Motions

The Motions workspace (litigation) is where you work a motion end to end: bring in the relevant brief, extract and verify its citations, organize the authorities, and assemble a response — with an AI Motion Agent that helps and keeps the citation record honest.

Motions is a litigation‑mode feature. It is an actively developing workspace: some steps are fully shipped while others are being built out, and the workspace shows each step's status as you go.

The motions list

From a litigation matter, open Motions to see the motions for that matter, each with its citation count, status, and date. Open one to enter its workspace, or start a new motion.

The motion workspace

The workspace is organized as a sequence of steps:

1. Upload / attach the brief — bring in the opposing brief (or the brief you're responding to). The brief is frequently already a document in the matter; the Motion Agent will point that out and offer to attach it.
2. Pull list — the list of citations extracted from the brief.
3. Library — the authorities relevant to the motion, organized for the response.
4. Verify — each citation is checked (see below).
5. Outline — an organized response outline keyed to the authorities.

Citation verification

Sentinel verifies the citations in a motion against legal sources and records the result, so you don't file on a case that doesn't say what the brief claims. Each citation gets a verdict evaluated across multiple dimensions (jurisdiction, recency, how on‑point it is, strength, and so on), with a short explanation and a status indicating whether it checks out, is uncertain, or is a problem.

The set of verifications forms a citation ledger — a gate that tracks which citations are confirmed versus blocking, and whether the motion is ready to file. A printable certificate records the verification status of a motion's citations.

The Motion Agent

The motion workspace has its own AI assistant, the Motion Agent — a litigation‑associate persona focused on the single motion in front of you. It is read‑only with respect to the record: it explains and plans, but it does not silently change verifications, draft and bind authorities, mark a motion complete, or trigger paid research spend on its own. Instead it:

• Orients itself in the motion (what's attached, the citation count, the verification breakdown) and searches the matter for the relevant brief and authorities.
• Explains the current plan, the citation ledger, and any individual citation's verdict.
• Proposes a work plan for you to approve; the actual retrieval, verification, and drafting happen in a run you approve — not unilaterally.

This keeps an attorney in control of every step that affects the filing while still giving you an AI second chair.

Tips

• Let the Motion Agent orient first — it will often find the opposing brief already in the matter and offer to attach it, saving you an upload.
• Treat the citation ledger as your pre‑filing checklist: clear the blocking citations before you rely on the motion.
• The verification certificate is a record of what was checked — useful for your own diligence and for the file.