Agentic grading for legal writing

Grade the
hundredth memo
like the first.

An assistant that reads for what you read for — issue, rule, authority, structure. It drafts the score and the margin comments. You keep the final say on every grade.

Works with Canvas — submissions in, grades and report PDFs back
Law professor
The hundredth, like the first.
A−
Same standard, paper 40Criterion by criterion
Built for legal writing programs CRACIRACBluebookMemo · Brief · Motion
01

Consistent scoring

The same standard on the fortieth paper as the first. Criterion by criterion, no drift by the bottom of the stack.

02

Grade in minutes

A drafted score and margin comments in one pass. You review, adjust, and sign — the whole section in an afternoon.

03

Fluent in law

Reads for issue, rule, authority, and structure — not word count or surface polish. It marks what you actually mark.

The assist dial

Set how much help you want.

From a quiet second reader to a full first pass. You are the pilot in command at every level, and you keep the final say on every grade.

Score + feedback

A full first pass: a score per criterion and margin comments drafted in your voice. Turn the dial down any time — the assistant only does as much as you let it.

A full first pass, in your voice. You keep the final say.
The problem

By memo thirty,
everyone is losing.

The professor

Attention fades across a stack. The last papers get a tired read the first ones never needed, and the standard quietly drifts.

The student

Feedback thins out by the bottom of the pile. Two similar memos come back with different grades and no clear reason.

Attorney
From first-year memos to the partner's brief.
What it reads for

It reads for what you read for.

Not word count, not a plagiarism score. The things a legal-writing instructor actually marks.

Structure & analysis

Issue, rule, application, conclusion. Whether the argument is built or just asserted.

CRAC, IRAC, and your own frame

Citations & authority

Whether the rule is cited, the pincite is there, and the authority actually supports the claim.

Bluebook problems, flagged

Genre & format

Memo, brief, or motion. Reads to the conventions of the document the assignment asked for.

Set per assignment
The workflow

One assignment, start to finish.

Every step of the grade lives in one place. Scroll to watch it work — or jump to any step.

lawgrader.ai/c/legal-writing-i
New assignment
Closed Memo — Negligence
Genre: Office memo · Due Oct 14
📄
Start blank
📎
From a document
📚
From template
Dropped negligence-memo-prompt.docx — LawGrader read the prompt and pre-filled the genre, length, and what to grade.
1

Build the assignment

Start blank, from a document, or a template. Drop in your prompt and LawGrader reads it — genre, length, and the issues to grade come pre-filled.

→ Office memo detected
New assignment
Closed Memo — Negligence
Genre: Office memo · Due Oct 14
📄
Start blank
📎
From a document
📚
From template
Dropped negligence-memo-prompt.docx — LawGrader read the prompt and pre-filled the genre, length, and what to grade.
2

Draft the rubric by chat

Describe your standard in plain language. The criteria grid materializes as you talk, weighted the way you'd weight it — adjust any number and it rebalances.

→ 4 criteria, 100 points
Draft the rubric by chat
You
Grade on issue-spotting, CRAC structure, whether the authority actually supports the rule, and Bluebook form.
LawGrader
Done. I turned that into 4 criteria — adjust any weight and I'll rebalance.
Criterion
Pts
Issue spotting
25
CRAC structure
30
Authority supports rule
30
Bluebook form
15
3

Collect submissions

Upload a folder or import straight from Canvas. Every file is parsed, de-identified, and lined up — you see exactly who is in and who is missing.

→ 28 of 30 imported
Submissions · 28 of 30 in
● Imported from Canvas · Legal Writing I
RM
Rivera, Maria — memo_final.docx
Parsed
JC
Chen, Jordan — negligence_memo.pdf
Parsed
AP
Patel, Aisha — draft2.docx
Parsed
TW
Wells, Tom — awaiting upload
Pending
4

Grade in the cockpit

The paper, your margin comments, the rubric, and the drafted score in one instrument panel. Every deduction is tied to a criterion and a reason — you review, adjust, and sign.

→ Drafted 88 · B+
The grading cockpit · Rivera, Maria
The court in Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. held that duty runs only to the foreseeable plaintiff…
Margin comment · AuthorityRule stated well, but the pincite is missing and this cite supports duty, not causation. Tie it back to the issue.
Drafted score
88
B+ · you have the final say
Issue spotting23/25
CRAC structure27/30
Authority24/30
Bluebook14/15
5

Finalize & release

Curve to your policy, sign the stack, and push grades and report PDFs back to the LMS in one move. The whole section, done in an afternoon.

→ Pushed to Canvas
Finalize & release
Curve to policy — target median B
Raw+2.0 appliedCap A
28 grades signedReady
Report PDFs generatedReady
Pushed to gradebookCanvas
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Grade a paragraph right now.

Pick a rubric, paste a passage, and see the criterion-by-criterion feedback your students would get. No account needed.

Your writing

Pick a rubric, paste a passage, and grade it.

Write a short legal analysis of one issue. Scored on CRAC: Conclusion, Rule, Application, and Counterargument.

A short preview. You keep the final say on every real grade.

Feedback

Scores are out of 100, with the reasoning for each criterion.

Your feedback will appear here.
Pricing

For one teacher, or a whole program.

For individual teachers

Standard

$49.99 / month
100 AI-graded submissions a month. Save 15% with annual billing.
  • Free trial — 25 submissions, no credit card
  • Full AI grading: a score per criterion and margin comments
  • Rubric builder and the grading cockpit
  • Canvas sync — submissions in, grades and report PDFs back
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