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Family Law
The LawSensai Family Law Center is the authenticated workspace for divorce, custody, and child support matters. It creates a matter, triages it, stores the documents in a vault, builds an attorney-ready packet, and routes to an attorney when the user is ready.
Criminal Defense
Expungement and record-sealing are state by state remedies that erase or restrict access to criminal records. This post covers eligibility, the petition, waiting periods, automatic clearance, and what relief actually does for background checks.
Family Law
Restraining orders and protective orders run through state civil and criminal courts on similar but distinct tracks. This post covers eligibility, the emergency order, the full hearing, the firearm restriction, and what enforcement looks like.
Estate Planning
A valid will requires a few specific elements that every state recognizes. This post covers capacity, intent, signature, witnesses, self-proving affidavits, and the choices that determine whether a will controls or whether state intestacy law does.
Personal Injury
The Personal Injury Recovery Center is the LawSensai workspace for people recovering from an accident. It runs intake, organizes evidence, drafts the insurance communication, drafts the demand, and routes to a real injury attorney through Stripe Connect.
Landlord-Tenant
Every state regulates how landlords must handle security deposits, with deadlines, itemization rules, and damages for violation. This post covers the demand letter, the deadline framework, what landlords can deduct, and the small claims path.
Personal Injury
The choices made in the first hours and the first thirty days after a car accident shape the medical record, the insurance claim, and any later personal injury case. This post covers scene steps, documentation, insurance notice, and the deadlines that matter most.
Consumer Law
LawSensai's AI Legal Q&A is a plain-English answer engine that takes a typed question, reads the situation it describes, and returns a structured answer with sources and safety flags. This post explains how the engine reads your input and what it will and will not do.
Small Claims
EasySuit's defense triage is a short structured intake that figures out which of the six EasySuit claim types fits your situation and routes you accordingly. This post walks through what the triage asks, what it outputs, and where it hands off.
Criminal Defense
A speeding ticket is a traffic court matter governed by state and local law, but the procedure is similar everywhere. This post covers the response deadline, plea options, evidence the officer must produce, and the defenses that actually work.
Family Law
Divorce filing is a state court process with shared rhythms across all fifty states. This post walks through grounds, residency, the petition, financial disclosure, and the typical timeline so you can plan the first move.
Criminal Defense
The Criminal Defense Command Center is the LawSensai surface for people facing a criminal charge or supporting a loved one through one. It brings triage, bail, plain-English case intelligence, court-date tracking, and attorney match into one authenticated workspace.
Personal Injury
The statute of limitations for personal injury claims ranges from one year to six years and follows different rules for different defendants. This post explains the deadlines, the discovery rule, government notice rules, and how to confirm your state's window.
Criminal Defense
Arizona DUI charges are governed primarily by Arizona Revised Statutes 28-1381 (impaired-to-the-slightest-degree) and 28-1382 (extreme and super extreme DUI). The Motor Vehicle Division administrative process runs in parallel under A.R.S. 28-1385 with a 15-day window to request a hearing.
Criminal Defense
The District of Columbia's pretrial release system under D.C. Code 23-1321 presumptively releases most defendants without cash bail. Detention is available only where the statute supports it based on safety or flight conditions. The Pretrial Services Agency administers the assessment.
Criminal Defense
Louisiana DWI charges are governed by La. R.S. 14:98 and the related provisions of Title 14. A separate administrative driver's license suspension process runs through the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles with a 30-day window to request a hearing.
Criminal Defense
Missouri DWI charges are governed by RSMo 577.010 (driving while intoxicated) and the related provisions of Chapter 577. A separate administrative driver's license suspension process runs through the Missouri Department of Revenue with a 15-day window to request a hearing.
Criminal Defense
Nevada DUI charges are governed primarily by Chapter 484C of the Nevada Revised Statutes. A separate administrative driver's license process runs through the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles with a 7-day window to request a hearing.
Criminal Defense
New Jersey eliminated cash bail for most defendants through the 2017 Criminal Justice Reform Act and assesses pretrial release via the Public Safety Assessment risk score administered by the New Jersey Judiciary. Cash bail still applies in narrow circumstances.
Criminal Defense
Indiana expungement and sealing is governed by the Second Chance Act, codified at IC 35-38-9-1 through 35-38-9-11. The statute provides a petition-based pathway with distinct procedures for arrest records, misdemeanors, and felonies based on offense level and waiting period.
Criminal Defense
Oregon set-aside of criminal convictions is governed by ORS 137.225, with arrest-record relief under ORS 137.223. Senate Bill 397 (effective January 2022) expanded eligibility and reduced waiting periods, establishing a petition-based pathway that, when granted, sets aside the conviction.
Criminal Defense
Virginia record relief is governed by Code of Virginia 19.2-392.2 (expungement of non-conviction records) and 19.2-392.6 through 19.2-392.16 (sealing). The 2021 reform enacted both automatic and petition-based pathways with rolling implementation by the Virginia State Police. This post breaks down what the statute provides, who carries the rollout, and the common misreads that send petitioners off track.
Criminal Defense
Washington record vacation and sealing is governed by RCW 9.94A.640 (felonies), 9.95.240 (misdemeanors and gross misdemeanors), and 9.96.060 (resentencing-related vacation). The statutes provide petition-based pathways that, when granted, vacate the conviction so it may be treated as not having occurred.
Family Law
Live mediation is the standard format for resolving custody and support disputes, but it does not fit every family. The Family Law Center supports async mediation through HMAC-signed magic links, calculator-anchored proposals, and impasse detection, with safety-mode protections for survivors. Here is how the format works.