The legal research engine
Find the law. Develop the research.
Bring a matter, an issue, or a supported document. LawEngine helps you discover relevant legal authority and develop a research answer with primary sources behind it.
Use it to establish a starting point, broaden the research, or investigate the authority behind work already in progress.
Illustrated research flow
The matter
Facts, Jurisdiction
Relevant authorities
Cases, Regulations
Research answer
Retrieval legal material
Primary sources
Source text
Engineering the research
The hard part starts before the answer.
Too little relevant authority can leave a gap. Too much irrelevant material can bury the useful parts.
LawEngine approaches that problem through legal data, retrieval, and relevance ranking. We care about what the system finds, what it prioritizes, and the evidence available when the answer is written.
AI has a role in organizing and explaining the research. Source grounding and computational checks have roles of their own.
Legal Sources
Retrieval and Relevance
Answer
- Source Text
- Available Dates
Technical detail
- Recall
- How much of the relevant material did the search find?
- Precision
- How much of the retrieved material is relevant?
- Ranking quality
- How well are useful results prioritized?
The goal is useful legal research you can inspect.
Supporting check
Covered primary-law quotations can be compared with stored source text using deterministic checks. A text match establishes that particular match; it does not settle the legal conclusion.
Research you can work with
An answer is a starting point. Give it something solid underneath.
Read the response. Open the authorities. Examine the source material and available dates. Follow a useful lead into the next stage of the research.
The value is in the combination: a place to start, relevant law to investigate, and evidence you can inspect.
Illustrated research flow
The matter
The facts and issue you bring.
The research
An answer and relevant legal authorities.
The sources
Legal text and available source information.
The next step
Your further research, drafting, and review.
Start with the matter in front of you.
Find the authorities that deserve a closer look.
Go deeper into the law behind the answer.
Building something bigger?
Let’s talk about the research behind it.
Bring a product requirement, a court workflow, or a recurring problem. Let's scope a focused pilot and define what a useful result should look like.
Use LawEngine to develop the legal-source research: relevant authorities, source material, and a grounded answer. Carry that research into the writing and review tools you already use.