Pro Tier Module
Legal Drafting Toolkit - Templates / TOA / FOIA / Hold / Readability
Build TOAs, FOIA requests, litigation holds, and readability scores - deterministically, no AI.
See it run - a worked example, 100% in this browser tab
The problem
Assembling a Table of Authorities, a FOIA request, or a litigation-hold notice by hand is tedious and inconsistent, and AI drafting tools both invent text and send work product off-device.
The local-first solution
A deterministic toolkit extracts citations, fills fixed templates, and scores readability by published formulas over your pasted text, with no network call, no AI, and the same input always producing the same output.
What it does
Table of Authorities: scans, groups, de-dupes citations with first-appearance order and position
FOIA request builder from a fixed template (5 U.S.C. 552)
Litigation-hold notice builder slot-filled from matter, custodians, date range, and duties
Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid grade level by exact arithmetic
Long-sentence and heuristic passive-voice flags for dense drafting
Every output a deterministic function of the inputs
Honest scope
A drafting and analysis companion, not legal advice. There is no case-law corpus, so the TOA is a heuristic text extractor, not a citator, and it does not check citations against any database. The passive-voice detector is a heuristic with false positives and negatives, surfaced as a flag for human review, never a verdict.
Authorities cited
- Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552 (incl. (a)(4)(A)(iii) fee waiver and (a)(6)(E) expedited processing). Statutory basis for the FOIA request template.
- Flesch, R. (1948). A new readability yardstick. Journal of Applied Psychology 32(3), 221-233. Flesch Reading Ease formula.
- Kincaid, J. P., Fishburne, R. P., Rogers, R. L., & Chissom, B. S. (1975). Derivation of new readability formulas. U.S. Navy Research Branch Report 8-75. Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level.
- The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. Conventional Table of Authorities ordering (cases, statutes, regulations, constitutional provisions, rules, other authorities). Used here only for category ordering, not validation.
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 37(e) and the common-law duty to preserve (Zubulake v. UBS Warburg). Basis for the litigation-hold preservation duties template.
Draft and analyze
Build the document or run the readability scan in your browser, then route the output into a Sandbox set or a Worklog case. Your work product is never uploaded to anyone's cloud.