# For Law Firms — Niyam > AI legal research and drafting for Indian law firms: one cited, good-law-checked standard across every associate and matter, grounded in 72,000+ Supreme Court and High Court judgments, with client work product kept private. Give the whole firm one grounded workspace: Indian statutes, rules, and judgments answered in plain English, every output cited to the section or judgment it relied on, and checked for good law. The junior's first draft and the partner's final read start from the same defensible source — and your people verify before they rely. ## What you can do - Consistent, cited research across associates and practice groups - Good-law signals so no associate cites an overruled precedent - Private workspace — matters never sold or used to train public models ## Capabilities - **Every associate asks the question and gets a cited answer** — Associates type the issue the way they'd ask a senior — no boolean operators, no citation syntax. Niyam reads the relevant statutes and judgments and answers in plain English, with the controlling authority shown alongside, so juniors reach the point that decides the matter at the firm's standard from day one. - **Review the source, not a black box** — Every proposition carries its authority, so a partner reviewing an associate's work opens the cited section or judgment, reads the exact paragraph, and confirms it says what the draft says. Review becomes exercising judgment over a defensible source rather than reconstructing the research from scratch. - **Protect the firm's name from an overruled citation** — Niyam surfaces how later courts have treated a judgment — followed, distinguished, referred, or overruled — so no associate, however junior, builds a position on a precedent the courts have moved past. When the law has changed, it points to the authority that now governs. - **Keep the chain of authority in the matter** — Authorities, answers, and notes save to the matter they belong to, so a team carrying a matter across associates and weeks works from one shared, cited record. The next person picks up the established position instead of starting the research over. ## How it works 1. **Ask in plain English** — An associate puts the issue the way they'd ask a senior. Niyam reads Indian statutes, rules, and judgments to understand exactly what they mean. 2. **Get a cited answer** — Every answer comes grounded in primary sources — sections, rules, and judgments — with citations the partner can open and verify. 3. **Verify and save to the matter** — Read the source, confirm it's still good law, draft from it, and save the authority to the matter so the team works from one record. ## Frequently asked questions ### How does Niyam keep research consistent across associates? Every associate works from the same grounded corpus of Indian statutes and judgments and the same cited output format, so research quality stops depending on who ran it. Authorities save to the matter, so a partner reviews against one shared, cited record rather than reconstructing each associate's path. ### Is our client work product private? Yes. Your firm's queries, matters, and saved research stay private to your account. Niyam is built for the confidentiality firms owe clients — your work product is never sold and never used to train public models. ### Does it stop a junior from citing overruled law? Niyam surfaces a precedent's treatment history — whether later courts followed, distinguished, referred to, or overruled it — so any associate can see at a glance whether a case is safe to cite. When a judgment has been overruled, it points to the authority that now governs, so the firm's name doesn't sit behind a stale citation. ### Is this legal advice? No. Niyam is legal research and drafting tooling that provides legal information grounded in primary sources. It does not create an advocate–client relationship and does not replace the advice of the firm's qualified advocates. Your people remain responsible for verifying every citation and exercising professional judgment. ### Can an AI be trusted not to invent cases in a firm setting? Niyam answers by retrieving from a corpus of real Indian judgments and statutes, then citing what it relied on — it doesn't generate citations from nothing the way a free-text chatbot can. If a case is cited, it exists and any partner can open it. Every claim carries a source the firm verifies, so no fabricated authority reaches a filing. ### How does research connect to drafting and matters? Research is the entry point. Once an associate has found and good-law checked the authority, they can draft from it and save the authority to the matter — so the team works from one record, the partner sees the chain of authority, and nobody re-pastes citations between tools. ### How fast can the firm get value? Associates reach a cited answer in seconds, so the value shows in the first matter. The deeper value is consistency — a defensible standard built into every associate's first pass instead of one reconstructed at each level of review. ## Get started Create your Niyam account in under a minute — ₹100 to start, 200 credits to try everything. See how a consistent, cited workspace changes review across the firm. Start your ₹100 trial at https://app.niyam.ai/register — 200 credits to begin, cancel anytime.