Flipa isn't legal AI: it doesn't search case law, it doesn't hold statutes, and it gives no legal advice. As AI for small law firms it does a different job. It knows the firm's internal documents, its templates, its procedures, and its way of writing, and it answers from them, showing the source.
The examples come from a made-up firm: Marsh Okafor LLP, business and employment law, seven attorneys, in Minneapolis. Worth knowing now: the app's interface is in Spanish today, and Flipa answers in the language you write in.
Before you read on. If what you need is in the right-hand column, Flipa isn't the tool.
| Yes, for this | Not for this | |
|---|---|---|
| Writing | The firm's email templates and routine communications | Complaints, motions, briefs, and other court filings |
| Clients | The client intake procedure, step by step | Client files and client data |
| Fees | The firm's internal billing guidelines | Telling a client what they should do: it doesn't advise |
| Questions | Internal procedure: who signs, what gets filed, and where | Case law |
| Staying current | The firm's client alert, in your way of writing | Current statutes and regulations, and their changes |
| Onboarding | The new-hire handbook, for whoever just arrived | Permissions by matter or by attorney: everyone sees the same thing |
For the right-hand column there are specialized legal tools, and you know the names: research services like Westlaw and Lexis, practice management like Clio, legal AI like Harvey. Flipa doesn't replace them and doesn't compare itself to them.
Lawyers have been sanctioned for filing briefs with citations an AI tool invented. That's reason enough to demand a source you can open, and to keep an assistant like this away from legal questions. When the question is about the firm itself, Flipa goes to the firm's documents first and doesn't fill in with general knowledge. The result is a draft that an attorney reviews.
Per the client intake procedure, three. Search the prospective client and the adverse party in the matter list. Email all seven attorneys, who have 48 hours to respond. If anyone flags something, the managing partner decides before the engagement is accepted. No file is opened until then.
Every firm has sentences a partner drafted with care and nobody should touch: the one about the advance deposit, the one about when an engagement begins. When the firm's documents say a text is locked, Flipa respects it. Pick a template email and ask it for the three things. It's a mockup; in Flipa the result is also a draft an attorney reviews.
Draft · subjectInitial consultation at our office
Dear Ms. [last name]:
This confirms your consultation on [date] at [time] at our office. To make the most of the time, please bring the contract and any correspondence exchanged with the other party.
Locked text: hands offAn initial consultation does not mean the firm has accepted the engagement. The firm will confirm in writing whether it will take the matter once a conflict check has been completed.
Sincerely,
Marsh Okafor LLP
Ask for a change
The kind that isn't billable and eats half the morning. The approach is the same as at an accounting practice: we lay it out in Flipa for accounting firms.
It prepares the email from the firm's template, with the locked paragraph in place. The assistant copies it and sends it from their own inbox: Flipa doesn't send anything.
Document request email for a termination matter, employer-side client
They look up how things are done here, the part nobody explained: how a document gets named, what gets billed to which matter, whose signature to ask for.
How do we record time for an initial consultation that doesn't become an engagement?
The client alert and the firm's communications, in the house tone. The legal content comes from the partner; Flipa gives it shape and respects what can't be said.
Shape these three notes into a client alert, without promising outcomes
The new-hire handbook stops being a PDF you read on day one. You ask it when the question comes up, and it answers with the handbook itself open.
What do I do if a client texts my personal cell?
At a law firm this is the first question, and it deserves a specific answer.
Procedures, templates, billing guidelines, the new-hire handbook, the style guide, client alerts already sent. That's what it's built for.
The reasons, with what's on record today:
Each firm has its own space, separate from every other company's, and that part is tested. But separation between companies doesn't settle what you owe each client: the duty of confidentiality and attorney-client privilege are yours to protect, and we make no promise about either. ABA Formal Opinion 512, from July 2024, applies a lawyer's existing duties, confidentiality among them, to generative AI tools. So this page gives the cautious advice.
What's tested and what's missing is on the security page. If someone at the firm already pastes documents into general assistants, the guide on ChatGPT and company data explains what to check first. And how Flipa works has the full walkthrough, from the first upload to the first answer.
No single one covers everything. If the question is about the law, case law, or statutes, you need a specialized legal tool. Flipa covers the other part: anyone at the firm finding the right template or procedure, and writing the way the firm writes.
No. It has no case law or statute databases, and it doesn't track changes in the law. It knows only what's in the documents the firm uploads. It isn't AI for clients' legal documents either: it works with internal paperwork.
We don't recommend it today. What Flipa reads in order to answer goes out to the AI provider, its legal texts are a draft, and there's no data processing agreement yet. Also, everyone on an account draws on the same knowledge: there are no permissions by matter.
That isn't its job. It doesn't draft court filings and it doesn't stand in for an attorney's judgment. It can shape an email, a client alert, or an internal document from the firm's templates, always as a draft someone reviews.
You don't have to take its word: the answer carries the sources it checked, and you can open them. For anything specific to the firm it searches the firm's documents, and when it doesn't find it, it says so and logs it. It isn't infallible: it can be wrong, which is why what it writes gets reviewed. Why these assistants fail is explained in AI hallucinations.
The app's interface is in Spanish today and English isn't available yet, though Flipa answers in the language you write in. Plans start at $99/mo per account (it runs on credits), and you buy one by card on the pricing page, cancel anytime. The Trial is free, no card needed: 2,000 credits, one time. Google Drive, Gmail, Slack, and HubSpot connections aren't available yet.
What's been checked, what's pending, and where the data passes through.
The same approach for a tax and bookkeeping practice.
From uploading the first document to getting the first answer with its source.
What they are, why they happen, and how to cut them down.
