# For Solo Practitioners — Niyam > AI legal research and drafting for Indian solo practitioners: find binding authority in seconds with every answer cited and good-law checked, over 72,000+ Supreme Court and High Court judgments — no junior, no firm-sized database bill. You're the partner, the associate, and the clerk. Niyam reads Indian statutes, rules, and judgments to answer in plain English, cite every proposition to its source, and check the precedent for good law — so you carry the research load of a team alone, and verify before you rely. ## What you can do - Find binding authority in seconds — no junior, no premium-database bill - Every answer cited to the section or judgment it came from - Good-law signals so you never cite an overruled precedent ## Capabilities - **Ask the question you'd ask a colleague you don't have** — Type the issue as it comes up — 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 the research a firm would split across people gets done by one person, fast. - **Your second pair of eyes is the source itself** — Working alone, there's no one to check your citation — so every proposition carries its authority. Open the cited section or judgment, read the exact paragraph, and confirm it says what Niyam says before you rely. The source is the safeguard a solo practice usually lacks. - **Catch an overruled precedent before it costs you** — With no junior to flag it, Niyam surfaces how later courts have treated a judgment — followed, distinguished, referred, or overruled — so you don't carry an overruled authority into court. When the law has moved on, it points you to the case that now governs. - **Turn the authority into the document, in one place** — Once you've found and good-law checked the authority, draft the application, legal notice, or submission from it without leaving the workspace or re-pasting the citation. The research you trust becomes the first draft, so one person moves from question to filed document without switching tools. ## How it works 1. **Ask in plain English** — Put the issue the way it comes up in the matter. Niyam reads Indian statutes, rules, and judgments to understand exactly what you mean. 2. **Get a cited answer** — Every answer comes grounded in primary sources — sections, rules, and judgments — with citations you can open and verify yourself. 3. **Verify, draft, and save** — Read the source, confirm it's still good law, draft from it, and save it to the matter — the whole loop in one workspace. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is Niyam affordable for a one-person practice? Niyam is built so a solo practitioner gets a grounded research bench without a firm's database budget. You can start with a ₹100 trial and create your account in under a minute — the research a firm splits across associates gets done by one person, at a cost a solo practice can carry. ### With no junior to check my work, can I trust the citations? Every answer links to the exact section or judgment it relied on, and Niyam checks whether that authority is still good law. The source itself is your second pair of eyes — open it, read the paragraph, and confirm it before you rely. Niyam retrieves from real Indian judgments and statutes, so it doesn't invent cases the way a free-text chatbot can. ### Can it find a case if I don't know the citation? Yes. Ask in plain English and Niyam finds the authority by the legal issue, not just the keywords — so it surfaces the case on point even when it's phrased differently from how you searched. You then open the judgment and confirm it yourself. ### 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 your professional judgment. You remain responsible for verifying every citation and deciding what to advise and argue. ### Does it help with drafting, not just research? Yes. Once you've found and good-law checked the authority, you can draft applications, legal notices, and submissions from it without leaving the workspace or re-pasting the citation — and Niyam explains each suggestion with a source you can open. The research flows straight into the document. ### Is my client work private? Yes. Your queries, matters, and saved research stay private to your account. Niyam is built for the confidentiality your clients expect — your work product is never sold and never used to train public models, even on a one-person setup. ### How quickly will it pay for itself? The first matter where you reach binding authority in seconds instead of an afternoon is the value — those are billable hours returned to your day or argument time you'd otherwise have lost. Over time, saved authorities mean each new matter starts from work you've already done. ## Get started Create your Niyam account in under a minute — ₹100 to start, 200 credits to try everything. Ask your first question and see the authority behind every answer. Start your ₹100 trial at https://app.niyam.ai/register — 200 credits to begin, cancel anytime.