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Autorec for lawyers
Client intake calls, witness prep, settlement discussions: most of what a lawyer records is privileged. A recorder that ships that audio to a vendor's servers turns a privileged conversation into a file somebody else holds. Autorec records the call on your own machine and leaves it there.
What makes legal recording different
A consultant who loses a meeting recording loses some notes. A lawyer who lets a privileged client conversation sit on a vendor's server has arguably handed it to a third party, and opposing counsel will ask exactly that question. The recording you make of a witness prep session is itself discoverable, and where it has been stored matters. Cloud notetakers also drop a visible bot into the call. A client who sees a recording assistant in a sensitive conversation may simply stop talking, which is the opposite of what intake is for.
Confidentiality, privilege, and retention
Because Autorec records and transcribes on your computer, the audio never reaches a processor. There is no vendor account holding client recordings, no sub-processor list to vet, and nothing for opposing counsel to subpoena from a company that isn't you. The recording lives in a folder you control, so your firm's existing retention and destruction schedule applies to it the same way it applies to any other file on your system. You delete it when your matter file says to delete it.
To be plain: Autorec is a recording tool, not a compliance program. It does not manage litigation holds, it does not enforce a retention policy for you, and your duty to get informed consent before recording a client or a witness is yours, not the software's. What Autorec gives you is a recorder that doesn't add a third party to the chain of custody.
The parts that matter for legal work
Nothing leaves your machine
Recording, transcript, and summary are written to your local disk. No upload step, no vendor copy, no telemetry phoning home.
No bot joins the call
Autorec captures the meeting window from your desktop. No extra participant appears in the attendee list, so nobody on the call sees a recording assistant.
Transcribes on-device
After a call, Autorec runs whisper.cpp locally to produce a text transcript. The audio is never sent anywhere to be transcribed.
Plain .txt and .srt output
Transcripts are written as a .txt file and a timestamped .srt file. Both are standard formats you can open, search, and cite without proprietary software.
Paid once, not per month
Autorec is €20 once per major version. No per-seat subscription, no bill that grows as your client list does.
Where Autorec will not fit a firm
Autorec is single-user software. There is no shared matter library, no firm-wide admin console, and no way to centrally manage who recorded what. A multi-lawyer practice that needs a governed, audited recording archive should look at a document or practice-management system instead. There is also no mobile app, so calls taken on a phone are out of scope, and the macOS build is still in development. Autorec runs on Linux and Windows today.
Questions lawyers ask
Does recording a client call with Autorec waive privilege?
Recording does not waive privilege by itself; disclosing the recording to someone outside the privileged relationship can. The relevant point for tool choice is that Autorec keeps the file on your machine, so making the recording does not route the conversation through a third party. Whether and how you may record a given client or witness is a question for your jurisdiction's rules and your own judgment.
Is Autorec a HIPAA- or compliance-certified product?
No. Autorec is not certified against any framework and we make no compliance guarantee. Its value here is structural: because nothing is uploaded, there is no data processor in the picture and nothing to subpoena from a vendor. The legal duties around consent, privilege, and retention remain yours.
Will the other side know the call is being recorded?
Autorec does not announce itself and does not add a participant to the call. That is a technical fact, not legal advice. Consent and disclosure obligations depend on your jurisdiction and the people on the call, and meeting them is your responsibility.
How long can we keep recordings, and how do we delete them?
Recordings are plain files in a folder on your computer. They stay until you delete them, and your firm's retention schedule governs that the same as any other matter document. Autorec does not delete anything automatically and does not enforce a hold.
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