Legal engineering
AI your firm owns. Built by a lawyer.
Big firms are hiring legal engineers. Most of the others work for a software vendor. We work for your firm: we learn how your practice runs, build on your own files, and stay on as your legal engineer.
Who it's for
Lawyers who want the tools without the vendor.
Small and mid-size firms
No IT department, no innovation team, and no time to evaluate twenty products. You get one person who understands the practice and the technology.
In-house legal teams
Contracts, requests from the business and deadlines in one record your company owns, next to the tools the company already uses.
Law clinics and legal aid
Open tools that a clinic can run and change itself, so students learn to build with AI instead of only buying it.
What we build
One record for the practice. A lawyer on every decision.
Every message on the right matter
Email, texts, WhatsApp, photos of documents and court notices land in one list, each filed to its matter with the words it was read from. Anything a lawyer should see first waits for one.
See it in Turbo Law →Intake and conflicts in minutes
New matters are checked against current and past clients, their owners and their companies before anyone spends time on them. Clear ones get an engagement letter drafted.
See it in Turbo Counsel →First drafts from your own work
The other side's paper is read against your firm's positions, and each suggested change shows where it came from: your playbook or a past matter. A lawyer edits and approves.
See it in Turbo Counsel →Deadlines two people confirm
Every date says where it came from: a court notice, the client's contract or a filing rule. Nothing is relied on until two people confirm it.
See it in Turbo Counsel →Time captured from the work
Time entries are suggested from the day's drafts, emails and calls. The lawyer confirms each one, and clients are billed only for time actually spent.
See it in Turbo Counsel →
Ethics and security
The questions your ethics counsel will ask, answered first.
- Confidentiality
- Client information stays in a database your firm owns. It is never used to train anyone's AI model, and you decide which AI service may see what.
- Supervision
- The system drafts; a lawyer approves. Nothing leaves the firm unless a lawyer approves it, or the firm turns on auto-send for one narrow kind of message. Every approval is logged by name.
- Competence
- Your lawyers and staff learn what the tools do and don't do, with the sources shown beside every draft so a mistake is easy to catch.
- Communication
- Clients are told when AI helps on their matter, in plain words, and your engagement letters say so.
- Fees
- Clients pay for the lawyer's judgment and the time actually spent, never for time a tool saved.
- No lock-in
- The AI model can be swapped without rebuilding anything, and you can leave at any time with all of your records and code.
What we build to
- ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Formal Opinion 512, Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools (July 2024)
- State Bar of California, Practical Guidance for the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Practice of Law (November 2023)
Each firm's own ethics counsel makes the final call for that firm. These are the rules we build to.
How we work
Start with one workflow. Keep what works.
Workflow assessment
We sit with your lawyers and staff, map where time and risk go, and pick the one workflow worth fixing first.
Pilot
We build that one workflow on your own files, measure it with your team, and keep only what works.
Your legal engineer, on ONE
We stay on under the ONE retainer and add a workflow at a time. Your firm owns everything we build.
No long-term contract, and the work sits next to the email, calendar, phones and document storage you already use. How ONE works
Pro bono
Open tools for law clinics
Our legal engineer serves as a pro bono advisor to a project run through the University of Washington law school library, where graduate students are building open-source AI tools. The hope is to work with the law school's existing clinics, so clinics and the people they serve can build with AI themselves instead of depending on a single vendor's product.
A pro bono advisory role in a project still in progress. Our legal engineer is not University of Washington staff and does not act as a lawyer in this role. No endorsement by the University is implied.
Try it
Two sample firms, front door and back office.
Turbo Law
A bilingual injury, immigration and family firm: every inquiry answered in minutes, and the firm owns its system.
Turbo Counsel
A business-law firm for owners: conflicts, drafts from the firm's own work, deadlines and time.
The sample firms, lawyers and clients are fictional.
Talk with a lawyer who builds.
Book a conversationValley AI is a technology company, not a law firm. Our legal engineer is a lawyer but works with firms here as a technologist, not as anyone's lawyer. We don't give legal advice or represent clients. We build systems for lawyers, who stay responsible for the legal work.