What is an AI voice receptionist for attorneys?

An AI voice receptionist for attorneys is a system that answers your phone calls 24/7, conducts a professional intake conversation with callers, and emails you a full summary — including the caller's name, number, email, practice area, and preferred callback time — within 60 seconds. Presently is built specifically for solo and small law firms.

How much does Presently cost?

Presently is $8,150 per year for standard access. Founding firms who join during our early access period pay $4,000 per year — a rate that is locked in for life. There are no per-call fees, no overage charges, and no long-term contracts beyond the annual subscription.

Does Presently integrate with Clio or other legal practice management software?

Presently delivers intake summaries by email immediately after each call. Integration with Clio, MyCase, and other practice management platforms is on the product roadmap. Founding firms will be the first to access native integrations when they launch.

Can Presently answer calls in Spanish?

Yes. Presently conducts intake conversations in both English and Spanish. If a caller begins speaking Spanish, Presently automatically continues the conversation in Spanish and delivers the intake summary to you in English.

How quickly do I receive the intake summary after a call?

You receive a full intake summary by email within 60 seconds of the call ending. The summary includes the caller's full name, best callback number, email address, practice area, preferred callback time, urgency level, and any additional notes the caller shared.

What practice areas does Presently support?

Presently is trained to handle intake for estate planning, personal injury, employment law, family law and divorce, criminal defense, and general matters. For each practice area, Presently asks the right follow-up questions — for example, asking personal injury callers about treatment status and insurance contact.

How does call forwarding work with Presently?

You forward calls to your Presently number using your existing carrier's call forwarding feature — typically by dialing a short code on your phone. No hardware or app is required. Setup takes under five minutes and can be activated or deactivated instantly.

Is Presently compliant with call recording laws?

Yes. Presently discloses at the start of every call that the call will be recorded and transcribed for intake purposes, and identifies itself as an AI assistant. This disclosure satisfies federal one-party consent requirements and is designed to meet two-party consent requirements in states like California, Florida, and Washington.

Can Presently handle multiple calls at the same time?

Yes. Presently handles simultaneous calls — every caller reaches a live AI immediately regardless of how many calls come in at once. There is no queue, no hold music, and no missed calls due to the line being busy.

What happens after Presently takes a message?

As soon as the call ends, you receive an email with the full intake summary. The summary flags urgent matters and high-priority leads so you can triage quickly. You call the client back directly — Presently handles the intake so you can focus on the follow-up that wins the case.

An AI Receptionist Costs Less Than One Missed Client: The $25/Month Math for Solo Attorneys

Solo attorneys lose roughly $110,000 a year to missed calls, yet the most common objection to fixing it is price. The math doesn't hold: an AI receptionist runs $25–$100 a month, while a single missed personal-injury intake can be worth $5,000 or more. Here's the breakeven for a solo practice.

A solo attorney loses about $110,000 a year to missed calls, but an AI receptionist that answers every one of them costs as little as $25 a month (Clio Legal Trends Report, 2026). The objection that keeps most solo practices from fixing the problem isn't the technology — it's the assumption that good intake coverage is expensive. The numbers say the opposite.

Here is the comparison nobody runs before deciding to "just let it go to voicemail."

The Real Price of a Missed Call

The average law firm misses 35% of incoming calls, and 72% of callers who hit voicemail hang up and dial the next attorney on the list (Clio Legal Trends Report, 2026). They don't leave a message. They don't wait for a callback. The call is gone the moment it isn't answered.

Now attach a dollar figure. A signed personal-injury client can be worth $5,000 to $10,000 in fees. A family-law matter, $3,000 to $7,000. Even a modest estate-planning engagement runs $1,500. A solo attorney who misses two or three of these calls a month is not losing "calls" — they're losing a six-figure book of business one ring at a time.

That is the $110,000 figure in practice. It is not a missed-marketing number. It is signed work that walked to a competitor who picked up.

What an AI Receptionist Actually Costs

Here is where the math stops being scary. In 2026, AI answering services for solo and small firms price like this:

Entry per-call services: ~$25/month, live in 30 minutes, no contract.
Trained legal-intake agents: $50–$150/month with flat-rate pricing.
Full intake + CRM sync: still a fraction of a part-time receptionist's wage.

A human front-desk hire costs $35,000–$45,000 a year before benefits. An AI receptionist costs less than the fee from one recovered client — for the entire year.

Presently is built for exactly this gap. It answers every inbound call 24/7, runs a real legal-intake conversation — name, matter type, urgency, contact details — and hands you a structured summary before the caller has finished their coffee. No voicemail. No "we'll call you back." No after-hours dead zone where 28% of new-client calls actually land.

The Breakeven Is One Call a Year

Run it cleanly:

AI receptionist: $300–$1,200/year, all in.
Value of a single recovered client: $1,500–$10,000.

If Presently saves you one client over twelve months, it has paid for itself several times over. Every additional call it catches after that is pure margin. There is no other line item in a solo practice with a return profile like that.

The reason this objection persists is that missed calls are invisible. You never see the client who called, got voicemail, and hired someone else — so the cost feels like zero. It isn't zero. It's $110,000, spread across calls you never knew came in.

FAQ

How much does an AI receptionist cost for a solo law firm? Entry-level AI answering services start around $25/month. Trained legal-intake agents like Presently typically run $50–$150/month — far below the $35,000+ annual cost of a human receptionist.

Is an AI receptionist worth it for a single-attorney practice? Yes. The breakeven is one recovered client per year. Since a single signed matter is worth $1,500–$10,000 and the service costs $300–$1,200 annually, it pays for itself on the first saved call.

What does Presently do that voicemail doesn't? Presently answers live 24/7, conducts a structured intake conversation, and sends you a complete caller summary — capturing the 72% of clients who hang up on voicemail and the 28% of calls that come after hours.

Stop measuring the cost of the tool. Measure the cost of the calls you're already missing. See how Presently answers every call for solo attorneys →

Sources: Clio Legal Trends Report 2026 via CloudTalk, AI Receptionist for Law Firms — Aiventra, Best AI Virtual Receptionists for Law Firms 2026 — Technology.org