The most common failure mode of an AI legal tool is making things up. We have a discipline against that, and this page is that discipline written down.
The brief will always prefer a higher-tier source when one is available for a claim.
Acts of Congress, federal agency rules, presidential executive orders.
Example:No Surprises Act (42 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a7 300gg-111 through 300gg-115) for emergency out-of-network bills.
State legislatures, state agency rules, state attorneys general guidance.
Example:California Civil Code \u00a7 1942.5 (anti-retaliation protection for tenants who exercise rights).
State and federal court opinions, particularly state supreme court and federal circuit decisions.
Example:Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc., 137 S. Ct. 1718 (2017) for what is and isn\u2019t a \u2018debt collector\u2019 under the FDCPA.
Letters, opinions, and consumer education from federal and state agencies.
Example:CFPB Bulletin 2013-07 (debt collection prohibitions under FDCPA \u00a7 808).
Public price databases, salary surveys, industry reports.
Example:BLS Occupational Employment Statistics for typical salary ranges by metro area and role.
Reports published by independent industry research organizations, with named methodologies.
Example:JD Power's annual customer retention surveys for telecom and insurance industries.
Sometimes two authoritative sources disagree. A federal law and a state law overlap in a way that's jurisdictionally contested. Two federal circuits have split. An agency's guidance contradicts the underlying statute. The hospital's claim about what a procedure should cost is different from the BLS average for the same code.
When this happens, the brief does three things:
What the brief does not do is pretend the conflict doesn't exist. We'd rather give you an uncomfortable truth than a clean lie.
A lot of negotiation knowledge doesn't live in a statute or a case. It lives in practitioner playbooks, industry conventions, sales-script training documents, and the accumulated experience of people who've done a thousand of these conversations.
That knowledge is real. It's often the most actionable part of a brief. But it doesn't have a single citable source. When the brief uses it, we tag it explicitly:
These insights are weighted lower in the brief and you see them flagged. You can choose to act on them or skip them. We're not hiding the difference between “the law says” and “practitioners report.”
If a brief cites a law that doesn't apply to your situation, a case that doesn't say what we claim, or a price that's wildly off, email us. We take these reports seriously and we feed them back into the verification pipeline.
cite-error@renegotiateanything.comFor the full set of disclaimers, see /disclaimers. For the outcome statistics that this citation discipline supports, see /track-record.