Retrospect

Verify Your BriefBefore you file.

Upload your brief. Retrospect independently verifies that cited authorities are real, current, and support the way they are used, then produces an independent verification certificate.

Use cases

Pre-filing verification. Enterprise corpus review. Same trust layer.

Retrospect is the flagship brief verification workflow in the VariLegal platform. It verifies legal authorities before filing and also supports backward corpus verification for enterprise risk review.

Verify before filing

Upload an AI-assisted brief before it enters the legal record. VariLegal verifies citation existence, case identity, treatment, and whether the authority supports the way it is used.

Review filed documents at enterprise scale

Use Retrospect Enterprise to review previously filed briefs, identify citation risk across a corpus, and create aggregate compliance certificates for risk, insurance, or internal governance.

How it works

Brief verification in four steps.

01

Upload documents

Upload a brief before filing, or upload a document set for enterprise corpus review.

02

Citation extraction

VariLegal extracts citations, resolves authorities, and reuses canonical authority records when the same citation appears across matters or documents.

03

Adversarial verification

Each authority is checked for existence, identity, treatment, and support. The deterministic auditor remains the System of Record.

04

Corpus-level certificate

VariLegal produces an independent verification certificate backed by evidence, provenance, and a SHA-256 integrity hash.

Verify your next brief before you file it.

Retrospect is available to law firms and legal platforms that need independent verification of AI-assisted legal work product before it enters the legal record.