Legal Search Use Cases
How to quickly and effectively find the legal norms you need
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Case 1. Search by Legal Issue Description
A user who is not a legal professional simply wants to find relevant laws that apply to their situation by describing their issue in everyday language.
- Write a simple description of the legal issue or a question you want to find relevant laws for in the "Search query" field (large input box).
- Check the "AI assisted" checkbox (if available).
- Start the search by clicking the "Search" button.
- Below the search bar, results will appear. If you want to refine your search using custom filters, you can repeat the search with filters (Case 3).
Case 2. Search by Known Legal Text
A user already knows a specific phrase or wording from a law and wants to identify the exact law and article where it appears.
- Enter the phrase you are searching for in the "Search query" field (large input box).
- Uncheck the "AI assisted" checkbox (if available).
- Start the search by clicking the "Search" button.
- Below the search bar, results will appear. If you want to refine your search using custom filters, you can repeat the search with filters (Case 3).
Case 3. Filter Out Irrelevant Results
After receiving search results, the user wants to remove unrelated or unhelpful articles to focus only on what's relevant.
- Perform the search as described in Cases 1 or 2
- Remove any filter by clicking on its badge.
- Remove all positive filters using the "Reset positive" button.
- Remove all negative filters using the "Reset negative" button.
- Add multiple filters by typing them, separated by spaces in the "Input filter word" field (small input box), then click "Add positive" or "Add negative".
- Start the search by clicking "Search".
Filtering Rules
- Positive filter: A word that the article must include.
- Negative filter: A word that the article must not contain.
- If the article contains any negative filter or does not include all positive filters simultaneously, it will be excluded from search results.
Case 4. Search Within a Specific Legal Document
The user prefers to view results only from a particular legal act, such as a specific code or regulation.
- Perform the search as described in Cases 1 or 2
- Find any result row that includes the desired legal act
- Open "More..." menu and click Search only in this document
Case 5. View Full Text of a Legal Article
The user has found a relevant article and wants to read the complete content for full context and understanding.
- Perform the search as described in Cases 1 or 2
- Find any result row that includes the desired article
- Open "More..." menu and click Show this article in full
Case 6. Find Similar Legal Articles
The user identifies one article that closely matches their issue and wants to discover other articles that address similar topics.
- Perform the search as described in Cases 1 or 2
- Select the most relevant article from the results
- Open "More..." menu and click Find similar articles
Case 7. Keyword search
The user wants to find specific words in any document.
- Perform the search as described in Cases 1 or 2
- Clear the "Search query" field (large input box).
- Add specific words by typing them separated by spaces in the "Input filter word" field (small input box, if available), then click "Add positive".
- Start the search by clicking "Search".
Case 8. Search by Article Number
The user knows the legal act and the article number and wants to view the text.
- Go to the law list page.
- Enter a few initial letters of the desired legal act in the search bar.
- Select the desired legal act by clicking the "V" icon on the left. Article links will appear below.
- (Optional) Enter the initial digits of the article number in the search bar to narrow down the options.
- Click the link to view the article text.
Search Tips
- If the search results include many different unrelated articles, try modifying the filters and using the most specific word a relevant article definitely should contain as positive filter.
- If the search results include many similar unrelated articles, try modifying the filters and using as negative filter the most specific word all irrelevant articles contain but relevant article must not contain.
- Be cautious with filters to avoid excluding the right documents.
- Negative filters can include synonyms of words that must be excluded.
- If search results do not match your intent, revise the main query and try automatic search again.
Using filters example
Positive filter "publication" - to exclude documents unrelated to the subject of the request.
Negative filter "force" - to exclude documents containing the phrase "this law shall enter into force from the moment of publication", which is in every law, but is not relevant to the request
- Query - "Publication of legal acts"
- Positive filter - "Official"
- Negative filter - "force"