Law Labs
Welcome to Law Labs — the podcast where law firm life gets a glow-up.
Hosted by entrepreneur, attorney, Modern Law founder, and optimistic disrupter, Billie Tarascio, this show is your backstage pass to the business of law. We’re not talking billable hours and black-letter law — we’re talking AI-powered operations, next-gen leadership, smart growth, and real strategy.
Billie digs into the systems, stories, and shifts shaping modern legal practice—alongside law firm owners, legal technologists, and bold thinkers who are rewriting the rules.
Expect real talk about:
- Scaling law firms without burning out
- Leading with clarity, culture, and data
- Using AI and automation without losing the human touch
- Building sustainable businesses that serve your life—not just your clients
- Valuation, VC, and the art of getting acquired (or acquiring others)
This is your lab for testing what’s possible—then building it.
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Law Labs
The Future of Legal Intake: AI That Captures More Leads — Without More Staff
In this Law Labs episode of the Modern Arizona Podcast, Billie talks with LexiDesk AI co-founder Ivan Tryskyba about the intake side of law firms that most lawyers ignore until it costs them real money. Ivan shares how a personal family law issue led him from a client’s frustration to building LexiDesk AI, an AI call answering and intake system now used by firms like Modern Law. Billie walks through a live demo of “Emma,” the AI receptionist, and explains how LexiDesk captures after hours calls, scores leads, and protects intake teams from abusive or draining calls.
Together they break down why answering the phone is still the number one intake problem, how AI can handle overflow without adding more staff, and why early adopter firms grow faster when they test new tools instead of waiting for the market to move first. They also talk about pricing, ROI, and how LexiDesk is built so it can plug into the latest AI voice and language models instead of becoming stale. If you want more paid consults without hiring another human receptionist, this conversation shows what is possible right now.
Topics Discussed
- How a personal family law issue sparked the idea for LexiDesk AI
- From client marketplace to law firm focused intake product
- Live demo of “Emma” handling an intake call and collecting key data
- Lead scoring, urgency, and helping intake teams focus on the right callers
- Protecting intake staff from abusive or unstable callers
- Why firms that experiment with AI grow faster than firms that wait
- Cost structure, pricing ranges, and real world ROI stories
- Technical design so LexiDesk can upgrade as AI models improve
- Data security, hosting, and options for on premise deployments
Where to Find Ivan and LexiDesk AI
Guest: Ivan Tryskyba, Co-founder of LexiDesk AI
LinkedIn: Search “Ivan Tryskyba” on LinkedIn
Product: LexiDesk AI – AI call answering and intake for law firms
Website: https://lexidesk.ai/