The Problem
AI-generated briefs hallucinate citations. Junior associates copy citations from a 3-year-old memo without checking if the statute was amended. A bad cite in a brief is a credibility hit; a hallucinated cite is sanctions territory (see Mata v. Avianca). Manual cite-checking is the most expensive part of brief preparation per actual value delivered.
The Solution
Lawra Citation Validator scans every citation in a document — statutes, cases, regulations, treatises, secondary sources — and verifies each one exists, says what is claimed, and has not been superseded. Flags hallucinations explicitly. Returns a pin-cite-by-pin-cite confidence report.
Key Features
Multi-jurisdictional cite scanning — US (Bluebook), UK (OSCOLA), DR (jurisprudence + códigos), LatAm civil-law, EU directives + ECJ.
Hallucination detection — flags cites that do not match any real authority with high confidence, with the specific anomaly identified.
Currency check — flags statutes that have been amended, cases that have been overruled, regulations that have been replaced.
Pin-cite verification — does the cited paragraph / page / section actually say what the brief claims?
Use Cases
Senior associate cite-checking a partner brief Thursday night — finds the 1 hallucination + 2 superseded statutes before Friday morning.
Solo practitioner double-checking their own AI-assisted brief — catches the cite that would have been the Mata-v-Avianca moment.
In-house counsel reviewing outside-counsel work product — flags the cites worth investigating before approving the bill.
Best For
Litigators, appellate counsel, senior associates, in-house counsel reviewing outside-counsel work product.
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