AI Document Query

AI Legal Document Query for Lawyers

Ask questions from legal documents and get answers based on their content.

ManuWorks AI Legal Document Query helps legal professionals find information within judgments, pleadings, contracts and other legal documents by asking questions in natural language. Instead of manually searching through lengthy documents, ask what you need to know - about a clause, obligation, date, party, fact or issue - and quickly locate relevant information within the document.

✓ Natural-language questions
✓ Answers grounded in your document
✓ Built by Manupatra for legal professionals

What is AI Legal Document Query?

AI Legal Document Query allows lawyers to ask questions directly from legal documents using natural language and receive answers based on the content of those documents.

ManuWorks analyses the document and helps identify information relevant to the question asked.

Ask Questions from Legal Documents

ManuWorks can help legal professionals query documents such as:

  • Judgments and court orders
  • Pleadings and case documents
  • Contracts and agreements
  • Legal opinions
  • Notices and correspondence
  • Regulatory documents
  • Policies and compliance material
  • Research material
  • Other legal documents

Ask specific questions and focus on the information relevant to your legal task.

Why Use AI to Query Legal Documents?

1

Find Information Faster

Ask a question instead of manually searching through pages of text to locate the information you need.

2

Ask Questions in Natural Language

You do not need to know the exact words used in the document. Ask the question in ordinary language and use AI to identify relevant information from the document.

3

Get Focused Answers

Instead of generating a general summary of the entire document, Document Query helps answer a specific question based on what you want to know.

4

Understand Lengthy Documents

Use questions to explore complex judgments, contracts, pleadings and other documents one issue at a time.

5

Reduce Manual Searching

Spend less time locating information and more time reviewing its legal significance.

How Lawyers Can Use AI Document Query

Litigation

Ask questions across pleadings, orders and case documents to quickly locate important facts, dates, arguments and developments.

  • What relief has the claimant sought?
  • What did the court order on 15 March?
  • What are the respondent's main arguments?
  • Which dates are relevant to the limitation issue?

Contract Review

Ask questions about clauses, obligations, rights and commercial terms contained in an agreement.

  • What are the termination provisions?
  • Does the agreement contain an indemnity clause?
  • What is the payment period?
  • Who owns the intellectual property?
  • Is assignment permitted?

Legal Research

Ask specific questions from lengthy judgments, case law and other legal materials to identify relevant information before undertaking deeper analysis.

  • What issue did the court consider?
  • What reasoning did the court give?
  • What was the final decision?

Compliance and Regulatory Review

Query regulatory documents, policies and compliance material for particular requirements, obligations, reporting periods or other information.

  • What is the reporting deadline?
  • Which entities does this requirement apply to?
  • What records must be maintained?

Due Diligence

Ask targeted questions from documents being reviewed during due diligence to locate important rights, obligations, restrictions and other information.

How Does ManuWorks AI Document Query Work?

01

Add your legal document

Upload the judgment, pleading, contract or other legal document you want to review to the Vault.

02

Ask your question

Ask what you want to know in natural language.

03

Analyse the document

ManuWorks analyses the document in the context of your question and identifies relevant information.

04

Review the answer

Review the response and refer to the underlying document where the information is important to your legal analysis.

05

Ask follow-up questions

Continue exploring the document by asking more specific or related questions.

Questions You Can Ask

Instead of manually searching through a lengthy agreement, a lawyer could ask:

In a contract or agreement

  • What are the termination rights of each party?
  • What is the limitation of liability?
  • When does this agreement expire?
  • What are the payment obligations?
  • Is there an arbitration clause?

In a judgment or case file

  • What are the key facts of the case?
  • What relief has the petitioner sought?
  • What did the court decide on this issue?
  • Which dates are important?
  • What arguments were raised by the respondent?

This helps legal professionals move from searching through documents to asking questions from them.

From Searching a Document to Asking the Document

Consider a lawyer reviewing a 150-page commercial agreement. The lawyer wants to know: can either party terminate the agreement without cause?

Traditionally, the lawyer might search for terms such as "termination", "terminate", "expiry" or "notice", then read each occurrence to locate the relevant provisions.

With AI Document Query, the lawyer can ask the question directly. The AI analyses the document and identifies information relevant to the termination rights contained in the agreement. The lawyer can then ask follow-up questions:

  • What notice period is required?
  • Are there different termination rights for breach?
  • What obligations survive termination?

This turns document review into a more focused, question-driven process.

Document Query vs Document Summarisation

Document Summarisation answers: "What is this document about?" Document Query answers: "What does this document say about the specific thing I want to know?"

A summary provides an overview of the document. Document Query allows the lawyer to explore particular facts, clauses, issues, dates or obligations through specific questions.

Both can be used together: first understand the document through a summary, then ask targeted questions where deeper review is required.

More Than Asking Questions from Documents

Document Query is one part of the broader legal workflow.

ManuWorks.ai is an AI workspace built by Manupatra for legal professionals. Legal teams can use specialised AI Assistants to ask questions from legal documents, summarise judgments and documents, draft legal content, compare contracts and other documents, translate legal material, extract text from scanned documents using OCR and generate case timelines.

For more complex legal work, Agentic AI can work through multi-step workflows where the lawyer defines an objective and the AI plans and executes the steps required to work towards the outcome. ManuWorks also integrates with Manupatra's proprietary legal database, bringing AI-assisted document work and legal research into the same workspace.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is AI Document Query for legal documents?

AI Document Query allows users to ask questions in natural language about the contents of a legal document. The AI analyses the document and provides an answer based on information contained within it.

Can I ask AI questions about a legal document?

Yes. AI can analyse a legal document and answer questions about its contents, helping lawyers locate specific facts, clauses, dates, obligations and other information without manually searching the entire document.

Can AI answer questions from a judgment?

Yes. AI can help answer questions about information contained in a judgment, such as the facts, issues, arguments, reasoning and outcome. Important legal propositions should be checked against the original judgment.

Can AI answer questions from a contract?

Yes. Lawyers can ask questions about clauses, rights, obligations, payment terms, termination provisions and other information contained in a contract.

Can I ask follow-up questions about a legal document?

Yes. Follow-up questions allow a lawyer to explore a particular issue in greater detail and progressively narrow the information being reviewed.

Can AI find a specific clause in a contract?

AI can help identify provisions relevant to a particular question, such as termination, indemnity, confidentiality, intellectual property or limitation of liability clauses.

What is the difference between Document Query and legal document search?

Traditional document search generally requires users to search for particular words or phrases. AI Document Query allows users to ask a natural-language question and identify information relevant to that question even when they do not know the exact terminology used in the document.

What is the difference between Document Query and Document Summarisation?

Document Summarisation provides an overview of a document, while Document Query answers specific questions about its contents. Lawyers can use summarisation for initial understanding and Document Query for more targeted review.

Does AI Document Query replace legal review?

No. AI can help lawyers locate and understand information within documents more efficiently, but important facts, clauses, legal propositions and conclusions should be checked against the underlying source document.

Ask Your Legal Documents What You Need to Know

Find clauses, facts, dates, obligations and other information without manually searching through every page. Ask the question. Find the relevant information. Focus on the legal analysis.