Quill — by Orbit
An AI paralegal that writes like you do.
Quill drafts your client emails, organizes your case files, and keeps your calendar honest — for solo and small family law firms. In your voice, with your judgment, on your terms.
30-minute demo. No deck. We’ll show you Quill working on a real family law inbox.
The paralegal problem
You can’t afford a full-time paralegal. You can’t afford to keep doing their work either.
A full-time family law paralegal in a competitive U.S. market costs $70,000 to $95,000 a year, fully loaded. Most solo and small firms can’t justify that — so the work falls back on the attorney. Drafting status emails at 9pm. Chasing missing financial disclosures. Confirming appointments by hand. Filing scanned documents into the right folder. Reading the morning’s overnight client messages before the first cup of coffee.
It’s the work that doesn’t bill, but doesn’t go away. It’s why family law attorneys burn out faster than almost any other practice area — and it’s the most common source of bar complaints, which are almost always about communication, not legal outcomes.
Quill does that work. So you can do yours.
What Quill does
The work of a part-time paralegal. Around the clock.
Quill handles the high-volume, time-consuming work that doesn’t require legal judgment — and stays firmly out of work that does.
Client communication
Reads incoming emails and texts. Drafts responses in your voice and signature, queued for one-click approval. Acknowledges clients within minutes — even at 11pm — so nothing feels ignored. Distinguishes urgent from routine, and never invents legal advice.
Case files & documents
Files incoming documents into the right matter and the right subfolder. Drafts engagement letters, fee agreements, status updates, and settlement transmittals from your firm's templates. Tracks which financial disclosures have come in and which are still missing. Organizes mediation binders before you ask.
Calendar & deadlines
Tracks filing deadlines, hearings, mediations, and client meetings. Surfaces them with 30/14/7/3/1-day reminders. Schedules consultations with new prospects by text. Sends appointment reminders 24 and 2 hours out. Handles the rescheduling back-and-forth so you don't.
Plus an open chat for everything else — “Find every email where opposing counsel discussed settlement on the Anderson case.”
A day with Quill
What it actually looks like.
- 7:42 AM
Before your first coffee
Quill has already read the seven client messages that came in overnight. Three are routine and have draft responses waiting in your approval inbox. One is from a client whose temper is rising — Quill flagged it for your eyes first. Three more were FAQs Quill answered using firm-approved language, with full transcripts logged.
- 11:15 AM
Mid-morning
You ask Quill to assemble the mediation binder for the Henderson matter. Eight minutes later, the financial records, custody history, prior offers, and case timeline are in a clean Google Drive folder, organized exactly the way your firm has done it for ten years.
- 5:50 PM
End of day
A new prospect filled out the intake form. Quill ran a conflict check against your existing clients and opposing parties in Clio, found none, drafted a fee agreement from your standard template, and queued a Tuesday consultation slot for your approval. You read it for thirty seconds, click approve, and go home.
Built for lawyers, not the other way around
The architecture is the disclaimer.
Most legal AI tools say the right things in their terms of service and then quietly do the wrong things in the product. Quill is built the other way around.
Quill drafts. You approve.
Every externally-visible action — emails, documents, scheduled communications — is queued for your review by default. Auto-send is opt-in per attorney, per case, and clearly marked. Your name only appears on what you approved.
Quill stays in its lane.
No litigation strategy. No legal analysis with conclusions. No advice to clients on substantive matters. No final court filings without your sign-off. No communication with represented opposing parties. These limits are architectural, not contractual — Quill is built so it can't cross them, even if asked.
Every action is logged.
Timestamp, input, output, approving attorney, triggering event. Filterable by case, exportable for any bar inquiry, attributable to a specific identity. This is your malpractice protection, and it's there from day one.
Sensitive matters escalate to you immediately.
When Quill detects domestic violence indicators, threats of harm, or child welfare concerns in client communication, it does not handle them. It surfaces the message to the responsible attorney with full context, and waits. This is non-negotiable.
Pricing
Less than a part-time paralegal. Available 24/7. Scales with your caseload.
A full-time family law paralegal runs $5,800 to $7,900 a month, fully loaded. A part-time paralegal at twenty hours a week is $2,500 to $3,500. Quill is priced as a part-time paralegal — but works around the clock, never quits, scales with your caseload, and improves over time.
Setup is a one-time fee that covers integrating Quill into your stack, training it on your templates and voice, and onboarding every attorney on your team. The monthly retainer covers everything else: hosting, all model API costs, support, and continuous improvement.
We’ll walk you through the specific numbers for your firm on the demo call.
Frequently asked
What firms ask before signing on.
Get started
See Quill on a real family law inbox.
Thirty minutes. No slide deck. We’ll show you Quill drafting client emails, organizing a sample case file, scheduling a consultation, and flagging an escalation — using a real family law fact pattern. If it’s not for you, we’ll know in fifteen minutes and so will you.
Solo and 2–5 attorney family law firms in the United States.