AI agents for law firms

Your lawyers never learn an AI tool.The drafted documents just show up in their email.

Nothing about how your team works changes.

I build AI agents for your whole firm. Your team emails them the work, as they would a colleague, and the draft comes back in the same thread, in Word.

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When you book, you can name a few recurring tasks. On the call, you see the agent workflow built from them.

Built and run by Jordy Backes. The setup is one person’s job, and that person is me: I run the agents and keep them working.

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What arrives in your team’s inbox Sample

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Intake agentTo: Joanne Pryce, head of family law

Fri Oct 23, 4:14 AM

Claire Donnelly, family: engagement letter ready for your OK

Engagement letter, Claire Donnelly.docx

Waiting for your review and approvalYou: Open the letter, review it, and reply Approved or the changes you want to make.

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If your team can hand the work to a colleague by email, I can build an agent to prepare it.

Every legal document the agents draft

Drafted by an AI agent that knows your firm
Reviewed by your attorney
Sent by your firm

The agents run in our own Microsoft Azure, or in your firm’s own if you prefer. How your client data is kept

1.0The fit

Built for firms where the routine work eats the billable day.

For small, boutique and mid-size law firms

The work your team would hand the agents is already piling up: too many mornings that start with answering email instead of billable work, too many callbacks and unsigned engagement letters chased by hand, and too many demand letters written from scratch every time.

2.0The adoption

One of the biggest hurdles for AI at law firms: getting people to change how they work.

ILTA Technology Survey 2025 · 580 law firms

So nothing about how your team works has to change.

The agents work like a colleague, inside the Outlook, Word and Teams your team already uses:

Outlook

Your team emails them the work. The draft comes back in the same thread.
Word

Documents arrive as Word files, ready to review.
Teams

Reminders arrive in your team’s channel, like a message from a colleague.

After each agent goes live, I keep improving it until both are true:

Your team actually uses it
In my weekly emailHow often your team acted on each agent’s work
What it drafts is what your best lawyer in that area would sign
In my weekly emailHow often your lawyers approved its drafts without changes

3.0The work

What the agents hand back, and where a person at your firm decides.

Two examples, not the menu. I find the recurring work that costs your team the most hours each week, and we start there.

Both are based on real sample runs, with fictional names. At kickoff, each is built around your firm: your steps, your templates, your jurisdiction, and what stays a personal touch or runs on its own.

3.1Intake

From the first inquiry to the signed engagement letter

AgentThe intake agents do the admin, from the first inquiry to the open matter, and keep your Clio pipeline current.

Your team’s part: the calls, then a few replies in Outlook or Teams: one line after each call, the lawyer’s consult note and OK, and pressing Send. The agents only write to people at your firm, so any email to a client is drafted for your team to send.

3missed callbacks caught
2unsigned letters chased
0pipeline cards moved by hand

In the sample run

See every step of this intake

Your intake pipeline in Clio, kept current by the agents

0 cards moved by hand in the sample run

An inquiry arrivesNew inquiry
The callback is bookedCallback bookedNo call recorded: your team is reminded3 missed callbacks caught in the sample run
Your team’s one line after the callConsultation booked
The lawyer’s consult noteConsultation call made
Your team sends the letterEngagement letterStill unsigned: your team is reminded2 unsigned letters chased in the sample run
The signed letter comes backHired

AgentAn agent does the step Orange: a person at your firm acts or decides

Agent
Every new inquiry picked up, from each of your sources

Your website form and calendar, your shared inboxes and reception’s phone notes.

Clio: New inquiry
Agent
Checked for conflicts in Clio, before anything is written

Every inquiry in an area your firm handles is checked. One outside your practice areas gets a call sheet with a referral, for the decline call.

A possible conflict: on hold for the head of the group, with the managing partner copied
Nothing is drafted, the agents tell no one else, and the card in Clio shows only the name.
Agent
A callback brief, emailed to whoever makes the call

What they need, from their own message, and the questions your intake rules ask.

