earner to read and approve, and nothing leaves the firm in his name. What he reads stays where your firm holds it, and nothing your firm sends trains a model.
What Henry does
On its own it connects through the interface your system already provides, under permissions your firm sets. Inside the platform it reads and writes the same record.
Reads every file overnight
Each working night he opens every live file and writes a note of what needs doing, so by morning each fee earner has the files that need attention with the next action drafted.
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Answers from the papers
A question that would send you into the bundle is answered from the papers on the file, each answer naming the paper it came from and its page.
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Drafts in your firm's name
Replies, chasers, client updates, a chronology, a letter before claim or a witness statement, each from your precedents and each held for a fee earner to approve.
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Writes up lost time
Chargeable work that never reached a time entry is found on the record of the day and drafted as entries for approval.
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Watches the dates
A limitation date with no proceedings issued, a fixed fee past its scope, a client gone quiet, each raised before it becomes a claim.
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Answers the telephone
A caller to the firm is greeted, their enquiry taken down and set against a new file or an existing one, with the transcript on the record and no message lost.
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Ask Henry a question about a matter and he answers from the papers on that file. A question that would send you into the bundle comes back with the paper and the page.
- Citedeach answer names the paper it came from and its page, so you check it rather than take it on trust
- In conversationa follow up question reads as one conversation, on the same file
- In the backgroundchoose up to three hundred papers and twenty questions, and he reads them into a table, one column to a question
- In Wordan Ask Henry button on the Home tab, in Word for Windows, Word for Mac and Word on the web, with his edits as exact words you accept or refuse
Drafts in your firm's name
Henry drafts the papers a file needs from the firm's own precedents and past advice, and each one waits on the file for a person to read and sign.
- From your precedentsconfigured for your firm alone, in your style, never a generic letter
- Read againeach draft is checked against the file and against the form the rules give that kind of paper before it reaches you
- What he draftsreplies, chasers and client updates, a chronology, a case summary, a letter before claim and a witness statement taken from a questionnaire call
- Held for approvalevery draft waits for a qualified fee earner, and nothing leaves the firm in his name
Answers the telephone
The receptionist is an automated assistant on the firm's telephone line, so callers reach an answer and a booked time without interrupting you in the middle of a draft.
- Says what it isthe receptionist says first that it is an automated assistant, that the call is recorded and transcribed, and that a person will call instead if asked
- Books a timea caller the record knows is offered days the fee earner's diary leaves free, and the appointment is made only if the diary still offers that day at the end of the call
- Takes the enquirya new enquiry is read within half an hour, with the kind of work, any limitation point, the names to search for conflicts and a reply in two sentences
- On the filethe transcript and the note of every call are waiting on the file when you come to it, and no message is lost
Where it reaches less far
- Through another systemit sees what that system's interface exposes, which we tell you at proposal
- Inside the platformit reads and writes the same record, so it can refuse a breaching save
- No second homematter data is read where your firm holds it, never copied to another cloud
- Nothing wastedwhat you pay for the assistant comes off the platform price if you move within a year
The price
- Standard seat£115 for each person a month, plus VAT
- Heavy seat£295 for each person a month, for document heavy work
- Fair useallowances pooled across the firm, with a cap you set
- Published in fullon the prices page
The contract diary
Give us the date your agreement ends. A quarter before it we write once. One line takes you off the list.