AI agents for law firms
Named AI agents, each with a role, take over your firm's manual routines: deadlines, spreadsheets, settlements and payments. They cost less than a new hire and leave the decisions to your lawyers.
No new systems. Priced per agent.
Demo with sample data. A court publication arrives through DJEN. Lia, from Deadlines, reads the notice of judgment, counts eight business days from September 29 and proposes October 8 as the due date. She asks the team to confirm; they do, and the deadline goes on the calendar. Then Caio, from Finance, checks a Pix payment of R$1,850.00, matches it to installment 3 of 10 of a settlement and works out the client's payout, R$1,295.00. Beto, Nara and Duda show as free, with the time of their next routine.
How it works
Pick the role: deadlines, cases, settlements, finance or new cases. Each agent arrives with a name, a role and a monthly allowance of activities.
The agent works where your team already works: publication clippings, Google Drive, Sheets, Calendar and Discord. When it needs someone, it asks before going on.
Every month, the dashboard shows the tasks done, the hours saved and what that work would have cost in salaries.
Channels
The agent asks where your team already talks, someone answers right there, and the partners follow it all on the dashboard.
Example on WhatsApp: Lia · Prazos asks to confirm a deadline, Ana confirms right there, and the dashboard records who answered, when and through which channel.
Each channel is connected during the firm's setup, along with its automations and agents. The brands named belong to their respective owners.
The agents
Each agent takes a whole manual routine off your team. You know who does what, as on any good team.
Prazos · Deadlines
Reads the court publications every day, proposes the due date of each deadline in business days and, once a lawyer confirms it, puts it on the calendar.
A sample daySample data
The math
What does your team's manual work cost today?
Enter how many hours a week your team spends on each routine and who does it today. The math uses the salary and payroll charges of each profile.
An example built on market premises: a litigation firm with about 40 court publications each business day. Adjust it to your own figures.
Today, the manual work costs
ExampleR$8,955
a month
Today your team spends 273 hours a month on manual work. That costs about R$8,955 a month, or R$107,455 a year. That is the work of 1.4 full-time people, on repetitive work alone.
In a conversation, we show what the agents for these routines cost.
Get a proposalEstimate. Includes salary or stipend and payroll charges. Excludes benefits, recruiting, training and replacing staff.
Salary or stipend, plus charges, divided by the hours of the contract. Replace them with your firm's figures.
The example is a litigation firm with about 40 court publications each business day. Each routine's hours are the month's volume times the minutes the task takes by hand: 5 per publication read, 10 per deadline counted and 3 per deadline recorded; 6 per payment checked; 15 per settlement draft and 8 per judgment read; 20 per new case file. In a month of 21 business days, that is 165 hours on deadlines, 52 on finance, 26 on settlements, 22 on new cases and 9 on case spreadsheets.
Reading the notice and counting the deadline fall to a junior associate, because a mistake costs the deadline. Payments and settlement installments fall to an assistant; the case spreadsheets and the new case files, to an intern.
The hourly cost is the salary or the stipend, plus charges, divided by the hours of the contract (weekly hours ÷ 6 × 30, the divisor of Brazil's labor code, the CLT). Junior associate: R$5,698.38, the Novo CAGED average for lawyers, in line with Robert Half's 2026 Salary Guide for junior litigation associates in mid-sized firms (R$5,650 to R$5,700 at the midpoint); 40 hours a week, under the Brazilian Bar Statute. Legal assistant or paralegal: R$2,508.03, the Novo CAGED average for legal clerks; 44 hours a week. For both, 53.8% in payroll charges, the employer's outlay in the DIEESE calculation cited by a Brazilian Senate study.
Law intern: a stipend of R$1,570.73, Nube's average for law students, for 30 hours a week, the cap set by the Internship Law. We add 17% for the costs the law requires or a hire usually carries: two bus fares each business day (R$5.30 in São Paulo) and the integration agent's fee, with the personal accident insurance.
The math leaves out meal vouchers, health insurance, recruiting, training, replacing staff, office space and equipment, so the real cost tends to be higher.
Sources
The virtual office
Every agent has a desk. When Lia reads a publication, she sits down and types. When Caio checks a payment, he walks to the safe. Every move matches real work.
Replay of a sample day
The team now
Idle looks idle. With no real work, an agent shows as free, with the time of its next routine, and never pretends to be busy.
In the dashboard, the same office shows your team live. “Watch the day” replays everything that happened.
Security and LGPD
The agent works in your systems and keeps only what it needs to show the work done.
