Westlaw costs thousands per month. Verifying citations shouldn't require a BigLaw budget.
Westlaw charges $400–$600+ per month for a solo practitioner plan. LexisNexis is comparable. For a small firm or solo attorney, that's $5,000–$7,000 per year just for the ability to check whether a citation is real.
For pro se litigants - people representing themselves - these tools are completely inaccessible. And pro se litigants are exactly the people most likely to use AI for drafting, which means they're most likely to have hallucinated citations in their filings.
Paralegals and legal assistants at small firms often don't have their own Westlaw seats. They're expected to verify citations but aren't given the tools to do it efficiently.
Most legal professionals using AI-assisted drafting don't need the full power of Westlaw or LexisNexis. They need to answer three specific questions:
1. Does this citation exist? - Is this a real case, a real statute, a real rule?
2. Is it still good law? - Has it been overruled or superseded?
3. Does it apply to my case? - Is this authority relevant to the legal issue at hand?
AI Detector Pro answers all three questions without a subscription, without a paywall, and without requiring a law degree to interpret the results.
The irony: AI tools make it easy to draft legal documents without a Westlaw subscription. But then you need a Westlaw subscription to verify what the AI wrote. ADP breaks that cycle.
| Westlaw | ADP | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | $400–600+/mo | Free during beta |
| Citation verification | Manual lookup | Automatic, all at once |
| Applicability checks | Read it yourself | Automated flagging |
| Document upload | Copy/paste citations | Upload PDF/DOCX, auto-extract |
| Full legal research | Yes (comprehensive) | No (verification only) |
| Florida focus | All jurisdictions | Florida state courts |
ADP isn't a replacement for Westlaw - it's a complement. If you need to do deep legal research, Westlaw is the gold standard. But if you need to verify whether the citations in an AI-generated brief are real and applicable, ADP does that faster and for free.
Pro se litigants who use AI to draft motions and need to verify citations before filing. Without ADP, their only option is the law library - if one is even accessible.
Paralegals who review documents and need to flag citation issues before they reach the attorney. ADP automates the tedious first pass.
Solo practitioners and small firms who can't justify $7,000/year for Westlaw just to check whether AI-generated citations are real.
Law students and clinics who are learning to verify citations but don't have access to premium databases.
During the beta period, all ADP tiers are free - including the full Verification Report (every citation checked with source links) and Deep Analysis (multi-LLM argument alignment checking). All you need is an email signup.
