A matter file where every citation is checked

Legal Studio

Playable below - no signup

A dossier that behaves like a notebook: it gathers its own sources, drafts against them, and keeps a table of authorities. Research reaches into case law, EU sources and statute — and the citations are verified rather than assumed, because a confident wrong citation is the one failure a legal tool cannot have.

Try it below

Live demo

Five dossiers, one already overdue

Invented Dutch civil matters with clients, counterparties and deadlines. The overdue one is deliberate — a deadline list where nothing is ever late never shows you the state that matters.

Invented matters; no real dossier, client or case number. Research is switched off in the demo — it queries Rechtspraak.nl, EUR-Lex and Kamerstukken live, and the demo has no network access.

What it does

Four things, and the last one is why it exists

Sources in the matter

Pleadings, correspondence, contracts and evidence live in the dossier itself rather than in a folder somebody has to find.

Drafting against them

Write with the sources open and cited, so a passage in the draft points at the document it came from.

Deadlines that surface

Termijnen sit on the matter and surface in the list, overdue ones first. Missing one is the failure mode this is built against.

Citations verified, not assumed

A cited authority is checked against the source before it reaches the draft. A model that invents a plausible case reference is worse than no research at all, and this is the guard against exactly that.

Scope

What this is not, said plainly

The sources it can reach

Rechtspraak.nl for case law, EUR-Lex for European material, Kamerstukken and Officiële Bekendmakingen for parliamentary and published sources, and Tuchtrecht for disciplinary decisions. These are public registers, queried live — not a snapshot we hold and let go stale.

Why a firm would want to host this

A matter file is the most sensitive material a practice holds, and it is privileged. Running the workspace on your own infrastructure means the drafts and the evidence never sit on a vendor’s disk, and pointing it at a local model means the text of a pleading need not reach a provider at all. That is a harder question to answer with a hosted tool, whoever runs it.

FAQ

Worth knowing

Does it give legal advice?

No, and it is built not to. It gathers sources, drafts against them and checks citations. Reaching a conclusion is the part that stays with the lawyer, and a tool that blurred that line would be a liability rather than a feature.

What stops it inventing a case reference?

Citations are checked against the source before they reach the draft. This is the single most important behaviour in the product — a fabricated but plausible authority is the failure that ends up in front of a judge.

Is our matter data used to train anything?

No. Nothing you put in the workspace trains a model, here or anywhere else. On a self-hosted install the question is settled by the architecture rather than by a policy.

What status is this at?

Beta, enterprise, opt-in and Dutch law only. It is in real use, and it is not finished — the roadmap says the same thing in the same words.

Open a sample dossier before you judge it

Bring the question a legal tool usually fails: where did this citation come from, and has anyone checked it.