Legal
For attorneys, paralegals and law firms.
Dictation here costs nothing — no account, no minute limit, works with the network off. The Legal pack writes what you said as the finished file note, every number confirmed before you sign.
The file note is written before you are out of the car
Press play on the steering wheel, or hold the button, and dictate what happened, as you would to your secretary. The Legal pack sets it out as a file note:
- Dictation: what you said, as you said it.
- Dates and deadlines: every date, deadline and limitation period you mentioned.
- Amounts: what was offered, agreed or claimed.
- Statements: what someone said or admitted.
- References: matter numbers and phone numbers.
- Next steps: the sentences where you said what happens next.
Each is taken from your words by fixed rules. Nothing is written for you: every sentence is one you dictated. Every date, amount and number has to be confirmed or corrected before the file note can be signed, and Rimbalo can read them back to you. Then share it as PDF or DOCX, into the matter file.
The intake note, and the conflict check
After a first meeting with a client, dictate what you learned. The intake note sets out the parties (client, opposing party, opposing counsel), the issues, the dates, amounts and statements, and the next steps, with every person and organisation you named. Each name is confirmed like a number. Once they are, share the names as a plain list, one to a line under its role, to run against your firm’s conflict check.
Cites as you type them
The pack knows the terms of the practice: Latin, case names, courts, reporters, rules and sections. Say “rule twelve b six” and it is written Rule 12(b)(6); “F third” is F.3d. Your own words, client names and case captions go in your word list beside them.
By matter
- Matters: keep each dictation in a matter, named and numbered by you. A matter’s signed documents share as one PDF or DOCX, oldest first.
- Deadlines to your calendar: a confirmed date or deadline opens in your phone’s calendar, filled in, for you to add.
- The privilege line: “Privileged & Confidential / Attorney Work Product”, or your own wording, at the head of every page you share.
- Your letterhead: import your firm’s letterhead once, as a Word document or a PDF, and it frames every DOCX and PDF you share.
- Signed, and shown to be: a signed document’s footer shows when it was signed and the start of its hash, and Settings shares a log of each document you sign, share or delete.
Why it matters where the file note is written
A dictation or note-taking app that works on a server sends what you say about a client there, and on to the services that company uses to host, transcribe and back it up. Each of them then holds information relating to the representation. Model Rule 1.6(c) asks you to make reasonable efforts to prevent its unauthorized disclosure or access. Rule 5.3 and ABA Formal Opinion 498 ask you to vet the services that handle it, and ABA Formal Opinion 512 (2024) asks for your client’s informed consent before it goes into a tool that can learn from what you put in. A subpoena for what such a company holds can go to it rather than to you.
Rimbalo turns speech into text on the phone. The file note is written there, and goes only where you share it.
We wrote no code that can send your audio or your documents anywhere, and on Android the operating system enforces it.
What you can check yourself lists each check, and where on your phone to look. Why it matters where your dictation goes says more.
A memo for your file
The pack comes with a memo that sets out what the app does with client information: where it is processed, where it is kept and where it can go. It speaks to Model Rule 1.6(c) and ABA Formal Opinions 477R, 498 and 512, and ends with a paragraph for your office procedures. It states facts about the software; it is not legal advice, and your state’s rules govern. The memo is in the app, free to read and share before you buy.
What you pay
Legal is $439.99 a year, one price for all of it: everything in One Year, and the file note and the intake note. Dictation is not part of it — that stays free, with no account and no limit. It renews at $439.99. If you stop paying, what it adds stops at the end of the year you paid for, and your dictations stay on your phone to read and share as text.
Coming from Dragon Anywhere?
Dragon Anywhere was $149.99 a year. Here dictation costs nothing, and One Year, at the same $149.99, buys back the other half: the word list you spent years training, the spoken corrections, search across your own archive, and files out. The Legal pack adds the file note and the intake note. Bring your words with you, and see how the two compare.
One thing it does not do
It writes a sentence at a time, not a word at a time: the text appears each time you pause, not as you speak.