Asking research queries
A query is anything you type into the query box: a research question, an instruction to analyse the attached documents, or a request to draft. Marshall answers with the authorities and source passages it relied on set out for your review.
Predetermined queries: the Starters
On a fresh conversation the Starters strip offers predetermined queries drafted for the recurring shapes of chambers work — pleadings analysis, deep analysis of an authority, a chronology in the house three-column form, submissions drafting, drafting of agreements and corporate documents, a List of Authorities, and general legal research. Choosing one places its full text in the query box, where you can send it as it stands or edit it first. They are starting points, not buttons: everything in the box is yours to change before you send it.
Customisable queries: your library
My library holds the queries you have saved yourself and any your organisation has published for shared use. After typing a query you expect to reuse, choose Save this query to keep it; from the library you can use, edit, or delete your own saved queries at any time. Organisation-published queries appear alongside your personal ones so a set of house precedent queries can be shared across chambers.
What a query costs
Each request spends credits from your firm's allowance. The exact spend varies with the work involved — a long analysis over many documents costs more than a short question — and the row above the query box always shows your remaining balance before you send, so there are no surprises. Allowances renew on your firm's billing cycle, and your account page shows your own usage against the firm's total. When the balance reaches zero, the row says No credits remaining and new requests wait until the cycle resets or your administrator adjusts the allowance.
Your responsibility for the answer
Practitioner review required: You are responsible for verifying authorities and current law before relying on any output.
That notice appears in the workspace and on every export because it is the working rule of the product, not boilerplate. Every answer lists the authorities it relies on so you can verify each one; the Research and sources view under each answer shows the source passages retrieved, and the Citation audit tool checks the structure of the citations in an answer. None of that replaces your own verification of the law.
Related topics
- Matters and documents — attaching the papers a query should read.
- Exports and work product — turning an answer into a document.