CaseCapture
Intake desk · for criminal defense firms

Never lose another after-hours DUI retainer.

Answers your firm’s after-hours calls, qualifies on four questions, books the consult, and sends a structured case summary to your inbox within minutes of hang-up. Built around DUI. Drug and general defense at setup.

DUI, drug, general defense Flat monthly, no per-call billing Founding cohort · 5 firms
+1 min
+3 min
Incoming 10:42 PM
+1 (206) 555‑0148
Marcus L.
King County, WA
Ring 2 Picked up
Caller
Marcus L. · 206-555-0148
Jurisdiction
King County, WA
Arrest timing
Tonight · 9:18 PM (88 min ago)
DOL clock
7 days remaining · request hearing by Apr 28
Priors
None on record
Test
Refused breath · blood draw warrant pending
Consultation
Sun Apr 21 · 9:00 AM (booked via SMS)
SMS · +1 (206) 555‑0148
Saturday · 10:43 PM
Confirming your consultation with Holloway & Reyes — Sun 9:00 AM PT.
Do not discuss the case before we speak.
The problem

The retainer doesn’t walk during the call.

It walks before you’ve even called back.

It’s 11pm on a Saturday. Someone just got arrested. They call your firm. Your phone rolls to voicemail.

Even when the call gets answered, the gap between “leaving a message” and “hearing from the attorney” is where the retainer walks away. The caller is anxious. They’re shopping. They’re one search result from a competitor.

We built CaseCapture to close that gap. Not to take messages.

How it runs

What happens when your caller dials in.

Hang-up to summary in your inbox, without you touching the phone.

01 · Answer
10:42 PM
Answered, under two rings
No phone tree. No hold music. No voicemail.
INCOMING · 206-555-0148
Picked up · ring 2
02 · Qualify
10:43 PM
Case-type intake
Four questions built for the actual case type — DUI, drug, general defense.
Q1/4 · When did the arrest occur?
Tonight · ~9:18 PM
03 · Book
10:44 PM
Consult booked
Calendar link sent by SMS while the caller is still on the line.
SMS → caller
Confirmed · Sun 9:00 AM
04 · Summary
10:46 PM
Summary in your inbox
Structured case summary in your inbox. Scan in under a minute; rank callback priority at a glance.
Inbox → you@firm.com
jurisdiction · arrest · priors · court · urgency
01 · Answer

Two-ring answer

Answered under two rings. No IVR, no hold music, no “leave a message and we’ll get back to you Monday.”

02 · Qualify

Case-type intake

A four-question intake built for the case type. DUI runs the DOL clock. Drug runs schedule and search posture. Each branch matches the lever that decides urgency.

03 · Book

Consult booked

A calendar link goes out by SMS while the caller is still on the line. They confirm before hanging up — the moment a competitor stops being an option.

04 · Summary

Summary in your inbox

A structured case summary lands in your inbox and CRM within minutes of hang-up. For DUI: jurisdiction, arrest timing, offense history, court date status, urgency level. Scan it in under a minute and decide callback order before listening to the call.

Differentiators

Built for retainers, not lead volume.

Qualified intake, not message-taking. Your inbox gets the structured case summary. Your CRM gets the record.

01 · Qualified intake

By question four, they’ve stopped shopping.

CaseCapture runs a different intake for each case type — DUI first, with the DOL deadline as the urgency lever and a four-question qualifier built around it. Drug offenses and general criminal defense available at setup, each with its own urgency lever (substance schedule for drug; offense class for assault).

DUI · Intake v1.44 questions
Q1
When did the arrest occur?
↳ DOL_clock_start · 7-day deadline
Q2
Is this your first DUI?
↳ first_dui_flag · priors / enhancement risk
Q3
Do you have a court date yet?
↳ court_date · arraignment status
Q4
County of arrest and current location?
↳ jurisdiction · conflict check
Intake
When did the arrest happen — earlier tonight or earlier this week?
10:42:48 PM
Caller
Tonight. Maybe an hour and a half ago. Nine-something.
10:42:55 PM
Intake
Got it. Is this your first DUI?
10:43:04 PM
Caller
Yeah. First time anything like this has happened.
10:43:11 PM
[ DOL clock starts tonight · 7 days to request DOL hearing · flagged URGENT in summary ]
02 · Immediate caller care

They stop shopping. They show up.

A confirmation SMS goes out within 60 seconds. A “what to expect” email lands within 5 minutes — before you wake up. The caller knows someone heard them. They show up to the consult ready to talk about the case.

+1 (206) 555-0148
Saturday · 10:43 PM
Hi Marcus — this is CaseCapture confirming your consultation with Holloway & Reyes.
Sun Apr 21 · 9:00 AM PT
A “what to expect” email is on the way. Do not discuss the case with anyone before we speak.
From: Holloway & ReyesSat · 10:47 PM
What to expect before your consultation
to marcus.l@example.com · via CaseCapture

Marcus —

You are scheduled with Holloway & Reyes on Sunday at 9:00 AM PT. Before then, three things will help:

  • Do not discuss the case with anyone other than counsel.
  • Write down what you remember from tonight — locations, times, conversations.
  • Hold on to any paperwork the officer left with you.

If a deadline appears between now and the consultation, we will reach you on this number.

03 · Flat pricing

Take the 2 a.m. call without watching the meter.

Flat monthly. No per-call billing. No after-hours surcharges. Saturday at 2 a.m. is exactly when criminal defense callers call. Per-minute billing punishes you for picking up. We don’t bill that way. Take fifty calls or fifteen — the bill is the bill.

CaseCaptureMonthly bill
Plan Flat
No per-call billing
No after-hours surcharge
Founding partners

The first five firms join as Founding Partners.

We run onboarding hands-on, integrate with the tools you already use, and review the intake script with you before your phones go live. What you ask for shapes what we build next.

30-day guarantee

If your first month doesn’t pay for itself, your first month is free.

  1. 01 Concierge build, integration, and testing — done with you, before your phones go live.
  2. 02 CRM integration during onboarding — Clio or MyCase.
  3. 03 Direct line to the team for the first 90 days — intake-script changes turn around the same week.
  4. 04 A vote on which case type we build next. What ships after DUI is your call.
  5. 05 The founding-partner rate. Locked for the life of the engagement.
Apply for Founding Partner 15-minute call. We walk a real intake.
Trust & control

Built to your firm’s policy.

Your firm reviews and approves the intake script before it goes live — every question, every disclosure, every escalation path. The AI runs that script: asks the qualifying questions and books the consult. Legal advice is out of scope, and the script enforces it. When a caller asks something outside the script, the AI takes a message and schedules a callback.

Your firm decides what gets saved. Audio recordings and full transcripts aren’t retained by default — both can be enabled at your direction. The structured case summary lands in your CRM and inbox on every call.

Everything is encrypted, at rest and in transit. Call data never trains models. You own your data — we hold it on your behalf.

Firm-approved script Audio off by default Encrypted end-to-end You own your data

Sit in on a real call.

Fifteen minutes is enough to evaluate this. We’ll walk a real DUI call end-to-end — and you’ll see the structured case summary you’d find in your inbox by morning.