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Features

Every module, in the depth a GC actually cares about.

Not a bullet list of buzzwords. What’s inside each module, why it’s there, and what it replaces on your team.

The corporate spine

Entities & cap table

Legal entities are the anchor object for the whole system. A contract belongs to an entity. A filing is scheduled for an entity. A litigation matter names an entity. Get this table right, and every module gets the correct organizational context for free.

What’s in the box

  • Every legal entity across every jurisdiction, in one register
  • Directors, KYC, registered office, tax IDs — versioned
  • Shareholders and share issuances, with a running cap table
  • Referenced by every contract, filing, and matter downstream

Master paper, versioned

Contracts

Contracts are the highest-volume artefact in a corporate legal team. LawDep treats them as first-class objects — not blobs in a shared drive. Every clause traces back to a template or a playbook entry, and every AI-touched draft carries a visible disclaimer.

What’s in the box

  • MSAs, SOWs, subscription agreements, side letters — one object model
  • Draft from playbook templates, populate from entity + party data
  • Redline against your standard clauses, flag material deviations
  • Track renewals, terminations, and material amendments
  • Every draft that touches an LLM is labeled and cited

Trademarks, patents, copyrights

IP portfolio

IP is where the sloppiness of the shared-drive era costs the most. A missed trademark renewal can undo years of brand equity. LawDep ties IP assets to a real calendar and a real custodian, and surfaces upcoming actions on the same dashboard as your contracts.

What’s in the box

  • Track marks, applications, registrations and renewals
  • Jurisdiction, class, examiner name, docket number
  • Renewal calendar surfaces filings 90+ days in advance
  • Link IP assets to entities and contracts

Matters as first-class objects

Litigation

Each matter is a real record. When a case starts, you can issue a hold in one click; when it closes, the hold is released with a full audit trail. Everything the copilot pulls into a summary is grounded in the matter record — no invention.

What’s in the box

  • Case files with parties, court, docket, and case status
  • Filings, orders, and discovery documents, all attached
  • Deadlines linked to the compliance calendar
  • Legal holds triggered from the matter, not from an email

Recurring obligations, on schedule

Regulatory filings

Regulatory work is deceptively boring — until you miss a filing. LawDep makes the cadence explicit and the ownership unambiguous. Every recurring filing is a scheduled obligation with a custodian, a deadline, and evidence of completion.

What’s in the box

  • GST, ROC, ESI, PF and any custom filing cadence
  • Last-filed status, next-due date, custodian
  • Reminders escalate as the deadline approaches
  • Attach the acknowledgement receipt for the audit trail

Preservation with an audit trail

Legal holds

Legal holds are the classic "I hope we did this right" workflow. LawDep turns them into a system: a hold is an object with a scope, custodians, timestamps, and an acknowledgement log — the kind of record that survives an opposing counsel's motion to compel.

What’s in the box

  • Issue, track and release preservation obligations
  • Custodians receive the notice and acknowledge it
  • Every action is logged — issuer, timestamp, scope, custodian
  • Automatic release when the underlying matter closes

MSA hub

Vendors & procurement

Every SaaS vendor sends their own paper. LawDep gives procurement and legal a shared record of what was actually signed, what was negotiated away, and what the standing risk position is per vendor.

What’s in the box

  • One MSA record per vendor, referenced by all downstream SOWs
  • Playbook-aware review of new vendor paper
  • Renewal calendar, DPA / SCC status, and risk tier

Offer letters and contractor agreements

Employment

Employment paper is high-volume and legally sensitive. Templates enforce your standard equity and IP assignment language, and the compliance module double-checks contractor classification before you send a signed PDF.

What’s in the box

  • Offer letters generated from a jurisdiction-aware template
  • Contractor agreements with IP assignment, confidentiality, IC status
  • Compliance checks for classification (US, EU, India)

Every PDF is queryable

Document intelligence

You already have twenty years of shared-drive paper. Upload it. LawDep makes it queryable in seconds — and the copilot cites the source document (and page) for every claim, so you can verify before you rely on it.

