# Mike, private legal AI for law firms Source: https://mikeforlaw.com Updated: 2026-10-13 Mike is private, open-source legal AI for law firms. It searches case law, reads your firm's documents and drafts with citations. Set up and run by Cuanto Labs. ## Set up around your firm - **Your documents, connected.** Case folders, your document archive, email and calendar, searchable from one chat, with every answer citing the page it came from. - **Your templates and house style.** Your firm's own forms, precedents and playbooks loaded in, so drafts come back in your format and your voice. - **Research sources for your practice.** US case law is built in through CourtListener. We connect the statutes, regulations and research services your attorneys already rely on. - **Hosted where you choose.** On your own hardware or a private cloud account. Your matters never sit in a shared product alongside other firms. - **Models your policy allows.** Pick the AI providers your firm has approved. Swap them later without retraining anyone. - **Accounts by invitation.** Your administrator adds each attorney and staff member. Google or single sign-on, two-factor, and no public sign-up. ## Confidentiality and ethics - **[Client files stay with your firm](https://mikeforlaw.com/security).** A separate installation for each firm, with its own database and storage, accounts your administrator controls, and the AI provider your firm approves. - **[Built for your ethical duties](https://mikeforlaw.com/ai-ethics).** How a setup supports competence, confidentiality, candor and supervision under ABA Formal Opinion 512. - **[Code you can read](https://mikeforlaw.com/open-source).** Mike is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, so your IT team can inspect exactly what runs on your matters. ## How a setup runs 1. **Discovery call.** We learn your practice areas, the systems your documents live in, and your confidentiality rules. 2. **Build and connect.** We install Mike for your firm, connect your sources, and load your templates and playbooks. 3. **Train your team.** A working session with your attorneys on real matters, so the first week is productive. 4. **Ongoing care.** Updates, new connectors, monitoring, and a direct line to the people who built your setup. ## Questions firms ask ### What is Mike? Mike is a legal AI workspace for law firms. It searches US case law, reads the documents your firm already has, reviews stacks of files into tables, and drafts memos, letters and markups in Word with tracked changes. Every answer links to the page or case it relied on. Cuanto Labs sets it up for your firm and keeps it running. ### Is Mike private enough for client files? Each firm gets its own installation, hosted on the firm's hardware or in a private cloud account, with its own database and file storage. Only people your administrator adds can sign in. Prompts go to the AI provider your firm approves, under your own account, or to a model running on your own hardware. ### How does Mike handle made-up citations? Mike checks case-law citations against CourtListener and reads the opinion before it summarizes a holding, and it links each statement to the source page. That makes review fast, but an attorney should still read every authority before relying on it, as ABA Formal Opinion 512 expects. ### Which AI models does Mike use? The ones your firm approves. Mike works with Anthropic, Google Gemini and OpenAI models through your firm's own account, and with models run locally through Ollama for firms that want nothing to leave their own machines. You can change providers later without changing how attorneys work. ### Is Mike open source? Yes. Mike is open-source software under the AGPL-3.0 license, developed in public on GitHub. Your IT team can read the code your installation runs. Cuanto Labs is an independent company that installs, configures and supports it for law firms. ### Who is Mike for? Law firms of any size, from solo practices to firms with several offices, in more than 40 practice areas. Each setup is configured for the firm's own practices: the documents it reads, the templates it drafts from and the review columns it fills in. ### How do we get started? Book a 30-minute call. We learn your practice areas, the systems your documents live in and your confidentiality rules, then send a setup plan and a quote. After that we install and connect Mike, load your templates and train your team on real matters. ## Practice areas - [Appellate](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/appellate) - [Banking and finance](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/banking-finance) - [Bankruptcy](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/bankruptcy) - [Civil rights](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/civil-rights) - [Commercial contracts](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/commercial-contracts) - [Commercial litigation](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/commercial-litigation) - [Construction](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/construction) - [Consumer protection](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/consumer-protection) - [Corporate and M&A](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/corporate-ma) - [Criminal defense](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/criminal-defense) - [DUI defense](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/dui-defense) - [Elder law](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/elder-law) - [Employment law, employer side](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/employment-defense) - [Employment law, employee side](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/employment-plaintiff) - [Energy](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/energy) - [Environmental](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/environmental) - [Estate planning](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/estate-planning) - [Family law](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/family-law) - [Franchise](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/franchise) - [Government contracts](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/government-contracts) - [Healthcare](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/healthcare) - [Immigration](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/immigration) - [Insurance defense](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/insurance-defense) - [Labor and unions](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/labor-unions) - [Landlord-tenant](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/landlord-tenant) - [Mass torts](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/mass-torts) - [Medical malpractice](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/medical-malpractice) - [Nonprofit](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/nonprofit) - [Patents](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/patents) - [Personal injury](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/personal-injury) - [Privacy and data protection](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/privacy-data-protection) - [Product liability](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/product-liability) - [Real estate](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/real-estate) - [Securities](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/securities) - [Social Security disability](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/social-security-disability) - [Startups and venture capital](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/startups-venture-capital) - [Tax](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/tax) - [Trademarks and copyright](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/trademarks-copyright) - [Trusts and probate](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/trusts-and-probate) - [White-collar defense](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/white-collar-defense) - [Workers' compensation](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/workers-compensation) ## Firm types - [Solo practices](https://mikeforlaw.com/firms/solo) - [Small firms](https://mikeforlaw.com/firms/small-firm) - [Mid-size firms](https://mikeforlaw.com/firms/mid-size) - [Boutique firms](https://mikeforlaw.com/firms/boutique) ## About Mike and Cuanto Labs - [Security and confidentiality](https://mikeforlaw.com/security) - [AI ethics for law firms](https://mikeforlaw.com/ai-ethics) - [Open source](https://mikeforlaw.com/open-source) - [Compare](https://mikeforlaw.com/compare) - [About](https://mikeforlaw.com/about) ## Book a call Book a 30-minute call at https://meet.mike.cuantolabs.com or email office@cuantolabs.com.