Legal Technology — flagship practice
Run the practice on a system you own. Then let it make your research sharper.
For law firms, individual advocates and chambers, senior advocates before the High Courts and the Supreme Court, and in-house legal teams. Two pillars, one owner: you.
Why both pillars
The operations system feeds the intelligence
The practice system holds your matters, drafts, and outcomes. That proprietary corpus is exactly what makes the research layer sharper than any generic subscription tool — it knows how your practice argues.
An ERP built for how Indian practice actually works
Matters, hearings, people, money — one register, one truth, updatable from the court corridor.
Matter & case management
- Central matter register: parties, court and bench, case type, filing and registration numbers, opposing counsel, instructing advocate or Advocate-on-Record
- Full lifecycle from intake and conflict check through filing, hearings, orders, and disposal, with archive
- Hearing diary and next-date tracking the clerk updates from mobile; limitation and deadline alerts that escalate if unacknowledged
- Matter-linked repository for pleadings, annexures, orders, and correspondence — versioned, with a full access audit trail
- Chronology, file notes, brief history, and a one-screen matter snapshot a senior can read in the car on the way to court
Advocate & people management
- Roster of partners, associates, juniors, interns, clerks, and support staff with roles, enrolment details, and reporting lines
- Work allocation with court-wise coverage for the week, and conflict and double-booking detection
- Capacity view — matters and hearing load per advocate — so overloads surface before they become problems
- Appearances, drafts, billable and non-billable hours, and matters closed, tracked per advocate
- Leave, attendance, and appearance-availability calendars; onboarding and exit checklists with automatic access revocation
Firm operations & administration
- Time capture advocates will actually use: quick entry, mobile, timer, and bulk day-end entry
- Billing for Indian practice: retainers, per-appearance and per-conference fees, fixed-fee, hourly, and hybrid — with draft bill review and approval
- Disbursements per matter: court fees, filing charges, travel, clerkage, printing, out-of-pocket recovery
- Receivables and ageing by client and matter, reminder workflows, GST-compliant invoicing and TDS handling, export to Tally, Zoho Books, or QuickBooks
- Trust and client-money accounting kept separate from firm funds; partner dashboard with realization, recovery, and profitability per matter
Client & knowledge management
- Client and instructing-counsel records with engagement letters, retainer terms, and conflict-check history
- Optional client portal with role-based access — clients and instructing counsel see only their own matters
- Internal knowledge base: firm precedents, approved templates, checklists, and filing SOPs for each forum
Products that help counsel prepare. Not products that practise law.
Assistive tools for legal professionals. They do not give legal advice, and they are never offered to end clients as a substitute for an advocate.
Research and retrieval
- A grounded research assistant over the firm's own corpus first — past opinions, briefs, drafts, precedents — plus licensed sources you are entitled to use
- Every answer cites a retrievable source document
- Semantic search across the firm's history: “have we argued this point before, and where” — which keyword search in a shared drive cannot answer
- Issue-based retrieval that surfaces your own strongest prior formulations of an argument
Litigation intelligence
- Case-file analytics: automatic chronology, issue extraction, party and provision mapping, annexure-to-pleading cross-referencing
- Pleadings comparison — how a position shifted across drafts, or your pleading diffed against the opposing party's
- Document review at volume for discovery, due diligence, and large paperbooks: classification, deduplication, relevance ranking, privilege flagging for human confirmation
- Contract and clause intelligence: extraction, deviation from your standard positions, obligation and renewal tracking
- Matter-outcome analytics from your own closed matters: duration, adjournments, settlement, and cost patterns by forum and practice area
- Brief and bundle preparation: auto-indexing, pagination, first-draft synopsis and list of dates for counsel review
Drafting
- First drafts of notices, plaints, written statements, replies, and contracts — generated strictly from the firm's own approved templates and clause library
- Human review built into the workflow: nothing goes out without counsel's hand on it
Verification is a feature, not a disclaimer
Built to say “not found”
Indian courts have censured reliance on unverified AI-generated citations. So the system's defining behaviour is the opposite: every answer traces to a document you can open, and when there is no source, it declines. Test it on exactly this in the first demo.
Research assistant
Yes — twice. The stronger formulation is in the written submissions filed in [Matter #2019-114], paragraphs 14–19, relying on the continuing-wrong exception.
Not found. No 2024 Supreme Court authority on this point exists in the firm corpus or your licensed sources. Nothing has been generated in its place — flagged for manual research.
Non-negotiable
The terms both pillars are built on
Grounded, never generative-only
Every output traces to a source document. The system says “not found” and flags low-confidence retrievals rather than fabricate. It does not invent case law, citations, or authorities.
Counsel decides
Assistive tools for legal professionals — they do not give legal advice and never replace counsel's judgement.
