📦 AI Legal Research Assistant – n8n Workflow (JSON)

Instant Case Law Research • Statute Extraction • Issue Analysis • Argument Suggestions

Legal research is slow, repetitive, and mentally exhausting.
Reading cases, extracting rules, finding precedents, identifying conflicts, and summarizing holdings can take hours.

What if AI could do all of it for you in minutes?

Introducing:

🚀 AI Legal Research Assistant (n8n Workflow JSON)

A complete automation system that uses OpenAI + n8n to perform deep legal research, generate case summaries, find relevant statutes, and build structured memos—instantly.

Designed for lawyers, paralegals, law students, litigation teams, and researchers.

🔥 What This Workflow Can Do

1️⃣ Case Law Extraction & Analysis

Paste text, upload a PDF, or insert case facts →
AI identifies:

• Relevant case law
• Key holdings
• Rules of law
• Precedent relationships (supporting/conflicting)
• Court hierarchy relevance

Perfect for building real legal arguments.

2️⃣ Statute & Regulation Finder

AI scans your inputs and automatically extracts:

• Applicable statutes
• Sections and subsections
• Regulatory frameworks
• Compliance requirements

Great for corporate, criminal, tax, IP, and regulatory matters.

3️⃣ Issue Spotting & Legal Questions Generator

AI identifies:

• Central issues
• Sub-issues
• Hidden legal questions
• Procedural + substantive issues
• Potential claims and defenses

Ideal for litigation prep, exams, and client advisories.

4️⃣ Auto-Generate Legal Research Memos

Outputs a fully structured memo:

• Issue
• Rule
• Application
• Counterarguments
• Conclusion

Using IRAC, CRAC, CREAC, or your preferred structure.

5️⃣ Precedent Comparison Engine

AI compares:

• Multiple cases
• Fact patterns
• Court reasoning
• Outcomes

…and returns a clear “which case helps your argument” summary.

💡 Why Legal Professionals Love This

✔ Cuts research time by 70–90%
✔ Helps uncover cases you missed
✔ Improves argument development
✔ Works with any practice area
✔ Completely private—runs in your n8n environment
✔ Customizable for your jurisdiction

This is your AI-powered research assistant, always available, never tired.

📥 What’s Included

✔ Full, ready-to-import n8n JSON workflow
✔ Pre-engineered legal analysis prompts
✔ Case law extraction module
✔ Statute finder module
✔ Issue spotting engine
✔ Memo builder
✔ Summary generator
✔ Lifetime updates

💰 Who This Is For

• Lawyers
• Paralegals
• Legal interns
• Corporate legal teams
• Researchers
• Compliance officers
• Law students preparing briefs or assignments

If your job involves legal research, this workflow becomes essential.

🛠️ How to Use After Purchase (Very Simple)

You’ll receive a JSON file. You can set everything up in minutes.

1️⃣ Import the n8n Workflow

1. Open n8n
2. Go to Workflows → Import
3. Upload the JSON file
4. Save

The workflow loads instantly.

2️⃣ Add Your OpenAI API Credentials

Inside n8n:

1. Go to Credentials
2. Click Add New → OpenAI
3. Insert your API key
4. Assign it to each OpenAI node

Supports GPT-4 / GPT-4.1 / GPT-o / GPT-3.5.

3️⃣ Start the Research

Provide:

• Case text
• Case names
• Statutes
• PDFs
• Client issues
• Your custom questions

Click Execute Workflow.

AI instantly generates:

• case law
• statutes
• issues
• arguments
• memos
• summaries
• recommendations

All in one place.

4️⃣ Customize Anything You Want

You can adjust:

✔ Memo structure (IRAC, CREAC, custom)
✔ Tone (formal, simple, academic)
✔ Depth of research
✔ Length of summaries
✔ Citation formatting
✔ Export options (Notion, Google Docs, email, PDF)

Everything is modular.

✨ Optional Enhancements Already Supported

🔧 OCR for scanned case PDFs
🔧 Compare two cases side-by-side
🔧 Auto-save memos to cloud folders
🔧 Priority ranking of statutes
🔧 Batch research processing
🔧 Add Westlaw or Lexis integration triggers (manual input only)

🎁 Bonus Included

✔ Sample legal research prompts
✔ An example case for testing
✔ Ready-made memo generation template

🚀 Research Faster, Write Better, Think Smarter

The AI Legal Research Assistant doesn’t replace your legal judgment—it amplifies it.
It handles the heavy lifting so you can focus on strategy, drafting, and client work.

If you want faster, clearer, stronger legal research output…

👉 This workflow will transform your daily work.