Practical AI for legal practice

We save law firms time and money with AI — and teach you to use it without giving up your judgment.

AI should assist the attorney, not replace the attorney.

Apis Consulting

Workflow audits and implementation

Attorneys stay in control

Step 1

Workflow audit

We find the friction-heavy work in billing, intake, and drafting, and put a dollar value on the time it costs you.

Step 2

Pilot

Test narrow, attorney-reviewed use cases on real workflows before anything expands firm-wide.

Step 3

Implement

Tools, AI use policies, and staff training that fit how your firm actually works.

Start with the free 3-minute practice audit

  • The attorney approves every output
  • Tool-agnostic by design
  • Confidentiality first
  • Narrow workflows, measured results
  • MCLE accreditation in progress
  • Built by legal professionals and a technologist

Start here

Most firms lose hours to the same eight areas. An Apis workflow consultation starts by finding which ones are costing yours the most.

Repetitive administrative work

Scheduling, follow-ups, and form-filling that repeat every week without needing an attorney's judgment.

Client communication

Status updates and routine replies redone by hand instead of drafted from work already documented.

Document review and summarization

Reading, sorting, and summarizing records before the real analysis can begin.

Intake and matter management

Collecting the same information twice, then chasing where a matter stands across email and notes.

Research workflows

First-pass research and organization that eats hours before a conclusion can be drawn.

Knowledge management

Searching for a clause, draft, or answer the firm has already produced.

Billing and time capture

Reconstructing the day from memory instead of capturing entries while the work is fresh.

Internal AI policies and training

Staff using tools without clear rules on confidentiality, review, and approved use.

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Not sure where to start? The free 3-minute audit narrows it down.

Our process

Five steps, from understanding your firm to measuring whether the change helped. Attorneys stay in control at every one.

01

Understand

We learn how your firm actually works: who does what, in which tools, and where the day goes.

02

Audit

We map your workflows and identify friction, repetitive work, bottlenecks, and AI opportunities.

03

Recommend

We prioritize practical improvements by impact, complexity, risk, and cost. No tool for its own sake.

04

Implement

We help configure tools, prompts, automations, policies, or custom workflows that fit the firm.

05

Train & Review

We make sure your people know how to use the system, then measure whether it actually helped.

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The Apis ecosystem

Consulting is the front door. Behind it: a curriculum we teach, a product we built, and the research we publish.

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Our philosophy

Law firms do not need hype. They need AI fluency, responsible systems, and narrow workflows that save time while preserving professional responsibility. The tools will keep changing. The skill of using them well is the durable advantage.

The system drafts. The attorney approves.

Founders

Danny Gagaoin

President, Co-Founder, AI Specialist & Author

Danny leads product development, AI implementation, and workflow design for Apis Legal Technologies. He spent a year interviewing AI about humanity's hardest problems and came away with the conviction that drives Apis: AI's real job is giving skilled people their time back. His specialty is turning messy operational problems into practical AI-assisted systems, and coaching people through change they were skeptical about.

Author of Interview with an AI: Discussing Humanity's Challenges and Wonders (2024), an exploration of AI's capabilities, limits, and what they mean for how humans should use it.

Certifications
Databricks Generative AI Fundamentals
Databricks Generative AI Fundamentals

Miriam Ortiz, JD

Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer & Attorney Outreach

Miriam pairs legal training with hands-on operations. She leads attorney outreach and AI fluency for Apis, shaping the Learning Center curriculum and guiding workflow audits and implementation for law firms. Her job is keeping every Apis product and course grounded in what attorneys can actually verify, understand, and use.

She holds a JD from Santa Clara University School of Law, and she brings that discipline to every course and workflow Apis ships: if a claim cannot be verified, it does not go in front of an attorney.

Certifications
Databricks Generative AI Fundamentals
Databricks Generative AI Fundamentals

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Tell us what's wasting your firm's time.

A workflow consultation is a practical conversation, not a sales pitch. We look at how your firm actually works and show you where AI belongs, and where it doesn't.