The standard for a sound motion.
The LexGrade Standard is an open, published measure of good legal drafting — 8 principles, 45 criteria. LexGrade applies it to a filing, point by point, and returns a grade.
Every citation is checked against the public court record, and every grade traces to the open Standard.
a letter grade you can read line by line
principles and criteria in the open Standard
CC-BY-SA, governed openly · published at lexgrade.org
every score maps back to a rule in the open Standard
Why a grade
A citation can be real and still be wrong.
A genuine decision, cited for something it never said, passes every check for whether it exists. The judge who notices is less forgiving than with an outright fabrication.
The basic check
Existence checkPaste a motion and see where every citation stands.
Always free — citation checks are free for every motion, powered by the public record via CourtListener / Free Law Project.
The quality check
PROThe StandardThe judgment a simple real-or-fake check can’t give you.
→ One clear letter grade, A–F — with notes on every section.
Under the grade
A grade is the surface. This is what’s beneath it.
The letter is one number. Lift it, and a grade is an ordered system — the open Standard at the foundation, each layer above doing one job, up to the letter you act on.
The cycle. The Standard is revised in the open — every grade re-runs against the latest, and past grades stay pinned to their version.
Existence is the easy part
Three citations. Three very different verdicts.
The basic check catches the fake. The grade catches the one that’s real but doesn’t say what the motion claims.
Harrington v. Vance, 781 U.S. 412 (2019) (fabricated — no such case)
Not found in the public record · volume 781 U.S. does not exist
Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254 (1970) (real case, wrong point)
The case is real and checks out — but the page cited doesn’t actually say what the motion claims.
See it first
See a full report before you upload a thing.
We’ll email you a complete sample grade — every principle scored, every citation checked, each finding traced to the Standard. No account required.
One email with the sample, plus the occasional launch update. Unsubscribe anytime.
The open Standard
Open by design, and published in full.
Every principle and criterion, openly licensed. The whole rubric — weights, score bands, and techniques — is public at lexgrade.org, where anyone can propose a change. LexGrade is the tool that applies it.
The bigger picture
The product is the wedge. The Standard is the moat.
Most legal-AI tools sell an output. LexGrade owns the measure that output is judged against — published in the open, applied by a commercial engine, and grounded in the public record. That ordering is what compounds.
A motion's quality gets discussed in the language of the Standard — and we publish that language. The category and the company share a name.
The Standard is free at lexgrade.org; the work of applying it — verification, scoring, the report — is the product, and the same engine runs behind the API.
Citations resolve against CourtListener and the Free Law Project — a durable, public data spine, versioned so every grade stays reproducible.
Dependable by design
No black box. No surprises.
Every score traces to a written criterion in the public Standard.
Citation verification is deterministic — the same cite resolves against the public record identically, every run.
Problems surface on screen, not for the first time before a judge.
Nothing is filed or served for you — run a grade on command, and delete any run or document anytime.
For integratorsComing soon
Grade from your own stack.
The same Standard, behind a REST API. Submit a filing, read every finding back as structured JSON, and wire grading into the tools a team already runs.
$ curl https://api.lexgrade.com/v1/grade \ -H "Authorization: Bearer •••" \ -F file=@motion.pdf { "grade": "B-", "score": 82, "tier": "competent", "citations": { "verified": 13, "questioned": 2 } }
Hold the filing to the Standard.
Create an account, verify the citations, and grade the motion against the Standard.