Miss Lucy Blog

Ideas, manifestos, and research at the intersection of law and AI.

12 August 2026One Card for the Whole RunMiss Lucy used to show you five different progress surfaces for one piece of work. Since last week there is one card, it says which phase she is in, and when she is finished it tells you what the run cost you in tokens.
12 August 2026The Most-Cited Authority in Our Database Was Not a JudgmentRank Indian case law by how often it is cited and the top of the list is the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, with 497,050 citations. The most-cited actual judgment comes fifth. Here is why that matters if a machine is doing your research.
12 August 2026Your Statute Book Still Cites the IPCThe Indian Penal Code was repealed on 1 July 2024. We counted how many sections of other Central Acts still name it: 988 sections across 380 Acts. None of them is a mistake, and that is exactly the problem.
12 August 2026What a Citation Goes Through Before It Reaches YouWe keep a log of every citation our checker has stopped. 676 of them so far. The fabricated ones are not the interesting number — 10 were invented, and 448 were real citations attached to the wrong case.
4 August 2026The High Courts Are InMiss Lucy's record of judgments now covers the High Courts as well as the Supreme Court. For most matters, the authority that settles the point is your own High Court's, and that is the part of the research that used to be left to you.
7 July 2026Reading a High Court order for the point that actually mattersA practical look at working through an impugned High Court order — separating the finding from the narration, spotting what was actually decided, and how Miss Lucy gives you a structured first read.
6 July 2026Miss Lucy Lite — Free Legal Help in Plain EnglishAround five crore cases are pending in Indian courts, and yet most legal problems in this country never reach a lawyer at all. The first answer costs too much. We've built a second product to make the first answer free.
21 June 2026Drafting an affidavit, faster: getting the format right every timeA practical look at preparing an affidavit in India — the format, the verification clause, the deponent details, and how an AI legal assistant gives you a clean first draft instead of a blank page.
21 June 2026Drafting an anticipatory bail application, fasterA practical look at preparing an anticipatory bail application in India — the grounds, the case law on custodial interrogation and economic offences, and how an AI legal assistant gives you a first draft to edit instead of a blank page.
21 June 2026Researching Article 21 and fundamental-rights case law, fasterA practical look at finding the right Article 21 and fundamental-rights authority for your matter — the doctrine, the controlling judgments, and how an AI legal assistant surfaces the cases you need instead of a blank search box.
21 June 2026Drafting a bail application, faster: how Miss Lucy helpsA practical look at preparing a bail application in India — the structure, the case law you need, and how an AI legal assistant gives you a first draft to edit instead of a blank page.
21 June 2026Drafting a Section 138 cheque bounce complaint, fasterA practical look at preparing a Section 138 Negotiable Instruments Act complaint — the statutory notice, the limitation timeline, the ingredients, and how an AI legal assistant gives you a first draft instead of a blank page.
21 June 2026Drafting a habeas corpus petition, fasterA practical look at preparing a habeas corpus petition in India — the grounds, the urgency, the case law on illegal detention, and how an AI legal assistant gives you a first draft instead of a blank page.
21 June 2026Drafting an application for temporary injunction, fasterA practical look at preparing an Order 39 injunction application in India — the three-fold test, the case law, and how an AI legal assistant gives you a first draft to sharpen instead of a blank page.
21 June 2026Drafting a legal notice, faster: how Miss Lucy helpsA practical look at preparing a legal notice in India — the structure, the tone, the legal basis, and how an AI legal assistant gives you a first draft to edit instead of a blank page.
21 June 2026Finding the case law for a 498A quashing petition, fasterA practical look at preparing a quashing petition under Section 482 in a 498A matter — the grounds, the controlling authority, and how an AI legal assistant gives you the cases and a first draft instead of a blank page.
21 June 2026Finding the case law to quash an FIR under Section 482, fasterA practical look at preparing a petition to quash an FIR under Section 482 CrPC — the grounds, the controlling authority, and how an AI legal assistant gives you the cases and a first draft instead of a blank page.
21 June 2026Drafting a Special Leave Petition: the SLP workflow, made fasterA practical look at preparing an SLP under Article 136 — the format, the grounds, the question of law, and how an AI legal assistant gives you a first draft to refine instead of a blank page.
21 June 2026Drafting a writ petition under Article 226: where the time really goesA practical look at preparing a writ petition in India — the structure, the grounds, the case law on maintainability, and how an AI legal assistant gives you a first draft to sharpen instead of a blank page.
8 June 2026Citations You Can Open, Documents She Can Read, and a Mac App You Can Download TodayWhat we've been building so a lawyer can trust Miss Lucy with real work: a citation system you can verify yourself, the controls that keep her from inventing a case, and a Mac app you can download today.
21 April 2026Your client's AI chats are not privateA US federal court has ruled that attorney–client privilege doesn't survive a client's use of consumer AI. The legal half of the story is in the Indian advocate's lane; the software half is where most of the commentary is going wrong.
28 March 2026Lawyers in India need capacity, not software79% of advocates in their first two years of practice earn under ₹10,000 a month. They can't hire help. They can't buy time. What they need is something no legal tech product has offered them yet — the ability to do more.
10 March 2026Most Legal AI Tools Have the Memory of a GoldfishYou spend forty minutes working through a problem with an AI tool, close the tab, and the next morning the AI has no idea who you are. Every session starts from zero.
4 March 2026India's Legal System Doesn't Need a Revolution — It Needs a Generation Leap.Kirkland & Ellis made $8.8 billion in 2024. India's top firms are estimated at $100–130 million each. That gap is both monumentally large and deliciously ripe for narrowing.