Filings, spreadsheets and folders stay in your firm's Google account. We keep only operational data: activities, counted deadlines and allowance use.
The platform and its database run on AWS in São Paulo, encrypted in transit and at rest.
We sign a data processing agreement with every firm, under Brazil's data protection law (LGPD). Your firm is the controller; we are the processor.
In the dashboard, an agent shows only the client's first name. Full name and case number appear on click, for people with access. The platform stores no client CPF or CNPJ numbers, and none of this goes into logs. Each firm's automation keeps only what its routine needs.
The agents access Anthropic's Claude through Amazon Bedrock, on AWS, or through Anthropic's own API. Either way, the content they send is not used to train models.
Every action is logged: who did it, when and through which channel. The agent asks your team before any sensitive step.
Questions
Answers to the questions partners and managers most often ask about how the agents work, data security and contracting. Our team can take up any other question directly.
Talk to usNo. The agents take on manual, repetitive routines, such as reading court publications, counting deadlines and entering data into spreadsheets. The team concentrates on work that calls for legal judgment, and the lawyer still makes the call.
The firm's team. Lia, the deadlines agent, counts each deadline in business days and proposes the due date, but a deadline goes on the calendar only once the team confirms it. No deadline is ever confirmed automatically. When in doubt, an agent asks the team in the dashboard or on Discord and waits for the answer before going on. Every action is logged, with who took it, when and through which channel.
The investment has three components. Setup, billed once, covers building the firm's agents and automations. The monthly fee is charged per agent, by role, and includes a monthly allowance of activities and the infrastructure. Support and additional development hours are engaged on demand and billed only when used. The amounts are set out in a tailored proposal, prepared after an assessment of the firm's routines.
Partners are notified when a role reaches 80% of its monthly allowance and may approve an additional agent from then on. With automatic hiring turned on, the additional agent is hired when the allowance runs out, with no further approval. Without an additional agent, activities that have not started wait in the queue and resume, in their original order, when the limit is raised or the next month begins. Deadline activities are never held by the allowance, and no activity is discarded. Unless the proposal provides otherwise, an additional agent is billed for the full month and is not renewed automatically.
No. The agents work in the systems the team already uses, such as the publication clipping service, Google Workspace (Drive, Sheets and Calendar), Asaas and Discord, as well as bank statements. Integration with other systems is reviewed during the assessment.
No. During setup, the agents are adapted to the channel the team already uses, such as WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Discord or email. That channel is where an agent notifies the team, asks its questions and requests approvals, and where the team answers. Every answer is recorded in the StaffChain dashboard, with who gave it, when and through which channel, and the dashboard is where the firm follows its agents, activities, approvals and allowance. The channel is connected during setup, along with the firm's automations and agents. The partners can also use their own ChatGPT or Claude, through MCP, the open standard for connecting AI assistants.
It depends on the routines and systems involved. The engagement begins with an assessment that maps the routines of each role. On that basis, we present a proposal setting out the scope of the setup, the recommended agents and the start date.
No. StaffChain does not train models on firms' data. The agents use Claude, Anthropic's model, through Amazon Bedrock, an AWS service, or through Anthropic's own commercial API. AWS does not use the content sent to Bedrock to train models or share it with Anthropic, and Anthropic's commercial terms prohibit it from training models on the content sent through its API.
Documents, filings and spreadsheets remain in the firm's Google account. The platform and its database run on AWS in São Paulo, encrypted in transit and at rest. The platform keeps only operational data, with no client CPF or CNPJ numbers. Each firm's automation keeps only what its routines need, such as the publications already read, the deadlines and the new-case intake forms. Unlike the platform, it may hold a client's identification data, such as the CPF number, when a routine needs it. The content an agent needs to read, such as the text of a publication, is sent to Claude, Anthropic's model, through Amazon Bedrock, on AWS, or through Anthropic's API, and may be processed outside Brazil. Under the LGPD, Brazil's data protection law, the firm is the controller and StaffChain acts as the processor, under a data processing agreement signed with each firm.
Firms in any practice area that handle court publications, procedural deadlines, settlements and spreadsheet records. The first firm we serve practices labor law.
Yes, subject to review. In the assessment, we identify the routines that take up the team's time and whether an agent can take them on. Changes specific to the firm are made with development hours, engaged on demand and billed only when used.
Talk to us
Build your team of agents. Tell us which routines take up your team's time, and we will reply on WhatsApp with the right agents and the savings math.
Would you rather not fill it in? Talk to us on WhatsApp (the conversation passes through Meta, outside Brazil) or write to contato@centtral.com.br.
