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How an AI legal assistant works from first upload to signed-off work

Jural follows the way a law firm already works. You open a matter or upload a document, Jural reads it and does the first pass, an attorney reviews and approves, and the finished work leaves as a DOCX, CSV or LEDES file. Nothing goes out of the firm under Jural's name, and nothing counts as final until a lawyer signs off.

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The work moves in four steps

Every module in Jural, from contract review to time entries, runs through the same four steps. Once your team learns them for one task, they know them for all of them.

  1. Open a matter or upload a document

    Start inside a matter so everything Jural produces stays with the client file, or drop a single PDF, DOCX or scanned document for a quick look. Scans go through OCR first, so a faxed lease or a photographed signature page reads like any other text. You can also paste text, forward intake answers, or describe the work you just did for a time entry.

  2. Jural reads the file and does the first pass

    Jural reads every page and works on the task you chose. It writes a summary with parties, dates and obligations, lists contract risks by severity against your playbook, fills a firm template with matter facts, builds a chronology with the source page for each event, pulls deadlines out of a scheduling order, or turns a day of notes into draft time entries. Each result points back to the document and page it came from.

  3. An attorney reviews and approves

    Every output is a draft for attorney review. The reviewing lawyer accepts, edits or rejects each item: a redline, a computed deadline, a conflict hit, a time entry. Jural records who approved what and when in the matter activity log, so supervision is visible and not assumed.

  4. Export the approved work

    Approved work leaves in the format your firm already uses. Redlines export as a tracked-changes DOCX, drafts as clean DOCX built on your own template, chronologies as DOCX or CSV, and time entries as CSV or LEDES 1998B for your billing system.

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What happens while Jural reads

Jural splits each document into pages and clauses, keeps the page numbers and any Bates numbers, and identifies defined terms before it answers anything, so a question about "Confidential Information" uses the contract's own definition. When you ask a question, Jural answers only from the documents in the matter, or, in research, only from the sources it actually searched in that run, and links each statement to the passage. When it finds nothing relevant, it says so instead of filling the gap.

  • Answers carry document name and page reference
  • Defined terms are read from the document itself
  • Research cites only sources searched in that run
  • Jural never invents a citation, a case or a quote

What Jural does not do

Jural supports lawyers and does not give legal advice. It does not file anything with a court, send anything to a client or opposing counsel, or approve its own work. Deadlines it computes from documents must be confirmed by an attorney, and Jural does not replace court rules calendaring review. Client documents are never used to train AI models.

Your first week with Jural

Most of the setup is your firm's own material. Jural works better the more of your standards it can read, and none of it requires a consultant.

  1. Templates on day one

    Upload the documents your firm sends again and again: engagement letters, NDAs, demand letters, notice letters, motion shells. Mark the fields that change per matter, such as client name, adverse party, venue and fee terms. From then on, legal document automation software in Jural fills them with matter facts.

  2. Your playbook on day two

    Write down or upload the positions your firm takes on the clauses that matter: limitation of liability caps, indemnity scope, governing law, non-solicitation length, auto-renewal notice. Jural uses that playbook as the yardstick in ai contract review software, so a deviation means a deviation from your standard and not a generic one.

  3. Intake forms on day three

    Pick or adjust intake forms per practice area, for example family, estate planning, personal injury or business formation. Every new intake runs a conflict search against clients, adverse parties and related names already in the firm's records.

  4. Team roles on day four

    Invite your colleagues and give each one a role: owner, attorney, paralegal or staff. On Firm and Enterprise plans, per-matter access walls keep a matter visible only to the people assigned to it. The activity log shows who opened, edited and approved each item.

  5. The first real matter on day five

    Open a live matter, upload the file, and let Jural produce the summary, chronology and deadlines. Compare its first pass with what your team would have done by hand, and adjust the playbook or templates where your practice differs.

Who does what in a typical matter

A paralegal opens the matter, runs intake and the conflict check, and uploads the documents. Jural reads them, drafts the summary and chronology, and proposes deadlines. The associate reviews the chronology, asks follow-up questions with page references, and drafts the first letter from the firm template. The supervising partner approves the redlines and the computed deadlines. At the end of the day, Jural turns everyone's notes into draft time entries that each person approves before export.

Available on every plan

All eleven modules run on Solo, Firm and Enterprise. Plans differ in monthly page, question, draft and research allowances per user, in shared firm playbooks and per-matter walls (Firm and Enterprise), and in SSO, custom roles and audit log export (Enterprise). Usage counts what you consume in the billing period. Yearly billing saves 50 percent and starts at $24 per user per month on Solo.

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Frequently asked questions

No, every output stays a draft in the matter until an attorney approves and exports it.

Most firms upload templates, a playbook and intake forms during the first week, and can start on a live matter on day one.

Yes, you can upload one PDF, DOCX or scan for a quick review and attach it to a matter later.

Jural reads PDF, DOCX and scanned documents through OCR, plus pasted text.

No, client documents are never used to train AI models.

See the four steps on your own contract

Upload a contract on the homepage, choose the side you represent, and watch Jural read it, summarize it and list the first risks.

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Your documents are never used to train AI models. Every result is a draft for attorney review.