REGULA vs. Paxton AI
Why pay for a tool built for everyone
when you only practice criminal defense?
Paxton AI is a general legal AI assistant sold across practice areas, starting at $499/user/month. REGULA does one thing: criminal defense, starting at $129/mo, about 74% less per seat.
Paxton AI Individual
$499/user/mo
One general-purpose AI assistant, sold the same way to every practice area, corporate, employment, family, personal injury, and criminal alike.
REGULA+ AI Solo
$129/mo
Full AI drafting starts one tier up, at $299/mo (40% less than Paxton Individual), still purpose-built for a criminal caseload, not adapted from a general practice tool.
Solo
$129/mo
Solo Pro
$299/mo
Firm
$699/mo
Enterprise
$1,499/mo
More than a research assistant
A general assistant answers questions.
REGULA works the case with you.
Focus on your clients and the courtroom. REGULA handles the paperwork, from the police report to the hearing to your next filing, and every word is yours to review and sign.
REGULA Second Chair listens to the hearing
When the prosecutor or the court cites a case or statute, Second Chair checks it against a real lookup while it is still being said, flags what does not hold up, and flags issues that may need preserving for appeal. It never tells you what to say; your judgment leads.
The hearing writes itself back into the case
Notes, judge directives, new facts, and your next hearing date land in the case file the second the hearing wraps, ready to become your next motion in one click.
Dockets that update themselves
Automatic Docket Sync keeps every open case current from the clerk’s website and fills in Case Overview with the judge, charges, bond, and every docket entry, clearing the CAPTCHAs for you.
Rachel is your AI paralegal
She checks your court dockets and puts hearings on your calendar, drafts and proofreads routine motions from your own templates, and sits in on the hearing as your Second Chair. Once a motion is signed and you have reviewed it, she e-files it through your own court portal and hands off to you for payment and login codes.
Trained on your own filings
Upload motions you have already filed. REGULA learns your writing, argument, citation, and formatting style, so drafts sound like you instead of a generic legal voice.
1-Click Filings from your templates
Hit “Save as template” in the editor and any reusable filing becomes a one-click template with named blanks like [Enter Date], captioned for your next case.
Feature by feature
- AI drafting grounded in retrieved, shown citationsYesGeneral knowledge base
- Live AI sidebar inside the drafting editor itselfYesNo
- Built only for criminal defense: arraignment, bond, discovery, speedy trialYesBuilt for multiple practice areas
- Charging & Elements: statutory counts + sentencing exposure, per caseYesNo
- Case file builds itself from the police report on uploadYesNo
- Case law & statute research, all 50 states + federalYesYes
- Evidence / document AI analysisYesYes
- REGULA Second Chair: live hearing assistant that checks the law as it is spoken and flags appeal-preservation issuesYesNot in published plan
- Hearing notes, judge directives, and next hearing date written back into the case fileYesNot in published plan
- Automatic Docket Sync: county court dockets pulled in and kept current, CAPTCHAs cleared for youYesNot in published plan
- Rachel, the AI paralegal who checks dockets, drafts, supports the hearing, and e-files your signed, reviewed motion through your own court portalYesNot in published plan
- Train the AI on your own past filings so drafts match your writing and argument styleYesNot in published plan
- 1-Click Filings from your own saved templates, with named blanksYesNot in published plan
- Client summaries and in-hearing chat built for criminal defenseYesNot in published plan
- Practice-management integrations (Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, Zapier/Make)Coming soonNot in published plan
- You review and sign every filing; nothing leaves without your signatureYesNo
Paxton AI's Individual plan is published at $499/user/month. Pricing and feature claims for Paxton AI reflect their publicly listed plan as of this writing. Confirm current pricing at paxton.ai. Questions about REGULA's own security model can go to support@regulalegal.com. REGULA is not affiliated with or endorsed by Paxton AI.
Rachel & Automatic Docket Sync
Court first. Clients next. Home early.
The two jobs that eat a defense attorney’s afternoon are checking clerk websites and e-filing. REGULA hands both to software, and you review everything that goes out under your name.
01 · Court first
Walk in knowing what was filed
Automatic Docket Sync refreshes every open case each afternoon, after the clerk posts the day’s entries. You start the next morning already knowing what changed, without logging in to a single clerk’s website or solving a CAPTCHA.
02 · Then clients
Your time goes to people, not portals
Once a motion is signed and you’ve reviewed it, Rachel files it in your court’s portal in her own secure browser, in the background, after already doing the dockets, the calendar and the routine drafting. She only pauses for the steps that need you, like a payment, so you can stay with your client.
03 · Home early
The paperwork tail gets shorter
With the docket current and the filing made and noted in Case Notes, there’s less left to do at the end of the day. That is the time REGULA is built to give back.
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