AIAPQLegal research

The sequence

Two assistants. One message out.

The first assistant finds and cites the law, and drafts from it when you ask. The second reads the reply before it is delivered. Both are automatic. The replies and drafts are written by a program, not a person: they can be wrong, and the law changes. Check every citation against the source, and treat every draft as demonstration material until an attorney reviews it.

Edited Version

This message was rewritten to meet facility communication rules.

The citations are kept.

Example only. Editing covers the outgoing message, never your own notes. A draft is demonstration material, not a filing ready for court.

What happens to a question

  1. You ask

    You send a question as a message, the way you send any other.

  2. The first assistant researches the law

    It researches the law for your question, reads any case documents you bring in, and cites every statute, case and page it relies on. It describes what the law says. It does not decide your case.

  3. Every source is cited

    Each case and statute carries its identifying citation, and a line on why it matters to your question.

  4. When you ask, it drafts

    Motions, letters, replies and grievances, written from the same cited material. A draft is demonstration material until an attorney has reviewed it.

  5. The second assistant screens the outgoing message

    It checks the message against your facility's communication policy and the channel's rules, before anything is delivered.

  6. Approved text goes out unchanged

    If the message passes, you receive exactly what was written.

  7. Failed text is rewritten, and labeled

    Anything that fails is rewritten to comply. The message you receive is marked Edited Version at the top, so you know it was changed.

Two rules that never change

  • Your notes are yours

    The screening applies to outgoing messages. Your own research notes are never edited.

  • You can always come back

    Every conversation is kept. Open an earlier legal project and continue from exactly where it stopped — no re-explaining the case.

What you can ask →

What it costs

This is a paid service, and the price is per question. A question answered in one message costs about 60 cents, and no question costs more than $2.00. The price includes delivery of the reply.

For a concrete example: send your case number, the charge, and what happened the night you were arrested, and ask for a motion asking the court to release you on conditions. The reply is that motion, written out in full and ready to review — and the cost is about 60 cents.

If a long answer needs more than one message on a chat channel, each message after the first is 25 cents. Credits are bought in $5 steps, so $5 covers about eight questions like the one above. Credits must be added before a question is researched; a family member or friend can add them by card at the credits page using the register number.

Attorney email addresses

You can have your answers and drafts sent to your attorney. Send one message saying that the address is your attorney's — for example, my attorney's email is name@firm.com. The address is checked against that office's own public website; a free consumer mailbox, or a domain that cannot receive email, is refused, and nothing is researched or sent until the address is confirmed.

Once it is on the account, every answer and draft is emailed to that office automatically. You do not give the address again, and it is not sent anywhere else.

The attorney receives the original, unedited answer or draft, with a note that it is a demonstration draft and was not filed. That is not the version you receive — yours has been through the screening. When a copy has gone out, the end of your reply says which address it went to.

To change the address, send a message with the new office address. To stop the copies, ask, to remove your attorney address.