Using Law-Lite

How to run a matter from upload to a signed report, search the law, and read what the system can and cannot tell you.

From upload to a signed report.

Signing in and roles

Pick your name on the lock screen and enter your PIN. Demo accounts are sent with your invitation; they are never published. There are three roles:

• Lawyer — sees the matters assigned to them, runs the pipeline, opens the workspace, accepts rules, signs reports.
• Intake — uploads documents and follows progress on assigned matters; cannot open the lawyer's workspace or sign.
• Admin — everything, plus users, settings, firm-wide reports and analytics.

A matter you are not assigned to does not exist for you: its pages say "not found", so even its name stays confidential.

Creating a matter

Matters → New matter. Give the matter name, client, type (venture capital, M&A, securities, litigation) and jurisdiction. For a deal, give the deal value with its currency, and whether the company is listed — several rules depend on both, and "unknown" is reported as unknown, never guessed. Drop the documents onto the form (PDF, Word, Excel, images or a ZIP). Scanned pages are read with OCR; a ZIP member that cannot be read is named, not silently dropped.

Running the pipeline

On the matter page press Start. Six stages run in order, and the stage bar shows where it is:

1. Lex reads and classifies each document (PAS-3, board resolution, share purchase agreement…).
2. Petra extracts the facts each rule needs — dates, amounts, parties, declarations — each tied to the page it came from.
3. Gavel validates them: names and CINs agree across documents, dates are consistent.
4. Portia and Reese check every in-scope rule and analyse the deal.
5. Sterling delivers the report.

A seven-document round takes about four minutes on the demo server.

Reading the report

Report on the matter page. Every rule in scope has one of four outcomes:

"Could not check" always says why: a document or fact the file does not contain (something to obtain), or a rule no document can settle. It is never counted as a pass. The foot of the report names the rulebook and law corpus it was judged against. Rules are marked UNVERIFIED until a practising lawyer has reviewed them.

The report is a draft until a lawyer presses Sign off this report, which signs in their own name and records it in the audit log. A sign-off can be withdrawn; if the pipeline runs again after a sign-off, the report says the signature predates it. A litigation report that relies on a complaint also needs two recorded approvals before it can be signed.

The workspace and its gate

Open workspace from the matter page. The workspace — analysis, risks, similar matters, drafting, questions — opens only when the pre-check has cleared the matter: no rule failed, and none is left unchecked. Until then it says why, in plain words.

Some rules no document can settle (whether the transaction documents were duly stamped, for instance). Under Rules only a person can confirm, a lawyer can accept such a rule with a reason — "stamp paper of Rs 1,500 seen on the executed SSHA". The acceptance is recorded with their name; the rule itself stays "could not check" in the report. A missing document or a failed rule cannot be accepted away.

On any matter, Show approaches lays out each litigation route read against the file, and Case journey lists every upload, stage, decision and link in order, marking any entry the audit chain cannot vouch for.

Search

Ask a question in ordinary words. The sources appear first — statute sections, rules, judgments and your matters' own documents — then an answer in which every sentence links to a source. Each source says whether the model read it. If a sentence cites nothing it is removed and the answer says so; if an answer cannot be written safely, you get the sources and the reason instead. Name the law ("section 138 of the NI Act", "What is the Companies Act?") and that section comes first. Questions outside the corpus ("a chocolate cake recipe") are refused, not answered.

The Library

Describe an issue — "a cheque given by our customer bounced for insufficient funds" — and the Library lists the statutes and sections that govern it, grouped by Act. Tick include judgments for case law, labelled "good law unverified".

Tools

Deal calculator, cap table, dilution, quick check, checklist, covenant analyser and risk scorer: standalone calculators that do not touch a matter.

Two matters, start to finish.

What runs where.

The endpoints behind each screen.

The API listens on the server's loopback interface only; the web front is its one client and forwards the signed-in session. Scope (which matters a request may see) is always passed and can only narrow.