Your Client Communication Agent Returns Every Call While You Litigate
The AgentWorks Client Communication Agent takes the inbox and the callback list off your attorneys. It sorts incoming client calls and emails by urgency, books callbacks into the attorney's open windows, sends each client a status update on the schedule the firm sets, and logs every interaction to the matter for billing. Your attorneys stay in the deposition, the hearing or the client meeting in front of them, and no client is left wondering what is happening with their case.
What it takes off your plate
Every attorney knows this pattern. A client calls while you are in a deposition. The receptionist takes a message, which lands on a pink slip or in an email thread with twenty other messages. The client emails the next morning asking the same question. Your paralegal promises a call back this afternoon, then a filing deadline eats the afternoon.
By the end of the week the client feels ignored, even though the matter is moving well. Clients rarely complain about the quality of the work; they complain about not hearing from you. On top of that, half those calls and emails never make it into a time entry, so the firm does the work and never bills it.
What the Client Communication Agent does, step by step
It starts with the communication itself.
- Takes every inbound message. When a client calls, texts or emails, the Client Communication Agent answers, identifies the client and the matter, and asks what they need.
- Triages by urgency. A new court date, a settlement offer or a client in distress goes to the attorney immediately. A routine "any news?" gets a status answer from the matter record. A billing question goes to the billing team.
- Books the callback. When the client needs the attorney, the agent checks the attorney's calendar for an open window, offers the client times, and confirms the one they pick, with a reminder to both sides.
- Sends proactive status updates. On the cadence the firm sets per matter, it sends the client a plain-language update: what happened since last time, what comes next, and when they will hear again. The attorney approves the wording for anything sensitive, and the client always knows how to reach a person.
Then the Client Communication Agent does the record keeping:
- Logs every interaction. Each call, text and email is written to the matter with a summary, the time spent and who handled it.
- Creates time entries. Attorney callbacks and client conversations become draft time entries in Clio for the attorney to confirm, so client communication is billed rather than lost.
- Tracks promises. Every "I'll call you back" is a task with an owner and a time; if it is missed, the agent reschedules and tells the client.
If new inquiries are where calls go unanswered, our post on capturing overnight legal client intakes covers that side of the phone.
Where the work is recorded
Every interaction lives on the client and the matter in your practice management system: the message, the urgency the agent gave it, the callback it booked, the update it sent and the reply that came back. Draft time entries wait for the attorney's approval alongside the rest of their time.
When an attorney opens their day, they see which callbacks are booked, what each client asked, and which updates went out yesterday. When a paralegal takes a client's call, the last three conversations are right there. Nobody has to dig through an inbox to find out what the client was told.
What your people do instead
Your attorneys spend the call on the substance, because the Client Communication Agent already gathered the question and the context. Between callbacks they draft, argue and advise without the phone pulling them out every few minutes. Paralegals stop playing switchboard and spend their time preparing clients for what is ahead.
Clients hear from the firm regularly and get a real conversation with their lawyer at a time that works. That is the service they remember when someone asks them for a referral. For how firms follow up once a matter closes, see the Client Retention Agent.
One next step
If return calls in your firm still depend on someone remembering, take the free Legal Industry Assessment. It shows which workflow an agent should take first. You can see every legal agent AgentWorks runs on the Legal industry page.
See where the Client Communication Agent would start in your legal business.
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