A specific legal question, answered with authority. We provide professional legal research, case law, statutes, precedent, and clear written memos, for law firms, in-house teams, startups, and businesses, across India and key global jurisdictions.
Tell us the legal question, the jurisdiction, and the decision it feeds, a memo for a client, support for a dispute, a compliance call, a transaction. A lawyer from our team will confirm the scope and the right deliverable, a quick memo, deep case-law analysis, or a formal opinion, and respond with a clear quote and timeline.
Everything is confidential. For law firms and in-house teams, we work to your house style and your deadline, and the work is yours to use as your own.
Legal research is the disciplined work of finding what the law actually says on a specific question, the statutes, the regulations, the case law, and how they apply to your facts, and setting it out clearly enough to act on. It is the foundation beneath every sound legal decision: the memo a lawyer relies on before advising, the analysis a business relies on before committing, the authorities a party relies on before a dispute.
Done well, it answers the actual question with authority and tells you how confident to be in the answer. Done poorly, or skipped, it leads to advice built on a half-remembered rule, a precedent that has since been overruled, or a statute that has since been amended. The cost of getting the law wrong almost always dwarfs the cost of researching it properly.
My Legal Pal provides legal research support to law firms, in-house teams, startups, and businesses, across India and the key global jurisdictions. We deliver focused research memos, case-law and statutory analysis, comparative multi-jurisdiction research, and litigation and due-diligence support. Where you need not just the research but a formal, reasoned conclusion you can rely on, it flows into a written legal opinion.
Overflow and specialist research handled to your standard and your deadline, memos, case law, analysis, so your lawyers spend their time on strategy and advocacy, not the underlying digging. Delivered as work product you use as your own.
Research capacity without adding headcount. When a question lands that needs proper digging and your team is stretched, we provide the memo and the authorities so you can advise the business with confidence.
A reliable answer to a specific legal question without building a legal department for one issue, can we do this, is this compliant, what does the law require here, backed by the actual law rather than a forum post.
When a real decision turns on a legal question, a contract, a dispute, a regulatory step, research gives you the ground to stand on before you commit, often the input to a legal opinion or a piece of drafting.
Select the closest match. We will confirm the right deliverable and the scope.
Methodical, sourced, and delivered as something you can actually rely on.
We pin down the precise legal issue and the decision it feeds, because a vague question produces a vague answer. The right framing is half the work.
We identify the governing statutes, rules, and regulations, and the relevant case law, from primary sources, not summaries of summaries.
We verify that the authorities are current, not overruled, repealed, or amended, the step that is most often skipped and most often costly.
We apply the law to your facts, weigh the authorities, and set out where the position is settled and where it is genuinely uncertain.
You get a written memo: the issue, the law, the analysis, and a clear conclusion, with the sources cited so you can verify and rely on it.
Where you need a formal, relied-upon conclusion, the research flows into a written legal opinion; where it feeds a document, into drafting.
The core deliverable: a focused written memorandum answering your specific question, with issue, law, analysis, and conclusion, in language you, your client, or a court can rely on.
Finding and analysing the judgments that govern your issue, how the law has been interpreted, which authorities help or hurt, and whether each is still good law.
Identifying the live text of the statutes, rules, and regulations that apply, including amendments and current standing, so you are working from the law as it is now, not as it was.
How an issue is treated across the countries that matter to your matter, essential for cross-border questions and jurisdiction choices, mapping the differences that actually change the decision.
Authorities and analysis for active or anticipated disputes, and the legal research that underpins a transaction or investment decision.
Legal research is the process of identifying and analysing the law, statutes, regulations, and case law, that applies to a specific question, and setting out how it answers that question. It is the foundation of legal advice: before a lawyer can tell you where you stand, someone has to establish what the law actually says and how the courts have applied it. The output is usually a written memo with the issue, the applicable law, the analysis, and a conclusion.
Legal research finds and analyses the law on a question and presents it, often as a memo. A legal opinion goes one step further: it is a formal document in which a qualified lawyer gives a reasoned professional conclusion that you, or a third party such as a lender or counterparty, can rely on. Research is the foundation; the opinion is the relied-upon conclusion built on it. You can commission the research alone, or the research plus the formal opinion on top.
