New enquiries are sitting in the inbox while your lawyers are in court. Limitation dates are creeping up. Clients are chasing for updates you haven’t had time to write. AI agents handle client intake, track every deadline, manage documents, and keep clients informed – so your lawyers can bill more hours and spend less time on admin.
37%of a lawyer’s day is billable workOnly 37% of a lawyer’s working day generates revenue. The rest goes to admin — time entries, document management, client intake, and scheduling. That’s over half the day unbilled.
$200-500per hour in unbilled partner timeEvery hour a partner spends on admin instead of client work is $200-500 in revenue that never gets billed. Across a year, that’s six figures per partner.
93 daysaverage collection timeFirms that reconstruct time entries from memory lose 25-50% of potentially billable time. Slow invoicing stretches collection to 93 days on average.
The reality today
Firms collect just $910 per $1,000 billed. Every hour of unbilled admin at partner rates is $200-500 permanently lost. New enquiries sit in the inbox for days because every lawyer in the firm is either in court, in conference, or buried in discovery. Limitation dates creep up in spreadsheets nobody checks until it’s nearly too late. Clients ring reception chasing updates on their matter and nobody can tell them anything because the file notes are three weeks behind. Costs agreements go out late, trust account reconciliations pile up, and half the firm’s WIP never makes it onto an invoice.
Every new enquiry is qualified and conflict-checked before a lawyer even opens the file. Limitation dates and court deadlines are tracked with escalating reminders. Clients get matter progress updates without anyone drafting an email. Documents are classified and filed to the correct matter automatically. Your lawyers focus on legal work, not admin.
Every repetitive task eating into your billable hours, automated and running around the clock.
Client Intake & Conflict Checking
New enquiry comes in, the AI agent qualifies it against your intake criteria, runs a conflict check across your matter database, and drafts the engagement letter and costs disclosure. By the time a lawyer looks at it, the file is ready to open. No more enquiries going cold because nobody got back to them.
Court & Limitation Deadline Tracking
Every critical date tracked in one place with automatic reminders that escalate as deadlines approach. Filing deadlines, limitation periods, settlement conferences, briefing dates – the agent sends progressively urgent reminders to the responsible lawyer and flags overdue items to the managing partner. No more relying on someone’s Outlook reminders.
Client Communication & Status Updates
Clients get regular matter progress updates without lawyers having to draft emails between hearings. The AI agent pulls the latest file activity, summarises the current position, and sends a professional update. Clients stop ringing reception asking what’s happening with their matter because they already know.
Document Management & Filing
Incoming documents are automatically classified and filed to the correct matter in Google Drive or OneDrive. Correspondence, court documents, briefs, settlement offers – each one lands in the right folder without a paralegal manually sorting through the inbox. Complete version history and audit trail on every document.
Costs Disclosure & Billing Reminders
Costs agreements sent on time at the start of every new matter. WIP reminders go to lawyers who haven’t recorded time in days. Invoice follow-ups chase outstanding accounts receivable without anyone in accounts picking up the phone. Your trust account stays clean because the agent flags discrepancies before they become Law Society problems.
Internal Coordination
Briefing agents notified and confirmed automatically. New matters allocated to lawyers based on practice area and capacity. Practising certificate renewal reminders sent well before expiry. CPD tracking nudges for lawyers falling behind on their hours. The operational side of running a firm handled without the practice manager chasing everyone individually.
Up and running in under an hour
No IT department needed. No coding. Just tell the agent how your firm operates.
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Link your email, calendar, and document storage
Connect Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, and Google Drive or OneDrive. The AI agent works with the tools your firm already uses – no new software to learn. Credentials are encrypted and stored securely in your isolated environment.
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Set your practice rules
Define your intake criteria, deadline buffer periods, client update frequency, and billing rules in plain English – “qualify new enquiries for family law matters, send limitation date reminders at 90, 60, and 30 days, update clients fortnightly on active matters.”
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Enquiries get qualified, deadlines stay tracked, clients stay informed
New enquiries are qualified and conflict-checked within minutes. Every court date and limitation period is tracked with escalating reminders. Clients receive regular updates on their matters. Your lawyers spend their time on billable legal work instead of chasing admin.
Using Google Workspace or Outlook? Sprigr Team integrates directly with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Outlook, and OneDrive. Webhooks available for practice management software including LEAP, Smokeball, and Actionstep.
AI agents handle the administrative work that eats into billable hours. They qualify and conflict-check new enquiries, track every court date and limitation period, send clients regular matter updates, classify and file documents to the correct matter, chase outstanding invoices, and coordinate internal workflows like briefing and file allocation. Think of it as having a practice manager and a paralegal who work around the clock and never miss a deadline.
How do you handle confidentiality and legal professional privilege?
Every firm gets an isolated environment with encrypted credentials and data storage. AI agents operate within your existing systems – Gmail, Outlook, Google Drive, OneDrive – and never transfer client data to shared infrastructure. All actions are logged with a complete audit trail. The agent follows your firm’s communication rules, so privileged information stays within the boundaries you define. You maintain full control over what the agent can access and what it can send externally.
Does this integrate with practice management software?
Sprigr Team connects directly to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. For practice management systems like LEAP, Smokeball, Actionstep, and FilePro, we provide webhook integrations that let AI agents read and update matter data, deadlines, and billing information. If your system has an API or supports webhooks, we can connect to it.
How reliable is the deadline tracking?
Deadline tracking uses escalating reminders with configurable buffer periods. You set when reminders start (90 days, 60 days, 30 days before a limitation date, for example) and who gets notified at each stage. If a deadline is approaching and the responsible lawyer hasn’t acknowledged it, the agent escalates to the managing partner. Every reminder and acknowledgement is logged for your records. It’s more reliable than a spreadsheet or a calendar entry because it actively chases people rather than waiting for someone to check.
Does this work for small firms as well as large ones?
Yes. A sole practitioner gets the same benefit as a 50-lawyer firm – arguably more, because there’s no support staff to fall back on. Small firms use AI agents to handle intake, deadlines, and client communication that would otherwise require hiring an office manager or paralegal. Larger firms use them to standardise processes across practice groups and make sure nothing falls through the cracks when matters move between teams.
Confidentiality and privilege mean we can’t feed client data into AI systems.
Every Sprigr customer gets physically isolated infrastructure – your data is never co-located with other firms. Credentials are encrypted at rest and every agent action is logged. The AI handles scheduling, time tracking, and document routing – it doesn’t practice law.
Ready to bill more hours and chase less admin?
AI agents built for law firms. Up and running in under an hour.