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Referent is AI-native legal practice management software for solo and small law firms.

Traditional legal software is a system of record — it stores your data and waits for you to do the work. Referent is a system of action: AI agents run the firm's routine operations while the lawyer stays in control.

What Referent handles:

• Client intake — incoming emails are turned into ready-to-work matters automatically
• Matters & documents — everything for a case lives in one place
• Calendar — matter-aware scheduling with two-way Google sync and conflict checks
• Time & billing — track billable hours inside each matter and turn them into invoices

The key principle: AI prepares the work, the lawyer approves every client-facing action. Nothing reaches your client until you sign off.

Referent is built by the team behind AI Lawyer, a legal-AI product with 300,000+ users — roughly 1 in 3 of whom turned out to be practicing lawyers. That was the signal to build a tool made specifically for how small firms actually work.