Professional assessment
Record independent lawyer findings and the conditions under which a workflow is suitable.
For litigation practitioners
Can a solicitor verify the answer?
A practical evaluation of legal AI should begin with unfamiliar synthetic evidence and a difficult, genuinely disputed proposition.
This is an evaluation proposal, not evidence that independent practising-solicitor testing has been completed.
Put a real litigation question to the software
A witness says the defendant received a warning before signing. Which documents support and undermine that account, which dates are uncertain, and what source material must be inspected before advising?
The evaluator should open each original source and check context, document version, dates, contrary material and what the system did not search. No evidence located is not the same as evidence does not exist.
An unaided five-stage test
Matter orientation
Open the unfamiliar synthetic matter without coaching. Ask what deserves professional attention first.
Evidence completeness
Compare source discovery against a human-established reference set. Record missed material, not just correct quotations.
Contradictions and provenance
Review disputed dates, qualifications, versions, source passages and unsupported inferences.
Supervision and handover
Can a practitioner distinguish proposals, saved work and decisions they have personally accepted?
Failure handling
Ask a question without enough support and introduce a conflicting source. Record whether uncertainty and corrections are visible.
Adoption requires more than a successful video
Quality and time
Measure citation accuracy, checking time, false negatives, corrections and comparative usefulness.
Separate security gate
A synthetic demonstration does not approve use of privileged or confidential client material.