Creating a Legalise Account: Signup, Verification, and Your First Jurisdiction

Creating an account is the one step every other feature on the platform sits behind, and it takes a few minutes: a signup form, an email check, and one question about where you practise. This walks through what actually happens at each step.

Signing up

From the Sign Up tab on the login page, there are two routes in. Signing up with Google creates the account in one click and is treated as already verified, because the email has already been confirmed by Google. Signing up with email and a password takes your details directly, and the Create Account button submits them along with your acceptance of the terms, privacy policy and disclaimer, which the signup form requires before it will let you submit at all.

An account created with an @legalise.pk address is also treated as pre-verified, for the same reason a Google account is: the email is already provably yours.

Verifying an email signup

An email and password signup does not receive anything automatically the moment the account is created. No code is sent to you unasked. Verification runs the other way: you request it. A "Verify your email" step offers to send a code, and pressing Send Code delivers a four-digit code to your inbox. Enter it to confirm the address, or press Resend Code if it does not arrive. There is a daily limit on how many codes can be requested for one address, so if you are testing an address that keeps failing to arrive, it is worth checking the inbox carefully before requesting another.

The welcome email, and full access to the account, follows the successful verification rather than the initial signup. Until then, the account exists but is not confirmed.

Choosing your jurisdiction

The first time a genuinely new account, one that has not yet drafted anything and has not yet set a jurisdiction, opens the homepage, a single question appears: "Where do you practise?" It is not a multi-step wizard. Five boxes are shown, one for the Islamabad Capital Territory and one for each province, and picking one sets your jurisdiction immediately and closes the question. The modal explains what this actually controls: the court headers, the clause language and the governing law the platform drafts with by default, changeable at any time from the switcher on the homepage and on the drafting, compiler and reviewer pages.

If you close the popup without picking one, either with the close button or by clicking outside it, your jurisdiction is set to the Islamabad Capital Territory rather than left unset. This is a deliberate default, not an accident: every document the platform can produce has to be built for some jurisdiction, and Islamabad is the one every part of the platform was originally built around.

What you have at this point

A verified account starts on the Complimentary tier: ten instruments, no time limit, and no card required to get them, covered in The Complimentary Account: What Ten Instruments Actually Gets You. Full research access, the case law database, the statute library and the reference tools, is available from the moment the account is verified, independent of whether you ever pay for anything at all. The jurisdiction you chose follows the account rather than the browser, so it is the same when you sign in from a different device.