Legal Documents
Read, compare, and explain laws, amendments, and other formal texts in plain language.
Legal Documents is built for the moment when you're holding a formal text — a bill, an amendment, a regulation, a contract — and you need to understand it without spending a day on it.
What It's Good For
- "What does this actually do?" Translating dense legal language into a plain-language summary you can hand to a colleague or your minister.
- "How is this different from the previous version?" Comparing two drafts and highlighting the substantive changes (not just word-level edits).
- "What's the implication?" Going one step further than the text — what changes in practice if this becomes law?
- "Pull out the key obligations." Finding the parts where someone has to do, stop doing, or report something.
A Typical Flow
Scenario: you've just received an updated amendment and you need to brief your team in the next hour.
- Open Legal Documents from Tools.
- Paste or upload the text. If you're comparing versions, paste both.
- Be specific about the goal. "Tell me what changed between these two versions and which changes have real-world impact" is much better than "what's this about".
- Read the summary and use it as your starting point.
- Drill in. If a specific section matters, paste just that section back in and ask for more detail.
Why This Is A Separate Tool
Legal texts reward precision and punish guessing. Argumentation Tools won't try to "make the prose flow better" — they'll stick to what the text actually says. That's important when the stakes are real.
Important Caveat
This Tool is a first read, not a legal opinion. It can save you hours of skimming, but anything that has actual legal or financial consequences should be reviewed by a person with the appropriate authority. Treat the summary as a head start, not a final answer.
Tip: Keep Each Question Bounded
If you ask "explain this entire 80-page act in detail", you'll get an 80-page summary. Ask for the specific thing you need: "explain Article 12", "summarize what changes for employers", "list the new reporting requirements". You'll get sharper results and you can ask more focused follow-ups.