Law Firm Answering Service in Ottawa, Ontario.
Every missed law firm call in Ottawa is a customer your competitor just booked.
Ottawa, Ontario
National Capital Region
Keep your number
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24/7 answering
Eastern Time
90+ languages
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BotsDontSleep is a 24/7 answering service for Ottawa law firms. It answers calls in English and French, captures new-matter details, runs your conflict questions, and books consultations around the noon and after-4pm peaks — $0.60 per minute.
Why do Ottawa legal firms lose calls?
Ottawa's legal market is shaped by the public service on both sides of the river. Clients are frequently federal employees who can only call during a lunch break or after 4pm, and bilingual service is an expectation rather than a differentiator, particularly for firms taking calls from Gatineau. Government-adjacent practices also field regulatory and administrative enquiries where the caller needs to reach the right practitioner quickly or they will call another firm.
Which calls does it answer for you in Ottawa?
- New-matter enquiries concentrated in the noon hour and after 4pm
- Bilingual intake from Gatineau and francophone Ottawa callers
- Regulatory, administrative, and employment enquiries needing specific routing
- Existing-client status calls while lawyers are in hearings
- Deadline-driven calls where a same-day callback is not fast enough
The receptionist greets bilingually, captures matter type, parties, and deadlines using your conflict-screening questions, and books into the correct practitioner's calendar. Deadline-sensitive matters are escalated by SMS rather than queued for a callback.
What does it cost in Ottawa?
$0 setup and $0.60 per answered minute, with no monthly minimum and no contract. A single-location law firm business in Ottawa typically spends $150 to $500 a month. A live answering service charges $1.50 to $3.00 a minute plus setup, and a full-time front-desk hire covers about 40 of the 168 hours in a week. Full numbers are on the answering service cost page.
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Ottawa law firm answering service FAQs
- What does an Ottawa firm actually pay per month?
- There's no setup fee and no monthly minimum. You pay $0.60 CAD per answered minute, so a firm handling 200 minutes of new-matter calls a month spends about $120 — far under the $1.50-$3.00 a minute live answering services in the capital typically charge.
- How quickly can a Centretown or Kanata office get this running?
- About one week. We map your practice areas and conflict-screening questions, forward your existing line, and run test calls with your intake staff before anything goes live to real clients.
- Does it cover weekends for a firm with federal-sector clients?
- Yes. Federal employees often only have time to call a lawyer on a Saturday morning, and the receptionist answers those calls the same as a Tuesday at 2pm, booking a consultation instead of leaving a weekend voicemail.
- Can it escalate an urgent family or immigration matter same day?
- Yes. You set the escalation criteria — a custody emergency or a removal deadline, for example — and matching calls trigger an immediate SMS to the on-call lawyer rather than waiting in a general callback queue.
- Does it connect to our practice management software?
- We connect to your Clio, PracticePanther, or similar system during onboarding, mapping matter types and calendars so a booked consultation lands exactly where your paralegal would put it, with no separate spreadsheet.
- Will it book a consultation directly, or just take a message?
- It books directly into the responsible lawyer's live calendar and confirms the appointment by SMS, so an Ottawa caller comparing three firms on a Wednesday afternoon gets a confirmed slot before hanging up.
- What happens if a French-speaking Gatineau client calls after our office closes at 5pm?
- The call is answered in French with the same conflict-screening questions, at the same $0.60 per minute, whether it arrives at 5:01pm or 11pm, so the firm doesn't lose a cross-river referral to a same-day competitor.
- Can we keep our existing 613 or 819 number?
- Yes. You simply forward your published number to us; nothing changes for callers, and you can switch the forwarding off at any time since there's no contract.
- How does this compare with a live Ottawa answering service?
- A live service typically bills $1.50-$3.00 a minute and still queues calls when more than one comes in. This answers unlimited simultaneous calls at $0.60 a minute, including bilingual intake that most live services charge extra for.
- Is intake fully bilingual for Ottawa and Gatineau callers?
- Yes. English and French are both native, with automatic detection from the caller's first sentence and the same conflict-screening questions asked correctly in either language.
- Does it cover the noon and after-4pm call peaks?
- Yes, and those are the windows Ottawa firms lose most enquiries in. Answering is identical at every hour, so a federal employee calling at 12:15 or 4:45 gets a booked consultation instead of voicemail.
- Can it route by practice area?
- Yes. You define the practice areas and the responsible practitioners, and the receptionist routes or books each new matter accordingly, with a transcript attached to every enquiry.
Last reviewed: August 2026. Pricing and capability details verified against our current service.
Stop losing Ottawa law firm calls
Forward your existing Ottawa number and every caller is answered on the first ring, in their language, at any hour — for $0 setup and $0.60 per minute.