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Regional Multi-Practice Trial Firm

Replaced an answering service with structured intake, practice-area routing, and a dashboard the staff actually opens.

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The problem

A multi-practice trial firm — criminal, personal injury, family, and veterans benefits — was paying an answering service more for less. It only left call notes. No real-time alerts, no leads pushed into the CRM. An after-hours emergency like a client being incarcerated could sit unseen until morning.

What we built

  • Overflow and after-hours AI voice agent
  • Every caller pushed into Clio Grow as a structured lead
  • After-hours SMS alerts to the designated attorney for that specific practice area
  • A password-gated staff dashboard showing calls, website leads, and practice-area breakdown
  • In-table call recording playback served through a proxy, so recordings play without exposing credentials
  • A deliberately read-only reporting architecture that cannot disturb the automation it reports on

Where it stands

  • Real-time follow-up on overnight emergencies
  • Automatic, structured intake instead of message notes
  • Staff can see every call and lead without asking anyone
  • Costs less than the answering service it replaced

A note in a pile isn't a lead.