Step-by-step guides for every part of the platform — drafting, research, document review, legal reasoning, billing, and running a firm account.
25 guides across 9 categories
Create your account and get oriented in the chat interface.
Sign up and get into your first chat in under a minute.
Click Get Started or Sign In
You'll find either button on any page of lawpalai.com, including this one.
Choose how to sign up
Use your email and a password, or continue instantly with Google — no separate password to create.
Verify your email if prompted
Then you land on your dashboard, with Counsel (chat) and Chambers (practice management) both one click away.
Signed up with Google? Use that same provider's button to sign in later — there's no separate LawpalAI password to reset.
One interface handles drafting, research, review, and consultation.
Your task history lives in the sidebar
Every past conversation is saved and organized by when you last worked on it.
Start fresh with New Task
Click it any time to open a new conversation without losing your existing ones.
The composer does everything
Type an instruction, ask a question, or attach a document — the same box routes to drafting, research, review, or consultation based on what you ask.
Your account menu is top-right
It shows your plan, remaining credits, and quick links to settings and support.
Every AI response has a thumbs up / thumbs down control — using it helps shape how LawpalAI improves.
How usage is measured, and what happens when you're running low.
Everything runs on credits
Chat messages, drafts, research, document reviews, and consultations each draw from your monthly credit allocation — including requests made through the Word, Gmail, or Zoho add-ins.
Legal Explorer is free
It includes 200 credits a month and resets automatically each cycle — no card required to start.
Cost scales with the task
There's no fixed price per message — a quick question uses fewer credits than a long, complex draft or research query, since credits reflect the actual work behind each response.
Paid plans unlock more
Associate and Partner raise your monthly allocation for individual use; Firm extends that to a whole team, priced per seat, with each member getting their own allocation.
Unused credits partly carry over
Up to 25% of a cycle's allowance rolls into your next cycle as long as you stay on a paid plan — cancelling or lapsing to free forfeits it.
Buy more if you run out
On a paid plan, you can purchase a one-time top-up instead of waiting for renewal — priced a bit above your plan's included rate, and usable even if you later downgrade.
Track usage anytime
Head to Profile → Subscription & Billing to see exactly how many credits you have left and when they renew.
You'll see a low-credit warning on your subscription page before you actually run out — no surprises mid-task.
From a first instruction to a document you can actually file or sign.
Contracts, pleadings, deeds — corporate or contentious.
Describe what you need
In plain language: a tenancy agreement, a board resolution, a statement of claim — whatever the matter calls for.
Give the key details
Parties, dates, sums, and any specific terms you already know — the more specific, the less back-and-forth later.
Get a structured first draft
LawpalAI produces it in the right format, whether it's a corporate document or a litigation filing.
Ask for changes in chat
"Shorten clause 3" or "add an arbitration clause" — LawpalAI revises the draft in place.
Mention the governing law or jurisdiction up front if it matters — it shapes which statutes and formats apply.
Every revision is saved, not overwritten.
Ask for a revision
LawpalAI saves the version you had before making the change.
Open the version history
Compare drafts side by side, or roll back to an earlier version at any point.
Keep refining across sessions
Return to the same chat days later — your draft and its full history are still there.
Say what you remember. Get the Nigerian authority that proves it.
No exact case names or citations required.
Describe the principle you're after
You don't need the case name — a description of the issue is enough to start.
LawpalAI searches Nigerian authority
Its indexed library of case law, statutes, and rules of court is searched for what actually supports the point.
Read the synthesized answer
Along with the specific cases and provisions LawpalAI relied on, cited in full.
Vague recall is enough — "the case about burden of proof shifting in civil claims" is a perfectly good query.
Treat every answer as a starting point worth checking.
Cross-check the citation
Click through and verify the case or statute yourself before relying on it in anything formal.
Ask a follow-up
Explore a related principle, a counter-argument, or how the authority has been applied since.
Carry it into a draft
Reference a cited authority in your next instruction and LawpalAI will work it into the document.
Upload anything your practice produces. Get risks flagged in seconds.
Contracts, pleadings, and correspondence — PDF or Word.
Attach your file
Use the attach option in the chat composer — PDF and Word documents up to 20MB are supported.
Say what you want checked
A general risk scan, or something specific like "check the termination clause."
Get a structured summary
LawpalAI reads every clause and returns its findings within seconds.
Every clause gets a verdict — here's what each one means.
High Risk
Clauses that are unenforceable as drafted, or expose you to material loss.
Needs Review
Ambiguous or incomplete terms worth tightening before signing or filing.
Compliant
Clauses confirmed to hold up as drafted — no action required.
Ask why
Ask "why is this flagged" on any clause for a plain-language explanation.
Practical guidance on any legal question, any time of day.
Describe your situation — no formal framing required.
Describe your situation
Plain language is fine — you don't need to phrase it as a formal legal question.
Get a grounded answer
LawpalAI reasons through it with you, citing the statute and case law behind its answer.
Keep the conversation going
Ask follow-ups naturally — context from earlier in the thread carries forward.
Legal Reasoning isn't limited to one practice area — ask about a litigation deadline in one message and a shareholder dispute in the next.
Chat history, subscription, billing, and account settings.
Rename, resume, or delete past conversations.
Every chat is saved automatically
It appears in your sidebar, organized by when you last worked on it.
Resume anytime
Open a past conversation to continue exactly where you left off, drafts and research included.
Rename or delete
Use a chat's options menu — deleting removes its contents permanently, so export anything important first.
