The short version. GavelSight is a paid research tool for legal professionals who are 18 or older. It is a research platform. It gives no legal advice, and you check every result against the source before you rely on it. Fees are non-refundable, except as Section 6 allows. Disputes go to individual arbitration, and you have 30 days from accepting these Terms to opt out (Section 14). This summary is a convenience. The full Terms below are the agreement.
Eligibility — Adults Only (18+)
The Services are offered only to adults. You must be at least 18 years old to use them. Minors are not permitted to use the Services.
By accessing, registering for, purchasing, or using the Services, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age — or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, if that age is higher — and that you are able to form a legally binding contract.
The Services are not directed to, designed for, advertised to, or marketed to children or to anyone under 18. We do not knowingly allow any person under 18 to create an account, make a purchase, submit information, or otherwise use the Services, with or without the consent or supervision of a parent, guardian, teacher, employer, or any other adult. Nothing in these Terms permits any adult to authorize a minor to use the Services under the adult's account or on the adult's behalf.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we learn that a user is under 18, we will terminate that access and delete the associated personal information. If you believe a person under 18 has used the Services, contact us and we will act promptly.
1. Who You Are Contracting With
These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a binding agreement between you ("User," "you," or "your") and GavelSight LLC, a limited liability company ("GavelSight," "we," "us," or "our"). By creating an account, clicking "I agree," or using any GavelSight service, you agree to these Terms and accept them in full. If you are accepting on behalf of a law firm or organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity.
2. Description of Service
GavelSight is a legal research platform. Features change over time, and not every feature below is offered at every moment. Depending on what is offered, GavelSight may include:
- Searchable federal judge profiles, published opinions, and citation analytics derived from official public court records
- State court judge profiles and analytics (where offered, as add-on coverage)
- AI-assisted legal research tools (opinion search, research memos, citation checking) grounded in the underlying opinion corpus
- Aggregated analysis and reporting of a judge’s published opinions and the authorities they cite
- Exportable PDF reports for litigation preparation
- Filing Guard, a citation audit of a brief or other filing, available without an account (Section 3D)
- Programmatic access through an API, and connections for AI assistants, where offered (Section 3C)
GavelSight aggregates and analyzes the public record. It does not predict case outcomes, guarantee results, or represent how any judge will rule in any matter. All analytics describe what judges have already written in published opinions.
GavelSight is available to users in the United States only. The service is intended for use by licensed attorneys, paralegals operating under attorney supervision, and legal professionals at law firms, corporations, and government entities. GavelSight is a paid service. Most features require a subscription, and Filing Guard reports may be sold one document at a time without a subscription (Section 6).
The tools that apply AI to a specific matter (playbooks, research memos, drafts, opinion analysis, judge chat, CARA and practice guides) are available only to users who confirm, when they sign up or first open one of those tools, that they are a licensed attorney, a paralegal or legal staff member working under a licensed attorney’s supervision, a judge or court staff member, or a legal professional at a company or government agency working with licensed counsel. That confirmation is a binding representation. We may suspend or end access to those tools if it is untrue. Search, judge pages, citation checking and Filing Guard are open to every subscriber.
3. Work Product and Privilege
Outputs generated through GavelSight may qualify as attorney work product when used by licensed attorneys in the course of legal representation, depending on the circumstances of use and applicable law. GavelSight makes no representation or guarantee that any output will be afforded work product protection in any particular jurisdiction or proceeding. Users are solely responsible for asserting and protecting any applicable privilege or protection.
GavelSight is a research tool for legal professionals. Its outputs do not constitute legal advice; they assist attorneys in forming independent professional judgments. No attorney-client relationship arises from the use of this service.
