Cicada for law firms.
It triages new inquiries, summarizes the documents, keeps every deadline in the calendar and drafts from your own templates. A lawyer reviews everything, and it says so.
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What does Cicada do for law firms?
For a law firm, Cicada is an AI agent that takes the administrative work around a matter. It reads new inquiries and sorts them by practice area and urgency, summarizes contracts, letters and filings sent as PDFs, and puts every deadline in the calendar with a reminder before it. It drafts letters and documents from your own templates in Google Docs, and turns your notes from the day into time entries in a sheet. It is not a lawyer and does not give legal advice: every draft goes to a lawyer for review, and anything sent to a client or the other side waits for a yes.
What your law firm does.
Triages intake
Reads new inquiries from your inbox and web form, sorts them by practice area and urgency, notes any name already in your matter list, and drafts the acknowledgment for your yes.
Summarizes documents
Contracts, letters, filings and disclosure sent as PDFs or scans: a plain summary with the parties, dates and obligations, and the clause each point comes from.
Tracks deadlines
Every date it finds goes in Google Calendar or Outlook with a reminder before it, and it texts you the week's deadlines on Monday morning.
Drafts from your templates
Letters, engagement letters and standard documents filled in from your own templates in Google Docs, marked draft for a lawyer's review.
Turns the day into time entries
Send it a voice note or a list at the end of the day and it writes the time entries per matter in a sheet, ready for you to check.
Takes meeting notes
Joins client and team calls on Zoom, Teams, Google Meet or Webex as your notetaker, says it's taking notes, and texts you the actions and dates.
Who uses it at a law firm.
The week's deadlines in one message
Every matter's dates on Monday morning, with what's due and who's on it.
The summary before the read
The contract's dates, parties and obligations in two pages, with the clause for each point.
Drafts and dates done
Templates filled in, documents summarized, dates entered, ready for your check.
The calendar kept straight
Calls, meetings and deadlines booked and moved from a sentence.
Intake that doesn't sit
New inquiries sorted and acknowledged the same day, routed to the right person.
An assistant you couldn't hire yet
Intake, scheduling, summaries and time entries, so the day goes to legal work.
Set up in three steps.
Say what the job is
Describe the role in a sentence when you sign up, or tell the agent in the chat. It writes its own brief, which you can read and change any time.
Connect the apps it needs
One click for most apps. Each one can be Full, Ask first or Read-only, for every agent in the workspace.
Link your phone, or don't
Scan a code and it's in your iMessage or WhatsApp. Or keep it in the app, Slack and email. Hand it the first job in the same message.
Nothing goes out without your yes.
Nothing goes out without your yes
Anything that can't be undone, and any message to another person, waits for your OK. Approve with a 👍 in the chat, or set a role to full autonomy once you trust it.
Read-only is a real lock
Make any app read-only and the agent can look but never change a thing. It applies to every agent in the workspace, from their next run.
Every step on the record
Each run shows what it read, what it did and what it sent, step by step, in the Activity tab. Corrections you make stick.
What it won't do.
Won't pretend
If it couldn't confirm something, it leaves it out and says so. A date or a figure without a source in the document doesn't go in a summary.
Won't go around you
It never messages a client, the other side or anyone else unless you asked, never spends money, and never makes a judgement call about money on its own.
Won't give legal advice
It summarizes, organizes and drafts for a lawyer's review. It doesn't tell anyone what the law says or what they should do, and it says so when asked.
Three ways to handle the admin around a matter
| Task | Doing it by hand | Practice management software | Cicada |
|---|---|---|---|
| New inquiries | Read when someone has a minute | An intake form | Sorted by area and urgency, acknowledgment drafted for your yes |
| Reading documents | Every page, every time | Stored, not read | A summary with the dates, parties and clause references |
| Deadlines | Typed into the calendar | Entered by hand into the system | Found in the document, put in the calendar with a reminder |
| Drafting | Copy the last letter and edit | Document templates | Your template filled in, marked draft for review |
| Time entries | Reconstructed at month end | A timer you forget to start | Written from your end-of-day note, per matter |
| Legal judgement | Yours | Yours | Yours. It summarizes and drafts; it doesn't advise |
| Where it happens | Your desk | The software's own screens | Slack, iMessage, WhatsApp or email |
Things to ask your law firm.
- 01
"summarize this contract and list every date and notice period"
You get: A two-page summary with the parties, obligations and each date, the clause it comes from, and the dates in your calendar.
- 02
"what came in overnight and what's urgent"
You get: New inquiries sorted by practice area and urgency, with an acknowledgment drafted for each, for your yes.
- 03
"draft the engagement letter for Brightline Dental from our template"
You get: A Google Doc from your template with their details filled in, marked draft for review.
- 04
"Every Monday at 8 text me the week's deadlines across all matters."
You get: A recurring message that lands on the minute: each deadline, the matter and who's on it.
- 05
"here's my day as a voice note, turn it into time entries"
You get: Time entries per matter in your sheet, with the description and duration, for you to check.
Frequently asked questions.
Does it give legal advice?
No. It summarizes, organizes and drafts for a lawyer's review, and says so in what it writes. Anything that needs judgement stays with your lawyers.
Will it send anything to clients or the other side?
Only when you ask. Every message to another person waits for your OK in the chat, and it sends from your own connected inbox. You can set any app to Ask first or Read-only.
Can it read scanned documents?
Yes. PDFs, scans and photos. It works from what's actually in the document and gives the clause for each point, so you can check it. If it couldn't read something, it says so.
Where do I talk to it?
Slack, iMessage, WhatsApp, email or the web app. It answers in the thread you asked in, and in a group chat it stays quiet until someone names it.
Does it work with our practice management software?
If it has an app, connect it in a click. If it's a website with no app, Cicada uses its own browser with your login kept in a vault; you can watch it work and take over.
Who can see what?
Each person gets their own agent. Shared apps are connected once for the firm; your inbox and your personal apps stay under your own login, and teammates' agents can't read them.
Will it learn how we draft?
It keeps a memory of your templates, your style and your rules that you can read and edit in the app. Corrections you give it stick.
What does it cost?
Every workspace starts with 300 free credits. You add a card at sign-up and nothing is charged until you run low; then it's $25 for 200 credits, with no subscription. A quick reply is about 5 credits and a typical run under 20; plans start at $99 a month.
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