Upgrade, downgrade, or review past payments.
Open Subscription & Billing
From Profile → Subscription & Billing, see your current plan, credit usage, and renewal date at a glance.
Change plans anytime
Upgrade or switch plans directly from the same page — changes apply immediately.
Review billing history
Every past payment is listed under the Billing History tab, with receipts where available.
Cancelling takes effect immediately
There's no deferred end-of-period access — confirming cancellation moves you to the free Legal Explorer plan right away, so only cancel once you're sure.
Profile details, password, and notification preferences.
Update your profile
Change your name, email, or profile photo from Profile → Account Settings.
Manage security
Update your password from Profile → Security. New passwords need at least 8 characters with uppercase, lowercase, a number, and a special character.
Choose your notifications
Turn push notifications on or off, and pick which categories (ticket replies, feedback updates, announcements) you want to hear about, from Profile → Settings.
Create a firm account, bring your team on board, and manage seats.
Self-serve — no sales call, no approval to wait on.
Go to Settings
Any existing LawpalAI account can do this — find 'Create a Firm' in Settings.
Choose a name, seat count, and billing cycle
Pricing scales per seat, monthly or annual, shown live as you adjust the seat count.
Pay and you're the admin
Once payment goes through, your firm exists immediately and you're its admin — ready to invite your team.
You can leave a firm later and return to your personal workspace at any time from account settings.
Add colleagues under your firm's shared account.
Go to Team Management
From Settings, find the Team Management section (visible once you're a firm admin).
Invite by email
Assign a role — admin, member, or viewer — as you invite each colleague. Each invited member gets their own login while working under the shared firm.
Manage access
Adjust anyone's role and permissions from the same screen at any time.
Grow your team without recreating or migrating anything.
Go to Team Management
Same place you invite colleagues — find 'Add Seats' there.
Choose how many seats to add
You'll see the price before confirming — seats 11 and above are automatically discounted 15%.
Pay and your limit updates immediately
No downtime, and your existing team's own credit allocations are untouched.
An optional buffer the whole firm can draw from automatically.
Go to Team Management
Find 'Buy Reserve' there, next to Add Seats.
Choose how many credits to add
This tops up a firm-wide balance, separate from anyone's personal allocation.
It's used automatically
Once a member's own credits run out mid-cycle, the reserve covers the overflow — no manual setup needed.
Reserve credits are priced a bit higher than what's included in your plan — if your team uses the reserve often, adding permanent seats usually works out cheaper.
A free seat for every firm that signs up through your link.
Go to Settings
Find your referral link in the Team Management section.
Share it
Anyone who creates a firm through your link and completes their first payment counts as a referral.
Get a free seat
Your firm's seat limit goes up by one, permanently, with nothing further to do.
Matters, hearings, billing, and reports — solo or as a firm.
Set up a case file with client, court, and billing details.
Open Chambers from your dashboard
No firm required — a solo workspace is created for you automatically the first time you arrive.
Go to Matters and click New Matter
Choose or add a client, then fill in the case title and practice area.
Add case details
Court, suit number, opposing counsel, and other litigation details are optional but worth filling in as you learn them.
You're automatically staffed as lead on any matter you open — add colleagues later from the matter's Staffing section.
Keep a running record of every hearing on a matter.
Open the matter and go to its Docket tab
Every past hearing and what happened at it lives here, newest first.
Add an entry
Record what happened, any next steps, and the next hearing date if one was set.
The next hearing date syncs automatically
It's added to your Diary right away, and flagged if it clashes with something else on your calendar.
If a hearing date passes with nothing logged, Chambers flags the matter as needing an update — on the matter itself and on your dashboard.
One shared calendar for hearings, meetings, and deadlines.
Switch between Year, Month, and Agenda views
Zoom out for the whole year or drill into a single day.
Add an entry directly
Not every event comes from a matter — meetings and deadlines can be added straight into the Diary.
Watch for clash warnings
Scheduling two things for the same lawyer on the same day is flagged before you confirm.
An AI-written summary or a plain data table, on demand.
Go to Reports
Choose a single matter or your whole practice as the scope.
Pick a period
Weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly.
Choose narrative or tabular
An AI-written summary reads like a status update; a table is better for a quick data scan.
Download as PDF
The download matches exactly what you previewed on screen.
Ask a question, report a problem, or shape what gets built next.
Start with the AI chat assistant before waiting on a human reply.
Open Support
Find it under Resources in the top navigation, in the help menu next to your profile icon in chat, or via the floating chat-bubble launcher.
Ask your question
The AI assistant is trained on everything about LawpalAI — your account, plans and billing, drafting, research, review, and common troubleshooting — and answers from that directly.
Not resolved? Escalate to email
If the AI can't sort it out, use 'Email us' on the same page — your chat transcript comes with it, so you don't have to re-explain anything.
You can also check My Tickets on the Support page to see the status of anything you've escalated by email.
A public board for shaping what LawpalAI builds next.
Open Feedback
Find it in the same places as Support — Resources in the top navigation, or the chat help menu.
Browse or search existing ideas
Upvote anything you'd like to see prioritized instead of duplicating it.
Post your own idea
Describe what you'd like to see and why — you'll get notified as its status changes (under review, planned, in progress, shipped).
Quick answers on billing, security, and how features work.
Search or browse by category
Most common questions about the product are already answered there.
Jump straight into a chat and describe what you're trying to do — LawpalAI will guide you from there.