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A legal research roadmap provides unverified starting points for statutes, case-law areas, and search terms to investigate. It structures the early research phase by proposing leads that you verify using configured research tools before relying on them.

To identify research gaps, upload your prior research materials to the system. It synthesizes what was covered and flags missing statutes or case-law areas, generating a roadmap of unverified leads for the remaining sources you need to check.

Yes, you can generate Westlaw and CourtListener starting queries for a specific legal issue. The system proposes unverified search terms and secondary sources, functioning as leads that require verification via your clinic's research tools before use.

Legal clinic research planning works with configured seed documents by reading them first to surface relevant jurisdiction-specific material. This ensures the proposed statutes and case-law areas align with the correct jurisdiction before generating search terms.

Legal research leads are labeled as unverified to enforce verification guardrails. The system explicitly flags uncertainty and instructs users to verify statutes and case-law areas via configured research tools, ensuring outputs are treated as starting points rather than authoritative citations.