Meet Lex — legal AI you control
The legal AI platform you control.
Document drafting, email, citations, court deadlines, billing, and AI agents — one platform, grounded in your firm's own data, deployed your way. Talk to Lex right here.
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Deploy your way — cloud or self-hosted · Your models, your rules · Full audit trail.
The problem
Legal AI shouldn't mean giving up control.
Your data leaves the firm
Cloud legal AI sends privileged matters and client data to servers you don't control.
Black-box answers
You can't see the model, govern it, or prove where an answer came from — a problem when accuracy is malpractice-adjacent.
AI that hallucinates
Fabricated citations and confident-but-wrong answers are a documented, sanctionable risk.
Vendor lock-in & runaway cost
Per-seat cloud pricing, opaque AI spend, and no way to bring your own models or run locally.
The EdgeLex difference
You stay in control. The AI does the work.
Control
You choose the AI models — local or frontier — who can use them, and what they're allowed to do. Three-layer model governance with default-deny.
Privacy & sovereignty
Deploy in EdgeLex's cloud, your private cloud, or fully self-hosted — your choice. Data stays under your firm's governance, and for maximum sovereignty you can keep everything in your own infrastructure.
Grounded, not guessing
Answers are evidence-grounded against your documents, emails, and court rules. Citations are validated. Hallucinated or unsourced answers are blocked, not shown.
Complete
Not a bolt-on chatbot. A full legal operating system: matters, documents, email, citations, court deadlines, billing, intake, and AI agents in one platform.
The platform
Everything a legal team needs, in one controllable platform.
Lex AI & Agents
A grounded legal AI that drafts, researches your matters, triages email, and runs governed agents that take action with your approval.
Explore →EdgeDocs
Native document drafting and a full DMS: versioning, redlines, clause library, e-signature with an evidence trail, and freeze-on-signature.
Explore →EdgeMail
Self-hosted legal email tied to matters, with privilege marking, AI triage, and discovery-ready search.
Explore →EdgeCite
Citation governance: extract, validate, and verify citations against your case library before they ever reach a filing.
Explore →Matters
Matter lifecycle, conflict checks, risk scoring, related-proceeding tracking, and a matter workspace the AI understands.
Explore →Court Rules & Deadlines
Rule-aware deadline calculation (court days, holidays, closures) with full authority tracing, plus calendar and court forms.
Explore →Billing & Trust
Time/expense capture, UTBMS coding, invoicing, trust accounting with reconciliation, retainers, and payment plans.
Explore →Client Intake
Public intake forms, lead scoring, conflict checks, and one-click conversion to a fully populated matter.
Explore →How it works
Up and running on your terms.
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Deploy
Run EdgeLex your way — our managed cloud, your private cloud, or fully self-hosted. You choose where the data lives.
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Configure
Set your firm's models, permissions, practice areas, and governance policy.
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Work
Your team drafts, emails, files, and bills in one platform; Lex assists, grounded in your data.
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Prove
Every AI decision, edit, and signature is logged and attributable — a complete audit trail.
Security & sovereignty
Your firm is the authority layer. The AI works under your policy.
Who it's for
Built for how your firm actually works.
Solo & small firms
Replace a stack of disconnected tools and get big-firm AI without big-firm risk or cost.
Mid-size firms
Standardize workflows, control AI spend and governance across the firm, and keep client data in-house.
Tech-forward firms
Self-host, bring your own models, extend the platform, and get full audit and cost telemetry.
In-house legal teams
Keep corporate-sensitive matters and communications inside the company's own perimeter.
Why we built EdgeLex
"I'm a practicing attorney and a developer. I wanted the leverage modern AI offers without handing a vendor my clients' privileged data or trusting a model I couldn't see. EdgeLex is the platform I wanted to exist: as capable as the cloud tools, but the firm keeps control."
David · Founder, EdgeLex
Built security-first
- Your choice of deployment — our cloud, your private cloud, or self-hosted.
- Default-deny AI governance: no model runs unless you allow it.
- Evidence-grounded answers with validated citations.
- Complete audit trail across every AI decision, edit, and signature.
Resources
For firms that research before they buy.
Why legal AI should be grounded, not generative-only
A purely generative model will answer confidently whether or not it has the facts. For legal work, that confidence is the danger.
6 min readSelf-hosting & data sovereigntySelf-hosting legal AI: what it actually means
"Self-hosted" gets used loosely. Here's the concrete version: what runs where, and what your firm actually controls.
7 min readSecurity & ethics of legal AIAvoiding fabricated citations: a governance approach
Sanctions for AI-fabricated citations are now a recurring news item. The fix is architectural, not a disclaimer.
5 min readSee EdgeLex on your own terms.
We'll walk through self-hosting, model control, and your firm's workflows.