Lapt is the AI-native workspace for law firms. AI legal-operations employees work inside it, on your matters and within your permissions, and every piece of work comes back to an attorney before it leaves the firm.
Each part of that sentence was a deliberate choice. Here's what each one means in practice.
“An AI-native workspace for law firms”
- Matters, documents, instructions, workflows, permissions, and firm knowledge live in one place, organized the way firms already work: by matter.
- It connects to the systems you already run, like practice management, document storage, email, calendars, and billing, instead of asking you to move.
“Employees, not chatbots”
- Intake, Paralegal, Records, and Billing each have a persistent workspace with their own instructions, workflows, tools, and knowledge.
- You delegate a task the way you would to a colleague, and the employee carries it across your systems until there's something for you to review.
“Attorneys keep the judgment”
- Lapt drafts, organizes, and follows up. Attorneys decide.
- Anything that leaves the firm, whether a letter, a filing, or a client message, waits for approval with its sources attached.
These are the six principles we build Lapt around.
I. Every fact should have a source.
Legal work is only as strong as what supports it. When an employee states a fact, you should be able to click through to where it came from.
How we make it real:
- Citations on the work product
- Summaries, chronologies, and drafts link each fact to the document, page, or message it came from.
- Review by spot-check
- Records and productions are summarized with references back to the file, so checking the work doesn't mean re-reading everything.
- Gaps become follow-ups
- When the file doesn't support a point, it's flagged as missing so it can be requested instead of guessed at.
II. Nothing leaves the firm without approval.
An employee can draft at any hour. Sending is a different decision, and it belongs to a person at your firm.
How we make it real:
- An approval queue
- Letters, client messages, and other outbound work wait for sign-off, with the draft and its sources side by side.
- Sending is a permission
- Whether an employee can send, and whether it needs approval first, is set per employee rather than left to habit.
- Review in context
- Each approval shows who asked, which employee did the work, and which sources it relied on.
- Approvals on the record
- Who approved what, and when, is logged against the matter.
III. Access follows the matter.
Firms already decide who can see which matters. An AI employee should inherit those decisions, not work around them.
How we make it real:
- Matter-level permissions
- Each employee sees only the matters it's assigned to, and only the documents in those matters.
- Separate rights for reading, drafting, and sending
- An employee can be allowed to read and draft on a matter without being allowed to send anything from it.
- Restricted stays restricted
- When a matter is limited to certain people, the employees working on it are limited the same way.
IV. Firms should own their data and their record.
Client files are the firm's responsibility. The work an employee does on them should become part of the firm's record.
How we make it real:
- Work lands in your systems
- Drafts, summaries, and updates are written back to the practice management and document systems you already use.
- A full audit trail
- Every step, source, and approval is kept against the matter for later review.
- Firm knowledge stays with the firm
- The instructions, templates, and knowledge you give an employee live in your firm's workspace.
V. The person who knows the work should be able to delegate it.
The paralegal who has run records requests for years knows exactly how they should be done. Handing that work off shouldn't require an engineer.
How we make it real:
- Instructions in plain language
- Tell an employee how your firm does the work: the steps, the templates, the exceptions.
- Legal workflows to start from
- Intake, conflict checks, records requests, demand drafting, and billing review are ready to adapt instead of built from scratch.
- Delegate where you already work
- Assign a task in the Lapt workspace or mention an employee in Microsoft Teams.
VI. One good workflow should lift the whole firm.
When one team finds a better way to do something, every matter should benefit, not only theirs.
How we make it real:
- Built by one, shared with many
- An employee set up by one practice group can be shared with others, with permissions intact.
- Firm standards, applied every time
- Naming, filing, and drafting conventions live in the employee's instructions, so every matter gets the same treatment.
- Improve it once
- Update an instruction once and the employee applies it on every matter it works on from then on.
Own your firm's AI future.
Your matters, your data, your judgment. Lapt takes on the work in between.
The Lapt team