Matter-first structure
Every document, draft, and email attachment files to a matter with the naming and access rules your firm already uses.
AI file management for counsel
File Counsel is the intelligent file system for law firms. Organize work by matter, ask questions across the file, and keep privileged documents where they belong.
The problem
Shared drives scatter versions. Email buries the executed copy. General chatbots cannot be trusted with the matter. File Counsel keeps the record together and makes it usable.
Every document, draft, and email attachment files to a matter with the naming and access rules your firm already uses.
Search in plain English. Answers cite the exact page, clause, and version so associates can verify before anything leaves the office.
Client work stays in your tenancy. Nothing is used to train foundation models. Audit trails follow every view and export.
How it works
Create from your practice system or start in File Counsel. Conflicts, clients, and retention rules attach automatically.
Drag in PDFs, Word, email, and rooms. The assistant profiles documents and proposes folders you can accept in one pass.
Ask across the matter, compare versions, pull a closing checklist, or draft from the file you already have.
Archive the official set, freeze versions, and keep a searchable memory without leaving stray copies on desktops.
Built for the desk
“Put it in File Counsel” should feel as ordinary as “file that to the matter.”
| Work | File Counsel |
|---|---|
| Find the executed copy | Matter search with version status |
| Check a survival clause | Cited answer, page-level source |
| Prepare a first draft | Grounded in the firm’s last deal file |
| Hand off a matter | Complete record, not a scavenger hunt |
Pricing
Published starting points for planning. Firm-wide DMS connectors are scoped in a brief.
Chambers
One practice group, 30 days.
Firm
From $49 / user / month, annual.
Enterprise
Multi-office deployment.
Filecounsel.ai
We onboard a single practice group first. You keep the documents.
Product
Document management discipline plus an assistant that only answers from what you filed.
Client / matter hierarchy, custom folders, naming conventions, and official-copy flags.
On upload, File Counsel proposes document type, date, parties, and destination folder. Lawyers accept or correct.
Answers include the document, section, and page. If the file does not contain it, the assistant says so.
Compare drafts, mark the executed instrument, and keep closing sets assembled as a set.
Word, Outlook, iManage, NetDocuments, SharePoint, and Clio.
A matter brief for coverage, a new associate, or co-counsel: issues, key documents, and open items.
Security & privilege
Designed so a general counsel can complete a vendor review without lowering the ethical wall.
Matter content is not used to train foundation models. Retention is contractual.
Firm data is logically isolated. Enterprise plans can scope a dedicated environment.
SSO, SCIM, matter-level permissions, and ethical wall templates.
TLS in transit. Encrypted at rest. Optional customer-managed keys.
Every view, export, ask, and admin change is logged.
SOC 2 materials, DPA, and architecture overview available under NDA.
Contact
Tell us the practice group and the DMS you use.