She was billing $350 an hour. She was also answering her own phones.
What that was actually costing her would surprise you.
It was a Tuesday afternoon when she lost a client she never met.
The call came in at 2:47pm. She was in a deposition. The phone rang four times and went to voicemail. The caller, a woman going through a divorce who had been referred by a former client, left a message. She called one other attorney. That attorney answered.
That case billed out at $18,400.
This is not a story about a bad attorney. This is a story about a math problem that solo practitioners have been losing for decades and nobody talks about.
When you are the attorney, the paralegal, the receptionist, and the rainmaker all at once, something always gets sacrificed. Usually it is the phone.
The average solo attorney misses between 30 and 40 percent of inbound calls during business hours. After hours the number is closer to 100 percent. Every missed call is a warm lead you already earned going somewhere else.
Hiring a receptionist in most markets runs $38,000 to $52,000 a year before benefits. And even then, she goes home at 5.
There is a different way to run this.
Here is what the math looks like for your market specifically.
Limited founding offer
$79/month, locked for life.
Avery answers every call, books every appointment, and follows up after hours.
What does a receptionist cost in your market?
Enter your ZIP code. See exactly what Avery saves you every month.
Real market salary data for your area versus what LexParaCore costs. The math speaks for itself.
AI Paralegal for your practice
A full-time front desk,without the full-time salary.
Avery answers every call, books every appointment, and follows up after hours, so you can practice law, not manage a phone.
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When the 50 Founders seats are gone, standard plans start at $69/month.
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Your practice gets a platform
Avery answers your phone today. Your firm grows into the platform from there.
Avery Whitmore
Your AI Paralegal
Your AI team, rolling out next
Elena Marchetti
Client Follow-Up Coordinator
Reminders, follow-ups, and status updates so no client ever goes cold.
Julian Sinclair
Case Briefing Associate
Reads the matter and briefs you before every consultation.
Zoe Bennett
Referral Coordinator
Routes overflow and conflicts to trusted counsel, within the ethics rules.
Plus a full practice-protection suite
Deadline & SoL Tracker
Statute-of-limitations and 30, 14, 7, 3, and day-of alerts.
Start with Avery at your founding rate, locked for life. As each teammate and tool launches, founding members get first access before anyone else.
The cost of a missed call
The phone is quietly costing you clients you never hear about.
Every missed call is a case you will never know you lost.
Potential clients do not leave voicemails. They call the next attorney on the list. Avery makes sure that never happens.
Built for your practice area. Not a generic answering service.
Avery knows the language of your cases, the urgency of your callers, and the exact intake questions to ask before you pick up the phone.
Never a busy signal. Not ever.
Avery handles 10 simultaneous inbound calls. Every caller gets a live answer. No hold music. No voicemail box. No lost clients.
How it works
Three steps. One of them is Avery doing the work.
01
You tell us your practice area.
One choice at onboarding: family law, estate planning, personal injury, criminal defense, or your specialty.
02
We train Avery for your firm.
Your name, your intake style, your calendar, your conflict rules, configured in under 5 minutes.
03
Avery answers your phone.
Every call, every hour, every day. You wake up to a full calendar and zero missed calls.
Always included
Every plan comes with Avery Whitmore.
Avery Whitmore
Your AI Paralegal
Avery answers every inbound call, collects intake information, books consultations directly on your calendar, sends confirmation emails to you and the client, and runs a conflict check before any case reaches your desk. She works after hours, on weekends, and never calls in sick. She is on every plan, working the moment you go live, and your specialist team and practice tools roll out from there.
Built for your practice
If Avery can handle a distressed family law caller at 11pm, she can handle yours.
Family Law
Distressed callers answered with empathy. Consultations booked. Conflict checks run automatically. You wake up to a full calendar.
Estate Planning
First-time planners guided with patience. Elderly clients treated with care. Intake completed before you ever speak to them.
Personal Injury
Urgency calls handled immediately. Medical timeline questions collected. Insurance information documented at intake.
Criminal Defense
Crisis callers answered without judgment. Bail timeline questions handled professionally. Consultation booked in under 3 minutes.
Avery is trained for your specific practice area during onboarding. No generic scripts. Every call sounds like it came from your firm.
