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Accelerate your practice's research, document review, form completion, and drafting workflows by 33% or more.

Leads, Research, and Document Review

A suite of practical tools designed for lawyers, by lawyers.

Backed by tens of millions of authoritative sources, including federal, state and local case law, reporter citations, federal and state legislation, bills, statutes, federal regulations, agency rules, executive policy documents, congressional hearings, reports, and meeting notes, sponsors, the Federal Register, U.S. Code, and more.

Research Across Legal Domains

We've been building and testing agentic legal research since 2022. Our research engine runs hundreds of searches and analyses in parallel, responding with citations and source attribution. Counsel Stack makes it incredibly simple to verify critical details with direct links.

Acquire Legal Leads

Never face an empty client pipeline again with our shared or exclusive leads. Indicate your practice area and jurisdiction, and purchase leads as add-ons through the Counsel Stack platform. Learn more.

Review Case Files

Counsel Stack enables document review across file types. Extract structured data in batches from documents, audio, and images. Draft documents based on on extracted information.

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Counsel Stack is SOC 2 Type 1 compliant and enterprise ready. Your documents are secure with sensitive information redacted.

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Dayton Meadows, who began using Counsel Stack at his practice in Morgantown, said the platform replaced his existing management software and became "an invaluable tool" for research. Rather than replacing human work, he said it empowered his small team, which includes just one other attorney, a paralegal, and an intern. "It makes you exponentially better," he said.

"I can give it an entire case file and say 'What patterns do you notice? Summarize it for me,' and it can do that. The alternative is that I spend half my day doing it, and I might not find anything."
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"I would recommend Counsel Stack to any litigator like myself, but also to any in-house counsel, compliance personnel, or journalist."
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"Damn! That is a good answer."
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- Law School Professor

"Counsel Stack’s document review helps me do work I couldn’t do before. It’s a powerful and important part of the toolkit."

- Attorney

"So far it’s been amazing, I’ve been plugging old cases that I’ve already read in - the briefs and answers it gives me are spot on."
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DOCUMENT REVIEW

Connect external research to your internal knowledgebase.

Counsel Stack supports documents, forms, images, audio files, and more.

Stop staring at a blank page.

Generate, preview, and export legal research in your preferred format.

Find the files you need.

Counsel Stack is multimodal, supporting your most complex documents, case files, images, and audio files. Filter by tags or describe in plain english what you're looking for, and Counsel Stack will retrieve the most relevant files.

Find the exact insights you need from a batch of documents.

With Counsel Stack's multi-file chat, you can gather key details from multiple places at once. Upload your files, extract data in structured format, and draft documents based on your internal knowledgebase.

Generate chronologies in seconds.

Counsel Stack can generate timelines with up to 50 entries, for example here's a 1081 page, 189MB, non-OCR case file we converted into a timeline.

Legal AI

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about language models in legal practice

Why should lawyers care about language models?

Lawyers should be interested in language models because they offer significant advantages in legal research, align with ABA guidance on maintaining competence, and enhance cost efficiency. These models can automate and streamline many routine tasks, freeing lawyers to focus on more complex aspects of their cases.

What is the ABA's stance on AI and legal practice?

The ABA has adopted resolutions 604, 608, 609, and 610 emphasizing responsible AI development and use, promoting ethical, transparent, and accountable deployment of AI in the legal sector. These resolutions also focus on enhanced cybersecurity, guidelines for organizations engaging in AI, and integrating cybersecurity education into law school curricula.

Must I disclose my use of Counsel Stack to clients or courts?

We recommend attorneys using our platform follow the rules of professional conduct, standing orders, and other laws or regulations that govern the profession in their respective jurisdiction and practice area. But as a software company we aren't in a position to prescribe legal advice or a specific course of action. Some jurisdictions require that sort of disclosure, others don't.

How do large language models work?

Language models are next word predictors. Large language models like GPT-4, Llama 2, and Mistral utilize training data, attention, and transformers. These mechanisms help the model capture nuanced semantic relationships between words and sentences, enabling them to generate coherent text.

How can litigators benefit from using language models?

Litigators can benefit significantly from language models by leveraging them for efficient legal research, strategic development, jury analysis, and enhancing overall litigation planning. These tools can streamline various aspects of legal practice, making processes more efficient and data-driven.

How do language models increase capital efficiency in legal practice?

Properly developed language models enhance capital efficiency in legal practice by accelerating tasks and making sophisticated legal analysis more accessible. This is particularly beneficial for less experienced practitioners, leveling the playing field in terms of resource availability and expertise.

How can response quality be improved when using language models in legal contexts?

Enhancing response quality with language models in legal contexts involves prompt engineering and grounding techniques, which provide the language model with necessary contextual information. This approach ensures clear, context-aware, and accurate language model responses, effectively utilizing the model's reasoning capabilities over the provided knowledge.

What is prompt engineering in the context of language models and law?

Prompt engineering involves designing specific queries or instructions to guide AI models towards generating more accurate and contextually appropriate responses. It's a critical skill for legal professionals using AI, ensuring that the technology aligns with the specific needs and nuances of legal cases.

What are some basic prompting techniques to improve response quality in language models

A few basic techniques to improve response quality in language models include (1) specifying clear task formats and tone, (2) encouraging step-by-step thinking through a chain of thought approach, and (3) persona prompting. These techniques help in eliciting more precise and relevant responses.

What is "grounding" a language model?

Grounding a language model is connecting it to a reliable datasource. Grounding with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) helps mitigate hallucinations while enhancing the model's accuracy. This process involves providing the language model with a rich context or specific information to base its responses on, leading to more accurate and reliable outputs.

What are hyper parameters in language models, and how do they change outputs?

Hyperparameters in language models, such as temperature, token window, and penalties, significantly influence the model's outputs. The temperature setting affects the creativity or randomness of the response, the token window determines the scope of the output, and penalties help prevent repetitive phrases or redundant content. Adjusting these settings allows you to tailor the language model's responses, ensuring they are suitable for the specific requirements of brainstorming, legal research, drafting, or analysis.