Legal Research Agent
Case law search, contract summarisation, clause-by-clause risk flagging for law firms and counsel.
Features
5
Tech
11
Steps
5
Legal Research Agent
Capabilities
What this agent does
Every capability is shipped end-to-end — not a feature flag. You get a working slice on day one and we expand from there.
Feature 01
Citation-grade research
Pulls actual case law with paragraph-level pin cites.
Feature 02
Clause-by-clause review
Flags non-standard or risky language in seconds.
Feature 03
Multi-jurisdiction
various jurisdictions, UK, US, EU — knows which rules apply.
Feature 04
Draft suggestions
Proposes standard fall-back language for rejected clauses.
Feature 05
Confidential by default
Self-hosted or zero-retention mode for privileged matter.
Stack
11 technologies we use
Production-tested tools chosen for reliability, observability, and developer velocity. Every piece is swappable.
System at a glance
How the agent flows
A simplified view of what comes in, what the agent does with it, and what it produces. Each arrow is observable end-to-end.
Inputs
Agent
Legal Research Agent
Plan → tool-call → reflect, with approval gates.
Tools the agent calls
Outputs
Engagement
How we roll it out
A 5-step process from kickoff to handover. Every step has a deliverable you can sign off on.
- 01
Jurisdiction setup
Configure source databases and authority hierarchy.
- 02
Firm style training
Train on your firm's prior drafting and memos.
- 03
Pilot on closed matters
Validate output quality against known-good cases.
- 04
Workflow integration
Plug into your DMS (iManage, NetDocuments) + Word.
- 05
Ongoing oversight
Senior associate spot-checks; flagged outputs improve the model.
Outcomes
What you can expect
Real numbers we see when Legal Research Agent ships on top of an actual workflow. Specifics vary with starting baseline, data quality, and scope — but these are the ranges.
Outcome 01
−85%
Lookup time
From minutes searching to seconds answering with citation.
Outcome 02
92-97%
Answer accuracy
Against ground-truth Q&A set, tuned over 6-8 weeks.
Outcome 03
10K+ docs
Source coverage
Per workspace, with permissioning and version awareness.
Sample use cases
What this looks like in practice
Three concrete scenarios where teams deploy Legal Research Agent today. Your engagement starts with one of these (or your own variant) and expands from there.
Onboarding new hires in 1 week
Engineers ask the bot anything about the codebase, runbooks, or product — answers cite the exact doc + line. Ramp time drops from 3 weeks to under 1.
Legal due-diligence acceleration
A counsel team uploads 200+ contracts. The agent surfaces non-standard clauses, missing indemnities, expiry windows — saves 60+ hours per quarter.
Cross-team policy clarity
HR + Finance answer 'can I do X?' questions from the workforce automatically, with permission-aware retrieval — sensitive policies stay private.
Typical engagement
From kickoff to live in 4-8 weeks
Most Legal Research Agent engagements follow this shape. We give you a firm quote after a 30-minute scoping call, and the price is fixed up-front so you can budget.
2-3 weeks
Pilot
- Discovery + playbook write-up
- Tool design + guardrails
- Eval suite + sandbox deploy
2-4 weeks
Production
- Hardened deploy on your stack
- Observability dashboard + alerts
- Two-week supervised mode
Ongoing
Handover & support
- Runbook + team training
- Monthly tuning + eval review
- Pause or expand any time
Indicative range
$2,000 — $5,500
Full project, scoped + fixed up-front. Includes pilot, production, and 30 days of post-launch support.
Or hire us by the week
from $750/wk
Embedded retainer — best for evolving scopes.
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