Comparison
Jurata® Legal Agent vs. Weblaw Lawsearch AI
Lawsearch AI is the AI-assisted research assistant of Weblaw AG in Bern: classic search, semantic search and AI chat in the Weblaw legal database and in your own documents. The Jurata® Legal Agent from Jurata AG in Zurich combines research in Swiss legal sources with document review, drafting and a Word Add-in. The comparison is based on information publicly available from both providers. As of October 2026.
Third-party information is sourced from their public websites and documentation.
Provider, focus and support
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | Weblaw Lawsearch AI |
|---|---|---|
Provider | Jurata AG, Zurich | Weblaw AG, Bern |
Focus | AI legal assistant for client work: research, document review and drafting in one application | AI extension of Weblaw’s Lawsearch legal database, focused on legal research |
Google reviews | 5.0 stars (492 reviews) | 4.6 stars (11 reviews) |
Trustpilot reviews | 4.9 stars (87 reviews) | No Trustpilot profile |
Support | By email and via a Swiss telephone hotline; response within 24 hours (Entry) or within 4 hours (Pro and Max), during business hours | Contact by email and telephone (according to the imprint); no response times publicly documented |
Data protection and professional secrecy
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | Weblaw Lawsearch AI |
|---|---|---|
Data storage | Microsoft Azure in Switzerland (Switzerland North region); chats and documents stored encrypted and deletable at any time | Hosted in Switzerland according to the provider, on Microsoft Azure infrastructure |
Model inference (language models) | Microsoft Azure in Switzerland and the EU, never in the US | Runs in a secured Azure environment and uses the OpenAI API, according to the provider; location of model processing not publicly stated |
Training on your data | No, neither by Jurata nor by the LLM provider; zero data retention at the LLM provider | No (according to the provider) |
Professional secrecy | Legal opinion by Dr. iur. David Vasella (Walder Wyss): use, including entering client data without the client’s consent, complies with professional rules and data protection law (Art. 321 SCC, Art. 13 Lawyers Act (BGFA), FADP, GDPR) | No legal opinion on professional secrecy publicly documented; designed around the FADP and, where applicable, the GDPR according to the provider |
Swiss legal sources
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | Weblaw Lawsearch AI |
|---|---|---|
Legislation | Over 500’000 statutory provisions from federal law and all 26 cantons | Federal and cantonal legislation (according to the provider) |
Case law | Over 960’000 published decisions: Federal Supreme Court including unpublished judgments, Federal Administrative, Federal Criminal and Federal Patent Court, cantonal courts and administrative practice | Over 800’000 Swiss decisions (according to the provider) |
Citation graph | Swiss Legal Graph with around 1.5 million nodes and almost 20 million relationships; interactive citation graph in the app | Automatic reference recognition; documents linked to the original sources (according to the provider) |
Chain of instances | The citation graph links judgments to the lower-court decision and shows whether it was upheld, set aside or amended and how the proceedings ended | Not documented |
Decisions in translation | Federal Supreme Court decisions in the original and, on request, side by side in a German, French, Italian or English translation | Translation of decisions not documented; when the interface language is changed, documents remain in their original language (according to the provider) |
Research and answer quality
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | Weblaw Lawsearch AI |
|---|---|---|
Research modes | Fast mode for quick answers, Deep Agent for in-depth research | Standard search, intelligent (semantic) search and AI chat; answers either simple or in-depth |
Source verification | Answer validation: every statement is checked against the cited original sources and shown as supported, partly supported or not supported; every citation is assessed individually | Statements with directly linked sources; fact check and source check with corrections before output; display of how many statements are supported by sources (according to the provider) |
Clarifying questions | If the facts are unclear, the agent asks structured follow-up questions with options, suggested answers or form fields before continuing its research | Not documented |
Deadline calculator | Deadlines in days or months, taking into account the public holidays of the relevant canton and court holidays | Not documented for Lawsearch AI |
Commercial register | Lookup via Zefix: UID, company name, registered office, auditor and, based on SOGC publications, current authorised signatories | Not documented for Lawsearch AI |
