Law Firms 90-day fee/work pause

Your paralegals are organizing discovery documents at 10pm. Again.

Paralegal time goes to document review and organization — tasks that AI-powered workflows can handle end-to-end.

AI workers take over the routine work of this role, while your team keeps the judgment calls. AI workers handle document processing, billing entry, and client intake end-to-end.

Target go-live: about 30 days from kickoff. Your timeline is set in your SOW.

01 15-20 min Billing/Matter
The challenge

Your daily reality

The hidden costs of manual legal support that eat into your billable hours.

01

Document Review Overload

Paralegals spend much of their time on document review and organization — work that could be sorted, tagged, and indexed automatically

02

Billing Entry Burden

Billing entry takes 15-20 minutes per matter every single day — your lawyers are doing admin work instead of billable work

03

Intake Bottleneck

Client intake is a bottleneck because somebody has to manually check conflicts, create the matter, and set up the file

04

Support Staff Capacity

A four-person support team spends much of its time on repeatable document and intake work

Where the hours go

Where your legal support time actually goes

Task type
Volume breakdown
Time / day
Document Review & Organization
Largest share
4-5.5 hours/day
Billing Entry
15-20%
1-1.5 hours/day
Client Intake & Conflict Checks
10-15%
1 hour/day
Status Updates to Clients
5-10%
30-45 min/day
Court Filing & Deadlines
5-10%
30-45 min/day
Target roles

Roles we support

These are the roles whose routine work Leverwork can take over.

01

Paralegals

Document review, organization, discovery processing, deposition prep

02

Legal Assistants

Billing entry, client intake, conflict checks, filing

03

Administrative Staff

Calendar management, deadline tracking, document formatting

Handled by AI workers

Routine workflows, handled by AI workers with a named person for exceptions

We don't assist with legal admin. We handle it completely.

Client Intake & Conflict Check
Before — manual

New client inquiry → Manual conflict check across all matters → Create new matter in Clio → Set up client file → Assign billing matters → Send intake forms (10 steps, 45-60 min)

After — handed to AI

New client inquiry → AI checks conflicts → AI creates matter → AI sets up file → AI sends intake forms

Document Review & Organization
Before — manual

Receive discovery documents → Manual review for relevance → Tag and categorize → Upload to NetDocuments → Index for search → Prepare for deposition (6 steps, 2-4 hours per case)

After — handed to AI

Receive discovery documents → AI reviews → AI tags and categorizes → AI uploads and indexes → AI prepares summary

Daily Billing Entry
Before — manual

Open each matter → Review time entries → Format for billing → Generate invoices → Send to clients → Track payments (8 steps, 15-20 min per matter daily)

After — handed to AI

AI pulls time entries → AI formats invoices → AI sends to clients → AI tracks payments (seconds)

Tools vs. workstreams

Why not just use [industry tool]?

Good question. Here's the difference between adding tools and replacing workstreams.

Clio Grow / MyCase Intake

Legal intake optimization

— Automates form collection but still requires humans to check conflicts, create matters, and follow up
Leverwork

Leverwork handles the entire intake workflow — including conflict checks, matter creation, and client communication.

AI Document Review

Casetext, Harvey legal research

— Good for legal research but not for organizing discovery, indexing documents, or administrative workflows
Leverwork

Full integration with Clio, NetDocuments, and iManage for end-to-end document and matter management.

Paralegals in Low-Cost Markets

Outsourced paralegal services

— Turnover, training, handoffs, and quality control still require close management
Leverwork

AI follows the same document, intake, and billing-entry rules every time.

Integrations

We integrate with your existing stack

Leverwork connects directly to the platforms you already use — no workflow disruption, no new tools to learn.

Clio
Practice Management
MyCase
Practice Management
PracticePanther
Practice Management
Smokeball
Legal Billing
NetDocuments
Document Management
iManage
Document Management
LEAP
Practice Management

Illustrative scenario

A $3.2M firm with 3 full-time paralegals spending 65% of their time on discovery organization and billing entry could expect Leverwork to take over document organization, billing entry, and intake processing: paralegals back on substantive work and clean billing entries.
Illustrative scenario
Honest fit

Is Leverwork right for you?

Honest answer: sometimes we're not.

This works best if…

  • Law firms with $1M-$15M revenue
  • Firms using Clio, MyCase, or PracticePanther
  • Teams spending 50%+ of time on administrative tasks
  • Firms with high document volume (litigation, transactions)

Not ideal if…

— Solo practitioners with under 50 matters, firms already heavily automated with strong ops, or practices where most work is high-level strategy (not document-heavy). Also not ideal if you want AI to help attorneys rather than fully replace support staff roles.

Want the long-form version — implementation stages, failure modes, what to evaluate? Read how AI automation actually works in legal services.

Put AI to work. Keep your people leading.

A full-time AP / bookkeeping seat costs about $68K–$74K a year in wages and benefits (our estimate from BLS 2025/2026 data). Your assessment estimates the numbers for your business. 90-day fee/work pause on agreed SOW metrics

A 20-minute call. We'll show you which seats AI can take over — and where humans stay essential.

Book the 20 minutes