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Terms of Service

Effective date: April 19, 2026 Last updated: April 19, 2026

This Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy are provided in plain language for clarity. They are legally binding documents. If you do not agree, please do not use LawEngine.

A plain-English note before the legal part

Here is what this document is and why it exists.

What it says. These terms set the ground rules for using LawEngine — what we provide, what you agree to, and what happens if something goes wrong. Privacy — what we collect, why, and how long we keep it — lives in our separate Privacy Policy.

Why it exists. A company that handles research on legal documents has to be clear about the limits of what it guarantees. Courts require filings to be accurate, lawyers owe duties to their clients, and the stakes are real. So we have written down what LawEngine does, what it does not, and how we work with you if something falls short.

The spirit we wrote it in. We try hard to be right. Our verification engine is deterministic — no AI in the verification path, every match backed by a primary source we can show you. But we are also actively building, the corpora are growing, and no legal research tool on the market can promise to catch everything. If something looks wrong to you, we want to hear it. Transparency is part of why this company exists, and we tried to reflect that here — shorter than most terms-of-service pages, organized so you can skim, and without clever fine print.

Reach out. If a term below surprises you, or a result in the product does, email us at stephen@lawengine.ai. Real humans read every message.

If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use LawEngine. Using the service means you accept them.

1. Who we are

LawEngine (the "Service") is operated by I'm No Lawyer LLC, an Illinois limited liability company based in Chicago, Illinois ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"). The Service is accessible at lawengine.ai and through related subdomains, APIs, and applications we make available from time to time.

You can reach us at stephen@lawengine.ai.

2. What LawEngine does

LawEngine is a legal research tool that verifies legal citations — cases, statutes, regulations, and rules — against primary-source legal corpora. Some features of the Service use AI techniques for parsing and extraction, but verification results come from deterministic matching against primary-source corpora, not from an LLM generating answers. We describe the architecture publicly so you can assess it.

3. Not legal advice; no attorney-client relationship

LawEngine is a research tool. It is not a law firm. It does not provide legal advice, and using it does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Nothing produced by the Service — including verification results, match confidence signals, retrieved provisions, citation graphs, or any commentary — constitutes legal advice, a legal opinion, or professional counsel of any kind. The Service cannot replace the judgment of a licensed attorney, and using it does not satisfy any professional duty you may have to your client, your court, or any tribunal.

If you need legal advice for a specific matter, consult a licensed attorney in the relevant jurisdiction.

4. Your responsibility as a user

You are solely responsible for verifying every citation before filing, publishing, or relying on it professionally. A result from LawEngine is a starting point for your own work, not a substitute for it.

You are responsible for:

  • Confirming that every authority you rely on is accurate, current, and on point.
  • Reading the underlying primary source yourself before using it in any filing, brief, article, or client communication.
  • Meeting your own professional obligations, including duties of competence, candor to the tribunal, confidentiality, and supervision of any technology used in your practice.
  • Any consequences that follow from filings or decisions you make using information obtained from the Service.

5. Coverage is limited and growing

LawEngine is in active development. Our corpora expand over time as we ingest and structure new jurisdictions, publications, and source materials. Absence of a verification is not a legal conclusion. A result of "not found," "no match," or similar language means only that the Service did not locate the authority or text in the corpora currently available to it. It is not a statement that the authority does not exist, is invalid, has been overruled, or is unsupported in law.

Coverage, features, and methodology may change without notice as the Service improves.

6. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 18 years old to use LawEngine. By creating an account or using the Service, you represent that you are at least 18 and, if you are using the Service in connection with your profession, that you are authorized to accept these terms on behalf of your firm, employer, or other principal.

Accounts are created through Clerk, our authentication provider. You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for all activity under your account. Tell us promptly at stephen@lawengine.ai if you suspect unauthorized access.

7. Early access and beta

LawEngine is currently offered as an early-access service. During early access:

  • The Service is provided free of charge, but we do not guarantee continued free access.
  • Features, performance, pricing, rate limits, and corpus coverage may change at any time.
  • We may add, remove, modify, or discontinue any part of the Service with or without notice.
  • The Service may be subject to downtime, errors, or incomplete functionality.

When we introduce paid plans, your continued use of any paid features will be governed by the pricing and plan terms in effect at that time.

8. Acceptable use

You agree to use LawEngine lawfully and in the manner it is intended. Without limiting that, you will not:

  1. Scrape, crawl, mirror, or systematically extract content, corpora, or verification outputs from the Service, whether by automated means or otherwise.
  2. Abuse our APIs or rate limits, including by using multiple accounts, proxies, or automated tools to circumvent usage controls.
  3. Resell, sublicense, or redistribute verification results or any other output of the Service, or make them available to third parties as a competing or substitute service.
  4. Use the Service to harass, defame, threaten, or harm any person, or to generate content intended to do so.
  5. Generate court filings, briefs, memoranda, or other work product from the Service without independent attorney review. The Service is a research aid; it is not a document-generation service.
  6. Upload or submit confidential client information, privileged material, or personal data of third parties that you are not authorized to disclose. Attorneys have independent duties of confidentiality and conflict-checking, and those duties do not transfer to us.
  7. Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code of the Service, except to the limited extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law.
  8. Interfere with the security or integrity of the Service, including by probing, scanning, or testing vulnerabilities without our written permission; by introducing malware; or by attempting to gain unauthorized access to any account, system, or network.
  9. Use the Service to train, fine-tune, or benchmark any machine-learning model without our express written consent. This includes using the Service as a data source for model distillation or evaluation.
  10. Misrepresent the Service's outputs as human-authored legal advice, or present them to any court, client, or third party in a way that conceals the role of the Service.

