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Legal Workbench

Match resources, organize evidence, investigate legal issues, build timelines, search grounded sources, check filing requirements, assemble educational drafts, and explore database relationships from one workspace.

Legal information and preparation tools, not legal advice. The engines identify possibilities, questions, records, and resources. They do not decide truth, admissibility, guilt, liability, legal merit, or case outcome. Verify current Oregon authority and county procedure.

Guided intake and temporary preparation

Case Command Center

Organize a matter from the first questions through a printable packet. This companion workspace uses its own browser session, without device saving. The other Workbench tools keep their existing temporary sessions.

Prepare and export

Track tasks and dates, build a timeline, log contacts, inventory evidence with SHA-256 hashes, analyze pasted notices, and assemble an HTML or JSON case packet. Dates are user-entered reminders, not calculated legal deadlines.

Resources, settings and community

Search the Oregon resource directory, form catalog and connected source collections. Coverage and review status vary by collection. Built-in guidance works locally; optional remote AI providers require explicit configuration. The Command Center forum is a temporary browser prototype.

Find a practical route

Resource matching and referral

Describe the issue, county, and kind of help needed. Results explain why they appeared and what limitations still require confirmation.

Enter a situation to begin.

Real sources, not manufactured proof

Evidence development and corroboration

Identify what a fact would need to support it, where lawful records may exist, how to preserve originals, and what limitations may affect the material.

Describe a fact that needs support or contradiction.

Applicability, not a defense vending machine

Legal issue and defense analysis

The tool identifies theories worth researching, the questions that control applicability, and facts that may support or undermine each theory. It does not select a strategy or predict success.

Enter the known facts. The tool will keep missing facts visible instead of filling them with guesses.

Extract · normalize · verify · order

Timeline intelligence

Enter one event per line using date | event | source. Exact ISO dates sort precisely; approximate dates remain approximate.

No events entered yet.

Retrieve first · verify second · answer last

Grounded research

Searches display provenance and distinguish product frameworks from legal authority.

Administrative completeness, not legal certification

Filing and formatting requirements

The checklist will separate required, conditional, and optional setup questions.

Research first · generate second

Database-driven document generator

Find a document by topic, enter the facts you know, review court and county formatting sources, and export Word, PDF, TXT or RTF. Official forms open in the PDF assistant with their original layout.

Select a template and enter information.

One graph, many directions

Cross-reference explorer

Connections show their relationship type, provenance, and confidence label.

Prepare a PDF form

Use your court or agency's current form. Answers stay in this tab; export your completed PDF before leaving. Find forms in Resources.