AI Legal Citation Verifier

Quickly catch fabricated case citations in AI-drafted legal documents.

Problem

Lawyers are starting to use AI to draft documents, but AI frequently invents plausible-looking citations that don't exist. A product already exists in this space, which shows the risk is real. For solo practitioners and small firms, manually checking every citation is slow, and existing tools may not cover local or jurisdiction-specific databases.

Solution

A browser extension or web tool that extracts all case and statute citations from an uploaded legal document, verifies each one against public legal databases or a user-provided library, flags citations that can't be found, and suggests similar real cases. It exports a verification report for audit trails.

Users

Lawyers, in-house counsel, law students using AI for drafting, and small law firms.

MVP

Upload or paste a legal document; extract case citations automatically; look up each against public legal databases and mark existence; highlight unfound citations as warnings; export a simple verification report.

Revenue

Per-check pricing or subscription (e.g., $19–49/month) for solo lawyers and small firms; offer an API for legal-tech integrations.

Why now

AI-fabricated legal citations have caused real sanctions and embarrassment; demand for verification is urgent, while big legal databases don't serve individuals with lightweight tools—a niche a solo dev can own.