Law firm virtual receptionist that picks up on the first ring

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Retell AI answers every call to your law firm line, handles new client intake and conflict pre-screen, and hands off to a person with the full transcript when it needs to. Callers ask whether it sounds like a real person, so listen first and decide for yourself.
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How It Works

Launch your law firm virtual receptionist in four steps.

Configure the agent
Build it yourself on the API and SDK, or have our team build it for you. Both paths are real products, and this is the question prospects ask most often after the voice itself. Configure greeting, routing, escalation, and the caller questions it should answer, against one knowledge base.
Test it on real call scenarios
Run the agent against the calls you actually get, including a new personal injury lead calling from the scene, before it touches a live line. Each run scores accuracy and flags where the agent guesses instead of checking your data.
Connect your number and go live
Keep your existing phone number and port or forward it, or take a new one. Go live on one line or one location, confirm the caller experience, then expand.
Monitor and retrain
Every call is transcribed, scored, and dispositioned. Listen live while a call is in progress, review the transcript after, and retrain the agent from the calls it handled badly.
Use Cases

What the agent handles for law firms

The call that cannot wait: a new personal injury lead calling from the scene

It captures the incident date, the parties, and the practice area, runs a conflict pre-screen against your matter list, and books the consult. It does not give legal advice or quote a case value.

Is this the same as a legal virtual receptionist?

It is the same job, run by a voice agent instead of a message-taking service. The agent holds a conversation, answers the caller's question from your own data, and completes the task on the call. A traditional service takes a message and passes it on, which leaves the work still to do.

The calls it handles for law firms

It covers new client intake and conflict pre-screen, existing matter status questions, consultation scheduling, document request routing, and referral-out for unhandled practice areas. It recognizes the vocabulary your callers actually use, including matter, retainer, conflict check, statute of limitations. Teams search for this as "virtual receptionist for lawyers", "attorney virtual receptionist", "virtual law firm receptionist", and it is the same product.

What are you losing after hours today?

Intake calls after 6pm go to voicemail, and a contingency-fee lead that is not answered signs with another firm. Every call the agent answers is one that is not waiting in a voicemail box, and it works the same at 2am as it does at 2pm.

Does it connect to Clio?

It reads and writes to the systems you already run, including Clio, MyCase, Filevine, Litify, and Salesforce. Bookings, notes, and dispositions land in the record rather than in a separate inbox.

What happens when it does not know the answer?

It transfers to a person and passes the full context, so the caller does not repeat themselves. You can listen to any call live while it is happening, and every call is transcribed and dispositioned automatically.

Built for Contact Centers, Not Demos

Retell is the AI Voice Platform Enterprise Contact Centers Run On

Retell lets you build, test and deploy AI phone agents that handle real call volume, so your team spends its time on the conversations that need a person.
SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant. Trusted by teams running 1.000+ calls a day.
Compliance

Law firms need one compliance bar for every call, not a separate one for the after-hours service.

SOC 2 Type II

Call data runs on SOC 2 Type II certified infrastructure, which is what your security review will ask for.

PII Redaction

Personal identifiers are redacted from every transcript automatically, with retention controls you set.

GDPR

Caller data is processed under GDPR, covering consent and access rights.

Call recording controls

You control what is recorded, what is retained, and for how long, per line and per caller type.

Feature

Why law firms choose Retell AI over a message-taking service

Proven Impact, Real Conversations

Proven Impact, 

Real Conversations

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Pricing

Cut Costs by 90% with AI phone Agents

Pay as you go

$0 to start.

$0.07–$0.31 per minute – Pay only for what you use.
60 mins of free access.
20 concurrent calls.
10 Free Knowledge Bases.
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Does it sound like a real person?

Most callers do not realise they are speaking to software, and the fastest way to judge it is to hear a call rather than read a claim. The agent responds in under a second, handles interruptions, and does not talk over the caller. You choose the voice, and you can disclose that it is an AI agent at the start of the call if you prefer.

Do I build it myself, or do you build it for me?

Both are real options and this is the question prospects ask most often after the voice itself. Engineering teams build directly on the Retell API and SDK and connect their own telephony. Teams without engineers work with our implementation team and go live without writing code.

How do integrations work with my CRM?

The agent reads and writes to the systems you already run, so bookings, notes, and call outcomes land in the record rather than in a separate inbox. Retell connects to CRMs, calendars, and scheduling systems, and custom systems connect through the API. The agent can look up a caller before it answers and update the record while the call is still open.

What happens when the agent does not know the answer?

It transfers to a person and passes the full context, so the caller does not have to repeat themselves. You set the escalation rules, including which questions always go to a human and which lines they route to. The agent escalates rather than guessing when a request falls outside what it has been given.

Can I use my existing phone number?

Yes. You can port your existing number to Retell or forward it, and callers keep dialling the number they already have. Buying a new number is also available, which is the option most people notice first in the interface. You can run the agent on one line or one location before extending it to the rest.

Can I monitor calls live?

Yes. You can listen to a call while it is in progress, and take it over if you want to. Every call is transcribed, scored, and dispositioned automatically after it ends. You can review the calls the agent handled badly and retrain it from those recordings.

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