MikeA legal AI workspace for environmental law firms
Environmental firms use Mike to read permits, site assessments, consent orders and agency correspondence, pull conditions and deadlines into tables, and draft comments and memos from the record. Each answer cites the page it came from, so counsel can confirm it against the source.
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Attorney: Read the Phase II report and the agency letter, then list open recommendations and what the purchase agreement says about who pays for them.
Mike: The Phase II report recommends additional groundwater sampling at two wells [1]. The agency letter closed the file but conditions that closure on a recorded land use restriction [2]. The purchase agreement makes the seller responsible for pre-closing contamination only until the first anniversary of closing [3], which is shorter than the sampling program. I drafted a memo and a proposed revision.
- [1] Phase II report, § 7, p. 41
- [2] Agency letter, p. 2
- [3] Purchase agreement, § 11.4, p. 38
Mike created Eastgate indemnity revision.docx.
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Environmental files are long and technical. A single site can carry decades of reports, laboratory data, permit modifications and letters, written by different consultants and agencies. Mike reads the whole file, builds a timeline, and shows where the documents agree and where they do not.
Cuanto Labs loads your comment letters, notice responses and diligence memos into Mike and connects it to your matter folders. Consultant reports and agency correspondence for a client's site stay within your firm's own installation.
What Mike does for your practice
- Site history timelines
- Mike reads historical reports, assessments, correspondence and agency files for a property and builds a dated timeline of uses, releases, investigations and responses, with each entry linked to the page it came from.
- Permit condition tables
- Upload a permit and its modifications, and Mike lists each condition, reporting duty, deadline and monitoring requirement in a table. Tabular Review runs the same extraction across a client's whole set of permits, so a compliance calendar starts from the documents.
- Consent order and agreement review
- Mike reads consent orders, settlement agreements and cleanup agreements, and lists the obligations, milestones, stipulated terms and reopeners, noting which party owes what and by when.
- Transactional diligence
- For acquisitions and financings, Mike reads the assessment reports and agency files in the data room and lists recognized conditions, open recommendations and indemnity or allocation language in the purchase agreement, with citations for each item.
- Comment letters and responses
- Ask Mike to draft comments on a proposed permit or a notice of violation response from the record and your prior submissions. The draft arrives in Word, and revisions to an existing draft show as tracked changes.
- Case law research
- Mike searches case law through CourtListener on questions such as standing, liability allocation or the reach of a permit shield, reads the opinions before summarizing them, and checks each case citation against CourtListener.
How we set it up for your firm
- Permit condition columns
- We build Tabular Review templates for permits: condition number, reporting duty, deadline, monitoring requirement and modification date, with column names agreed with your team.
- Site report set layout
- We connect the folders where large assessment and laboratory report sets sit and agree how each site's files are grouped, so a question about a parcel reads its whole history.
- Comment and response templates
- We load your comment letters, notice of violation responses, diligence memos and agreement forms, so drafts follow your format and usual positions.
- Assessment findings checklist
- We save a workflow that reads assessment reports for recognized conditions and open recommendations, and lists each one with its page.
- Agency decision sources
- If your firm subscribes to administrative decision sources, we connect them in setup so Mike can search them beside case law.
Questions attorneys ask
Can Mike read long technical reports and laboratory data?
Mike reads the text, tables and narrative of reports, and it cites the page it relied on. Large data tables, figures and scanned pages vary in how well they read, and Mike will say when it could not read a page instead of guessing. Technical conclusions should still be confirmed with the client's consultant, and the page link makes that quick.
Can Mike compare results across years of monitoring reports?
Mike can pull sampling dates, locations and reported values from each report into a table when the values are in readable text or tables, and it says when a page was not readable. Trends and exceedance conclusions need a consultant's review. The table gives attorneys one place to decide which reports go to the expert.
How do we keep track of permit deadlines?
Mike pulls conditions, reporting duties and dates from each permit into a table with a link to the source page, and you can export it to Excel. It does not run a calendar of its own, so most firms move the dates into the docketing system they already use after an attorney checks them.
Can Mike help with environmental diligence on an acquisition?
Yes. It reads the assessment reports, agency files and purchase agreement in the data room and lists recognized conditions, open recommendations and the indemnity and allocation language, each with a page link. How to treat a condition in the deal is the attorney's work, and the list shows where the documents are silent.
Can Mike help with a regulatory comment letter?
Yes. Give it the proposed rule or permit and your prior submissions, and it drafts comments in Word in your format, citing the documents it drew from. You can ask it to revise a draft and it shows edits as tracked changes. An attorney decides the positions taken and signs the letter.
Does Mike confirm the citations in environmental research?
For case law, Mike searches through CourtListener and checks each case citation against CourtListener before it appears. That check stops at cases. Statutes, regulations and agency guidance come from the sources your firm connects during setup, and the attorney confirms them against the current text.
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