About

Legal research that shows its work.

Langdell is built by Augment. We're building agents for Indian legal practice that read the law the way lawyers do, and cite every answer to the paragraph it came from.

Why the name

Christopher Columbus Langdell made the case the unit of legal study. We think the case, read closely and in context, is still the unit that matters. Langdell reads each judgment as a set of facts, issues, holdings and an order, then connects every holding to the cases that followed, distinguished or overruled it.

What we believe

  • Cite, don't claim. Every statement points to its source. An answer without a citation is unfinished.
  • Show the work. Agents act in the open: the steps, the sources read and the confidence are visible.
  • Say “I don't know”. When the evidence is thin, Langdell says so instead of guessing.
  • Plain language. We explain the law in words a client would use.

What we're building