The Associate You Always Wanted

LAWCLERK AI Associate is legal AI for litigation firms that works like an associate inside your matter files. It reads the whole file, drafts motions, discovery, letters and research in your firm's voice, and checks every citation against its source. It is available around the clock, and every deliverable lands in the matter file as a draft for your attorneys to review, edit and sign.

Better cases, faster work and more revenue. First drafts land in the matter file in hours instead of days or weeks, so attorneys have more time to refine the work and test theories and arguments that time and budget used to rule out. Grind work such as first drafts, chronologies and record review moves to the associate, and attorney time moves to review, strategy and client work, the hours a firm bills, so the same team can take on more matters.

A general chatbot is a chat window around a model: you paste in context, re-explain the case and build your own workflows. The AI Associate wraps the model in what an associate knows: the matter (the whole file and its Case Bible), the firm (your voice, forms and 30+ settings) and the court (rules and jurisdiction packs). Associate tasks such as motions, discovery and deposition prep are built in, and every citation is checked against its source before you see it. And unlike enterprise legal AI configured for large firms, plans are month-to-month with unlimited users, so a solo practice or small firm gets the same associate as a large firm.

The AI Associate was built by practicing attorneys who use it every day in their own litigation firm, so every feature exists because a lawyer needed it on a live matter. Law firms have tested it on real cases. It comes from LAWCLERK, one of the largest marketplaces for U.S. legal freelance work, which has served law firms since 2018 with 12,000+ verified U.S. attorneys and 20,000+ successful placements.

No. It takes the first pass on drafts, chronologies, record review and research, so attorney time moves to review, strategy and client work, with room to test the alternative theories, motions and arguments that time and budget used to rule out. Partners can explore a case or check an idea without pulling associates off their workloads, and your attorneys review, edit and sign everything. Need a person on the matter? Hire an Hourly or Project-Based associate.

Litigators at firms of every size, from solo practices and small law firms to mid-size and large firms, including commercial litigation, bankruptcy, civil litigation, plaintiff-side and insurance defense practices. Built-in playbooks cover 50+ practice areas, litigation first, and each attorney tunes their own associate on top of the firm's defaults.

Your attorneys do. Every deliverable lands as a draft in the matter file, where your attorneys review, edit and sign it, and you stay attorney of record.

Yes. Pick your state and your court (federal, state or bankruptcy), and it drafts with that court's rules, local rules and format built in, tracking word limits as it goes. Drafts start from your firm's Form Bank and per-court motion catalogs, and it outlines first so you direct the argument before it writes. Everything exports to Word.

Yes. The AI Associate propounds and responds to interrogatories, requests for admission and requests for production from the matter record. For depositions it builds deposition and witness outlines from the file, then turns the transcript into an indexed, citable summary.

It may only cite authority it has retrieved from a verified legal database, and every draft goes through a four-step check: it drafts from the matter record and real research, inventories every authority in the draft, checks each one against the actual text of the source, and produces a citation report with an auto-built Table of Authorities. Anything it cannot verify is flagged for your review, and you can click any citation to read the exact source text it was checked against. You remain the final reviewer.

No, they're complementary. Westlaw and Lexis are case databases; the AI Associate produces the work product. Keep your research subscription and let the associate handle the drafting, discovery and analysis around it.

ABA Formal Opinion 512 (July 2024) applies lawyers' existing duties of competence, confidentiality, supervision and candor to generative AI, including reviewing what it produces. The AI Associate is built for that: every deliverable lands as a draft for attorney review, every citation is checked against its source, and you stay attorney of record. Read more in our guide to the attorney's role in legal AI, and see our ethics and compliance resources.

No. Matters in the AI Associate never train any AI model, enforced by contract and in how the system is built. The AI runs on Amazon Bedrock with zero data retention, so the model provider stores none of your prompts, documents or outputs.

Each firm works in its own isolated workspace that no other firm can reach. The associate is pinned to one matter at a time, other matters stay behind a conflict wall unless assigned, and documents marked privileged are blocked from AI reading entirely. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest on AWS, every action is logged to the attorney and the matter, and the associate works from your file and verified legal sources, never the open web. More on how LAWCLERK protects your data.

Plans are monthly and sized to your firm, with unlimited users and no per-seat fees. Each plan includes a monthly pool of credits that the associate draws on as it works; the pool resets each month, and Extra Usage credits for a busy month never expire. Plans are month-to-month with no annual contract, you can cancel anytime, and every plan includes a dedicated LAWCLERK Advisor.

An afternoon. After your demo, you pick a plan sized to your firm and add your attorneys and staff, then spend the afternoon setting your voice, forms, letterhead and settings while onboarding learns your writing voice from your own past work product. Then you open a matter and bring its documents.