Blog: News & Updates

On an episode entitled Automation in the Legal Industry: How AI Empowers Paralegals, Carl interviews Maddy about the impact of automation and AI on the legal industry, how Smith.ai works with law firms, and what paralegals should look for when vetting new technology for their office.

On this episode of CompTIA's emerging technology podcast, EmTech Cast, Smith.ai's head of growth and education, Maddy Martin, discusses with host Jim Hamilton how artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies operate in our lives and work today, from mundane tasks like data entry to augmenting worker skill sets with things like language translation.

In March 2019, Smith.ai's head of growth and education Maddy Martin played several roles at the second annual CompTIA Communities & Councils Forum in Chicago, IL, most notably as a panelist at the opening keynote session focused on "the future gap" between our expectations of emerging technology and the current reality of its implementation.

The Maximum Lawyer’s Jim Hacking interviews Smith.ai’s head of growth and education Maddy Martin about what's new at Smith.ai and her upcoming talk at MaxLawCon19.

Many U.S.-based small businesses serve English- and Spanish-speaking clients, which is why we have bilingual receptionists on our virtual receptionist team who staff our live calls and web chats. Now, we've added real-time English-Spanish translation to Smith.ai Web Chat so our English-speaking receptionists can provide instant and accurate responses to Spanish speakers visiting your website.

Earlier today, Dina Eisenberg, Esq., owner of Outsource Easier, hosted a live chat with Maddy Martin, Smith.ai's head of growth and education. Watch the video replay to tap into advice for building efficiency and balance into your small law practice.

Smith.ai client Joey Vitale is the founding attorney at Indie Law, a law firm for creative professionals that specializes in trademarks. He also runs the Indie Show, a live chat show hosted on Facebook, and yesterday, hosted Maddy Martin, Smith.ai's head of growth and education. Tune in to their half-hour chat, where they cover a wide range of small-business tips, including the best lead follow-up processes, event marketing on a small budget, and a lot more.

Zapier rhymes with "happier" — and that's exactly what you'll be when you use Smith.ai's new Zap to automate data capture, workflows, alerts, and tasks.

Tune in to hear Smith.ai's head of growth and education Maddy Martin speak with Christopher Anderson, host of The Un-Billable Hour podcast, about communication best practices for small-firm attorneys. With responsiveness the most common theme among bar complaints, it's critical that attorneys improve their speed and methods of communicating with leads, clients, and other parties. Tune in to hear Maddy and Christopher's conversation, which is chock-full of actionable tips.

High Performance Counsel runs a Spotlight column featuring interviews with forward-thinking attorneys across the country. This month, Smith.ai clients Justie Nicol, Joey Vitale, and Emily Cooper shared the stage. Check out their Q&A and discover some of the secrets behind their high-performing small law practices.

Smith.ai receptionists have made outbound calls for our clients from the start, but until recently, when we made those calls, your Smith.ai number appeared on caller ID. Now, you can opt to have your main business number appear on caller ID when we make outbound calls on your behalf. Learn more about this new feature from Smith.ai.

Listen to Maddy Martin on In Re, The Legal Podcast brought to you by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Maddy is on air, discussing seven tips to increase productivity in your small firm or solo practice.

Hot off the production line: Outbound calls from your landline phones and images in your text messages! Read about Keypad's latest features.

Tune in to this episode of the Crazy-Cheap Marketing podcast, with host Andy Curry and Smith.ai's head of growth and education Maddy Martin. Discover how to generate high-quality leads with targeted messaging and what mistakes to avoid.

The developers at Smith.ai have been hard at work over the last few months adding new features to Keypad, Smith.ai's cloud phone system. Fax-by-email, imported contact lists, missed-call analytics, and improved voicemail transcription are just a few of the many improvements we've made. Read on to learn more about each new feature.

Smith.ai's Keypad cloud phone system now supports SIP calling! This means you can use a SIP softphone or VOIP desk phone to make and receive calls using your Keypad number(s).

We're pleased to announce a new service from Smith.ai, called Operator. With this service, Smith.ai receptionists will convene your conference calls with multiple participants. We'll bring all participants on the line, and then we'll call you to join them. Learn more about this service and how to get started.

Would you prefer to get a call transfer request through a text message instead of a phone call? Smith.ai's receptionists can now alert you via SMS when you receive a call that meets your transfer criteria. Simply reply "Y" to accept or "N" to reject the transfer. Learn how to enable this new feature.

Evolve Law podcast host Ian Connett, founder of QuantumJurist, and Smith.ai cofounder Justin Maxwell discuss Smith.ai's AI-forward services, which take the company far beyond the realm of basic "call answering." From call routing to client intake, hear how Justin and the team behind Smith.ai are using machine intelligence and smart integrations to level-up communications and lead conversion for solo and small-firm attorneys.

Tune in to hear Smith.ai cofounder and chief design officer Justin Maxwell speak with Sam Glover and Aaron Street, hosts of the mega-popular Lawyerist podcast. Did you know Smith.ai's receptionists can instantly call back your web form leads? Learn more about that and other ways we bring efficiency to solo and small law firms in this episode, which aired today.