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The controlling authority, verbatim. Never a hallucinated case.

For attorneys and paralegals. The statutes, regulations and case law the Codex holds — quoted exactly, cited to the reporter, and checked by a universal citator for whether they still stand. Ask a question of law, confirm a citation, or run a whole brief through it. The one thing it will never do is invent a case.

Grounded in the reporter. An unverified authority is declined, not guessed.

The experience

It works the way a careful associate does

A hallucinated citation is a sanction risk and a credibility risk. The Codex is built so that risk cannot occur: every authority it hands you is one it actually holds, quoted from the text, with its treatment history — and anything it cannot verify, it declines to assert.

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Pull the section

The controlling statute or rule, quoted verbatim and current — not a keyword hit, the operative text.

Case on point

On-point precedent with its citation, drawn from the case law the Codex holds — never a plausible-looking fabrication.

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Still good law?

The universal citator flags negative treatment, abrogation and supersession, so you know before you rely on it.

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Check the brief

Paste a draft; every citation and quotation is verified against the record at once, and the unverifiable is surfaced.

What comes back

Example outputs

You ask in the language of the memo and the motion. Every card below is the shape of a real answer — a verbatim quote with its citation and provenance, or an honest abstention. The abstention is not a failure; it is the guarantee.

You askWhat is the standard for summary judgment under Federal Rule 56?
“The court shall grant summary judgment if the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
📜 Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a) ✓ verbatim sha256 b207…4fd1 char-span Rule 56(a), verbatim

The operative sentence, quoted from the rule — with the citation you would put in the brief.

You askIs Chevron deference still good law?
Controlling authority: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369 (2024) — overrules Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. NRDC, 467 U.S. 837 (1984).
📜 Citator · negative treatment ✓ verbatim sha256 c88a…19e2 char-span treatment: overruled

The citator answers the question every cite depends on — is it still good law? — before you rely on it, drawn from the authority the Codex holds.

You askFind a Ninth Circuit case holding that emailed notice satisfies §1692g(a).

The record does not hold an on-point authority for this. The Codex will not manufacture a case name, citation or quotation to fit the proposition. No verifiable holding, no answer.

This is precisely the failure mode that has sanctioned lawyers elsewhere — a confident, well-formatted, entirely fictitious citation. The Codex abstains, so you never file one.

Once you're in

How to work Legal in the Codex

You will be invited, and you will sign in at maat.surgexi.com. Here is how to get the most out of it from the first minute.

Sign in to your legal workspace

Your invitation opens a legal account, scoped to legal authority only. You are not shown scripture or drug labels; the corpus you search is the corpus you practice in.

Lead with the authority, not keywords

Ask “what is the standard for X under [rule]” or paste a citation. The Codex resolves to the operative text and quotes it — you get the section, not a pile of search results.

Always run “still good law?”

Before you rely on a case, check the citator. It surfaces negative treatment, abrogation and supersession from the authority the Codex holds — the check that keeps a cite from aging into a mistake.

Run the whole brief through it

Paste a draft into Check a brief; every citation and quotation is verified against the record in one pass, and anything unverifiable is flagged for you to fix before filing.

Give it the fact pattern to advise

In Advise, lay out the facts. It applies only authority it can cite and abstains where the record is silent — a grounded starting analysis, never a confident guess.

Treat the abstention as a safeguard

When it declines to produce an authority, that is the product protecting you from a fabricated citation. Refine the question, or request that the source be ingested — never work around it.

In your hands

What you can do

Statute & rule lookup

The controlling text, verbatim and current.

Universal citator

Still-good-law, negative treatment, supersession.

Brief check

Every citation and quote in a draft, verified at once.

Advise on facts

Grounded analysis on cited authority; abstains where silent.

File on authority you can prove.

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