Second Seat.
Legal Intelligence for Criminal Litigation.
Criminal litigators carry impossible caseloads with no support. Second Seat is the Legal Intelligence built to change that. It remembers your cases, knows your jurisdiction, and gets smarter the more you use it. Research, drafting, discovery, strategy, all from one place that actually understands your practice.
Every American deserves a fair shot at justice. Their lawyers deserve better than what exists today.
You review and sign.
We help you verify.
22 NYCRR Part 161, effective June 1, 2026, permits attorneys to use AI in preparing court filings but requires them to carefully review each paper and independently ensure it contains no fabricated or fictitious cases, statutes, or other material. The rule places the duty — and the certification — on the attorney's own review and signature.
Second Seat is built to support that review. We surface every citation, check it against authoritative sources, and flag anything we can't confirm — so your independent verification is faster and better informed. Second Seat does not make you compliant and does not provide legal advice; your review and signature remain the certification the rule requires.
The rule requires
The attorney carefully reviews each AI-assisted filing and independently confirms nothing is fabricated.
What Second Seat does
Checks every citation against authoritative sources and flags what it cannot verify, so nothing unconfirmed slips past you unnoticed.
What Second Seat does not do
It does not certify your filing, sign for you, or provide legal advice. Your judgment and signature are the certification.
A Legal Intelligence that
knows your cases.
Memory
Remembers your cases, your clients, your strategy. Every conversation picks up where you left off.
Research
Case law without hallucination. Every citation verified against live legal databases.
Drafting
Motions generated from your case context, not generic templates.
Mobile First
Built for courtrooms, not conference rooms. iOS app available now.
Not a tool. A colleague.
Memory
Second Seat remembers your cases, your clients, and your legal strategy. Come back to a case after weeks and it knows exactly where you left off. No re-explaining. No starting from scratch.
Jurisdiction-Aware
Built for criminal law across all 50 states. Second Seat knows your state’s criminal procedure, court structure, and key statutes. It applies the right law automatically.
Proactive
Second Seat doesn’t wait for you to ask the right question. It flags issues you might miss, suggests motions worth considering, and asks clarifying questions when it needs more context to be useful.
Built by people
who have lived the work.
Our co-founder spent 20 years as a public defender in NYC, handling everything from misdemeanors to homicide trials. Second Seat was built from that experience. Every workflow, every guardrail, every default reflects how criminal litigators actually work. Citations are verified against live legal databases. The intelligence is proactive, not passive. And it never forgets what you've already told it.
Verify every citation in seconds.
Legal professionals are increasingly carrying AI-generated drafts into briefs, motions, and memos. Second Seat's Citation Verifier is the internal engine we use to ground our own product, now available free to the legal community. Paste any legal text. We check every citation against authoritative sources and flag anything that cannot be verified.