Align Launches Align Research: Lawyers Get Cases, Not Hallucinations

Align Launches Align Research: Lawyers Get Cases, Not Hallucinations

Align Research replaces hours of case-law research with a fixed, per-task cost

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 03, 2026 — Align, a litigation technology company built by a trial lawyer, announces the general availability of Align Research, an AI case retrieval tool that eliminates research hours clients increasingly refuse to pay for and replaces them with a per-task cost that can be defensibly billed back to any matter. Align Research retrieves rather than generates: it returns real court opinions with the relevant passages marked, writes nothing of its own, eliminating opportunity for hallucination. Align Research is available now and free to start. Try it at Align Research.

Lawyers are caught between multiple pressures in the era of AI, including an array of client demands to provide more legal services at a lower cost and in less time, the refusal to pay for associate hours, and, more recently, a refusal to pay for basic case-law searches. While AI tools hold the promise to help firms shift leverage models and capture key cost-efficiencies, the prevalence of hallucinations have become a reputational risk that no time savings is worth.

Sam Davidoff, CEO of Align Research, comments: "Align Research drives a new era of modern, accessible AI-powered workflows for litigation teams.  Align Research works like a good junior-level associate. Lawyers can give it a research question and then go do other client work while it starts finding and reading cases. The final set of relevant cases arrive a few hours later with the key passages marked, every one of them real. It can’t hallucinate, because it isn’t telling you anything. It’s just showing the relevant cases. And it leaves the legal analysis and judgment where it should be—with the attorney."

What sets Align Research apart:

•    Simple and versatile. Ask in plain language and get the on-point cases back for any research task, from starting a memo cold to checking a finished brief for a missed case to pulling a few citations for a demand letter. No training, no implementation.

•    Just the cases, nothing made up. It retrieves real, existing court opinions and writes nothing of its own so nothing can be fabricated or misquoted. Only the on-point case law, with citations you can independently verify.

•    Priced per task, billable to the matter. A clear, defined cost of $100 per research job, billed straight back to the matter as a line item: no seat minimums, no annual database to rent.

•    Measurable ROI. For general counsel and legal operations, a known per-task price makes research spend easy to see, control, and benchmark across matters — a return both firms and clients can understand.

•    Runs in the background. A research job runs for a few hours rather than returning an instant answer, then emails the results. Lawyers submit a question and return to other work.

•    Free to start, no expiration. Three research jobs per month, free and permanent: no subscription, no seat minimum, no enterprise contract.

Align Research is available now. Lawyers can try it for free at https://align.lawyer/research.

About Align

Align is a litigation technology company built by a trial lawyer and focused exclusively on helping litigators optimize billable work.Founded by Sam Davidoff, a former litigation partner at Williams & Connolly, Align builds simple tools that do one thing exceptionally well rather than sprawling suites that do many things adequately. Align Research applies that principle to legal research: it finds real, existing court opinions — just the cases, with citations that hold, and no AI-generated text that could be fabricated or misquoted. SOC 2 Type II certified. Trusted by AmLaw 100 firms. Built by a litigator, for litigators. Learn more at research.align.lawyer.