Legal AI for litigation, answered.
What litigators, managing partners and AI committees ask about filing-grade legal AI: citation verification, sanctions, motion drafting, eDiscovery, AI policy and air-gapped deployment. Pricing and seats are on the buyer questions page.
What filing-grade legal AI is, and who it is for.
What is Legawrite.AI?
Legawrite.AI is filing-grade legal AI for litigation: a legal research and drafting platform that takes a case from intake documents to filed work product. We call the platform LitigationOS. Under it sits Solon, roughly 184 million source-linked legal propositions distilled from 3.2 million published, precedential U.S. opinions. The short version: filing-grade litigation infrastructure, grounded in open law. See the LitigationOS overview.
What does filing-grade legal AI mean?
Filing-grade means the work product is fit to sign and file, not just fit to read. Every legal proposition is verified against the source it came from, every citation is retrieved from a verified record rather than generated, deadlines and formatting follow the court’s local rules, and a sealed record shows how the document was made. It is the difference between filing-grade legal research and a fluent first draft.
How is litigation AI software different from an AI legal assistant or copilot?
A legal AI assistant generates text and leaves the checking to you. Legawrite.AI is infrastructure, not a copilot: research that cannot cite a case that does not exist, AI litigation drafting workflows that stop for attorney review at every stage, and a provenance record behind every filing. Nothing files itself.
Who is legal AI for litigators built for?
Civil litigators who sign what they file, with a first focus on the defense side. That is defense litigation AI: legal AI for defense lawyers and defense law firms, including defense boutiques, insurance defense panel counsel, staff counsel, public entity litigators, and the senior associates who draft what the partner signs. Criminal defense is out of scope.
What is computational law?
Computational law treats legal rules as structured, typed data that software can reason over, rather than as text to be summarized. Solon types every proposition with structured legal metadata, including authority status, litigation stage, which party a holding favors and who bears the burden. Read more on computational law.
What is procedural intelligence in litigation?
Litigation procedural intelligence is knowing which motion is legally correct at this stage, and which filing would waive a right, destroy finality or block an appeal. MotionLogic is our procedural decision engine: it identifies the correct motion, ranks the alternatives, and flags the moves that close doors.
Verifying what a citation stands for, not only that it exists.
What is proposition-level legal research?
Case-level research returns a case. Proposition-level legal research returns the rule that does the legal work: from the court that established it, still good law, with the correct stance toward your party, at the correct procedural stage, and citable in your forum. Deep Research is proposition-level legal AI built on Solon.
What is substance verification?
Substance verification is confirming that a legal proposition holds, whom it favors, and whether it survived, not merely that the citation exists. Form verification checks that a case is real and the quote matches. Legal substance verification checks citation-to-proposition support: that the proposition is the holding rather than dicta, favors your party, governs in your forum at your posture, and is still good law at the line you cited. See substance verification.
How is AI citation verification different from case law verification?
Most AI citation verification stops at case law verification: the citation resolves to a real opinion. That is the commodity floor. Proposition-level citation verification goes further and checks citation support, meaning the case actually stands for the proposition you cited it for. Real cases cited for the wrong proposition are the failure that ordinary citation checks miss.
Does it check subsequent history and good law?
Yes. Good law verification runs case by case against subsequent history: reversed, modified, vacated, review granted, abrogated by statute. A status problem flips the authority to red before it can reach a draft. Holding verification and treatment classification track how later courts treated the specific proposition, not only the case as a whole.
Does it distinguish binding versus persuasive authority?
Yes. Controlling authority research is built in: Deep Research models the forum hierarchy, so binding versus persuasive authority is resolved for the court you are in front of. It is also stage-aware legal research, filtering by procedural posture, and party-favorability legal research, filtering by which side a holding favors.
Does it find adverse authority?
On purpose. Counter-authority legal research retrieves the adverse cases with their distinguishing patterns, so the adverse authority arrives from Legawrite.AI and not from opposing counsel.
What is a citation lock?
A citation enters a memo only from the verified record, with its source attached, and cannot be rewritten by a model afterward. The citation is never generated. It is retrieved, verified, and locked. That is what makes legal research with verified citations possible by construction.
How accurate is the underlying data?
Every proposition in Solon is verified against the exact source lines it came from, with a documented extraction error rate of 0.003%. On the adversarial ADR-Hard benchmark, Legawrite.AI reaches 88% Dispositive Recall at filing; the strongest alternatives on the same test land between 9% and 24%.
Hallucinated citations, fabricated cases, and what courts do about them.
Can Legawrite.AI produce AI hallucinated citations?
