# recess.legal

> AI-powered legal assistant for personal injury firms. More cases, more revenue, same overhead.

## What It Is

recess.legal is an AI agent platform built specifically for personal injury law firms. Every attorney gets their own private AI agent that reads case documents, builds medical chronologies, drafts demand letters, searches across hundreds of pages with exact page citations, and connects to the tools they already use.

The system uses OCR to read scanned documents (including blurry faxes and handwriting), indexes every page for citation-accurate search, and produces work product that always references the exact source page so attorneys can verify anything in seconds.

recess.legal is not a chatbot or a generic AI tool. It is a purpose-built legal assistant that understands personal injury workflows, learns each attorney's preferences and writing style, and operates in a completely isolated workspace per user.

## Who It Is For

- **Solo PI practitioners** who need to handle more cases without hiring more staff
- **Small to mid-size personal injury firms** looking to reduce time spent on medical record review, demand letter preparation, and document search
- **Growing firms** that want to scale caseload without proportionally scaling overhead
- **Any PI attorney** spending 10-15 hours manually building medical chronologies or searching through hundreds of pages of records

recess.legal is designed for the personal injury vertical. It understands medical records, treatment timelines, provider notes, billing statements, police reports, and the specific workflows PI attorneys use daily.

## Core Capabilities

### Medical Chronology

Upload hundreds of pages of medical records. Get back a clean, organized timeline — every date, every provider, every treatment — with the exact page number so you can verify anything in seconds.

What it does:
- Reads scanned documents, even blurry faxes and handwriting (OCR)
- Finds every relevant date, provider, and treatment automatically
- Every entry links back to the exact page in the original document
- Export to Word, PDF, or send straight to your case management system

Time savings: What takes 10-15 hours manually is completed in approximately 45 minutes.

### Demand Letters

Tell your agent what you need. Get a complete demand letter that pulls evidence directly from your case files — damages, liability, citations, exhibits. All in your firm's voice.

What it does:
- Pulls supporting evidence from your case documents automatically
- Structures damages, liability, and settlement demands
- Every medical claim cites the exact source page
- Adapts to your firm's writing style and formatting preferences

### Document Search

Ask questions about your case files in plain English. Every answer includes exact page citations you can verify.

What it does:
- Ask questions the way you'd ask a colleague (natural language)
- Finds the exact page, not just the document
- Search across all your case files at once
- 98.7% citation accuracy — never miss the detail buried on page 347

### Legal Drafting

Discovery responses, motions, and correspondence drafted in your firm's voice. Your agent learns how you write, what you prefer, and gets better every time you use it.

What it does:
- Learns your writing style and formatting preferences over time
- Proper legal formatting and citation standards
- You review and refine everything before it goes out
- Your template library grows with your practice

## Agent Actions

### What Your AI Agent Can Do

- Read and analyze uploaded documents (medical records, police reports, billing, case files)
- Build medical chronologies with page-level citations
- Draft demand letters with verified citations and exhibits
- Search across all case documents and return answers with exact page numbers
- Draft discovery responses, motions, and correspondence
- Read your calendar (Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook) to track deadlines and hearings
- Read your email to monitor for case updates
- Read meeting recordings and transcripts (when Zoom integration is available)
- Read case data from Filevine (when integration is available)
- Learn your writing style, preferences, and workflows over time
- Remember context across your cases within your private workspace

### What Your AI Agent Cannot Do

- Send, reply to, delete, or forward emails on your behalf
- Add attendees to calendar events (you do that manually)
- Delete, modify, or share meeting recordings
- Create, modify, or delete data in your case management system (read and sync only)
- Access another attorney's workspace or case files
- Share your data with other users or firms
- Use your data to train AI models
- Make external API calls directly (all integrations go through secure server-side proxies)
- Access raw OAuth tokens, API keys, or credentials

## Integrations

### Available Now

- **Google Calendar**: Sync deadlines, hearings, and depositions. Read and create events. Your agent cannot add attendees — you do that manually.
- **Microsoft 365 / Outlook**: Calendar and email integration for Microsoft environments. Same read + create permissions as Google Calendar.

### Coming Soon

- **Zoom**: Depositions, mediations, and client calls — transcribed and searchable. Read-only access to recordings and transcripts.
- **Filevine**: Case management sync. Your cases stay in sync automatically. Read and sync only — your agent cannot create, modify, or delete data in Filevine.

All integrations use a secure proxy architecture. Your AI agent never directly accesses external services or sees authentication credentials. The server handles all OAuth flows and token management transparently.

## Security and Privacy

recess.legal is built for handling privileged attorney-client data. Security is not an add-on — it is the architecture.

### Data Isolation

Every attorney gets their own private AI workspace running in an isolated container. Your documents, case data, chat history, and agent memory are completely separated from every other user. There is no shared data layer between firms or attorneys.

