AI That Takes Admin Off Your Legal Secretaries
Law firms pay legal secretaries to retype letters, format pleadings and track deadlines by hand. 12² builds firm-private drafting templates and a notice-to-calendar review step around the practice-management system, with attorney supervision.
Legal Secretary Drafting & Docketing Desk · From $4,500 + $495/mo, by team size · proposed estimate · It says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly, and your team reviews what it drafts before it goes out.
Ai for legal secretaries: the short answer.
12² builds AI for law firms that takes routine work off their legal secretaries: drafting routine letters and transmittals from matter data, formatting documents to firm and court templates, and drafting calendar entries from court notices for review. It runs inside the tools you already use, and your team reviews anything that goes out.
Sources
- ABA Formal Opinion 512: informed client consent before putting client info into self-learning AI tools; lawyers must verify outputacc.com
- Clio practice management from $49/user/moclio.com
- General office-writing evidence, not a study of this job: in an RCT, ChatGPT cut professional writing time 40% and raised quality (Noy & Zhang, Science 2023)news.mit.edu
Research figures above describe the cited studies, not results 12² promises. Results vary. Disclosures
Where the hours go now.
Routine letters and transmittals
Law firms pay legal secretaries to retype letters, format pleadings and track deadlines by hand.
Documents to firm and court templates
Rebuilt from scratch each time, usually at the end of the day.
Drafting calendar entries from court notices
Written up by hand, one at a time, after the real work is done.
What it handles, and what it never does.
What it handles
- Routine letters and transmittalsIt drafts routine letters and transmittals from matter data.
- Documents to firm and court templatesIt formats documents to firm and court templates.
- Drafting calendar entries from court noticesIt drafts calendar entries from court notices for review.
- Long email threads per matterIt summarizes long email threads per matter.
- Hand-off to your teamAnything that needs a person goes to the right person, with the details attached.
What it never does
- Make up a price or a factIt works only from the documents, records and price lists you give it. Anything it can't find goes to your team.
- Promise a resultQuestions about outcomes go to the person who does the work.
- Pretend to be a personIt says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly.
- Give legal adviceAnything that needs a lawyer's judgment goes to a lawyer.
- Send anything on its ownDrafts wait for your team's approval before anything goes out.
Built and tested on your own work.
Before handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Tested on your own workBefore handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Retainer, then balance on deliveryRetainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
- Fixed price, scope and timelineAll three in writing before work starts. The timeline is set in your quote.
- What 12² buildsFirm-private drafting templates and a notice-to-calendar review step around the practice-management system, with attorney supervision.
- How it connectsWe confirm how it connects to your practice-management system on the first call and write it into your quote.
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From $4,500 + $495/moSetup + monthly, by size. The monthly fee covers monitoring, fixes and re-tests for your package as your templates, documents and staff change. AI and software usage is billed at cost. Proposed starting estimates by team size, not fixed prices; the final price is in a written quote.
- Small: Small firm (1-4 staff, one location)From $4,500 + $495/mo. The core build for 1-4 staff, one location: firm-private drafting templates and a notice-to-calendar review step around the practice-management system, with attorney supervision. Proposed estimate. Small tier; monthly covers hosting, monitoring and fixes. Matches the live 12squared.ai ladder for this industry.
- Mid-size: Mid-size firm (5-19 staff)From $7,500 + $750/mo. Everything in Small firm, for more users, inboxes and calendars, with hand-off rules set for each role. Proposed estimate. More users, locations or integrations. Matches the live 12squared.ai ladder for this industry.
- Enterprise: Enterprise (20+ staff or several locations)From $12,500 + $1,250/mo, custom quote. Everything in Mid-size firm, across locations or departments, with system integrations and a security review scoped in your custom quote. Proposed estimate floor; scope, integrations and security review set the final number. No cap. Matches the live 12squared.ai ladder for this industry.
- Retainer up front Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass. Scope, price and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.
- You own itThe accounts, scripts, templates and data sit in your name. You can leave at any time.
- Compliance and dataABA Formal Opinion 512: client consent before client data goes into self-learning tools; lawyers supervise staff use and verify output. State bar rules apply.
- Not professional advice12² is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Attorneys review anything that needs legal judgment, and your professional-conduct rules apply. 12² builds software and automations. It is not a licensed professional in your field, and your team makes every professional decision. Disclosures
Straight answers.
Will AI set our court deadlines?
No. It drafts calendar entries from notices; staff and attorneys confirm every deadline.
How does payment work?
Retainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
How long does it take?
Timelines are set per project in the quote, after we see your systems and volume.
Are these prices final?
No. They are proposed starting estimates. You get a written custom quote after a short scoping call.
Tell us how you handle routine letters and transmittals now.
A few lines is enough. If it's a fit we'll say so, and if it isn't we'll tell you why.
- You'll hear back within one business day12² reads your note and replies about your project.
- A free 20-minute callHow the work runs now, what gets missed, and what your team needs from it.
- A fixed quoteYour size, scope, date and price in writing before any work starts.
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