No. There is no model in the citation path. A language model never writes a citation, so fabricated legal citations and fake case citations are architecturally unavailable rather than filtered out after the fact. The measured fabrication rate is 0.00%, not merely low. That is legal AI hallucination prevention by construction, not by instruction.
What are the sanctions for AI hallucinated citations?
Courts have now issued well over a thousand decisions addressing fabricated or misused AI citations: 1,668 in the public database as of July 2, 2026, the overwhelming majority since 2025. Published orders show $145K in AI fake citation sanctions in the first quarter of 2026 alone, and a California appellate court imposed a $10,000 sanction after finding 21 of 23 quotations in a brief were fabricated. Our AI Citation Sanctions Tracker keeps the running court record.
Why do lawyers get sanctioned for AI citations even when the case is real?
Because a real citation can still be cited for a proposition it does not support. Lawyer sanctions for AI citations increasingly involve real cases carrying the wrong holding, a reversed rule, or a quotation that does not appear in the opinion. Hallucinated citation detection that only checks existence misses all three.
How do I verify AI legal citations?
Any AI citation checker for lawyers should answer five questions: does the case exist, does it say these words, does it stand for this proposition, does it favor my party in my forum at this stage, and is it still good law at the line I cited. Our seven questions to ask any legal research vendor apply to us too, and a product can fail them.
What is legal AI risk management for a litigation practice?
Three controls: research that cannot fabricate, attorney review gates before anything is filed, and a record of how each document was made. Legawrite.AI builds all three into the workflow, and E&O coverage stands behind the output.
Demurrers, motions to dismiss, and summary judgment.
What is motion drafting software for litigators?
Legawrite.AI runs AI motion drafting as background workflows on one fact and claim foundation. Four are live today: Demand Letter, Complaint Drafter, Demurrer and Complaint Checker. Each pauses for attorney review at the stages that matter and exports to Word on your firm’s own template. See drafting workflows.
Is there California demurrer drafting software?
Yes, and it is live. Upload the complaint you were served. The demurrer workflow identifies which causes of action are vulnerable, maps the argument structure for each, and drafts the demurrer with grounds tied to each claim. Local Rules apply the court’s deadlines and formatting. It is demurrer drafting software grounded in demurrer legal research on verified propositions.
Does it support motion to dismiss legal research, including New York?
Yes. Deep Research is live in New York, California and Missouri, so motion to dismiss legal research, including New York CPLR 3211 practice, runs on verified, stage-aware propositions. MotionLogic confirms the motion is the right procedural move before you draft it.
Is there summary judgment drafting software?
Yes, in two stages, both in Early access with a first group of firms and not generally available. The MSJ Qualifier decides whether a dispositive pathway exists and whether the record is ready to use it. The MSJ Engine then builds the motion structure before prose: every fact mapped to the element it supports, evidence screened for admissibility, and the burden framework applied for the jurisdiction. Summary judgment legal research, including California summary adjudication and separate statement practice and New York CPLR 3212, is available today through Deep Research.
Does it predict whether a summary judgment motion will win?
No. The MSJ Qualifier never produces a win probability or a case-strength score. It breaks each claim into elements, burdens, evidence and candidate paths to judgment, answers dozens of narrow questions against Solon and the record, and applies explicit decision rules to mark each pathway QUALIFIED, BLOCKED or UNRESOLVED, with the reason and the strongest opposing argument. Merits and procedural readiness are reported separately. Counsel still decides whether to file.
How is that different from asking a frontier model about my MSJ?
A single model answer blends legal interpretation, evidence, burden, discovery posture and uncertainty into one fluent narrative, so when it is wrong nobody can say where. The MSJ Qualifier separates those tasks into narrow determinations, grounds each one, keeps UNKNOWN visible instead of turning it into NO, and leaves a decision record showing exactly why a pathway survives or fails.
Can it draft oppositions and responsive pleadings?
Opposition drafting is in Early access, built first for oppositions to a demurrer, a motion to dismiss and a motion for summary judgment. Answer to Complaint, the responsive pleading, and Cross-Complaint are also in Early access.
Why use legal AI for dispositive motions specifically?
Because a dispositive motion is where being wrong ends a case. Verified legal research for dispositive motions means the right proposition, the right stance, the right stage, good law and currently citable, all at once. That is the test our benchmark measures.
Responsiveness review, privilege screening, and written discovery.
What is isResponsive()?
isResponsive() is open source AI eDiscovery for responsiveness review, released under Apache 2.0. It runs on hardware you control, makes zero calls to any AI vendor’s API, scores every document against each request for production with quoted citation spans, and ends in a counsel-signed Defensibility Certificate.
Is AI document review defensible in court?