### Encryption

- All data encrypted in transit (TLS)
- All data encrypted at rest (full-disk encryption with AES-256)
- OAuth tokens and sensitive credentials encrypted with additional application-level encryption (Fernet)
- Audit log entries containing protected health information are hashed

### Audit Trail

Every action is permanently recorded in a tamper-proof audit log — every document upload, every search, every chat message, every integration access. Audit entries cannot be modified or deleted (enforced by database triggers).

### Data Ownership

- Your data never trains our AI models
- Export your data at any time
- Delete your data at any time
- You own everything you create

### Privacy Standards

Built to meet the same privacy standards required by medical providers. Enterprise tier includes HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA).

### Infrastructure Security

- Per-container resource limits and security hardening (dropped capabilities, no privilege escalation)
- Network isolation between frontend and backend services
- Rate limiting on authentication endpoints
- Security headers (HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options, nosniff)
- JWT authentication with token revocation capability
- No data stored in browser localStorage — httpOnly cookies only

## Pricing

### Starter — $199 per user per month

For solo practitioners and small firms getting started with AI.

Includes:
- Your own AI agent in a private workspace
- Medical chronology generation
- Document search with page citations
- 50 document uploads per month
- Google or Microsoft calendar sync
- Email support

### Professional — $399 per user per month (most popular)

For growing firms ready to multiply their caseload.

Includes everything in Starter, plus:
- Demand letter drafting
- Legal document drafting (discovery, motions, correspondence)
- Unlimited document uploads
- Email monitoring and meeting transcription
- AI that learns your writing style and preferences
- Priority support

### Enterprise — Custom pricing

For firms that need custom integrations and dedicated support.

Includes everything in Professional, plus:
- Case management system sync (Filevine and others)
- Custom tool integrations
- Dedicated account manager
- Custom training and onboarding
- Guaranteed uptime SLA
- HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA)

All plans include a free trial. No credit card required to start.

## How It Works

1. **Upload your documents.** Drop medical records, police reports, billing statements, and case files. The system reads every page automatically — even scanned and handwritten documents — using OCR and indexes everything for citation-accurate search.

2. **Chat with your agent.** Ask for what you need in plain English. "Build me a chronology for the Martinez case." "What did Dr. Chen say about the cervical spine?" "Draft a demand letter for lost wages." No special syntax. No training required.

3. **Get polished work product.** Receive deliverables with page numbers you can verify. Every claim cites the exact page. Every document is cross-referenced. You review, refine, and file — your team stays in control. The AI does the time-consuming work. You do the lawyering.

## Use Cases

### Before recess.legal

- An attorney receives 400 pages of medical records for a new PI case
- A paralegal spends 10-15 hours reading every page, noting dates, providers, and treatments
- The attorney reviews the chronology, finds gaps, sends the paralegal back to re-check
- Total time: 2-3 days before the case is even workable
- The firm turns away 30% of potential cases because they don't have bandwidth

### After recess.legal

- The attorney uploads the 400 pages
- The AI agent reads every page (including scanned and handwritten notes), extracts every date, provider, and treatment, and builds a chronology with exact page citations
- The attorney reviews the chronology in 45 minutes, clicks any citation to jump to the source page
- Total time: under 1 hour
- The firm takes on more cases with the same team

### Other scenarios

- **Demand letter preparation**: Instead of spending days assembling evidence, citations, and exhibits manually, the attorney asks their agent to draft a demand letter. The agent pulls evidence directly from indexed case documents, structures damages and liability, and cites every medical claim to the exact source page.
- **Document search during deposition prep**: "What did the ER attending note about the patient's Glasgow Coma Score?" — answered in seconds with the exact page number, instead of searching through hundreds of pages manually.
- **Deadline tracking**: Calendar integration surfaces upcoming filing deadlines, hearing dates, and statute of limitations dates so nothing falls through the cracks.

## Comparison

### vs. Generic AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.)

Generic AI tools are powerful but not purpose-built for legal work. They cannot read your specific case documents, they do not provide page-level citations, they have no concept of a case file or a medical chronology, and they cannot learn your firm's writing style over time. recess.legal is built specifically for PI workflows and always cites its sources to the exact page.

### vs. Legacy legal tech

Traditional legal technology (document management systems, case management software) organizes files but does not read them or generate work product. recess.legal reads every page, understands the content, and produces deliverables — chronologies, demand letters, search results — that would otherwise require hours of manual work.

### vs. Other legal AI tools

recess.legal differentiates on three axes: (1) every attorney gets their own isolated AI agent, not a shared tool; (2) citation accuracy is enforced at the architecture level with page-number verification; (3) the agent learns each attorney's preferences and improves over time.

## Links

- Website: https://recess.legal
- Features: https://recess.legal/features
- Pricing: https://recess.legal/pricing
- About: https://recess.legal/about
- Contact: https://recess.legal/contact
- Privacy Policy: https://recess.legal/privacy
- Terms of Service: https://recess.legal/terms
- Concise AI-readable index: https://recess.legal/llms.txt