Intellegal is an AI legal-research platform built for Philippine law by Technese Legaltech Inc. These guides walk through the four tools that set it apart — Case Contrast, Contract Review, Deep Synthesis, and Visual Digest — each with an honest, step-by-step "how it works" plus a short overview, alongside perspectives on building a legal-research workflow you can verify.
Product News
The latest on Intellegal's tools for Philippine law.
- Deep Synthesis: Philippine Jurisprudence You Can Check — a research page you can check, case by case: the timeline, the disposition panels, and what each dot opens.
- Upload a Scanned PDF — Contract Review and Visual Digest now read scanned, image-based PDFs (the kind whose text can't be selected), with no retyping or converting first.
- History Management: Your Saved Legal Research — every report, digest, and review is saved to your history and reopens in one click, across Deep Synthesis, Visual Digest, and Contract Review.
- Visual Digest & Citation Map for Philippine Case Law — see any Philippine decision broken down, and its web of related cases, statutes, and doctrines, all traceable to source.
- Intellegal Is Now an Installable Web App — add all six Philippine legal-research tools to your phone's home screen, every citation verifiable on the go.
- The New Law Explorer: Precise Philippine Law Search — find the exact Philippine law faster, with cleaner, more relevant results.
Perspectives
How to think about AI in Philippine legal practice.
- Don't Trust Your Legal AI. Verify It. — why verifiability is the standard for AI legal research, and how to work that way.
Practitioner Insights
Lawyer-reviewed notes on Philippine legal practice and verifiable AI.
- Why You Must Verify Your Legal AI — the professional duty to verify AI legal output, and what “verifiable” means.
- Landmark Philippine Supreme Court Decisions — the most-cited Philippine SC doctrines by practice area, each traceable to its source.
- What a One-Case Summary Can’t Tell You — why a single case summary misses doctrine drift.
- The Clause That Isn’t There — missing-clause risk in Philippine contracts, each finding backed by its legal basis.
- Illegal Dismissal: Cause and Process — the two-test doctrine for a valid Philippine dismissal.
Case Contrast
Compare two Philippine cases side by side — facts, issues, holdings, and reasoning.
- How Case Contrast Works — the step-by-step account.
- Case Contrast — overview — what it does, at a glance.
Contract Review
Review a contract against Philippine law — risk-rated flags, a legal basis for each, and a usable redline.
- How Contract Review Works — the step-by-step account.
- Contract Review — overview — what it does, at a glance.
Deep Synthesis
Plain-language deep research into a cited, IRAC-structured report for Philippine law.
- How Deep Synthesis Works — the step-by-step account.
- Deep Synthesis — overview — what it does, at a glance.
Visual Digest
Upload a decision or contract — get a summary, structured highlights, and four linked visualizations.
- How Visual Digest Works — the step-by-step account.
- Visual Digest — overview — what it does, at a glance.
Legal Guides
Practical guides to Philippine law and procedure — which action to file, whether an authority still holds, and what decides it.
- Is a Philippine Case Still Good Law? — the three ways an authority goes stale, why "overruled" is rarely a clean switch, and how to check the later decisions and the current statutory text before you rely on it.
- Which Ejectment Case Do You File? — forcible entry or unlawful detainer: how the defendant's possession began decides the action, and the one-year clock starts on a different date for each.
Civil Law
Plain-language overviews of core Philippine civil-law concepts.
- Obligations and Contracts — a bar-prep overview — the requisites, sources, and how contracts bind under the Civil Code.
Legal Ethics
The rules that govern Philippine lawyers.
- The Revised Lawyer's Oath (2023) — the 2023 oath under the CPRA: full text, its meaning, and what changed.
Constitutional Law
Landmark Philippine constitutional doctrines, explained.
- The Mandanas Ruling, Explained — how G.R. 199802 redefined the LGU just share (IRA) and its fiscal impact.
Try the tools
All six features of Intellegal, built for Philippine law.
- Case-Law Analytics — search jurisprudence and build a cited insight report.
- Deep Synthesis — plain-language deep research into a cited report.
- Law Explorer — search statutes and issuances and read the full text.
- Case Contrast — compare decisions side by side.
- Visual Digest — summarize and visualize a decision or contract.
- Contract Review — review a contract against Philippine law.