Defensible AI document review turns on a documented, measurable process, not on trust in a model. isResponsive() applies four controls: per-request rubrics locked by cryptographic hash, a calibrated classification cascade under explicit recall constraints, a deterministic privilege screen, and a validation stopping rule. That is court-defensible technology-assisted review (TAR) that an opposing party or special master can reproduce.
Does it do privilege review?
Privilege screening runs first and deterministically, and routes every flagged document to attorney-only review. The model does not decide privilege.
Can eDiscovery AI run privately, without the cloud?
Yes. isResponsive() is local AI document review: bring your own GPU and keep your own documents. There is nothing for anyone to subpoena from us, because we never have your documents.
Is there written discovery drafting software?
The Discovery Framework is in Early access. It drafts special interrogatories, requests for admission and requests for production from the complaint, drafts objections and answers from the documents you are producing, and runs a discovery gap analysis that ends in a meet and confer letter and a motion to compel.
Firm AI policy, judicial standing orders, and the audit trail.
What should a law firm AI policy require of a legal AI tool?
Every law firm AI policy and outside counsel AI policy converges on one question: can you show how this document was made? Look for no model in the citation path, attorney review before filing, per-firm data isolation, no training on client matters, and a legal AI audit trail. Our AI-use disclosure is written to be checked against exactly those policies.
How do judicial AI standing orders affect my filings?
A growing number of judges and courts issue AI standing orders and local rules on AI disclosure in court filings, some requiring a certification about how generative AI was used and that citations were verified. The requirements vary court by court, so check the orders for your judge. Legawrite.AI is built so that whatever you are asked to certify, you can show it on the record.
What is legal AI provenance?
Legal AI provenance is a record of what was done, in what order, and why. Show Your Work freezes the full derivation record when a document is marked filed: issue framing, research, authorities scored, citations accepted and rejected, validation passes, attorney edits and final text. The record is sealed in immutable storage and its fingerprint is anchored to the Solana blockchain. The contents stay privileged.
What do malpractice insurers and carriers ask about AI use?
Malpractice insurer AI diligence, carrier AI guidelines for panel counsel and client AI use policies all ask for the same evidence: which tool, what checks, who reviewed. For insurance defense firms, a sealed provenance record answers the carrier audit without reconstructing the work after the fact.
Is my AI conversation privileged?
Recent decisions do not hold that using AI destroys privilege. Courts have drawn a line between a client using a consumer chatbot under terms that permit disclosure, and attorney-directed use of an enterprise or on-premises tool with contractual confidentiality. The risk is careless disclosure and weak vendor terms.
Air-gapped, on-premise, and private legal AI.
Is there air-gapped legal AI for law firms?
Yes. On request, Legawrite.AI ships as a fully isolated, air-gapped deployment running against a local LLM inside your own walls. No data leaves the environment, and nothing is metered. It is built for firms, insurers and confidential matters where the cloud is not an acceptable answer. See security and deployment.
Can it run on-premise or self-hosted?
Yes. The air-gapped option is on-premise legal AI: a self-hosted, self-contained deployment with your own local model. Legal AI without the cloud is a deployment choice, not a separate product.
How is client data isolated in the cloud?
Legal AI data isolation means each firm’s data lives in its own separate database with its own user management, structurally walled off from every other customer rather than filtered out of a shared pool. Only abstracted, citation-free proposition queries cross into the verified corpus.
Do you train models on client data?
No. We do not train models on client matters, and we do not share matter data across firms.
Built for the defense side and the people who audit it.
Is Legawrite.AI built for insurance defense firms?
Yes. Insurance defense legal AI is the first focus: panel counsel partners, staff counsel, and the carriers, risk pools and corporate legal departments that audit the file. It fits practices under billing guidelines, capped rates, pre-approved budgets and flat fees, where efficiency is already forced and the margin stays with the firm.
How does it help panel counsel meet carrier AI guidelines?
Panel counsel AI compliance comes down to showing your work. Every filed document carries a sealed derivation record, citations come only from a verified record, and the attorney is the decision-maker of record. That is the evidence a carrier or client AI use policy asks for.
Is it built for public entity defense?
Yes. Public entity litigators are named in our positioning alongside defense boutiques and panel counsel, and the air-gapped deployment serves agencies that cannot send files to the cloud.
Which jurisdictions are covered?
LitigationOS is live in New York, California and Missouri. Illinois, Texas and Massachusetts are next, followed by the remaining states. Court local rules coverage is built from more than a thousand local rule documents across California, Nevada and New York. See Local Rules.
Bring a motion you’re nervous about.
One real motion, your own authorities, forty minutes. Ask anything that is not answered here.