Family, commercial, conveyancing, wills and estates
What an AI-first law firm looks like.
AI-first means AI is built into how the work runs, so the repetitive jobs get done without anyone having to ask.
Your email filed to the matter, the file note and client letter written up after every consultation, and first drafts from your own precedents. A lawyer reads and signs everything before it leaves the firm.
One 20-person family law firm is recovering $1.3M a year this way.
Family law, 20 peopleWhere your firm is losing time.
Email filing
Hundreds of emails a day, read, sorted and filed to matters by hand.
Writing up
Up to 45 minutes after every consultation on the file note and the client letter.
Admin creep
Work that never needed a law degree, done by the people who have one.
Want your own number first? See what the admin is costing your firm. Want the plan before we build anything? AI strategy for law firms.
The assistants.
They work inside your practice management system. Works with Smokeball, LEAP and other practice management systems.
The email assistant
Pat AI assistantReads every incoming email, works out which matter it belongs to and files it into Smokeball or your practice management system. Anything it is unsure about goes to a person.
The consultation assistant
Donna AI assistantRecords your consultations, transcribes them and turns them into the client letter and file note, in your firm's own voice.
The research assistant
Ask a question in plain English and get an answer drawn from case law, legislation, precedent and your own matter history. Every answer shows its sources, so your solicitors can check it in minutes.
The drafting assistant
Advice letters, client correspondence, standard agreements and court documents, drafted from your own precedents in your house style. Your solicitors review and settle every draft.
Six rules we agree with you before we design anything.
They set what AI may touch in your firm, and what it must not.
- What stays inside your systems
- How little data leaves them
- Where it is processed
- Who signs before anything reaches a client
- What the AI is allowed to see
- How long anything is kept
The rules every system we build has to meet
The Privacy Act and the 13 Australian Privacy Principles, the Solicitors' Conduct Rules, legal professional privilege and Notifiable Data Breaches.
Your files and records are stored in Australia. If your matters need the AI's work done in Australia too, we plan and price that at the start. If a client contract, a government matter or your insurer says where data must be handled, we build to that rule.
Full data security documentation, provided to your compliance team before any AI system goes live.
Family law, 20 peopleThe bottleneck was the paperwork.
Thousands of emails a month landed on the admin team, and every consultation ended with up to 45 minutes of writing up. Two AI assistants now carry that work, and a third, which prices and drafts the bill, is being built.
Read how the firm did itNothing leaves the firm without a lawyer seeing it.How the firm runs it
Built by
- 🎓 Queensland Government AI mentor
- 🏆 Winner, 2025 Sunshine Coast Business Awards
- 🌟 Finalist, 2026 Sunshine Coast Business Awards
- 🏅 Top 10 finalist, Australian AI Awards 2025 & 2026
Ask us anything.
Not answered here? Call (07) 5300 2344 or book a free 20‑minute chat.
Are you an AI consultant for law firms in Queensland?
Yes. Blue Seas AI is an AI consultant for law firms in Queensland, based on the Sunshine Coast and working with firms in Brisbane, across South East Queensland and Australia-wide. Our law-firm work includes Catton & Tondelstrand, a 20-person Sunshine Coast family law firm, where two AI assistants file every email to the right matter in Smokeball and write up the file note and client letter after each consultation. Every job starts with the AI Scan or a free 20-minute chat.
Is AI safe for law firm client data?
Yes, when it is set up correctly. We use business AI accounts with written agreements on how your data is handled, and your data is never used to train AI. Your files and records are stored in Australia. Every system is designed around legal professional privilege and your duty of confidentiality.
How much does AI cost for a law firm?
It depends on the size of the job and how much it will save you. We start with the AI Scan, a session of up to two hours at a fixed price, to find where AI pays off first. Take the next step within 30 days and the Scan fee comes off its price. If you need the full 12-month plan, the AI Blueprint comes next, and what we build is planned from it. The Scan price is on our Book your AI Scan page.
Which practice management systems does Blue Seas AI work with?
We have connected our AI to Smokeball, LEAP and other major practice management systems. The AI works alongside your existing tools and never replaces them. For example, the email assistant matches and files each email to the correct matter in Smokeball.
Will AI replace my legal staff?
No. AI takes over the repetitive admin your people should not be doing: filing emails, writing up meeting notes and data entry. Your people keep the work that needs judgement, relationships and legal expertise.
two hours, one plan
Find out what AI can take off your team.
The AI Scan gives you a dollar figure on your admin, a 90-day plan and the one thing to do first.
Not ready to spend on a Scan? The chat is free, and you get to know Bart first.