Your clients used to call you with questions. Now they ask their AI.Your clients ask their AI now. LegalNod is the line from their AI to you: the question comes to you, and the advice stays yours.
Fiona's own account of the facts, sent privately to you, with a short brief.
An attorney asks what you would ask. Pick a question and the film starts there.
You have probably felt it already.
The AI answers in seconds and sounds right, so the client never picks up the phone.
The client is paying for access to you and not using it.
And what they typed into the AI was never a conversation with their lawyer.
Every one of those chats is a record. If there is a lawsuit, the other side can ask for them in discovery. Most clients have no idea, and the first cases are only arriving now.
You can raise it with your clients before they find out the hard way, and offer them a way to keep working in their AI tools with you in the loop.
A defendant worked through his case with an AI assistant on his own, then gave the results to his lawyers. Judge Rakoff held the chats were neither privileged nor work product.
“Because Claude is not an attorney… that alone disposes of Heppner's claim of privilege.”
“…non-privileged communications are not somehow alchemically changed into privileged ones upon being shared with counsel.”
“Had counsel directed Heppner to use Claude, Claude might arguably be said to have functioned in a manner akin to a highly trained professional who may act as a lawyer's agent within the protection of the attorney-client privilege.”
With LegalNod the question comes to you, the client's attorney, under the engagement you already have.
The sensitive facts are written to you on a private page, not typed into the AI.
When the AI helps, it works at your written direction, with a record that shows it.
What that does and does not mean: the court's remark about counsel-directed use was an aside, not a holding, and no court has ruled on this exact arrangement. LegalNod is structured for privilege. A judge makes the final call. 25 Cr. 503 (JSR), ECF No. 27, at 5, 7, 8.
Your reply does not have to be the whole answer. It can be a direction, and that is where your time goes furthest.
You brief your client's AI the way you would brief a good associate: what you think is going on, what must not happen yet, the questions that decide it, and what you want back. A few sentences, in your own words. We never draft it for you.
Your client keeps working in the tool they already use, now under your direction. Checkpoints are saved for you as they go.
Organized, with the documents attached. You review it and give your advice.
Your client does the homework. You stay the lawyer. This is also what the court's remark in Heppner turned on: AI work done at counsel's direction.
Three steps, and the first two are yours.
Paste a list, or drop in the contact export from your practice software. Names and email addresses are all it needs.
It goes from your own email, in your name, with your link. We write the message for you.
Each client adds LegalNod to their AI in about two minutes. From then on, their AI offers to bring you in.
Not a chat log. A question you can act on.
These are your clients under the engagements you already have. You set your fees and you bill them: mark a client as on retainer, or bill the time yourself.
LegalNod is software. It is not a law firm, it gives no advice, and your fees never pass through it.
You pay nothing while you set up and invite clients. Your plan starts the day one of your own clients sends you a nod.
For a solo attorney getting clients connected.
When nods become part of your week.
For a busy practice.
If you pass your plan's nods in a month, your clients are never cut off. We tell you, and you choose whether to move up.
No card is needed to start. Your plan begins the day the first nod arrives from one of your own clients, and is billed monthly in advance, by card.
Cancel any time from your Plan page. Your plan runs to the end of the month you have paid for, and your records stay yours to download.
A month that has begun is not refunded, except where the law requires it. If you believe a charge is wrong, write to [email protected] and we will look at it with you.
Prices are in US dollars. Sales tax is added where it applies. LegalNod is operated by Ostrel Software LLC, 522 W Riverside Ave, Ste N, Spokane, WA 99201.
Not a pitch. What their AI does today, what a connector (an MCP) adds, the moment it offers to bring you in, and what "Under the Nod" means.
Clear answers.
No. You work in a simple queue: a question arrives, you reply. Your clients are the ones using AI tools, and connecting takes them about two minutes.
You paste your client list and send one email from your own account. The message and your personal link are written for you. Clients on your list are connected the moment they sign up. Anyone else who uses the link waits for you to confirm them.
Not directly yet. Every practice system can export contacts, and LegalNod reads that export or a pasted list. Direct connections are planned.
No. You pay a flat monthly price for the software. Your fees are between you and your client and never pass through LegalNod.
Your way, at your price. Mark a client as included in their retainer, on your flat fee for a quick answer, or on your hourly rate. Your client sees your terms before they send and agrees to them. When a question needs real work, you send a quote first and nothing starts until they accept. You bill it yourself; LegalNod never sets, collects or shares in a fee.
Yes. Add them as former clients. Because there is no open engagement, each nod starts with a conflict check: you see who is on the other side and nothing else. Once you confirm you can take it, they agree a limited engagement and your fee, and only then do the facts reach you. You can decline at any point before that.
Their AI holds the legal discussion until you have accepted and sent your direction. From then on every reply ends with a status line: "Under the Nod", the matter number and your name. When the work is done it comes back to you for review, and your advice closes the nod.
What your client sends you through LegalNod and what you advise is a communication between you and your client, under the engagement you already have. AI work the client does at your direction is structured to support privilege. That exact arrangement has not been tested in court yet; in United States v. Heppner the judge noted that counsel-directed AI use might arguably fall inside the privilege. What a client typed into an AI before bringing you in is not covered.
That your license is active and in good standing. Your invitation link switches on once that is verified.
Free to set up. You pay nothing until the first nod arrives from one of your own clients.
Set up my lineThe line from your clients' AI to you.