# A legal AI workspace for civil rights firms Source: https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/civil-rights Updated: 2026-10-13 Civil rights firms use Mike to read incident reports, records requests, policy manuals and testimony, compare conflicting accounts of the same event, and draft complaints, discovery and briefing. Every statement cites the page it came from, so an attorney can verify it against the record. Civil rights cases turn on what happened and what the institution knew. The evidence is often spread across police reports, jail logs, internal affairs files, video logs and public records responses, and each account differs from the next. Mike reads them together, lines the accounts up by time and source, and shows where they agree and where they diverge. Cuanto Labs installs Mike for your firm, connects it to the folders where case files and records productions live, and loads your pleading and discovery templates. Clients' accounts of abuse stay inside your firm's own installation. ## What Mike does for your practice - **Reconciling accounts of an incident.** Mike reads reports, statements, dispatch logs and video logs about the same event and builds a timeline that sets each account side by side, with the page for every entry, so discrepancies are visible before a deposition. - **Policy and training review.** Mike reads policy manuals, general orders and training records and answers questions such as what a policy required in a given situation and when it was last revised, citing the section and page. - **Public records request tracking.** Mike drafts records requests from your template and reads the responses, listing what was produced, what was withheld and what was not addressed, so follow-up letters are specific. - **Pattern evidence.** Tabular review pulls fields such as date, location, allegation and outcome from many complaints or incident files, producing a table you can sort when you are looking for a history of similar events. - **Complaint and brief drafting.** Mike drafts fact sections and argument sections from the record and from case law it has read, on the doctrines your case raises, such as immunity defenses and municipal liability. The attorney edits the Word draft. - **Deposition outlines.** From prior statements, reports and video logs, Mike lists inconsistencies by witness with the page and line for each, so outlines start from the record. ## How we set it up for your firm - **Case files, connected.** We connect Mike to the drive or document system where your case files and records productions live, so attorneys ask across a matter without uploading it twice. - **Your pleading and discovery forms.** We load the complaints, discovery sets and records request letters your organization already uses, so drafts match your format. - **Review templates for incident files.** We build tabular review templates for the fields you track, such as officer, unit, date, force used and outcome. - **Incident chronology workflow.** We set up a saved workflow that merges reports, logs and statements into one dated timeline with a column for each source, so conflicts between accounts show on a single page. - **Public records request tracker.** We build a template that logs each request, the agency, the date sent, the response and the items withheld, so follow-up letters can cite the exact request. ## Questions attorneys ask ### Can Mike review video evidence? Mike reads documents, including written logs, transcripts and summaries of recordings. It does not watch video. If your team transcribes or logs footage, Mike can read that log and compare it with reports and statements. Any characterization of what a video shows should be checked by a person against the footage itself. ### Does Mike know the immunity and liability doctrines in my circuit? Mike searches published case law and reads the opinions it summarizes, and we can connect other research sources your firm uses. Doctrines in this area differ among courts and change over time, so Mike supports research and drafting, and an attorney determines what the law is in your jurisdiction. Ask Mike to find how courts in your circuit have treated a particular question and to summarize the opinions it has read, then read the opinions yourself before relying on them. ### Can it help with a records production from a government agency? Yes. Mike reads what an agency produces, builds an index with dates, authors and subjects, and lists what responds to each request and what appears to be missing. Whether an exemption was properly claimed, or a production is complete, is a judgment for the attorney. Mike can also draft the follow up letter to the agency that lists each unanswered item, citing the request it came from. ### Does Mike draft the whole complaint? It drafts the sections you ask for, such as the facts or a count, from the file and your templates. Choosing the claims, the defendants and the theory is attorney work. Output arrives as a Word document, and revisions to an existing draft can be shown as tracked changes, so a supervising attorney can review quickly. ### Can Mike help find a pattern across complaints against one unit? If complaint files, use-of-force reports and internal affairs summaries are in the folder, Tabular Review pulls officer, unit, date, allegation and disposition into one table. Sorting it shows repeats across incidents. Mike reports only what the documents say, and the attorney decides whether a pattern is strong enough to support a policy or custom claim. ### How does Mike help with a summary judgment opposition? Mike builds a statement of disputed facts from the file, with each fact tied to the deposition page, report or exhibit that supports it, and lists the movant's asserted facts that the record contradicts. The attorney chooses which disputes are material and writes the argument. Drafts arrive in Word, so the partner's edits show as tracked changes. ## Related - [Criminal defense](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/criminal-defense) - [Employment law, employee side](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/employment-plaintiff) - [Appellate](https://mikeforlaw.com/practice-areas/appellate) ## Book a call Book a 30-minute call at https://meet.mike.cuantolabs.com or email office@cuantolabs.com.