Align Research aims to eliminate case-law hallucinations

Align, a litigation technology company built by a trial lawyer, is offering the general availability of Align Research, an AI case retrieval tool that eliminates research hours clients increasingly refuse to pay for and replaces them with a per-task cost that can be defensibly billed back to any matter. Align Research is available now and free to start.

While AI tools hold the promise to help firms shift leverage models and capture key cost-efficiencies, the prevalence of hallucinations have become a reputational risk that no time savings is worth, the company said.

Align Research retrieves rather than generates. It returns real court opinions with the relevant passages marked and writes nothing of its own which eliminates the opportunity for hallucination.

"Align Research drives a new era of modern, accessible AI-powered workflows for litigation teams.  Align Research works like a good junior-level associate. Lawyers can give it a research question and then go do other client work while it starts finding and reading cases,” said Sam Davidoff, CEO of Align Research. “The final set of relevant cases arrive a few hours later with the key passages marked, every one of them real. It can’t hallucinate, because it isn’t telling you anything. It’s just showing the relevant cases. And it leaves the legal analysis and judgment where it should be—with the attorney."

What sets Align Research apart:

• Simple and versatile. Ask in plain language and get the on-point cases back for any research task, from starting a memo cold to checking a finished brief for a missed case to pulling a few citations for a demand letter. No training, no implementation.
• Just the cases, nothing made up. It retrieves real, existing court opinions and writes nothing of its own so nothing can be fabricated or misquoted. Only the on-point case law, with citations you can independently verify.
• Priced per task, billable to the matter. A clear, defined cost of $100 per research job, billed straight back to the matter as a line item: no seat minimums, no annual database to rent.
• Measurable ROI. For general counsel and legal operations, a known per-task price makes research spend easy to see, control, and benchmark across matters—a return both firms and clients can understand.
• Runs in the background. A research job runs for a few hours rather than returning an instant answer, then emails the results. Lawyers submit a question and return to other work.
• Free to start, no expiration. Three research jobs per month, free and permanent: no subscription, no seat minimum, no enterprise contract.

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