Clio: Callback booked
Outlook · another potential clientFrom the sample run
You: Call her Monday at 9:00 AM at (614) 555-0177. Ask the five questions below, then reply to this mail with one line.
What Kayla Brennan needs
A written parenting schedule for her two children (9 and 6). She and her ex split up last year and have been going week to week, and that is no longer working.

What to ask on the call · question 3 of 5
Which county she and the children live in.The family group takes central and western Ohio; western counties go to Nathan Oyelaran in Dayton first.
After the call: one line, in Teams or by email

Whoever made the call

Replies “1 fit”, “2 not a fit” or “3 not called yet”

“1 fit” books the lawyer’s consultation in Clio’s calendar, and the lawyer gets a consult prep by email.

Clio: Consultation booked

If it stallsNo call recorded by the next morning: your intake team is reminded in Teams, each morning until a call is recorded.

Teams · Intake channelSample

Intake agentWednesday, 8:00 AM
Donnelly (family) booked a callback for Tuesday, October 20, 11:00 AM. No call is recorded in Clio. Reply 1 fit (group, fee type, the consultation’s date, time and lawyer), 2 not a fit (reason), 3 not called yet (when).

Terrence VaughnWednesday
1 fit, family, flat fee, consultation Thursday, October 22, 2 pm, Joanne Pryce

Intake agentWednesday
Noted: 1 fit, family, flat fee, consultation Thursday, October 22, 2 pm, Joanne Pryce.
Agent
Your engagement letter template, filled in from the lawyer’s consult note

The ruleAnything the note doesn’t say stays blank for the lawyer. Nothing is guessed.

Clio: Consultation call made

The lawyer

Reviews it, from the email at the top of this page

Replies “Approved”, or the change, in Outlook

Your intake team

Reviews the cover email, drafted in your shared mailbox, and presses Send

Clio: Engagement letter

If it stallsStill unsigned after the days you set: your intake team is reminded in Teams.
Agent
Once the signed letter is back: the card moves to Hired, and the matter opens in Clio
Done

Every step left a note on the card, so the whole intake is in one place, and your monthly intake numbers can be counted straight from Clio.

Clio: Hired

Watch this intake run, A to Z, in the build video →

3.2Drafting

From the client’s file to the signed demand letter

AgentThe drafting agent: reads the whole file, checks the law, argues the case as opposing counsel would, then drafts the letter.

Your lawyer: every legal decision, made by reply, and the signature.

13documents read in full
17cases cited, each opened at its official source
10decisions only the lawyer can make

In the sample run

See every step of this letter

The lawyer asks for the letter by email

The lawyer

Emails the drafting agent, the way they would ask a colleague
Agent
The client’s file, read in full

Every fact and figure noted with the document it came from.

In the sample run
13 documents read in full
9 figures, each traced to its document
Agent
The law, researched

Every authority it cites, opened at its official source.

The ruleAn authority not opened at its official source stays out of the letter.

17 cases cited, each opened at its official source
13 other authorities were not opened: none is in the letter
Agent
Before drafting: each claim argued as opposing counsel would

3 of 6 claims rated lower after opposing counsel’s best answer
Agent
The letter, drafted at the strength each claim kept

In your own letter template.

The ruleWhat only the lawyer can decide stays a blank in the letter, marked for the lawyer.

10 decisions only the lawyer can make
Agent
A second agent reads the first draft cold

It has seen none of the drafting, and checks every figure and every citation against its source.

26 of the 27 authorities the letter cites match what their source says
On the 27th, the letter put a holding on the wrong case: corrected.
Agent
The letter goes to the lawyer

By email, with three files attached: the letter (Word), its sources (Word) and How it was made (PDF).
The lawyer decides and signs
Done

The lawyer

Answers the 10 decisions in one reply

The letter comes back filled in, in the same thread

Replies with any changes: the agent revises the letter in the same thread, as often as needed

Signs it once it is what they want

When you book, you can name a few recurring tasks that take the most hours. On the call, you see the agent workflow built from them, and the emails and documents it drafted.

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4.0The process

From the first call to your first working agent.

Step 01

The 30 minute call

You see the agent workflow I built from your tasks, with the emails and documents it drafted.

