Daily Case Command Brief
A $10,000 n8n-powered AI agent built for a personal injury law firm that automatically pulls case data and unread emails each day, analyzes them with AI, identifies high-priority matters, and delivers a clean, attorney-ready HTML brief directly to the inbox every morning.
No manual case review. No digging through emails. Just the cases and action items that need attention.
01Problem
A personal injury practice carries a hundred or more open matters, each with its own deadline clock. Status lives in two places, the case system and the inbox, and checking both by hand every morning takes an hour the attorney does not have. The cases that slip are the ones nobody looked at.
02Solution
An n8n workflow runs at 7:00 AM, pulls the active case records and the unanswered email, has Claude categorise and score every item, and delivers one attorney-ready HTML brief to the inbox before the office opens.
03Tools
04Outcome
- No missed deadlines. Every date inside its warning window appears on the brief before the day starts.
- Every email answered. Unanswered threads are listed instead of buried.
- Leads nurtured and logged. Intake stays in the same daily view as active matters.
- CRM always up to date. The system reads from the record of truth rather than a side spreadsheet.
The 22 hours is one hour of manual review a day over about 22 working days.
How it works
- Trigger — daily at 7:00 AM. A schedule node starts the run before the office opens.
- Data inputs. Active case records are pulled from the firm's case management platform and Gmail is scanned for unanswered client and provider email.
- AI logic. An n8n workflow passes each item to the model, which reads the context and returns structured output rather than prose.
- Case intelligence. Every case and thread is categorised, scored, and prioritised — stale matters, unanswered mail, and deadlines inside their warning window get surfaced.
- Output. The results are rendered into a single HTML brief and delivered to the attorney's inbox, marked internal and attorney-privileged.
What the brief reports
Below the counts, upcoming deadlines are grouped by type — records requests on the 21-day clock, demands on 30 days, hearings and depositions — each flagged with how many are due soon.