Architectural Compliance:
Information vs. Advice
How the LISA Engine maintains the integrity of the legal profession through programmatic guardrails.
The Safe Harbor Framework
Three architectural principles that ensure LISA operates within the boundaries of factual retrieval, never crossing into advisory territory.
No Attorney-Client Relationship
LISA is a factual retrieval system. It does not solicit user intent for the purpose of providing strategy, thus preventing the formation of an implied attorney-client privilege.
Factual Synthesis Only
All outputs are restricted to "What the law says" (Statutes/Case Law) rather than "What a user should do." This maintains compliance with UPL (Unauthorized Practice of Law) statutes.
Full Attribution
Every sentence generated is designed to map to a verified source in the Foundation's Knowledge Graph — an architecture built to prevent hallucinations and support professional-grade reliability.
Drawing the Line
LISA is architected to provide Legal Information Services -- a factual retrieval of statutes and case law. It is programmatically barred from providing Legal Advice, which remains the exclusive domain of licensed human professionals.
Legal Information Services
What LISA provides: factual retrieval and synthesis from verified legal databases, always with full attribution.
- Verbatim retrieval of statutory text and regulatory language
- Case law summaries with full citation to verified sources
- Procedural rules, filing deadlines, and court requirements
- Legal terminology definitions from authoritative sources
- Jurisdictional comparisons of statutory provisions
- Historical legislative analysis and amendment tracking
Programmatically Barred
What LISA is architecturally prevented from providing: any output that constitutes the practice of law.
- Strategic recommendations or courses of action
- Application of law to specific individual circumstances
- Predictions of case outcomes or judicial behavior
- Formation of attorney-client relationships or privilege
- Advocacy, representation, or negotiation of any kind
- Interpretation beyond what the statutory text provides
Professional Alignment
The LEXT Technology Research and Access Foundation operates in alignment with the ABA Model Rules regarding Technological Competence. We provide the tools for legal professionals to work faster and for the public to stay informed, without overstepping into the practice of law.
Two proprietary layers are designed to prevent legal advice and made-up answers. First, the Foundation's proprietary custom instructions limit LISA to legal information, forbid advice, and require every statement of legal information to be citeable to a verifiable source. Second, proprietary review technology checks what is said against those rules.
Built-in guardrails
Designed to keep legal information separate from legal advice
The LISA Trust Architecture
Built-in guardrails are designed to prevent legal advice and made-up answers.
Custom prompting
Custom prompting designed to prevent legal advice.
Factual Grounding
Instructed never to invent anything; designed to prevent made-up answers.
Ethical Verification
Proprietary review technology checks what is said against the Foundation's proprietary custom instructions, designed to prevent legal advice and made-up answers.
Verifiable sources
The Foundation's proprietary custom instructions require every statement of legal information to be citeable to a verifiable source; proprietary review technology checks what is said against that rule.