All the features I wish they built. Save authorities, notes, and markup in one place. Do legal-test analysis across cases. Bring it all into Word for one-click Bluebook cites, quote checking, and more.
QuestLaw sits in a collapsible side panel in your browser or Word document while you work. It works with Lexis, Westlaw, and even supports most webpages.
Quickly save authorities, selected quotes, markup, and more with a single click. QuestLaw parses the authority, citation, court, date, source link, selected language, and pincites into your library.
You can make a workspace for a matter, a motion, a memo, a class assignment, a love letter. You do you. The Analysis Workspace feature lets you define tests, factors, or elements you’re interested in tracing across authorities.
QuestLaw for Word brings your library into a document’s side panel. You only need to click your mouse once (okay, twice) to scan your document for errant quotations against sources. Another click inserts validated, formatted citations — quotes, pincites, short forms, and more. It can also run a targeted Bluepages formatting review to flag existing citation issues, suggest fixes, and even explain the relevant rules. The rules engine is completely deterministic, meaning there ain’t no AI to hallucinate or not follow directions.
In beta, by invitation. Request access →
Your library is encrypted everywhere it goes. On your device, in transit to the cloud, in the cloud, and when it syncs into Word.
Nothing you write in Word ever leaves your computer. Citation and quotation review runs entirely on your own machine; your draft text, footnotes, selections, and scan results are never sent to QuestLaw. Your data is never fed to an LLM or used to train models.
If you have a question that is not answered here, it is probably answered in the docs. Otherwise shoot me an email.
Yes. I originally built it for myself during 1L because the native features in Lexis and Westlaw were painfully not great. I came to law school with the explicit intent to lose money; I cannot go back on my word.
At some point the costs may require paid plans if storage gets excessive, but existing users will never be charged for the plugin if they sign up before then.
In short, the Word add-in is significantly more complex than the browser extension and does not yet support the online version of Word, which is required for distribution. Universities can pilot the beta version as a custom add-in distributed via the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, which seems to work fine. If you’re technically inclined and want to play around with it via sideloading, shoot me an email.
Opus 4.x and Sonnet 5 were used to help build out the UI and design, including this website. They were also used to help me with unit testing and debugging.
The codebase is otherwise substantively my own doing. Prior to law school I spent a decade working in tech, though I began writing crappy software around 2008 (shoutout VB 9.0). QuestLaw is a failsafe to make sure I don’t forget how to code in case I’m called to arms in the Agentic Rebellion.
See the docs page. It covers just about everything.
UGH. Are you sure? Read troubleshooting or shoot me an email.
I built QuestLaw to be obsessively secure and safer than the plugins offered by BigLawTech. Whether you should include sensitive data in it is a question you should ask your firm’s IT or compliance team.
For example, nothing in your Word documents ever leaves your computer for processing. BigLawTech can’t say the same. Read the security specs →
Yes. By nature of being a browser plugin, the actual client code, encryption design, and so on can be directly inspected. I hope to open-source it at some point, but for now, this Medium article can walk you through how to do it.
Word gives the add-in access to the open document so it can perform tasks like inserting quotations and citations. Features like citation review do process your document’s contents, but nothing in your document ever leaves your computer. Try running a scan with the internet turned off; it’ll still work.
It does not and will not upload draft text, footnotes, selections, scan results, or fixes to your library. While the third-party doctrine may be dead, I would prefer if we kept things to ourselves. Please do not take this as permission to commit crimes.