Legal

Checking citations and treatment of authorities

AI assists with citation checking, treatment analysis, quote verification, source retrieval, and line-by-line validation of research reports, briefs, and memos so legal teams can confirm whether cited authorities actually support each assertion and remain good law.

Why the human is still essential here

Legal professionals must verify the significance of positive or negative treatment, interpret each authority in context, investigate flagged issues, and make the final judgment about whether a citation, quote, or proposition is accurate and persuasive.

How people use this

Research report source check

AI reviews a research memo line by line to confirm that each cited authority supports the stated proposition and surfaces the supporting text.

CoCounsel Legal / Westlaw

Brief footnote validation

AI scans a draft brief’s citations and flags footnotes where the underlying case does not fully support the sentence in the filing.

Lexis+ AI / Shepard's

Quote and pin-cite verification

AI cross-checks quoted passages and pin cites against the source document so lawyers can catch misquotes and context errors before submission.

CoCounsel Legal / Westlaw

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