After the call, you get it in writing: what I would build first, and why.

Step 02

First agent live in 48 hours

After kickoff, your first AI agent is live in your firm within 48 hours.

It starts on the highest-value job I map out from our call.

The setup stays my job: I just need one person at your firm to work with while I build, and a few emails are enough.

Step 03

Built one at a time

A new agent starts once your team uses the one before it.

Changes and new requests: send them by email, and I build one of them every 48 business hours.

5.0The retainer

What the monthly retainer actually buys.

Your intake pipeline kept up to date, no callback or unsigned engagement letter forgotten, and the drafts written, month after month. Building the agents, watching them and keeping them current is my job, not your firm’s.

The work comes back ready for review
Your team forwards the work from its own Outlook. The draft comes back in the same thread.
Your best lawyer’s standard, for everyone
Each agent drafts from the letters and agreements your best lawyer in that area has already signed. A first-year gets the same draft a partner would.
New work, by email
Changes and new agents, built on request, inside the same fee. No change orders, no scoping meetings, no hourly meter.
Watched around the clock
What arrives overnight is ready in the morning. If anything breaks, an alert reaches my phone that minute, I start on the fix right away, and you hear about it from me.

Also included

A memory of your firm: grows with use, kept for your firm only
Tuned on your real work: the first 2 weeks of each agent
Better AI, as it ships: your agents get it, with security updates and maintenance included
Upgrades you never had to ask for: built from how your firm uses the agents
A weekly email from me: how often your team acted on each agent’s work, and how often your lawyers approved its drafts without changes
Every action logged: you can see the log any time
Your attorneys approve every legal document before it goes out
AI usage included in our Azure
Everything I build for you is yours to keep, forever.

One flat monthly fee for the whole firm, not per user. Everyone at the firm can use the agents. The same retainer covers Claude setup and training, and AI consulting, when your firm wants them.

6.0The terms

The terms

Month to month

One flat monthly fee. No hourly billing, no surprise bills. Cancel with 30 days’ notice.
No lock-in

Everything I build for you is yours to keep, forever. If you ever leave, you keep the playbooks the agents work from, the files and everything the agents produced.
The guarantee

Your first AI agent is live in your firm within 48 hours of kickoff, or your first month is refunded.

Kickoff means payment received and access provided.

Your client data

The agents run in our own Microsoft Azure.

Client files stay in our Azure, never on my own computers.
AI usage is included.
Every action the agents take is logged, and you can see the log any time.

In your firm’s own Azure, if you prefer: Every client file stays in your own Microsoft environment. The agents run there, in your firm’s name. No client file is copied to my machines, and you can remove my access any time.

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7.0The services

Three ways to work with me, on one monthly retainer.

Whichever you start with, you get the same thing: one person who knows your firm, as its long-term partner for AI.

The main service
AI agents, run for you

AI employees for your firm’s routine work. Your team hands them the work by email, and the finished draft comes back ready for review.

Ideal forFirms that want the work done for them.
On the same retainer
Claude setup and training

Your templates, your writing style and your most repeated tasks, built into Claude. Then your team trained on its own real work.

Ideal forFirms that want to use Claude themselves.
On the same retainer
AI consulting

Straight answers for your firm: what to use, what to skip and what to do first. You get the plan in writing.

Ideal forFirms that want advice before they decide anything.

Start with one and move to another as your firm needs. Same retainer, same call.

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8.0The operator

You are hiring one person, and this is him.

Founder · every build published on YouTube

Jordy Backes · Founder, Night Docket

I have built software and systems for businesses since 2017. I founded and ran a software engineering agency for 4.5 years, and since 2026 I work exclusively on AI agents for law firms.

Your firm would be among the first on this retainer.

Your firm gets AI agents, and I make sure they actually work.

From my previous agency. Different service, same operator.

“We have seen a noticeable impact on our business. This was easy ROI and the results reached far beyond just making our money back. I feel like I finally have time to focus on my company.”

Matti Lamminsalo · Founder, Ivalo

“He cares about the results just as much as we do, which makes the collaboration very enjoyable and effortless. His communication is proactive and clear. You won’t regret it.”

