About LexCases

The research tool we wished existed.

You write the argument. LexCases finds the cases that back it up, ranked by relevance and reasoned against your brief.

The habits that only feel like studying.

Rereading a chapter feels like work. Highlighting feels like work. Writing the whole case out again by hand, facts and ratio and all, feels like the most work of any of it. None of it is what makes something stick, and every student finds that out in May.

LexCases is built on what actually does.

The method is not a setting you switch on. It is how the whole thing is wired: when a case comes back to you, which module it arrives beside, how much room your own exam date leaves, and what a mock gives you back when you finish it. You do not manage any of it. You tell it what you are studying and when you sit, and the schedule does the rest.

Four things it does, and why each one is uncomfortable on purpose.

You meet a case again just as you are about to lose it.

A case you build today comes back at one day, three days, a week, three weeks, then five. The gaps widen because that is when recall is hardest and therefore worth most. Nothing is reread on the day you already know it.

Two subjects at once, on purpose.

In the last fortnight before a deadline your schedule starts interleaving a second module into the first. It feels harder than blocking one subject at a time. That is the point, and it is why it holds.

Your exam date spaces the plan. It never becomes a cram frame.

The date tells the schedule how much room it has. It is never used to pile everything into the week before, which is the one thing every student does and every student regrets.

The advisor shows you the approach, never the answer.

Sit a mock and you get back an approach map: the issues you spotted, the ones you missed, the cases you used and where they belonged. No mark out of a hundred, no model answer to copy. You still have to do the thinking, because doing the thinking is the part that works.

Build a study plan that keeps up with your term.

Map your modules, and LexCases spaces out the case work across the semester so the material lands before it needs to.

Build your plan

Four guarantees.

The lines we will not cross, in plain English.

We do not invent cases.

If LexCases is not confident a case is real, it omits it. A short list of real cases beats a long list of invented ones.

1. If LexCases is not confident a case is real, it omits it. A short list of real cases beats a long list of invented ones. 2. Westlaw, vLex and Lexis links are stripped before anything reaches you, and so is any link that lands on a search-results page. LexCases does not open the link itself, so treat it as a lead to the original record and check it before you rely on it. 3. Your queries and saved searches are tied to your account and are not used to train generalised AI models. 4. LexCases is a research aid. Describe the legal question in abstract terms. Avoid pasting client names or identifying material into prompts.

If LexCases is not confident a case is real, it omits it. A short list of real cases beats a long list of invented ones.

You've probably already met all three of them.

• Luthor

  The one who bought the suit in first year

  Luthor had the suit before he had the reading list. He can give you the citation, the year, the court, all of it, no hesitation. Ask him what the two of them were actually fighting about and he will change the subject. Not really his fault. Nobody ever told him that part.

• Amelia

  The one everybody asks for notes

  Amelia is the one you message at midnight for notes. She is doing fine, genuinely, and she still cannot take a night off in case it turns out she was only ever lucky. She learned all of it because nobody ever showed her why any of it happened.

• Harry

  The one who comes for the room, not the reading

  Harry turns up to the nine in the morning because his mates are there. He will tell you the reading gave him nothing to hold onto, which is fair enough. Tell him what actually happened between two people though and he will still have it a month later.

Built in the open, with you.

LexCases is one law student writing the code, so every piece of feedback reaches the person who can act on it. You say what is missing, it gets built, it ships that week. The tool keeps getting sharper, week after week. The cases never move: each one is real and verified, and stays that way.

See what's shipped so far.

How to study law cases.

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From students like you.

Genuinely the first thing that made tort click for me. I stopped rereading the same chapter and actually understood how the duty of care line moved 🙂

Second year law student, Trinity College Dublin

I use it before every tutorial now. It gives me the cases AND the reasoning.

BBL student, University College Dublin

Found the exact duty of care case I needed in under a minute, great analysis aswell. 👍

LLB student, University of Edinburgh

Used it the week before my contract exam and finally saw how the consideration cases fit together instead of memorising them.

Final year LLB student, University of Manchester

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• The doctrine timeline behind every topic you study, not one a week.
• Full judicial reasoning on every case card: ratio, obiter, dissent.
• Full reasoning on every search: each case reasoned in full and argued both ways, with room for up to 10 cases.
• Mock exams whenever you want one, with every case expanded in full.

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