What’s in the box

  • Upload PDFs and DOCX — text is extracted and chunked
  • Chunks are embedded with text-embedding-3-small
  • pgvector serves cosine-similarity search under 100ms
  • The copilot cites document + page in every answer

Master paper, one place

Template library

Copy-paste is how contract quality decays. Templates in LawDep are single sources of truth: change the master, and next month's contracts pick it up. Variables are typed, so "forgot to fill in party B's address" is a compile error, not a mail-merge disaster.

What’s in the box

  • Jinja templates for every recurring document
  • Pydantic-validated variables — no missing party names
  • Version each template like source code
  • Everything the copilot drafts starts from a template

The anti-hallucination gate

Citation verification

The single biggest GenAI failure mode in legal is the invented citation. LawDep runs every LLM-generated review, memo and report through a citation-verification gate: it extracts each cited case, statute and regulation, checks it against real public legal databases, and returns a confidence verdict. You see exactly which claims are grounded and which could not be verified — before you rely on them.

What’s in the box

  • Every case, statute and regulation cite is extracted and checked
  • Verified against US Code, CourtListener, eCFR, and Indian law sources
  • Pass / review / fail verdict with the specific unverified cites listed
  • Never flags a real cite as fake — unverifiable is labelled, not accused

The universal query layer

AI chat copilotCopilot

The copilot is not a bolt-on. It's the same code path as your REST layer, wrapped in an agentic tool-use loop. Ask it to "draft an NDA" and it calls the same `create_contract` function your UI does. When it cites a case, a statute, or a regulation, that citation is checked against real public legal databases before it reaches you — a hallucinated precedent gets flagged, not shipped.

What’s in the box

  • One chat over entities, contracts, IP, cases, filings, matters and documents
  • 88 tools bound directly to the same REST layer your app uses
  • Uses your OpenRouter or MiniMax key — you own the spend
  • Every citation is verified against US Code, CourtListener and eCFR
  • Every draft carries a visible AI disclaimer

The matter-centric workspace

Matters

A matter is the top-level grouping for a legal engagement. Contracts, holds, litigation cases and filings all hang off it. The 17-stage state machine prevents a matter from skipping from intake straight to execution without the negotiation and approval steps in between — and every stage change is logged for the audit trail.

What’s in the box

  • Open a matter, assign a lead attorney, set risk classification and privilege
  • 17-stage lifecycle: intake → conflict check → negotiation → execution → closeout
  • Strict transitions — no silent jumps that lose audit-traceability
  • Append-only stage-change log on every matter

Who it’s for

Four roles, one workspace.

General Counsel

Ship a legal system, not a legal department

Bring your entire operation onto one workspace with one URL and one login. Ownership, versioning, and audit trails become defaults instead of aspirations.

Legal Ops

Automate the calendar you keep in your head

Contracts, filings, holds and IP renewals all surface on one calendar. Stop being the person who remembers when the trademark is due.

Contract managers

Playbook-driven review, without the ceremony

Redlines are graded against your standard clauses. Material deviations flag automatically; boilerplate deviations don't waste your time.

Fintech & NBFC

Compliance cadence without the spreadsheet

Multiple legal entities, RBI filing deadlines, and a regulator that expects documentation on demand. One register, one filings calendar, one audit trail.

Founders (pre-GC)

Look like you have a legal team, before you do

Draft NDAs, contractor agreements and cap tables from templates. When you hire your first GC, they inherit an actual system instead of a folder graveyard.

Try it

Stop running a legal department out of a shared drive.

Click through a live demo workspace — no login, no credit card. Browse contracts, run an AI review, watch it flag an invented citation. When you’re ready, we’ll stand up a workspace for your team.

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LawDep is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. All AI-generated content is marked as such and should be reviewed by qualified counsel before use.