Confidentiality and privilege first
On-premise, or a private client-controlled cloud within India by default. DPDP Act 2023 residency is the baseline, not an upsell. Client data never trains shared models.
Granular access control
Ethical walls between teams, matter-level permissions, and a complete access audit log. A junior on one matter cannot see another partner's file.
The firm owns everything
System, data, and source code — with full escrow. No per-seat pricing that punishes the firm for hiring.
Works with your licensed research
Operates alongside existing research subscriptions within the terms of those licences. We do not scrape or redistribute third-party databases.
The honest part
Most practice-management rollouts in Indian firms fail
They fail because senior advocates won't enter their own time, and clerks keep a parallel paper diary. If a vendor hasn't named this problem, they haven't solved it.
Mobile-first clerk entry
The hearing diary updates from a phone in the court corridor — because that is where the clerk is.
Day-end bulk time capture
Advocates who will never log as they go can enter the whole day in two minutes. Captured late beats not captured.
Single-practice-area pilot
One team proves the system on live matters before anyone else is asked to change how they work.
Training for every role
Advocates, clerks, and admin staff each get training built for their part of the workflow — not one generic session.
Run the numbers
What is the current setup costing the practice?
For most practices the leaked billings dwarf the software line. Every assumption is on screen.
Revenue leaking through unbilled time each year estimate
₹43.2 lakh
Capture-at-source typically recovers about half — ₹21.6 lakh a year. The subscription outlay of ₹7.5 lakh is the smaller number.
Based on the assumptions shown below. Book a real audit for a number you can take to the board.
See the line-by-line breakdown
Year-by-year costs, the full owned-system model, and every number behind the headline. Free, sent nowhere else.
Assumptions in this estimate
- The system removes 60% of manual diary, billing, and file-admin time — and only 50% of recovered hours are counted as converting to billable work.
- Leakage is valued against 30 billable-capacity hours per advocate per week, 48 working weeks a year.
- 50% of leaked time is assumed recoverable through capture-at-source; the rest stays lost.
- Owned system build is a range, ₹25 lakh–₹60 lakh covering both pillars, plus 20% of build per year to run.
How the engagement runs
From NDA to a system your clerks actually use
Deployment & confidentiality protocol
NDA before we see a single file. Deployment on your servers or an India-resident private cloud, with access controls and audit logging from day one.
Accuracy & citation-verification architecture
Retrieval-grounded answers with linked sources, confidence flagging, and a hard “not found” path. We demonstrate the decline behaviour before you sign.
Migration of existing matter data
From spreadsheets, legacy practice software, and shared drives — cleaned, deduplicated, and verified against the source before cutover.
Phased rollout
One practice area first, running in parallel with the old routine until partners trust the register more than the paper diary.
Adoption & training
Role-specific training for advocates, clerks, and admin staff, with the workflows each role actually touches.
Accounting integration
GST-compliant invoicing and TDS handling wired to Tally, Zoho Books, or QuickBooks — the accountant keeps their tools.
Engagement models
Fixed-scope project
A defined build, a defined price. Best for a first system or a single pillar.
Dedicated pod
A standing team building and extending your systems month over month.
Retainer
Ongoing support, maintenance, and incremental improvement after handover.
FAQ
What managing partners ask us
Can the AI invent a citation?
No. Every research answer is retrieval from your corpus and licensed sources, with the source document linked. Where no source exists, the system says “not found” and flags the question for manual research. Ask us to demonstrate the decline behaviour in the first demo — that request is the fastest way to evaluate any legal AI vendor.
Will my advocates actually use it?
The system is designed around the two known failure points: clerks update the hearing diary from mobile, and advocates who won't log time as they go get two-minute day-end bulk entry. The pilot is one practice area, so adoption is proven small before it is asked of everyone.
What happens to our existing files and old matter data?
We migrate them — from spreadsheets, legacy software, and shared drives — with cleanup, deduplication, and verification against the originals. The paper file is retired only after its digital counterpart has been checked.
Where does client data live?
On the firm's own servers, or in a private cloud the firm controls, within India by default. DPDP Act 2023 residency is the baseline configuration, not an add-on.
Is our data used to train your models?
No. Client data never trains shared models. What the system learns from your corpus stays inside your deployment.
Can a junior see another partner's matter?
Not unless granted. Permissions are matter-level, ethical walls separate teams, and every access is logged in an audit trail the firm can review.
How long does migration take?
The single-practice-area pilot lands in weeks. Firm-wide rollout is phased, with the old routine running in parallel until the new register has proven itself on live matters.
What about support?
Training and documentation come with handover. If you want us on call, support is a retainer the firm can end at any time — not a dependency.
Who owns the code?
The firm does — system, data, and source code, with full escrow during the engagement. There is no per-seat licence and no lock-in.
See it on a matter, not a slide
A working matter dashboard and the citation-verification behaviour, demonstrated live. NDA first, always.