Lawmatics news and product updates

Lawmatics brought Merlin Copilot, its AI assistant, to its mobile app. The Google Play release notes dated 27 October say users can chat with Merlin about their matters and contacts, get a daily briefing and build reports by describing what they need. A Reports tab lets users browse, search and run the firm's saved reports.

Buyer relevance. Staff who work in Lawmatics can now ask about matters and build reports from a phone instead of waiting to get back to a desk. The release notes describe reading and reporting only, so firms should not assume Merlin can change records from the app.

Merlin Copilot, the conversational assistant inside Lawmatics released in July, is now sold as Lite and Pro seat plans ($29 and $49 per seat per month per the Copilot help article) and gained new abilities: updating matter data through chat, answering firm wide aggregate data questions, finding where a merge field is used, and scheduled Routines that run a request on a timer and post the result to a Copilot thread.

Buyer relevance. Copilot moves from reading and building to writing directly to matter records and running unattended on a schedule, so firms should decide who holds a seat and how chat driven matter edits are reviewed. Per seat list prices make budgeting possible without a sales call.

Merlin Engage agents, which hold AI conversations with leads to collect information, qualify cases or book meetings, can now reach leads by email as well as text, with one channel set as primary and the other as a fallback. A new Collect Data Only agent type gathers chosen matter, contact and custom fields from a client without judging the lead, writes answers straight into matter fields, skips fields that already hold a value, and can hand off to another agent or a person when done.

Buyer relevance. Intake teams can reach leads who never answer texts, and can use an agent just to fill in missing case details without it making any call on the lead.