Authority
Federal and California statutes, procedural rules, local rules, standing orders, published decisions, and source-version history.
The research project
Build the case intelligence a research attorney would expect to have.
Lawzuit is training an agent to research across governing authority and the live case record, reason over procedural choices, develop supportable arguments, and carry a user-approved path into disciplined execution.
Research thesis
Procedure can be modeled.
Civil litigation is not a single answer. It is a changing system of available actions, deadlines, authority, evidence, dependencies, and consequences. A useful agent must know what is true in the record, which rules govern, what options coexist, and how each decision changes the next set of possibilities.
That requires more than retrieval. It requires a jurisdiction-aware case model, source-grounded reasoning, explicit uncertainty, procedural state transitions, and execution checks that update whenever the record changes.
Six connected research tracks
Case state
Pleadings, parties, service, docket events, evidence, rulings, deadlines, and the facts that change what is procedurally available.
Option graph
Every valid response or filing, including prerequisites, compatible paths, conflicts, preservation effects, and waiver risk.
Argument
The link between facts, record evidence, governing authority, counterarguments, burdens, standards, and requested relief.
Behavior
Patterns in opposing filings and conduct that may reveal the next motion, discovery dispute, settlement position, or trial theory.
Execution
Documents, sequence, filing fees, service costs, hearing steps, estimated work, and completion checks for an approved path.
Jurisdictional build
Start specific enough to be right.
Los Angeles County is the proving ground because useful civil-procedure intelligence must resolve the interaction between federal authority, California law, statewide rules, LASC local rules, courthouse procedure, and the facts of an actual case.
The research expands from Los Angeles to California and then nationwide only as each jurisdiction can be sourced, versioned, tested, and evaluated with the same rigor.
See the first case-analysis workflow.
Phase One begins with every available response after service of a civil complaint.