We may investigate suspected violations and take any action we think is appropriate, including termination.

9. Your content and inputs

You retain ownership of the text, queries, documents, and other material you submit to the Service ("User Content"). You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to host, process, reproduce, and analyze your User Content as necessary to (a) provide the Service to you and (b) improve the Service, including by evaluating accuracy, debugging, and developing new features.

We will not sell your User Content. We will not share it with third parties except as described in our Privacy Policy (for example, with our infrastructure vendors acting on our behalf) or as required by law.

Do not submit User Content you are not authorized to share. If your User Content contains confidential, privileged, or personal information belonging to a third party, you represent that you have the right to submit it for the purposes described above.

10. Our intellectual property

The Service — including the site, interface, code, trademarks, corpora we have structured, verification algorithms, evaluation methodology, documentation, and any other content we produce — is the property of I'm No Lawyer LLC or our licensors and is protected by United States and international intellectual-property laws. We reserve all rights not expressly granted in these terms.

Primary-source legal materials (statutes, regulations, judicial opinions, and the like) are in the public domain or published by their respective governmental sources. Our rights cover the way we select, organize, normalize, structure, index, and present those materials, along with the software that does so.

11. Third-party services

The Service relies on third-party providers, including:

  • Clerk — authentication and account management.
  • Supabase — account and product database hosting.
  • Vercel — application hosting and web analytics.
  • Plausible — privacy-friendly product analytics.

When you use the Service, your use is also governed by the terms and privacy practices of these providers, which we link to in our Privacy Policy. We choose vendors carefully, but we are not responsible for their independent acts or omissions.

12. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranty of any kind, express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, including without limitation warranties of accuracy, completeness, currency, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and uninterrupted or error-free operation.

Without limiting that disclaimer:

  • We do not warrant that any verification result is correct, complete, or current.
  • We do not warrant that the Service will be available at any particular time, that it will meet your requirements, or that defects will be corrected.
  • We do not warrant that the Service's coverage is sufficient for any particular legal matter, practice area, jurisdiction, or professional obligation.

No oral or written information you receive from us creates a warranty we have not given in writing.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service — whether in contract, tort, warranty, statute, or any other legal theory — is capped at the greater of (a) one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100) or (b) the total amount you paid us in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

We will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or business interruption, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation of certain damages, and this section applies to you only to the extent the law permits.

14. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless I'm No Lawyer LLC and its members, officers, employees, contractors, and affiliates from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to (a) your use of the Service, (b) your reliance on any output of the Service, (c) your violation of these terms, (d) your violation of any law or the rights of any third party, or (e) any content you submit to the Service.

We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you agree to cooperate with our defense.

15. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. You can delete your account through the account interface or by emailing stephen@lawengine.ai.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including suspected violation of these terms, abuse, scraping, security concerns, or extended inactivity. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive — including sections 3 (Not Legal Advice), 4 (User Responsibility), 9 (Your Content), 10 (Our IP), 12 (Disclaimers), 13 (Limitation of Liability), 14 (Indemnification), 17 (Governing Law and Venue), and this section.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. For material changes, we will provide at least thirty (30) days' advance notice by email to the address associated with your account and, where practical, through the Service itself.

Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of an update means you accept the updated terms. If you do not agree to an update, stop using the Service before the effective date.

17. Governing law, venue, and waivers

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or relating to the Service or these terms will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Cook County, Illinois, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

Jury-trial waiver. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each party waives any right to a jury trial in any proceeding arising out of or relating to the Service or these terms.

Class-action waiver. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each party waives any right to participate in a class, collective, or representative action against the other. Disputes must be brought individually.

18. Miscellaneous

Entire agreement. These terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any written agreement we sign with you, are the entire agreement between us on this subject and supersede any prior or contemporaneous agreements.

Severability. If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force, and the unenforceable provision will be modified only to the minimum extent necessary.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

Assignment. You may not assign these terms or your account without our prior written consent. We may assign these terms to an affiliate or in connection with a corporate transaction.

No third-party beneficiaries. These terms do not create rights in anyone other than you and us.

Headings. Headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.

Contact

Questions, notices, legal process, and anything else should be sent to:

I'm No Lawyer LLC Attn: LawEngine Legal Notices Chicago, Illinois stephen@lawengine.ai

We read what you send us.

Also see Privacy Policy.