Legal Research
Ask a legal question the way you would put it to a colleague, and read back an answer with the authorities attached. Research searches your own documents and the legal sources for your jurisdiction, writes the answer in prose, and numbers every claim to a source you can open, verify, download and file.
- What: A written, cited answer to a legal question, in a session you can keep asking
- Input: A question of up to 5,000 characters, and optionally up to 10 documents from your File Library
- Start from: Ask Judicio, Smart Suggestions or Templates
- Scope: One jurisdiction per run, set by the top-bar switcher. In India and the United States you can also choose which repositories are searched
- Thoroughness: Deep Mode on or off, chosen per turn
- Output: A cited answer, a Sources list per turn, and optionally a Draft
- Export: PDF or Word, with citations
When to reach for it
Research is for a question that needs an answer in sentences, with authority behind it.
- A point of law you need settled. Ask it plainly, read the answer, open the cases it rests on.
- A question about your own documents. Add the contract or the pleadings, and the answer is grounded in them as well as in the law.
- A first pass on unfamiliar ground. Ask broadly, then narrow with follow-ups in the same session, which cost less than starting again.
- A memo or opinion you have to write. Turn the Drafting chip on and the same findings, with the same citations, come back as a document.
If you want issues and risk scores across a contract, use Document Review. If you want one question answered across many documents in a grid, use Review Matrix. If you want dates rather than reasoning, use Timeline. If you are starting from a document you need written rather than a question you need answered, go straight to Drafting.
How it works
- Add documents, or do not. The file band on the Research home is optional for the Ask Judicio flow. It is required before you can start from a suggestion or a saved template.
- Ask your question in the composer, or open a card under Smart Suggestions or Templates.
- Answer any clarifying questions. When Judicio needs one more fact, it asks in a dock above the composer, one question at a time. Those turns cost nothing.
- Read the answer. Numbered chips in the prose open the source behind each claim, and the Sources tab lists all of them with their verification state.
- Keep going. Ask a follow-up, quote a passage back with Ask about this, or turn on Drafting and take the findings into a document.
- Export to PDF or Word, or hand a colleague the evidence pack of archived sources.
What it costs
| Action | Mode | Cost | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research question | Deep | 25 credits | Any question, any length |
| Research question | Standard | 10 credits | Any question, any length |
| Follow-up question | Deep | 10 credits | Less than half the first turn |
| Follow-up question | Standard | 5 credits | Half the first turn. Clarifying questions are free. |
Credits
A follow-up in the same session costs half an opening question, because the session already holds the material it searched. Turns where Judicio only asks you a clarifying question are free. Deep Mode is a different price, not a surcharge on the standard one, and it is available on Professional and Organization plans.
See Credits Explained for the full price list.
In this section
- Getting started - the happy path, one screen at a time.
- Composing queries - the composer, the modes, the option chips and the Settings ribbon, including which repositories get searched.
- Understanding results - citation chips, the Sources panel, clarifying questions, follow-ups and the answer footer.
- Working with drafts - turning an answer into a document, and continuing it in Drafting.
- Jurisdictions - how the jurisdiction is chosen and what it changes.
- Research templates - starting from a saved setup, and saving one of your own.
- FAQ - answers and troubleshooting.
Next steps
- Run your first question with Getting started.
- Learn what each control on the home screen does in Composing queries.
- Share a session with a colleague from Collaboration.