Astrid Legal launches AI notetaker for law firms with automated billable time

Astrid Legal, a company based in Alexandria, Virginia, has launched an AI notetaker for law firms together with an add-on that drafts billable time entries, the company said in a release sent to AI Brief.

Astrid records client calls and in-person meetings, drafts a note for the attorney to approve and files it to the firm's case management system. It works with Clio, 8am MyCase, Smokeball, CasePeer and Lawcus. Native apps for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android let attorneys record Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet calls without a meeting bot joining, or record a conversation on their phone. Each call or meeting also produces a draft time entry, rounded to the firm's billing increment, which the attorney approves before it is filed.

The billable hours add-on drafts time from the rest of the workday: sent email in Outlook and Gmail, calendar meetings, documents edited in OneDrive, SharePoint and Google Drive, work in Word, Excel and Acrobat, and approved research sites such as LexisNexis and Westlaw through a browser extension. The company says email time is estimated from what was sent without reading the message, and each timekeeper chooses which sources to switch on.

Astrid costs $40 per user per month; the add-on is $59 per timekeeper per month. "Attorneys lose billable time to email, documents and research they never write down," said founder Jason McCoy.