Andreas Kolb · Senior Online Marketing Manager, Telefónica Germany

“Thanks to his help, we were able to release on time and with high confidence. He approaches projects with an eye on the overall business objective and user experience, and not just from a technical side.”

Marin Gerov · Head of Partnerships

Every build, published start to finish.

I build AI employees in Claude on camera and publish every build on YouTube. See how the work gets done before we talk. Someone at your firm could follow those builds and set the agents up themselves. The retainer is for firms that would rather that person be me.

Every build, on the channel

9.0The questions

Questions before you book.

Where do the agents run?

The agents run in our own Microsoft Azure, or in your firm’s own if you prefer.

In our Azure, AI usage is included. In your firm’s own Azure, Microsoft bills your firm directly for what runs there for you, including my Microsoft 365 seat and the Cloud PC I work from in your environment; I credit up to 250 USD of that bill each month; anything above that only with your approval.

How your client data is kept

What if something happens to you?

Everything I build for you is yours to keep, and if I ever stop, you get everything needed to keep it running in your own Microsoft environment.

Month to month, cancel with 30 days’ notice. No lock-in.

We already use Copilot. What changes for it?

Nothing: your team keeps Copilot exactly as it is. The agents deliver their work to the same Outlook, Word and Teams your team already uses.

Do we need technical people?

No. With the agents, there is nothing for your team to install, learn or maintain, and nothing about how your team works changes. The work arrives in Outlook, Word or Teams.

What does it cost?

One flat monthly fee for your whole firm, set on the call.
AI usage is included when the agents run in our Azure.
No per-user fees, no hourly billing.
Month to month, cancel with 30 days’ notice.

What if it makes a mistake?

Every legal document the agents draft is review-ready, never send-ready. A licensed attorney at your firm approves it before it leaves the firm, the same way you review a junior associate’s draft. For the first 2 weeks, I tune each agent on your real work.

What if our work is not the work shown here?

The two examples on this page are not a menu.
On the call, we find the recurring work that costs your team the most hours, and I map the first agent from it.
If someone at your firm can hand it to a colleague by email, I can build an agent to prepare it.

What happens after we say yes?

Once you decide, on the call or after your partners meet:

The agreement and the NDA (signed before I see any of your documents), the first invoice and a short access checklist
→ The invoice paid by bank transfer, and access provided
→ Kickoff, and your first agent live within 48 hours

From then on, you send new requests by email, and I keep the agents running, watched and improving.

10.0The booking

Find out what your firm’s first AI agent should do.

30 minutes, with me.

What happens on the call

You meet Jordy Backes, the founder. There is no sales team.
When you book, you can name a few recurring tasks that take the most hours.
On the call: the agent workflow built from them, and the emails and documents it drafted, then your questions.
After the call, you get it in writing: what I would build first, and why.
Here for Claude setup and training, or AI consulting? Book the same call and say so when you book.

The 30 minute call Pick a time

Calendar not loading? Open the booking page

Prefer to write? jordy@nightdocket.com, or message me on LinkedIn.

Your first AI agent is live in your firm within 48 hours of kickoff, or your first month is refunded.

Kickoff means payment received and access provided.

Jordy Backes, Founder

Your lawyers never learn an AI tool.The drafted documents just show up in their email.

Built for firms where the routine work eats the billable day.

So nothing about how your team works has to change.

What the agents hand back, and where a person at your firm decides.

From the first inquiry to the signed engagement letter

From the client’s file to the signed demand letter

From the first call to your first working agent.

The 30 minute call

First agent live in 48 hours

Built one at a time

What the monthly retainer actually buys.

The work comes back ready for review

Your best lawyer’s standard, for everyone

New work, by email

Watched around the clock

Also included

The terms

Month to month

No lock-in

The guarantee

Your client data

Three ways to work with me, on one monthly retainer.

AI agents, run for you

Claude setup and training

AI consulting

You are hiring one person, and this is him.

Every build, published start to finish.

Questions before you book.

Find out what your firm’s first AI agent should do.