Counsel Local

The private AI paralegal for small law firms

Your own practice, with a paralegal from day one.

Counsel Local reads your case files, counts your deadlines, checks new clients for conflicts and keeps your billing straight. It works quietly on your own computer, the way a trusted paralegal works down the hall.

Try it free for 2 months Spend a day with it

Runs on your computerClient files never go to the cloudShows its sources

Counsel Local's home screen in dark mode: a greeting, a question box, what's owed and unbilled, billable hours this week, upcoming deadlines, and a short list of what to do first.
The corner clock showing today's time on Whitlock v. Whitlock with Pause and Stop buttons.

The clock in the corner counts the time you actually work on a matter.

Real screens from Counsel Local, shown with a sample case file. Every name is fictional.

Privacy

What's said in your office stays in your office.

Client files hold some of the most private moments of people's lives. Counsel Local keeps them where they belong: on the computer at your desk, encrypted, behind your firm's own sign-in.

The AI runs on your own PC

Questions are answered on your machine. No AI company on the other end reads your clients' documents.

Encrypted where it's kept

Matters, documents, clients and billing are encrypted on disk, with a paper recovery key that stays in your drawer.

No cloud, no sync

Files leave only when you move them yourself: a backup, a QuickBooks import file, a draft you send.

A day with Counsel Local

Ten hours of a solo practice. One quiet helper.

This is what an ordinary Tuesday looks like with Counsel Local open on the desk.

8:04 AM

Before the coffee's done, you know what's due.

Every hearing and deadline across your matters, found in the filings, counted by the rules and waiting for you to confirm. The home screen lists the three things that need you first.

The calendar for October 2026 with a Coming up list: a parenting conference, a response to a motion, genetic testing results, the Affidavit exchange, the Resolution Statement and the Resolution Management Conference.

9:30 AM

A new client calls. You know about any conflict before you hang up.

Type in everyone involved. Counsel Local checks each name against your clients, every past matter and every document, tells you which side they were on, and keeps your decision on record.

Possible conflict: Respondent in Whitlock v. Whitlock, on the other side from the firm's client.

A conflict check flagging that the new client was the Respondent in an existing matter where the firm represents the Petitioner.

11:15 AM

"When is the Resolution Statement due?" Asked and answered.

Ask about a case the way you'd ask a colleague. Every answer points to the document it came from, and deadlines are counted by the rule, court days and holidays included.

Tuesday, November 10, 2026 (in 20 days).

Questions about Whitlock v. Whitlock answered with citations: the parties, and the date the Resolution Statement is due.

1:40 PM

What's missing from the other side's disclosure?

A Rule check goes through the rule requirement by requirement, quotes what's there, and lists what isn't. Then it can draft the language to fix the gaps.

1 found · 5 not found · 1 deadline to check by date

A Rule check of a disclosure statement against a disclosure rule, with each subsection marked found, not found or a deadline.

3:05 PM

The letter to your client, ready to send.

Ask for a letter and get one, with the case number filled in and anything it doesn't know left as a highlighted blank for you. Save it as a Word draft in one click.

A drafted letter to the client asking for savings account statements and the Affidavit of Financial Information, with blanks highlighted.

5:20 PM

Your time is already written down.

Counsel Local noticed which matter you worked on, and for how long. It suggests the time entries; you approve them. Invoices print to PDF and export to QuickBooks Online.

The Billing screen with a suggested time entry from the day's activity waiting for approval, and unbilled time by matter.

6:10 PM

One last question before the lights go off.

Your operations manager knows your numbers. Ask what it takes to cover rent, how many clients a full week means, or who to call about payment, and get the arithmetic worked out from your own records.

"How many clients would I need to cover $6,000 a month?"

The operations manager working out the billable hours and number of clients needed to bring in six thousand dollars a month.

For the ones still studying

The practice you're studying for doesn't have to wait for a big firm.

Opening your own office used to mean doing a paralegal's job, an office manager's job and a bookkeeper's job after every client went home. Counsel Local takes the intake, the deadlines, the paperwork and the billing off your desk, so the work that's left is the reason you went to law school.

One computer. Your name on the door.

You approve the bill.

Tracked time is only a suggestion until you approve it, and only time you actually worked is counted. Nothing is billed on its own.

It shows its work.

Every answer cites your documents. When it can't verify a date, figure or rule, it tells you so in plain words.

You stay the lawyer.

Counsel Local drafts, counts and checks. What's filed, sent or billed is always your review and your call.

Free for two months

Try it on your own work, free.

Open to practicing lawyers, new lawyers and law students, on Windows or Mac. Ask for your key, download the app, and send us your notes. That's the only price.

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