3A. Third-Party Services and Sub-Processors
Certain GavelSight features depend on third-party service providers. When you use a feature that relies on a third-party provider, your use of that feature is also subject to that provider’s applicable terms and privacy policy, which are incorporated by reference into these Terms solely in the context of, and to the extent applicable to, that feature. GavelSight does not control these providers and is not responsible for their acts, omissions, availability, or changes to their services or terms. The current providers are:
- AI-assisted features (such as Judge Chat, AI Research — research memos, authority finder, citation checking, document drafting). To generate responses, these features transmit your inputs to a third-party large-language-model provider (currently Anthropic, PBC, reached either directly through its API or through OpenRouter, Inc., which routes requests to the same Anthropic models). The inputs transmitted include the text you submit — such as case facts, litigation summaries, fact patterns, and questions you enter — together with relevant excerpts of the opinion corpus. Whatever you type into an AI feature is sent to these providers; it is not limited to public court records. Each request is sent individually and synchronously to generate your response; GavelSight does not use any batch-processing or asynchronous-batch API for these features. Use of these features is subject to those providers’ terms and privacy/data-handling policies. Where a provider exposes a no-training / data-retention control that GavelSight can set on the request, GavelSight sets it (for example, GavelSight sends a “do not collect / do not train” flag on OpenRouter requests); for providers that do not expose such a request-level control, GavelSight conveys a confidentiality instruction within the request but cannot technically enforce the provider’s retention or training practices, and relies on that provider’s own terms. GavelSight does not warrant any provider’s data practices. Do not submit information through AI features that you are not authorized to disclose to a third-party processor — including privileged, sealed, protective-order, or client-confidential material you cannot share outside your firm. Bench tools for judges and chambers never send requests to Anthropic models. Any AI they use runs on a separately configured model; if a third party runs that model, this list will name it before it is used.
- Payments and billing. Subscription and Filing Guard payments are processed by Stripe, Inc. GavelSight does not store full payment-card numbers; card data is handled by Stripe under Stripe’s Services Agreement and Privacy Policy. Your purchase is subject to those terms.
- Email and notifications. Transactional email (receipts, account and billing notices) is delivered through Resend, Inc. and is subject to Resend’s terms and privacy policy.
- Hosting and error monitoring. The service is hosted on third-party cloud infrastructure, its database is backed up to third-party cloud storage, and it may use third-party error-monitoring tooling to maintain reliability; these providers process operational data subject to their respective terms.
GavelSight may change, add, or remove third-party providers at any time. The provider list above reflects providers in use as of the last update to these Terms. You are responsible for reviewing the linked providers’ current terms before using the features that rely on them.
3B. Using the AI Features: Your Responsibilities
AI output is a draft that a qualified person must check before anyone relies on it. GavelSight’s AI features produce research and drafts for a legal professional to review. Nothing in them is legal advice or final until that review is done.
- Review before you rely on it. Read and check any AI output before relying on it, adopting it, filing it, or passing it on, including every cited authority. If you work under a lawyer or a judge, that lawyer or judge must review it before it reaches a client or is used in a decision. Responsibility for what you deliver stays with you.
- Tell people when AI shaped what they receive. If you give a client advice, or a court issues a decision, that is based on AI output from GavelSight, you are responsible for telling the person who receives the advice, or the parties to the decision, that AI assisted, and for meeting any AI-disclosure rule that applies to you. AI-drafted bench orders include a disclosure line for this purpose. Keep it, or give the parties the same notice another way.
- Courts and chambers. Bench tools give drafts and research to the presiding judge, who must review and may change or reject them before any ruling, order or signature. GavelSight does not use AI to suggest decisions in criminal matters, including rulings, sentences, detention or release. Where a bench tool cannot use AI for that reason, it shows statistics and templates only.
- If you are not a legal professional, do not use GavelSight output as advice about your own legal matter. The research tools explain what courts have written. For advice about your situation, consult a licensed attorney.
- Chat features are AI. Every chat window says on screen that its answers are generated by AI.
3C. AI Agents Acting for You
You may let an AI agent or assistant use your account for you. You are responsible for everything it does through your account, sign-in or connection, including any fees, as if you had done it yourself; it acts as your electronic agent. Connect it through our official integrations or API where we offer them. Any agent that uses the service must identify itself honestly and must not pose as a human, solve or bypass a CAPTCHA, or evade our rate or usage limits. Do not give an agent your password; grant access through our sign-in instead, and you can revoke it at any time. We may limit or block any agent, and fair-use limits apply to agent traffic as they do to yours. An agent may not create an account; only an adult may.
The professional confirmation in Section 2 and the review and disclosure duties in Section 3B stay with you when an agent works for you. What the service returns to your agent goes to that agent’s provider under your own arrangement with them.
