The lead-to-matter operating system for estate-planning firms

Turn more estate-planning inquiries into signed, ready-to-draft matters.

Legacy Law connects every step between a first inquiry and a signed, financially-ready matter. Your team stays focused on clients and legal work, and good prospects stop slipping through the cracks.

Firm-owned templates and languageAttorney review stays in the workflowClient communications are reviewable before sendingPrivate client files, separated by firm

The problem

Good prospects rarely slip away because the legal work is weak.

They slip away in the gaps. A callback no one owns. Intake that never gets finished. An engagement letter stuck in someone's drafts. A payment no one confirmed. The work is scattered across tools and people, and momentum quietly leaks out.

A caller leaves a voicemail, and by the time someone calls back, they have already booked with another firm.

A web lead gets one text, then nothing, because no one is sure who owns the follow-up.

A consultation is on the calendar, but the attorney walks in without the intake or context to make it count.

A matter gets opened before the intake, engagement, and payment are actually in place, and the cleanup lands on staff.

Why a connected system

Point tools each fix one step. The leaks happen between them.

Most firms stitch together a CRM, a phone line, a form builder, and a drafting tool. Each one is fine on its own. None of them carry a client from first inquiry to a ready-to-draft matter, so your team becomes the integration.

A generic CRM

Built for sales pipelines, not estate-planning intake, engagement, and matter readiness. Your team rebuilds the workflow by hand.

A phone or text tool

Captures the call, but the lead, the client profile, and the next step still live somewhere else.

An intake or form builder

Collects answers that never flow into consult prep, the engagement letter, or the matter.

Document automation

Speeds the draft, but only after someone has already chased the client, intake, engagement, and payment.

Legacy Law is the layer that connects all of it. One path from first inquiry to a signed, financially-ready, ready-to-draft matter, with the firm in control at every step.

The operating rhythm

One connected path from first touch to drafting.

Every step has a clear owner and a clear reason. Nothing advances until the work behind it is actually done, so the firm always knows where each client stands.

01

Capture the inquiry

Web, phone, text, and referral inquiries land in one lead record with the source attached, so nothing arrives unowned.

02

Respond while they are still deciding

Help staff follow up fast and collect the right profile details. The first firm to respond is usually the firm that wins the client.

03

Prepare the consultation

Send pre-consult instructions, collect intake, and hand the attorney real context, so the meeting moves toward a decision.

04

Get engagement and payment ready

Draft the engagement letter, request confirmation, and collect the opening payment requirement, with the proof kept on the record.

05

Open a ready-to-draft matter

Move forward only when the profile, intake, engagement, and financial opening requirement are all in place, so matters start clean.

06

Draft from firm-owned templates

Map intake details into the firm's own templates and keep attorney review in the workflow. The firm owns the language and the final word.

Outcomes

What improves when the workflow finally holds together.

The goal is not more software for staff to babysit. It is a calmer, more accountable path that helps the firm convert good leads and open matters with confidence.

Fewer missed opportunities

Calls, texts, web forms, and referrals land where staff can act on them before the prospect moves on.

Cleaner client communication

Staff can see what was sent, what came back, what still needs a reply, and who owns the next step.

Better intake before drafting

The client profile becomes the source of truth, and detailed intake feeds the matter instead of getting re-keyed.

Consults that are easier to run

Scheduling, confirmations, pre-consult prep, and attorney notes stay attached to the lead.

Faster drafting without skipping review

Draft from firm-approved templates and keep attorney validation visible before anything reaches a client.

A clearer growth picture

See source, follow-up, conversion, and readiness, so the firm can tell what is actually working.

Matter readiness

Trust-Based Estate Plan

Ready
Customer profile complete
Detailed intake collected
Engagement letter signed
Financial opening requirement satisfied
Drafting package selected

Drafting starts from the firm's templates

Legacy Law structures, fills, and organizes the work. The firm owns the language, and the attorney owns the final work product. Nothing reaches a client without attorney review.

Different from drafting-only tools

Drafting gets easier when the matter starts clean.

Document software is one step in a much longer workflow. Legacy Law gets the client, intake, engagement, payment status, and template package aligned first, so drafting begins from a complete file instead of a scramble.

Draft from your firm's own templates, never platform-supplied legal language.

Map intake details into the draft, so the attorney refines instead of starting over.

Keep review, proof, downloads, and audit history attached to the matter.

Built for control

Everyone can see what happened, and what needs to happen next.

Calls, texts, emails, intake, notes, tasks, consultations, payment status, and document proof stay connected to the record instead of scattered across inboxes and memory. Access is role-based, client files stay private, and each firm's records are kept separate.

Phone and SMS workspace
Customer profile
Lead attribution
My Work queue
Matter work plan
Client portal
Knowledge Base
Activity history

Fit

Best for firms that want to grow without operational chaos.

Solo and small firms

Get a repeatable path for lead follow-up, intake, engagement, and drafting without hiring a full operations team.

Growing estate-planning teams

Make handoffs clear across attorneys, paralegals, receptionists, and admins, so work stops falling between people.

Multi-brand or multi-location firms

Keep each firm's numbers, branding, pipeline, and workflows organized in one platform.

See what your firm's workflow would look like.

Book a walkthrough. We will look at how inquiries reach your firm today, map your intake, engagement, payment, and drafting path, and show where Legacy Law connects it. No pressure and no obligation.