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.
Develop the research. Inspect the authorities. Build a source-grounded foundation for your strategy.
Illustrated research flow
The matter
Facts, Jurisdiction
Relevant authorities
Cases, Regulations
Research answer
Retrieved 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
Build on the answer. 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.
Every matter has its own facts and complications. Describe what you are trying to understand and give the Engine a place to begin.
Signed-in document support lets you use one supported text-based document as context for the research. The legal authority remains a separate part of the answer.
Find the authorities that deserve a closer look.
Explore the case law, statutes, regulations, and rules relevant to your issue within the selected scope.
LawEngine’s focus is retrieval and relevance: bringing useful authority into view so you can examine it, develop the research, and decide where to go next.
Go deeper into the law behind the answer.
A citation can lead to a larger research trail: source text, a local rule, a bill, or the Public Act behind a statute.
Explore supported Illinois legislative and Public Act records, New York regulations, and state and federal source material. Inspect the source context and dates available for the record you are using.
This is where the details become useful.
Source depth
Engineered from the source up.
Legal research reaches beyond the headline sources. LawEngine brings cases, governing text, venue rules, and source history into the research workflow.
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.
Already using ChatGPT or Claude?
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.
Already using Westlaw or Lexis?
You can evaluate LawEngine alongside your current research workflow. Start with a defined task, inspect the authorities, and judge what the Engine adds.
Need research inside your own product?
Tell us whether you need relevant authorities, primary-source material, or research answers in your product. We’ll scope an evaluation together and discuss how the results could fit your workflow.