For a first orientation, general sources and AI tools can be useful, and we will not pretend otherwise. But they carry a specific, serious risk for legal questions: they can state the law confidently and be wrong, citing a case that does not exist, a section that has been amended, or a position that has been overruled. Several real-world incidents involve fabricated or outdated citations from AI tools relied on without checking. Professional legal research is grounded in verified primary sources and checked to confirm the authority is still good law, which is exactly the step casual research skips. Use the quick tools to orient; rely on verified research to decide.
Law firms and chambers (for overflow and specialist research), in-house legal teams (for capacity without headcount), and businesses, startups, and individuals who need a specific legal question answered with authority before making a decision. In short, anyone whose decision turns on what the law actually says and who wants that answer grounded rather than guessed.
Yes. Comparative and multi-jurisdiction research, across India, the US, the UK, the EU, and others, is one of the most valuable things we do, because cross-border questions and jurisdiction choices turn on differences in the law that are easy to miss. We map the differences that actually affect your decision rather than producing a generic survey.
Typically a written research memo: a clear statement of the question, the applicable law with sources cited, the analysis applied to your facts, and a conclusion, including an honest note of where the position is uncertain. For law firms and in-house teams we deliver to your house style as usable work product. Where you need a relied-upon conclusion, we deliver a formal legal opinion instead.
It depends entirely on the question, a focused point can be turned around quickly; a deep multi-jurisdiction or litigation question takes longer. We scope it to the question and the deliverable and give you a clear quote and timeline upfront. The cost is almost always a fraction of the cost of getting the law wrong.
The process of identifying and analysing the law, statutes, regulations, and case law, that applies to a specific question, and setting out how it answers that question. It is the foundation of legal advice: before anyone can tell you where you stand, someone has to establish what the law says and how the courts apply it. The output is usually a written memo: issue, law, analysis, conclusion.
Research finds and analyses the law on a question and presents it, often as a memo. A legal opinion goes further: a formal document in which a qualified lawyer gives a reasoned conclusion you or a third party can rely on. Research is the foundation; the opinion is the relied-upon conclusion built on it. You can commission research alone, or research plus the opinion.
For a first orientation they can help, but for legal questions they carry a serious risk: they can state the law confidently and be wrong, citing a case that does not exist, a section since amended, or a position since overruled. Professional research is grounded in verified primary sources and checked to confirm the authority is still good law, the step casual research skips. Use quick tools to orient; rely on verified research to decide.
Law firms and chambers (overflow and specialist research), in-house legal teams (capacity without headcount), and businesses, startups, and individuals who need a specific legal question answered with authority before deciding, anyone whose decision turns on what the law actually says.
Yes. Comparative and multi-jurisdiction research across India, the US, the UK, the EU, and others is one of the most valuable things we do, because cross-border questions and jurisdiction choices turn on differences that are easy to miss. We map the differences that actually affect your decision, not a generic survey.
Typically a written research memo: the question, the applicable law with sources cited, the analysis applied to your facts, and a conclusion, including an honest note where the position is uncertain. For firms and in-house teams we deliver to your house style as usable work product. Where you need a relied-upon conclusion, we deliver a formal legal opinion.
It depends on the question, a focused point can be quick; a deep multi-jurisdiction or litigation question takes longer. We scope it to the question and deliverable and give a clear quote and timeline upfront. The cost is almost always a fraction of the cost of getting the law wrong.
Yes. Everything you share and everything we deliver is confidential. For law firms and in-house teams, the work product is yours to use as your own.
Prakhar Rai is an advocate enrolled with the Bar Council of India and the founder of My Legal Pal. An alumnus of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, with a Master of Business Laws, Prakhar has 10+ years of experience advising firms, businesses, and individuals on corporate, commercial, intellectual property, and dispute matters across India and internationally.
Rigorous legal research underpins all of it, the memos behind the advice, the authorities behind the opinions, the analysis behind the drafting. My Legal Pal’s research service is led by Prakhar and delivered by a team trained to work from primary sources and to verify that the law they rely on is still good law.
Professional legal research, memos, case law, statutes, comparative and litigation support, for law firms, in-house teams, and businesses, across India and key global jurisdictions. Grounded in primary sources and checked to confirm it is still good law. Free initial assessment.
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