Law Firm
AI tools for law firms: what to use and what it costs
Drafting and intake eat billable hours. Here's how AI speeds up first drafts and research while you stay in control of every word that goes out.
What the setup unlocks: All 4 budget plans · copy-paste AI wording · app connections · setup checklist · cheaper swaps · optional monthly research, a briefing and plan updates
7-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.
Claude
Pro
Perplexity
Free
Who does what in this plan
Every job in the plan has an owner: you, or you with AI doing the work for you to approve. In your own account you can change any of them.
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- You + AI6
Jobs this plan keeps human
Legal advice and opinions
Advice carries professional duties, so it comes from a lawyer.
Citations and court filings
A fake or wrong citation harms the client, so a lawyer checks every one.
Client confidences
Confidential details are never pasted into a consumer tool.
Conflict checks and engagement terms
These carry professional obligations that stay with a person.
Fees and billing disputes
Money with a client is a conversation for a partner.
Your website
A site for a business like this, drafted by the software
Brennan Hallahan Solicitors is a made-up employment and commercial law firm. The software read its facts and picked the Quartz Look.
Why this Look
Quartz keeps the page quiet, with numbered practice areas and fees laid out like a schedule, which suits a firm that sells judgement rather than volume.
Yours is drafted from your own answers. You edit it, and you publish it.
See all the examples
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Pick your budget
Free on this page: the full $50 starter set of tools and every section of the sample plan. The $99 one-time setup unlocks all 4 budgets and setup steps for your plan, adapted to your answers, with AI drafts checked by a person. Optional Kept current at $29/month adds monthly business research, a briefing and plan updates. Starts only if you say yes. Stop any time and keep your plan.
What this budget buys
Speed up drafting and research carefully.
$20/mo
2 tools
- ClaudeGeneral AI assistants
- PerplexityResearch AI
- Which plan to pick for each tool
- The order to set them up in
- A cheaper swap for each one
Unlocked by the one-time setupFind my plan
- General AI assistants$20
- Left for usage and growth$80
Leaves about $80/mo of your budget for usage costs and growth.
- Dapols setup
- $99 once
- AI development projects reviewed on Clutch
- $10,000–$49,999 per project
Source: Clutch AI pricing guide (checked Sep 23, 2026)
Preview — the $50 starter plan is shown in full · We re-check these prices in batches and show the date of the last check, but vendors change them whenever they like — always confirm on the vendor's site before you buy.
Cheaper swaps for every pick
We don't just name one tool. For each pick we show money-saving alternatives that do the same job — and the $50 starter budget is your leanest set of tools if you want the cheapest credible setup.
AI stack vs hiring — what you'd keep
Compare the yearly cost of a hire against the AI tool stack that does the repetitive work.
This stack includes usage-based pricing, so the exact monthly cost depends on volume — see the live prices below.
This compares cost only, and deliberately understates hiring (it excludes recruiting, onboarding, equipment, software, and management overhead). An AI stack does specific tasks with your oversight — it doesn't replace judgment, relationships, or accountability. The plan is a one-time cost added to year one.
Salary source: U.S. BLS OES, May 2023 (SOC 23-2011) · U.S. BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation
See if this is your planEverything inside this plan
What this looks like day to day
In plain words — no tool names, no jargon. AI drafts; you approve.
- — Routine documents arrive as a first draft from your template and notes, so the billable time goes on judgement, not typing.
- — New enquiries get captured on your site with the matter details collected before anyone calls back.
- — Client calls get transcribed and summarised for the file instead of written up from memory at 7pm.
- — Client-facing letters and updates get drafted in plain English from your notes.
- — Nothing privileged goes into a consumer tool, every citation gets verified, and a lawyer signs off before anything leaves the firm.
Your first week
One task a day, none over twenty minutes.
- Day 1Take a routine document you drafted this week and have your assistant produce it from your template and notes. Compare the two. · ~20 min
- Day 2Write the intake questions your site chat should collect, and add it. · ~20 min
- Day 3Add the notetaker to one client call and check the summary against your own note. · ~15 min
- Day 4Draft the plain-English client update you always rewrite three times. · ~15 min
- Day 5Write the firm's one-page AI rule: what may be pasted, what may never be, and who reviews. Share it with the team. · ~20 min
Ready-to-use AI wording inside
· 6First draft of a routine document · paste into Claude
Here is one of them in full.
