Research · Verified, not recalled
Research offline, with every citation checked.
Fabricated citations reach briefs because a model recalls what a case probably said. Verification against the actual text is the only fix, and it needs the corpus on the machine.
How verification works here
Four steps, all local, all inspectable.
The proposition is isolated
Each assertion that needs authority is separated from the prose around it, so the check is against a claim rather than a paragraph.
The authority is retrieved
The cited case or statute is pulled from the local corpus — the real text, not a summary of it.
The text is compared
Does the authority actually support the proposition? A citation that exists but says something else is the harder failure, and it is the one this catches.
The verdict is recorded
Verified, contradicted, or could not be verified. The third is never silently promoted to the first.
What stays true on every matter
These do not change by practice area, firm size, or the question asked.
Bring a brief with a bad citation in it.
Any brief. Watching the check catch a cite that exists but does not stand for the proposition is the demonstration worth having.
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The answers below are specific to this page’s subject.
Does this stop AI hallucinating cases?
It stops an unverified citation reaching work product looking verified. The model may still propose something wrong; the difference is that the proposal is checked against real text before anyone sees it as settled.
What if the authority is not in the local corpus?
It reports that it could not verify, which is the honest answer. Marking it verified on the basis of absence would be the exact failure this exists to prevent.
Does it check whether a case is still good law?
Treatment signals are computed from the local corpus, so subsequent history is part of the answer rather than a separate step.
How does the corpus stay current?
Through the same deliberate delivery path as software updates, applied when the firm chooses.
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See it run on a real matter.
A briefing walks the whole path — intake, workup, the Adjudicator's pass, and the work product that comes out the other side.
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