Tools
Six of them, developed over twenty-five years drafting for the House of Representatives in the Massachusetts General Court. One is open to anyone. The rest are free, behind a login, because I add each member myself. I would rather know who is using them.
Paste in a bill or a section of the General Laws. It flags the words and phrases that cause trouble later — undefined terms, definitions that conflict across chapters, and language that will read one way to the drafter and another to a court.
The public face of Application 1. Three detection layers (cross-chapter definitional conflicts, regulatory overlays, undefined terms), severity-ranked alerts, and a disposition record for every one.
Request accessPut a drafting question to the Legislative Research and Drafting Manual and get an answer. Capitalization, structure, the conventions you would otherwise stop and look up.
Grounded in the General Court's own manual, so the answer comes with the passage it rests on.
Request accessThe Supreme Judicial Court Style Manual, 2025–2026 edition, made answerable — for work that has to match the court's own conventions.
Citation form, captions, signals, short forms, quotation formatting, hyphenation. Covers the full manual and all twelve appendices.
Request accessTurns what you are looking for into a Westlaw boolean search.
Describe the question in plain language; get a search string with connectors and field restrictions you can paste straight in.
Request accessChapter 62 drawn as a single path from federal gross income to net tax — the Part A, B and C rate categories, the loss netting between them, the Fair Share surtax, the pass-through entity election.
Select any point on the diagram for the statutory definition behind it, or put a scenario to the assistant. Covers IRC conformity and decoupling, the § 2 modifications, deductions and exemptions, elective PTE excises under c. 63D, and credits down to net tax.
Educational only. Not legal or tax advice.
Request accessTwenty-five Massachusetts special acts from 2020 to 2025 authorizing police officers to serve past the mandatory retirement age of 65 — full statutory text, side by side, with a plain-language query tool.
A worked example of corpus drafting: the question that spans dozens of acts, answered from what the General Court has already enacted. Quotes exact statutory text and keeps conversation history for follow-ups.
Open the toolThe tools are free. Email me and I will set up your access.
Tell me who you are and what you draft. Legislative staff, municipal counsel, practitioners, students — all welcome. I add members by hand, usually the same day.
The tools are educational. They are built on Claude and grounded in the public texts named on each card, and their output is a starting point for a lawyer's judgment, not a substitute for it.