Complex Litigation Research
Find precedents for complex cross-border commercial dispute
The challenge
A leading UAE law firm was preparing for a cross-border commercial dispute involving overlapping claims under UAE federal law, DIFC law, and the buyer's home jurisdiction. Their litigation team needed precedent research across UAE Court of Cassation rulings, DIFC Courts judgments, and arbitration awards — work that traditionally takes weeks of associate time and risks missing the most useful precedents because they're buried in long-form Arabic decisions.
The solution
The litigation team used Graysen's legal research assistant to query the indexed body of UAE case law in plain language. Results were ranked by jurisdictional relevance, citation strength, and analogical fit — and every cited precedent was returned with a direct link to the underlying judgment so associates could verify before relying.
How it was implemented
- 01Plain-language case framing — the lead partner described the dispute, not the search terms
- 02Cross-language search across Arabic-language Cassation rulings and English-language DIFC judgments
- 03Precedent ranking by jurisdictional fit and citation strength
- 04Verification layer — every cited precedent linked to the underlying judgment text
- 05Brief packaging into the firm's standard research memo template
Results
Research time: 40h → 4h
Senior associate research time on this dispute dropped from a budgeted 40 hours to 4 — without sacrificing depth, because the platform handled the breadth and humans focused on judgment.
Identified 50+ relevant precedents
Including several Court of Cassation rulings the team's senior associates told us they would not have found in conventional research, because the relevant language was Arabic and indirect.
Cross-jurisdictional analysis
UAE federal, DIFC, and analogous common-law authorities were surfaced and ranked together — the firm's brief weaved across all three.
Client case won at first instance
The case was won at first instance with a written judgment that cited several of the precedents surfaced via the platform.
The AI found precedents our senior associates missed. It's like having a research team that never sleeps.
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