Getting Started
Welcome to Second Seat, a Legal Intelligence platform built for criminal defense attorneys and prosecutors.
What is Second Seat?
Second Seat is your second chair — a knowledgeable, jurisdiction-aware research partner that remembers your practice, your cases, and your preferences.
- Unified chat interface — ask questions, manage cases, run deep research, and analyze documents all in one conversation. No mode switching.
- Multi-jurisdiction support — New York and California at full depth, Rhode Island and South Carolina at basic coverage, all 50 states at foundational level.
- Persistent memory — Second Seat learns your jurisdiction, court preferences, and case types over time. Case knowledge (facts, charges, timeline, legal theories) accumulates across conversations.
- Deep research — comprehensive case law research with multi-source search, analysis, and memo synthesis, triggered automatically when needed.
- Citation verification — every case-law citation is checked for existence, quoted-language support, and jurisdiction against authoritative sources, so fabricated or misquoted authorities get flagged before they reach a filing. Available as a standalone Citation Verifier, inline in chat, and as a signable NY Part 161 Certification Report.
- Case management — create, organize, and track cases. Link conversations to cases to build structured intelligence.
- Document analysis — upload and query legal documents with semantic search.
Quick Start
- Sign in to your account at app.secondseat.ai
- Start a conversation — just type your question. No setup, no mode selection.
- Link to a case — select a recent case from the chips on the new chat screen, or ask Second Seat to create one.
- Upload documents to query across your case files.
Need Help?
Contact our support team at support@secondseat.ai.