Legal HQ
Client-owned litigation tools for clearer work with counsel.
What is Legal HQ?
Legal HQ is client-owned litigation infrastructure for people navigating complex disputes. It helps business owners, founders and executives turn scattered emails, files and case history into an organized record they can understand and use with counsel. The aim is to make the matter easier to evaluate, manage and hand over, while keeping the client in control of their information, objectives and decisions.
A lawsuit often creates a second problem alongside the dispute itself: keeping the history straight. Documents sit across inboxes and drives. Important events are difficult to reconstruct. Questions, obligations and costs accumulate. Each new adviser may need the same background explained again. Legal HQ gives that work a persistent structure, so the record can develop as the matter develops and remain available for counsel transitions.
The framework brings together a matter summary, chronology, evidence log, deadlines, discovery information, decisions and legal spending. It connects factual statements to supporting material and keeps open questions visible. A counsel packet provides a structured handoff for an existing lawyer or a prospective firm. The purpose is preparation: helping clients bring a coherent record to conversations that require professional judgment.
The Legal HQ Starter Kit is a downloadable set of practical materials for building that record. It includes a walkthrough, workbook, AI Case Folder instructions and templates, counsel packet and case pitch materials, and prompts for maintaining the system. Customers can organize their records manually or use the supplied workflows with Claude or ChatGPT and their own connected accounts. AI assistance supports organization; the client reviews the record and counsel makes legal decisions.
For customers who want help getting started, an optional setup session is available separately. The client pilot offers a more supported engagement, installing the framework in the customer's own workspace and working through the operational side of managing a dispute. Pilot scope and pricing are discussed directly. Free guides and organizing templates provide another way to explore the approach before choosing a paid offering.
The distinction between roles is central. Clients retain their facts, documents, objectives, risk tolerance and settlement authority. Legal HQ supports the operating structure around the matter. Independently engaged licensed attorneys remain responsible for legal advice, research and validation, filings, negotiation and advocacy. The model is designed to support a better prepared client and a clearer working relationship with counsel.
Founded by John Wolf, Legal HQ grew from the experience of repeatedly reconstructing a complex dispute for professional advisers. It is a venture in formation, with an active pilot informing the broader model. Its proposed benefits remain matters for measurement. Legal HQ does not publish demonstrated savings, success rates or litigation outcomes as established results.
Legal HQ is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice or representation. Using its resources does not create an attorney-client relationship. Customers should discuss confidentiality and the use of AI tools with their lawyer before connecting case information. Legal HQ helps organize the client's side of the work so professional attention can focus on the decisions that require it.
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