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How AI Law Assistant works, what it includes, and what controls the result.
How it works
Ask in plain words
Type a question, attach a text file or a photo, or dictate it. Ask about the law, a document in your firm's files, or a client or deadline.
Answer a quick question if it asks
If the answer turns on a fact it cannot guess, such as the date of the injury or which side you represent, it asks one to three short multiple-choice questions first.
It researches before it answers
It searches case law and official sources, and on Professional it looks up your clients, matters and saved documents. A status line shows each step.
Read the answer, open the sources
The answer comes first, then the authority with links. If it proposes a change to your records, you confirm it or cancel.
Two ways to use it
Research and drafting questions
Ask what the law says, how a rule applies, or what a clause means. It answers from authority it found, in your state's terms.
- Searches court opinions and official statute, rule and regulation sites
- Searches your firm's saved drafts, analyses, emails, briefs and strategy memos
- Past conversations are kept in your history, or use Temporary chat to keep one out
Your clients, matters and deadlines
Ask about a client, what is due this week, or what is overdue. Ask it to open a matter, add a note or move a deadline, and it shows a card for you to confirm.
- Looks up clients, their notes and matters, and deadlines, soonest first
- Proposes four kinds of change: a new client, a client note, a new matter with a deadline, and an edit to a matter
- A new matter schedules the Document Drafter to prepare a draft before the deadline, 3 days ahead unless you choose otherwise
What it includes, in full
Answers are as long as the question needs: a few sentences for a quick one, the fuller explanation for a multi-part one, and a full memo only when you ask for one.
Case law search
Searches federal and state court opinions and cites only cases the search returned.
Statutes, rules and regulations
Looks at official sources such as state legislature and court sites, the U.S. Code, the Code of Federal Regulations and the federal courts.
Sources with links
Each answer lists the authority it relied on, so you can open it and confirm.
Quick questions
One to three short multiple-choice questions when a missing fact would change the law or the answer.
Saved documents
Finds and reads your firm's saved drafts, contract analyses, emails, briefs and strategy memos.
Clients and matters
Searches clients, opens a client with notes and matters, and lists deadlines. Professional and Enterprise.
Confirm card
Shows exactly what a proposed change will do. Nothing is saved until you confirm, and each confirmed change is logged.
Attachments and dictation
Attach a plain text file or a photo, or speak your question.
Chat history
Conversations are saved to your history, with Temporary chat for ones you do not want kept.
How the result is controlled
Researched, not recalled
For a legal question it searches first. In our testing, answers from memory alone cited a case that does not exist and the wrong statute, which is why research is the rule.
No case it did not find
It will not cite a case that did not come back from a search. Where it could not confirm a point, it says so.
The answer comes first
The opening sentence gives the answer, then the governing rule, any exception that could change the result, and the sources.
Changes need your confirmation
Lookups run at once, but a change to your clients or matters is only proposed. You confirm it, and it is logged.
Your state first
It applies the law of the state in your firm profile, and flags when federal law or another state governs.
Your review comes first
An answer is a starting point for an attorney, not legal advice. Open the sources before you rely on them.
What it does not do
It does not give legal advice
It is a research aid. The attorney decides what to tell the client.
It does not change records by itself
It proposes. You confirm.
It does not file or send anything
It does not file with a court or send a message to anyone. Drafts and emails come from the other tools, for you to review.
It does not read your whole inbox
It sees only what you type or attach, your saved documents, and, on Professional, your clients and matters.
How your state’s law is used
The law differs by state, so the Assistant starts from yours.
Your state first
Answers apply your state's law and use its own terms, and say when federal law or another state's law governs.
Deadlines and pre-suit steps
Filing deadlines and required pre-suit steps are in front of it for every state and DC. For 36 states it also has the state bar's guidance on lawyers using AI and the court rules on AI in filings, so it can tell you what your state expects.
Court rules on AI
For a growing list of states, it also has the bar guidance and court rules on using AI in filings.
Kept up to date
The reference file is checked every month for new laws and court decisions, and fully re-verified every June and December.
The reference file is an aid researched from official sources, not an attorney's review. Confirm current law before you rely on it.
Setting it up, and how firms use it
A few settings shape every answer, and every other tool as well.
Your state
Set in your firm profile, with up to five other states you practice in.
Your practice
Practice areas, who the firm represents, the courts you appear in, letterhead and each attorney's signature block.
AI Configuration
On Professional and Enterprise, administrators add the firm's own tone and context, applied to every tool.
How firms use the Assistant
Limitations periods and pre-suit steps
Check the period and the notice a claim needs before you take the case.
A quick check before a call
Confirm a rule or a standard in the minutes before a client call.
What is due this week
Ask for the week's deadlines and anything overdue across the firm's matters.
Opening a new matter
Describe it in a sentence, confirm the card, and the draft is scheduled.
Finding a prior draft
Search the firm's saved documents instead of digging through folders.
Testing an argument
Ask what authority supports or cuts against a position.