A case file arrives as a thousand-page PDF. You need to know what is in it, in what order things happened and where the paper you need is. JUDLEX is built to answer that.
It is an application you install on your firm's computer. Inside it keeps your clients, the paperwork each one has brought you and the case files you build on that paperwork: split into their real documents, numbered, foliated and read.
JUDLEX has two separate sections: Professional, for the firm, and Personal, for each person's own papers. What follows describes the Professional section. Both are explained in Personal and Professional.
Who it is for
For small and mid-sized law firms and legal practices, and for the people who work with them: court representatives (procuradores), economists, advisers. You do not need to know anything about computers. If you can use an email program and a folder of documents, you know enough.
And if you only want to put your own papers in order, those of your home, your car or your taxes, there is the Personal section, which can be bought on its own: Personal and Professional.
The three pieces you need to know
Everything in JUDLEX is organised the same way, and it helps to have it clear from the start:
The client. The person or company you work for.
The matter. All the paperwork for one thing the client has brought you, exactly as they gave it to you: jumbled, in loose PDFs, in one huge dump. A client can have several matters.
The case file. The proceeding built on top of a matter. It takes the matter's papers, numbers them as exhibits and puts them in order. The matter is not emptied: it remains the client's source folder.
There is a fourth word worth telling apart: a document is the file exactly as it came in, and an exhibit is each real paper that was inside it, now part of a proceeding. An eight-hundred-page dump is one document and can be forty exhibits.
What it does
It splits a large file into the documents it contains and gives each one its date, its type and who signed it, when that is on record.
It puts each paper in its folder, numbers the exhibits and foliates the pages.
It reads the papers and proposes the parties and facts of the proceeding, each with the document, the page and the sentence it comes from.
It answers your questions about the case file, citing the exhibit and the page.
With the Correspondence and filings extension, it helps you count a deadline with the working in plain view, so you can check it and sign it off, and it files the email that reaches the firm under the right matter.
What it does not do, on purpose
It states nothing without a citation. If something is not in a paper, it says it is not on record. An inferred date is marked as inferred.
It does not decide for you. What the artificial intelligence proposes appears in amber until you accept it. Only then does it turn green.
It does not calculate deadlines on its own. It does the count in front of you, with the days that do not count in plain view, and a person signs off the result.
It does not score documents by importance or urgency. It says what each paper is, what it adds and whether it is complete.
It does not draft substantive pleadings. No claims, no appeals, no defences: that is where you decide what to argue and what not to, and that is the lawyer's job. With the Correspondence and filings extension it does prepare drafts of six procedural filings, which you review before sending.
It does not touch your originals. It copies each file into its own folder and works on the copy.
Where your information is
Your clients' files stay on your computer. When JUDLEX needs the artificial intelligence to read a paper, it sends it straight to the provider you have chosen, using your firm's key: it does not go through us. This is explained in detail in Your data: what stays and what goes out.
Where to go next
Personal and Professional: the two sections of JUDLEX and which one is yours.
First steps: the tour the application gives you the first time.
Add your first client, in the Professional section; in Personal, your papers.