3D. No Reliance; Citation Checks and Filing Guard
Nothing GavelSight produces is advice, and you may not rely on it as the basis for any filing, certification, disclosure, transaction, treatment or legal conclusion without your own independent review. Output generated with AI models can be wrong, incomplete or out of date, and can sound confident when it is wrong. Check every result against the primary source. Where the service cannot determine something it should say so, and that silence is not a finding in your favor.
What a citation check finds. A citation check, including a Filing Guard report, compares the citations in your document with the opinions in our corpus as of the date shown on the result. A citation marked verified was found in that corpus; that is not a finding that the case is still good law or that it supports your point. A citation we could not verify may be wrong, may be fabricated, or may simply be missing from our corpus, and a citation from a source we do not hold is reported as outside the corpus. None of these results is a finding in your favor, and you remain responsible for every citation you file.
Filing Guard. No account is needed to use Filing Guard, and these Terms apply to everyone who uses it. Each report is saved at a private link that anyone holding the link can open, so share it only with people you mean to see it.
4. Data Sources and Attribution
Judicial data is compiled from public federal-court sources, including govinfo.gov (the U.S. Government Publishing Office) for federal opinions, each state's official court reporter for state opinions, and the Federal Judicial Center biographical directory. We do not use commercial aggregators. GavelSight is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of these source operators, the federal judiciary, or any government agency. All federal court opinions, biographical records, and docket data referenced are public records under applicable law.
5. User Responsibilities and Uploaded Content
When you submit case facts, litigation summaries, or other materials to GavelSight ("User Content"), you represent and warrant that:
- You have the authority to submit such materials and to grant GavelSight a limited license to host, copy, and process them only as needed to deliver the service
- The submission does not violate any court order, confidentiality obligation, or applicable law
- You are responsible for ensuring that submission of client information complies with your professional responsibility obligations, including applicable rules of professional conduct
GavelSight processes User Content solely to deliver the requested analysis. You retain ownership of your User Content.
5A. Accounts and Security
You are responsible for everything done under your account, its keys and its credentials, and for keeping them secret. If you believe someone else has used them, email hello@gavelsight.com. We may suspend a key or an account we believe is compromised. A seat is for one person, so do not share your sign-in with anyone else. API keys are subject to the rate and usage limits that come with them.
Acceptable use. You may not use the service to break the law, infringe anyone’s rights, misrepresent its output as ours, probe or bypass its security or limits, or harm other customers. You are responsible for sanctions, export-control and privacy laws that apply to your use.
6. Subscription Terms and Billing
GavelSight offers a single subscription plan billed per seat. Current pricing is available at gavelsight.com/pricing. Monthly and annual billing may be offered; the price for each is the one shown on the pricing page and at checkout.
- GavelSight: per seat, billed monthly or annually — full access to judge analytics, AI research tools, cite-checker, and all platform features
- Firms & teams: same per-seat price, consolidated billing — contact hello@gavelsight.com for volume pricing, SSO, or custom terms
Filing Guard reports may be sold one document at a time, without a subscription or an account. The price is the one shown before you pay.
We may offer a report, a feature, or a period of access at no charge, and may end it at any time. These Terms apply to it in full, including the disclaimers and the limitation of liability.
Auto-Renewal: Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless cancelled. You authorize GavelSight to charge your payment method on file for each renewal period.
Cancellation: You may cancel your subscription at any time through your account settings or by contacting hello@gavelsight.com. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. No partial-period refunds are issued except where required by law.
Refunds: Fees are non-refundable. GavelSight does not issue refunds for subscription or report fees already paid, except (a) where required by applicable law or (b) at GavelSight's sole discretion in response to a written support request within 7 days of the charge (for a subscription, the initial charge for that billing period).
Taxes: Subscription prices are exclusive of applicable taxes. You are responsible for all taxes, levies, or duties imposed by taxing authorities in connection with your use of GavelSight.
Price Changes: GavelSight may change subscription pricing upon at least 30 days' written notice to the email address on your account. Continued use after the price change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the new price.
7. Intellectual Property
We own the software. GavelSight LLC owns all rights in the GavelSight platform, including its software, algorithms, models, trade dress, trademarks, and aggregated or derived analytical outputs. These Terms do not grant you any rights in GavelSight's intellectual property other than the limited right to access and use the service as described herein, which includes using its output in your own legal work. Without prior written consent, you may not copy, resell, sublicense, or reverse-engineer the service, bulk-harvest its content (other than through an export or API we offer, within its limits), or use it or its output to build, train, or benchmark a competing product. An AI agent acting for you under Section 3C is not barred by this section.
8. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, GAVELSIGHT LLC AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST DATA, OR LITIGATION LOSSES, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, EVEN IF GAVELSIGHT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. GAVELSIGHT'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIMS ARISING UNDER THESE TERMS SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO GAVELSIGHT IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of liability for certain types of damages. In such jurisdictions, GavelSight's liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.
8A. Indemnity
You will defend and indemnify GavelSight LLC against third-party claims, including by a regulator, arising from what you enter, what you file, certify or decide using the service, your breach of these terms, or your violation of law or anyone's rights.
9. Disclaimer of Warranties
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. GAVELSIGHT DOES NOT WARRANT THAT JUDICIAL ANALYTICS, AI OUTPUT, OR CITATION CHECKS WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR SUITABLE FOR ANY PARTICULAR LITIGATION MATTER.
10. Suspension and Termination
GavelSight may suspend or terminate your account at any time for violation of these Terms, non-payment, or any conduct that GavelSight reasonably determines to be harmful to the service or other users. You may terminate your account at any time by contacting support. Upon termination, your right to access the service ceases immediately. Sections 3, 3D, 7, 8, 8A, 9, 11, 12, and 14 survive termination.
11. Governing Law and Venue
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising from or relating to these Terms or the GavelSight service shall be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Florida, and you consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.
12. General Provisions
These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and GavelSight LLC with respect to the service and supersede any prior agreements. If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force. GavelSight's failure to enforce any provision shall not constitute a waiver.
Notices and changes. We send notices to the email on your account; you send notices to hello@gavelsight.com. GavelSight may update these Terms by posting the new version here with a new effective date, and makes reasonable efforts to email account holders about a material change; continued use after notice of an update constitutes acceptance. A change does not apply to a dispute that arose before it was posted.
Force majeure. Neither party is liable for a failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, such as outages at our providers, natural disasters, war, attacks or acts of government. Payment for service already provided is not excused.
13. Venue Analysis and County-Level Coverage
Venue Analysis Disclaimer. GavelSight's venue analysis feature provides ranked results across counties and jurisdictions based on the decisions recorded in our corpus. Venue analysis outputs are informational only and do not constitute legal advice or a recommendation to file in any particular jurisdiction. Forum shopping strategies carry professional responsibility implications. Users are solely responsible for ensuring that any venue selection decision complies with applicable rules of professional conduct, court rules, and applicable law. GavelSight makes no representation that any venue analysis output is complete, current, or suitable for any specific matter.
County-Level Coverage Accuracy. GavelSight publishes honest coverage grades for all counties and jurisdictions it tracks. Counties showing "Data Pending" have court structure recorded but no judge profiles. Counties with grade C have judge records but limited decision data. Grades A and B indicate judge profiles with decision data and are distinguished by data recency. GavelSight does not inflate coverage grades. Users should independently verify data completeness for any jurisdiction material to a specific litigation matter.
State and County Data Sources. State court judge profiles and county-level data are derived from publicly available state court records, state court websites, and licensed data providers. GavelSight is not affiliated with any state court system. State court data may be less complete or less frequently updated than federal court data. Coverage availability for any specific county or state may change without notice as data pipelines are updated or expanded.
14. How Disputes Get Resolved
This section controls over Section 11, and the courts named there hear only the claims this section allows in court.
First, the complaining party sends a written description of the dispute and the parties have 30 days to resolve it informally. Then any unresolved dispute goes to final, binding, individual arbitration before a single arbitrator under the American Arbitration Association's Commercial Arbitration Rules, seated in the State of Florida, under the Federal Arbitration Act. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, or seek injunctive relief to protect confidential information or intellectual property. Disputes are brought only individually: no class, collective, consolidated or representative actions, and each party waives trial by jury. If the class waiver is held unenforceable for a claim, that claim proceeds in court instead of arbitration. You may opt out of arbitration by writing to hello@gavelsight.com within 30 days of first accepting these terms.
15. Contact
Questions about these Terms: hello@gavelsight.com
GavelSight LLC | Effective Date: November 10, 2026