Draft a first version of a [DOCUMENT TYPE] based on these facts and our standard template: Facts: [NOTES] Template / key clauses: [PASTE] Flag anything that needs a lawyer's judgment or that you're unsure about. This is a draft for attorney review only.
The other 5 are in the unlocked plan, each with a note on when to use it.
AI helpers & app connections are part of the plan
· 4Ready-made AI helpers with safety rules, plus the app connections that plug your AI into the apps you already use.
One of them, in full:
- Intake triage agent — Sorts new enquiries by practice area and urgency, drafts the standard next-step reply, and books consults from your calendar.
The remaining 3 are in the unlocked plan, with the safety rules set for your business.
How to set it up
Step-by-step, in plain English. Included with the plan:
- 1Use a careful general assistant to produce first drafts and summaries — then review and verify everything before it leaves the firm.
- 2Use a cited research tool to find sources quickly, and confirm every citation independently.
- Steps 3–4 are in your unlocked plan
The one-time setup unlocks the full step-by-step setup sequence and every ready-made automatic job, customized to your answers.
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Automatic jobs you'll set up
- First-draft documentsMedium4–8 hrs/mo
- Client intake captureMedium3–6 hrs/mo
- 1 more automatic jobs come with the unlocked plan
Full how-to for each automatic job is included in the plan.
What to skip (for now)
Handling privileged material? Keep it fully offline.
Client correspondence and case files often can't touch a third-party server under your confidentiality obligations. Running a model locally means nothing — not even metadata — ever leaves the firm's own machine.
Free local runner
LM Studio- Standard office laptop (16GB RAM): A smaller open model handles first drafts and summarizing well; always have a lawyer review the output.
- Firm-managed workstation (32GB+ RAM or a GPU): A larger open model gives noticeably better drafting and research quality for the same offline privacy.
LM Studio shows compatible model sizes for your machine automatically — pick the largest one it recommends for the best quality.
Setup — no cost, no account
- Download LM Studio for free from lmstudio.ai — a point-and-click app, no terminal required.
- Search for and download an open model sized for your hardware directly in the app.
- Chat with it in the built-in interface — everything stays on the machine it's installed on.
- No internet needed after the model downloads, and no per-document or per-month fee.
Monthly research and updates, if you choose.
Your one-time purchase unlocks the full plan: setup steps, guides for each automatic job, ready-to-use AI wording and app connections, with AI drafts checked by a person. Nothing continues after that purchase. About a month later, we ask whether you want Kept current: monthly search, AI-visibility and competitor research, a short briefing, plan re-assessment, model notes, price alerts and dated Friday updates. It starts only if you say yes. Stop any time and keep your plan.
7-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.
You're not left alone with it
Every plan includes consultation for the specific questions your business throws up — a step that doesn't match your setup, a tool you already pay for, a price that moved. A consultant at Dapols answers within 24–48 working hours. It isn't instant, and it isn't a bot you argue with.
Consultation with a person, up to 4 times a month
Bigger or more complex?
If your scope is bigger than one plan — several jobs, unusual systems, or a connection that needs a person — that's a custom engagement, quoted and invoiced directly, not through our checkout.
Questions about AI tools for law firms
What does AI cost for law firms?
Finding your plan is free: a short questionnaire, no card. The full plan is $99, paid once. The tools it names are bought from their own makers at the monthly budget you choose, and each one shows its price and the date we checked it. Dapols takes no share of what you sell or spend. Refunds are available for 7 days.
How long does it take to set up?
You get the whole plan the moment you pay. It starts with a first week of one small task a day, then a 90-day roadmap for the rest, so you set up one tool at a time, at your own pace. Dapols does not log in to your accounts or set the tools up for you.
What stays with me, and what does AI do?
Every job in the plan is labelled: yours to keep, or AI does the work and you approve it. In this plan, jobs kept with you include Legal advice and opinions, Citations and court filings, and Client confidences. Nothing is sent, posted, bought or published on your behalf.
Is it a subscription?
No. The $99 is charged once and nothing renews by itself. There is an optional $29/month subscription that keeps your research and prices current. It starts only if you say yes, and you can stop any time and keep everything already delivered.