What Avery does every month
The numbers a full-time receptionist was supposed to deliver.
100%
Calls answered. No voicemail. No missed.
After hours
Nights, weekends, and holidays included on every plan.
Under 3 min
Average time to book an appointment.
Automatic
Conflict check run on every new intake.
Up to 10
Simultaneous calls handled at once. No busy signal.
Under 5 min
From onboarding to Avery answering your calls.
These are not projections. This is the system.
Sample, not a client
This is a firm intake system Avery actually built.
We gave one paragraph about a made-up estate planning firm in Memphis to Avery. She generated the intake questions, built the conflict-check triggers, wrote the consultation confirmation emails, and configured the after-hours callback protocol. No paralegal, no admin, no template.
“Solo estate planning attorney in Memphis. Practice focuses on first-time planners, elderly clients, and family business succession. Goal is to fill the calendar with qualified consultations and stop missing after-hours calls.”
The firm is made up. Avery's work is real.
Pricing
Founders at $79 a month, locked for life.
Founders
The full product at a price locked for life, for the first 50 firms.
- 250 Avery minutes a month
- Inbound answering plus outbound callbacks and briefs
- Rate locked for life at $79 a month
- Overage locked for life at $0.30 a minute
- Concierge setup and a direct line to the founder for 90 days
- 60 day money back guarantee
Starter
The entry door, for a lighter call volume.
- 150 Avery minutes a month
- Inbound answering
- New client intake
- Message summaries
- 30 day money back guarantee
Practice
Your first hire. The plan most firms should pick.
- 400 Avery minutes a month
- Inbound answering plus outbound callbacks
- Pre-appointment briefs
- Calendar handoff
- Full dashboard
- 30 day money back guarantee
Firm
For small firms with real call volume.
- 1,000 Avery minutes a month
- Everything in Practice
- Multiple lines, up to 5 staff routing
- Priority support
- 30 day money back guarantee
The Founders rate is locked for life once claimed. After the 50 seats are gone, only the standard plans remain.
Minutes reset monthly and do not roll over. Top-up bundles never expire. No per seat fees. Overage is billed per minute at each plan's rate.
One salary versus Avery
One Receptionist
Works business hours only. Takes sick days. Misses after-hours calls.
Avery, Founders Rate
Answers 24/7. Never sick. Never late. Handles 10 calls at once.
That is 98% less than one receptionist salary. And Avery never misses a call.
The guarantee
60 days for Founders. If Avery does not prove the ROI, you pay nothing.
Avery answers every call, books every appointment, and runs every conflict check. If she does not perform in your first 60 days as a Founders member, we refund every dollar. No emails required, no phone calls, no explanations. Cancel with one click from your dashboard. Standard plans carry a 30 day money back guarantee.
How your minutes work
Avery's completed calls draw down your monthly minute pool. Training, tuning, and updates from LexParaCore are on us and never touch your minutes. Minutes reset monthly and do not roll over. Top-up bundles never expire and can be added at any time. You control the budget cap. At 80% of your monthly budget, Avery alerts you and pauses auto-refill until you approve.
FAQ
Straight answers before you join.
Why does this cost more than the AI answering services I have seen?
Because most of them just answer the phone. They do not run conflict checks. They do not book directly on your calendar. They do not handle after-hours calls with empathy. Avery does all of it, and she is trained for your practice area, not a generic script.
Do I have to know anything about AI to use Avery?
No. Avery is set up during onboarding by our team. You get a phone number, a dashboard, and a monthly savings report. If you can check email, you can run Avery.
Will callers know they are talking to AI?
Avery introduces herself as your AI paralegal at the start of every call. Ethics rules require disclosure. Callers overwhelmingly prefer Avery to voicemail or hold music, because she actually solves their problem.
What if I already have a receptionist?
Avery works alongside your team. She handles overflow, after hours, and weekends. Most firms find they can redeploy their receptionist to higher-value work within 60 days.
Your next missed call is your next lost case.
50 Founders seats total. 50 left.
When they are gone, the Founders rate is gone. Standard plans start at $69/mo.
50 of 50 Founders seats left at $79/month, locked for life
When the 50 Founders seats are gone, standard plans start at $69/month.