The fastest citation review path can miss the authority that changes the argument.
Opposing briefs require broad coverage, while filing lawyers need a short queue they can defend reviewing.
Who you’d be doing this for
“The partner asked which citations I’d actually checked, and I had 46 tabs open.”
Yaw Sackey · Litigation Associate
Prepares research and draft responses to opposing briefs for an enterprise law firm.
What is at stake
A lawyer must manually reopen authorities across an opponent’s brief to find citations that do not support the claim. You have to weigh recall of meaningful risks against a queue that attorneys can realistically review.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- recall of risky citations vs. attorney review capacity
- long-brief coverage vs. usable latency
- shared platform reuse vs. litigation-specific learning
- ranked evidence vs. attorney legal judgment
Why Harvey
Citation-grounded research and drafting must support reviewable legal work when attorneys are responsible for checking both their own filings and opposing citations.
Written with these in mind
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This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.