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Who is this for
This workflow is designed for legal professionals, policy analysts, and compliance teams who need to:
- Research case law, legislation, and regulatory developments on specific topics
- Build comprehensive legal intelligence reports from authoritative sources
- Track enforcement trends and regulatory patterns
- Support litigation strategy with thorough background research
It's ideal for animal law attorneys, advocacy organizations tracking animal welfare legislation, policy teams monitoring ag-gag laws and farm animal protection bills, and researchers building legal cases against animal cruelty.
What it does
This specialized legal research agent conducts comprehensive US legal and regulatory research:
- Discovery phase: Casts a wide net across legal databases
- CourtListener for federal and state court opinions and dockets
- LegiScan for legislation across all 50 states
- DocumentCloud for government enforcement documents
- Serper for legal analysis, news, and academic papers
- Prioritization phase: AI evaluates all discovered items and selects the most relevant (3-10 items) with scoring rationale
- Retrieval phase: Fetches complete text of prioritized court opinions, bill text, and documents
- Analysis phase: Synthesizes patterns, contradictions, and strategic insights
- Verification phase: Validates factual claims against source documents with hallucination detection
The verification phase uses a specialized legal-focused prompt that distinguishes between legitimate legal strategy (which should never be flagged) and actual factual errors like wrong case citations or non-existent statutes.
How to set up
- Import the workflow into your n8n instance
- Configure the required API credentials:
- CourtListener API for case law searches
- LegiScan API for legislation searches
- Serper API for web searches
- Jina AI API for article extraction
- OpenRouter API for AI analysis
- Test with a well-documented legal topic to verify integrations
- Activate the workflow
Example usage
{
"prompt": "Research the current legal challenges to California Proposition 12 (farm animal confinement standards), including constitutional commerce clause arguments and enforcement status"
}
Requirements
- CourtListener API key (free tier available)
- LegiScan API key
- Serper API key
- Jina AI API key
- OpenRouter API key
How to customize
- Add jurisdiction filters: Limit searches to specific federal circuits or states with active animal welfare legislation
- Adjust time ranges: Focus on recent developments or historical case law in animal protection
- Extend source types: Add USDA enforcement records, state animal cruelty databases, or international animal law sources
- Modify verification strictness: Adjust the hallucination detection threshold for legal accuracy
- Create specialized variants: Fork for specific areas (ag-gag laws, farmed animal welfare, animal testing regulations, wildlife protection)
- Add citation formatting: Post-process reports to use proper legal citation formats (Bluebook, etc.)
- Integrate with legal tools: Connect to Clio, case management systems, or your organization's legal database