Working with results
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | Weblaw Lawsearch AI |
|---|---|---|
Case memory | Dossiers bring together the chats and case documents of a matter; findings from earlier chats in a dossier automatically carry over into new chats | Folders and a «Dossier» field in the document storage; case memory across chats not documented |
Draft from the answer | One click turns research into a memo, a letter or an email | Copy the answer to the clipboard; drafting a memo, letter or email from the answer not documented |
Export | Individual answers or entire conversations as Word or PDF, with clickable links to Fedlex and the decisions and a list of sources | Copy the answer to the clipboard, download source documents as PDF; export of answers as Word or PDF not documented |
Skills | Personal, team and global skills; skills prepared by Jurata such as Devil’s Advocate, source check, translation and plain language | Create, save and share your own prompts; predefined questions in the LawDocs Word add-in (according to the provider); skills prepared by Weblaw not documented |
Documents, drafting and Word
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | Weblaw Lawsearch AI |
|---|---|---|
Word editor | Integrated Word editor in the workbench: fully equivalent to Microsoft Word, the file format (.docx) is 100 % preserved; tracked changes, comments and AI editing directly at the selected passage | No dedicated editor documented in Lawsearch AI; editing in Microsoft Word via the LawDocs add-in |
Drafting | Drafts in the web app and in the Word Add-in; export to Word and PDF | In the separate LawDocs Word add-in: templates, formatting and clause database (according to the provider) |
Word Add-in | In the Microsoft Marketplace; tabs Chat, Research, Draft, Revise and Review | LawDocs as a separate product with modular licensing, price on request; AI chat in the document via the LegalSearch module |
Research in Word | Search statutes and judgments directly in Word and insert them as an inline citation or footnote | LawDocs recognises and links statutes and judgments in the text and inserts the headnote or statutory text into the document; AI chat in the document via the LegalSearch module (according to the provider); insertion as a citation or footnote not documented |
Revising in Word | The agent revises the whole document or a selection; every change appears as a Word tracked change and can be accepted individually | According to the provider, LawDocs modules support drafting, revising and formatting; AI revision of the document with Word tracked changes not documented |
Document review in Word | Automatic review for terminology, cross-references, consistency, completeness, legal accuracy and ambiguity; one-click corrections | LawDocs modules for tables and indexes, cross-references and definitions, reference recognition and spell check, plus AI questions about the document (according to the provider); automatic substantive review with suggested corrections not documented |
Commercial register check in the document | The review checks companies named in the document against the commercial register (Zefix) | Not documented for LawDocs |
Conclusion: Jurata® Legal Agent compared with Weblaw Lawsearch AI
Weblaw Lawsearch AI is the AI-assisted research assistant of Weblaw AG in Bern and extends Weblaw’s Lawsearch legal database with semantic search and an AI chat with linked sources that can also draw on your own uploaded documents. According to the provider, Lawsearch AI covers federal and cantonal legislation and over 800’000 Swiss decisions and checks statements with a fact check and source check before output. For work in Word, Weblaw offers the LawDocs add-in with templates, formatting and a clause database as a separate product.
The Jurata® Legal Agent combines research in over 500’000 statutory provisions and over 960’000 published decisions with answer validation, which checks every statement against the cited original sources and assesses every citation individually. The same product includes the citation graph with the chain of instances, Federal Supreme Court decisions in the original and in translation, the deadline calculator, commercial register lookups, dossiers with case memory and skills.
The Jurata® Legal Agent offers an integrated Word editor, fully equivalent to Microsoft Word, and a Word Add-in for research, drafting, revising as Word tracked changes and automatic review. For model inference, the Jurata® Legal Agent uses Microsoft Azure in Switzerland and the EU, never in the US, and a legal opinion by Dr. iur. David Vasella (Walder Wyss) confirms that use with client data without the client’s consent complies with professional rules and data protection law. You can test the Jurata® Legal Agent free of charge for 7 days on your own case, without a credit card.
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