For anyone who's ever wished they'd gotten it on record
Attorney-client privilege in your ear, live in real time.
live.law connects your smartglasses to your attorney — someone who can see what you see, hear what you hear, and speak directly into your ear — while it’s still happening, not after.
“Your friend is taking a huge risk. Tell him not to do that — don't do it!”
How it works
Three steps, in this order, on purpose.
01
Put them on
Your smartglasses see what you see and hear what you hear, and can stream that live. We hash the recording on the device the moment it's captured, before it ever leaves your hands — so what you end up with can't quietly be altered later. Your location sets a sensible default (video-only where the law requires all-party consent), and you can always override it.
02
Ask what the law says
From the moment you put them on, the AI gives you general legal information — the same kind of answer you'd get asking Claude or ChatGPT: whether your state needs one-party or all-party consent to record, what your rights generally are in a stop or a dispute. That's free, useful, and available instantly. It's also just information, the same as any other AI — not advice about your situation, and not privileged.
03
Get specific, privileged advice
That's where the AI's answer stops and a real attorney starts. Already have one? Bring them in directly. If not, we can refer you to attorneys who use live.law — but that's a referral, not a dispatch. We don't assign you a lawyer or pool attorneys on call; you reach out and establish representation the same way you would with any attorney, on their own terms. Only once that relationship exists does the video, audio, and live connection open up to them, protected by attorney-client privilege the way calling their office would be.
The line we don’t cross
General information is free. Advice about you requires a lawyer.
Every legal app runs into the same wall: it can tell you what the law generally says, but the second you ask what you should do, answering that is practicing law without a license. Most products either stop short and leave you stranded, or quietly cross the line and pretend a chatbot is your lawyer. We do neither — we hand you off to a real one instead.
live.law’s AI — live in your ear or in async chat — will tell you what the law generally says, for instance whether your state requires one-party or all-party consent to record a conversation. The moment a question stops being general and starts being about your specific situation, it says so and plugs in a licensed attorney, live if one’s available, instead of guessing. Only that attorney’s advice is real legal advice, and only their engagement — not anything you told the AI beforehand — is protected by attorney-client privilege.
We take that boundary seriously enough to build it into the software, not just the fine print: every AI-drafted async reply sits in a queue until an attorney reviews the exact wording and confirms it, by hand, every time.
Who actually sees this
A phone call doesn’t lose privilege just because it passes through the phone company.
But if the phone company could easily listen in as a matter of routine business, some courts would see that differently — privilege depends on the communication staying reasonably confidential, not just on which wires it travels over. The same test applies to us. Encrypting data in transit is table stakes; it doesn’t matter much if we — or anyone else in the chain — can still read it as a normal part of how the product works.
So we don’t route a live session through a general-purpose relay that transcribes or reads it as a matter of course. Capture goes from your glasses to our own backend directly, not through an intermediary whose job is to look at it. Whatever we hand to an AI model to help draft a response, that AI provider does see — there’s no way around that if it’s going to do anything useful with it — but that’s covered by a no-training, no-retention agreement, and it’s disclosed to you as it happens. Anything you or your attorney would rather keep out of AI entirely stays in a separate channel, held under tighter access controls, and never sent to a model at all.
None of this creates privilege on its own — that still requires an actual engaged attorney, per the section above. What it does is make sure that once privilege applies, we’re not the reason it doesn’t hold up.
For attorneys
A docket, not a firehose.
Case queue
Matters sorted by status and channel — your own clients and directory referrals in one docket, not two inboxes.
Evidence review
Join a client’s glasses live, or review the recording afterward with the synced transcript, capture hash, and state consent law next to it — no separate lookup required.
Flat + metered billing
A flat subscription plus usage-based charges for AI drafting and storage, billed through Stripe. No per-lead pricing, no bidding on clients.
Built state by state
Consent law isn’t the same in Texas and California. The app should know that.
We keep a maintained, state-by-state database of recording consent law — one-party versus all-party, and the exceptions that come with each — and serve it as live configuration, not something baked into an app-store release. When the law reads differently in a state, so does the app, without waiting for an update.
Hover or tab through any state for the specific rule. General information — not legal advice for your situation.