AI for Law Firms

AI That Respects the Way
Law Actually Works

We build AI systems for solo and small law firms — intake automation, document summarization, scheduling, and research support — designed from the first conversation around confidentiality, privilege, and the ethics rules your bar association cares about.

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Enterprise legal AI wasn't built for your firm

Products like Harvey are priced for AmLaw 100 budgets and assume an IT department to match. Meanwhile the actual time drains at a small firm — intake, document review, scheduling, status-update calls — don't need an enterprise platform. They need focused automation built on the tools you already pay for: Microsoft 365, Clio, Google Workspace, your phone system.

That's what we build. A thin, custom AI layer over your existing stack, targeting the two or three workflows eating your evenings — quoted as a fixed fee before you commit, typically $5,000–$20,000 and shipped in 4–8 weeks.

What We Build for Firms

AI Intake Assistant

Qualifies prospects, gathers case facts, screens for conflicts, books the consult, and delivers a clean intake memo before the first call.

Document Summarization

Depositions, discovery, medical records, contracts — summarized into the format your attorneys actually read, with page cites back to the source.

Scheduling & Follow-up

Automated consult scheduling, court-date reminders, and client status updates that stop the where-does-my-case-stand calls.

Research Support

AI-assisted first-pass research grounded in your own briefs and memos — a starting point your attorneys verify, never a substitute for judgment.

Matter & Email Triage

Incoming email classified, filed to the right matter, and flagged by urgency — so nothing privileged sits in a general inbox.

Privilege-Aware Architecture

Data maps, provider agreements, no-training guarantees, and audit trails — the paperwork your bar and carrier expect, built in from day one.

Privilege first, model second

The question we hear before any other: what happens to client data? The honest answer is that it depends entirely on how the system is architected — so we architect for it. Every engagement starts with a data map of what's privileged and where it lives. We use business-tier AI services under no-training agreements, keep privileged material out of third-party models when the matter requires it, and hand you documentation you can show your malpractice carrier or ethics counsel. If a workflow can't be automated safely, we'll tell you that too.

A local partner, not a portal

Flying Dog Media is based on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. We've spent more than a decade building web and software systems for Virginia professional firms — see our client work — and we answer our own phone. Virginia firms get us in person; firms elsewhere get the same named builder by video. Learn more about AI consulting in Charlottesville or how we approach AI for small businesses generally.

Law Firm AI, Asked and Answered

Is AI safe to use with confidential client information? +
It can be — if the system is designed for it. Every law-firm engagement starts with a data map: what's privileged, where it lives, and which AI providers (if any) are allowed to touch it. We use business-tier AI services with no-training guarantees, scoped API keys, and architectures that keep privileged material out of model providers' hands entirely when required. You get documentation you can show your malpractice carrier.
We're a small firm. Isn't legal AI only for BigLaw? +
Enterprise legal AI products are priced and designed for AmLaw firms. Small and solo firms get more value from targeted automation built on tools you already pay for — Microsoft 365, Clio, Google Workspace — with a thin custom AI layer on top. A focused build that kills your two most time-consuming workflows typically costs $5,000–$20,000, not an enterprise subscription.
What's the first thing most firms automate? +
Intake. A well-built AI intake assistant qualifies the prospective client, collects the facts a paralegal would spend 30 minutes gathering, checks for obvious conflicts, books the consultation, and hands the attorney a clean summary before the first call. It pays for itself faster than anything else we build for firms.
Will this replace my paralegal or assistant? +
No — it removes the repetitive fraction of their day. The firms that get the most from AI redeploy staff time toward client contact and billable support work. We design around your people, not instead of them.
Do you work with firms outside Charlottesville? +
Yes. We're based in Charlottesville and work in person with Virginia firms, and remotely with firms anywhere in the U.S. Either way you get a named builder who picks up the phone — not a ticket queue.

Tell us where your firm's hours go

A 30-minute call, a written recommendation within one business day, and a fixed-fee quote if there's a build worth doing. No enterprise sales theater.

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