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Litigation
A deposition is sworn, out-of-court testimony you give during the discovery phase of a lawsuit. A court reporter records it, lawyers ask questions, and what you say can be used at trial. Here is how to prepare.
Criminal Defense
The Criminal Defense Command Center is one authenticated workspace with five modules: bail emergency triage, case intelligence reports, a record clearing screener, court date tracking, and attorney match. Here is how they fit together.
Consumer Law
EasySuit reads the complaint and summons, computes your Answer deadline, surfaces the defenses that apply in your state, and drafts an Answer you can review and file. Here is the whole flow, start to finish.
Criminal Defense
An arraignment is your first court appearance, often within 48 to 72 hours of arrest. The judge reads the charges, you enter a plea, and the court decides bail or release. Here is what to expect.
Business Law
Smart Legal Documents drafts your document with AI from a structured intake, routes it to a licensed attorney in the LawSensai network for review, and finishes with a signature in the dashboard. The draft does not leave until a human signs off.
Criminal Defense
A misdemeanor is a lesser crime, usually capped at one year in county jail; a felony carries more than a year in state prison plus lasting collateral consequences. Here is how the line is drawn and why it matters.
General
LawSensai AI Legal Q&A reads a typed question, identifies the practice area and jurisdiction, and returns a plain-English answer with real source citations, a safety flag, and a routing card to the right tool or attorney.
Personal Injury
Pain and suffering is the non-economic harm from an injury (physical pain, mental distress, lost enjoyment of life). It is usually estimated with a multiplier of the medical bills or a per-diem daily rate, and some states cap it.
Personal Injury
Negligence is the failure to use reasonable care that harms someone. To win, a plaintiff must prove four elements: duty, breach, causation, and damages. Comparative or contributory negligence rules then adjust or bar recovery.
Personal Injury
Most personal injury lawyers work on contingency, taking a percentage of the recovery (commonly about one third before suit, often more if the case is litigated) plus reimbursed case costs. Liens and bills come out next.
Personal Injury
The LawSensai PI Intake Agent runs a guided question and answer that captures your accident facts, builds an evidence checklist, and assembles a matter record that feeds the demand draft and attorney match. It is legal information, not legal advice.
Civil Rights
Class actions let many plaintiffs sue together when individual cases would not be practical. This guide explains how courts certify a class, when you have to opt in versus opt out, and what the lead plaintiff actually does.
General
The LawSensai Document Vault stores Family Law documents under signed-URL access scoped by RLS. The Criminal Defense Evidence Checklist intentionally does not store files. This post explains why the split exists and how to use each tool.
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a federal court process, not a credit counseling step. This guide explains the difference between Chapter 7 and Chapter 13, how the means test decides eligibility, and which debts survive even a successful discharge.
Consumer Law
Identity theft has a federal recovery framework most people never use. This guide walks through the IdentityTheft.gov report, when to file a police report, and how a credit freeze actually stops new accounts from opening.
General
The LawSensai Trust Center publishes the aggregate decision counts, safety findings, and runbook for every AI agent in the product. Read trust pages at /trust/brain, /trust/family, /trust/criminal-defense, /trust/personal-injury, and the index at /trust.
Personal Injury
The LawSensai PI Demand Draft Generator drafts the personal injury demand letter by combining the policy limit, a treatment summary, and the liability narrative. State-specific rules come from pi_state_rules. This post explains how the draft is built.
Family Law
The LawSensai Child Support Calculator runs the actual state model your court will use. Most states run Income Shares. A few run Percentage of Income, Melson, Obligor-Only, or Tax-Adjusted. This post explains the models and how to read the output.
Family Law
Protective orders move fast in domestic violence cases. This guide walks through the ex parte temporary order, what happens at the full hearing, and the specific protections a judge can write into the final order.
Family Law
Family Law mediation on LawSensai runs async with HMAC magic-link invites, calculator anchors that tether proposals to real math, and impasse detection that flags when the parties are stuck. This post explains how the async track works and where the calculators come in.
Family Law
The LawSensai Settlement Composer drafts the family law settlement agreement from the mediation output and the calculator anchors. Every draft runs through a guardrail scan before finalize. This post explains the drafting pipeline and the scan.
Family Law
An adult name change runs through a civil court petition, sometimes a publication step, and a long list of downstream record updates. Doing the steps in the right order saves weeks and prevents mismatched identification across federal and state agencies.
Landlord-Tenant
Adverse possession lets a long-term occupier claim title to land they never bought, but only after meeting strict elements over a statutory period. Owners who act early can remove squatters through the right civil process before any claim ripens.
Criminal Defense
The LawSensai Bail Emergency triage flow is built for the first 48 hours after an arrest. It collects the facts a defense attorney needs at the bail hearing, surfaces bondsman options, explains release conditions, and routes the matter to attorney match.