The case memo
The memo is written once the analysis has run, and it is the section most attorneys open first. It is prose, prepared as of a date, assembled from what the earlier stages found.
What it contains
Executive summary · Background
Claims — each with its elements, the supporting facts on the file and the opposing facts against it.
Damages — a narrative, plus a damages model broken down by category with low, mid and high figures and a total, and a settlement target range.
Defenses to expect — each with a danger level, a likelihood, and a rebuttal.
Top risks — each with a severity.
Strategy · Conclusion
Legal research
Two sections sit behind the memo.
Legal research — authority for the questions the checklist raised, each carrying a confidence.
Analogous precedents — decisions that resemble this matter, and, where the analysis can say so, what distinguishes them.
Each authority is marked by where it came from:
- Grounded — from the shared legal-authority corpus the install carries.
- Live search — retrieved from CourtListener at run time.
Reading it
Everything in the memo resolves back to the evidence list, so a supporting fact carries the document and page it came from. Where the analysis is unsure it says so with a confidence of low, medium or high rather than omitting the point.
The memo is a draft for an attorney, not a filing, and like everything else the engine writes it can be approved, rejected or marked incorrect.