Legalise: Legal AI Built for Pakistani Advocates
Most AI writing tools were built for everyone, and Pakistani law is not everyone's law. A general tool does not know that a rent matter in Lahore and one in Islamabad go to different forums under different statutes, or that a citation it produces from memory may point to a judgment that was never reported. Legalise was built the other way round: starting from Pakistani courts, Pakistani statutes and the way advocates here actually work, and adding AI where it saves time without taking the judgment out of the advocate's hands.
This entry sets out what Legalise does and the principles behind it.
Drafting to the correct court and law
Legalise drafts 39 kinds of document across civil, criminal, family, commercial and writ practice. Before anything is drafted, you choose where you practise: the Islamabad Capital Territory, Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Balochistan. That choice is not a label. It decides the court header, the forum and the governing law written into the document.
The parts of a document that must not vary, such as the cause title, the court, the statutory basis and the signature block, are built from fixed structures rather than left to the model. The AI writes the parts that depend on your facts. The result opens in an editor, where you read it, change any clause, and take it away as a Word file or a PDF.
Research that names its authorities
Research Lab takes a legal issue in plain language. It searches the judgments and statutes and returns one report: the position, the authorities it relied on, and what remains open. Every authority in the report can be opened and read in full on the same page, so checking the work does not mean starting the search again. Reports file themselves to your Desk.
A national case law database
The case law database holds 45,000+ written judgments from eight courts, with the Supreme Court of Pakistan at its head, spanning the Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Sindh and Balochistan High Courts and the Federal Shariat and Federal Constitutional Courts. You can browse by court, area of law and case type, search by keyword, and open the original judgment.
A statute library across the country
The statutes library holds 3,800+ statutes across federal law, the federal capital and four provinces. You can filter by jurisdiction, search inside the full text of the statutes, and download a statute as a PDF. Where a statute has been repealed, the record says so and quotes the repealing words.
Turning a client's material into a briefing
The Case Compiler reads mixed case material, whether screenshots, pictures, PDFs, Word files or voice notes, uploaded together, and turns it into one structured case briefing: the matter, its timeline and a summary of the case. Where a file could not be used, the briefing says which one and why, rather than leaving it out silently.
A second reading before you file
The Matter Reviewer reads a draft, notice, petition or agreement for clause gaps, pleading and procedural defects and drafting weaknesses, against the statutes of your jurisdiction, and orders its findings by significance. A second mode reads documents received from opposing counsel against them.
The Desk
Everything the tools produce is filed on the Desk, alongside your own case folders, notes, reminders and uploaded files. A folder or document can be shared with a colleague through a read-only link.
What it will not do
Legalise does not fill gaps with plausible guesses. Where a figure, a section number or a fact has not been established, it leaves it out and tells you, rather than printing something that reads correctly and is wrong. The reasoning is set out in What Legalise Will Not Guess. For a general account of what legal AI can and cannot do, independent of any product, see Legal AI in Pakistan.
Getting started
A Complimentary account needs no payment. It opens the drafting tools, Research Lab, the full case law database and the statute library, so you can judge the output on your own matters before deciding anything else.