Your judgment leads.
Second Chair checks the law.
REGULA Second Chair listens to your hearing, takes your notes, and verifies the law the moment the prosecutor or the court cites it. If a case or statute is misstated, you see the flag. Ask it a legal question mid-hearing, and when it’s over it schedules your next date and drafts the update for your client. You stay focused on your client. Every decision stays yours.
Live Transcript · Diarized
Mic On00:41 · ProsecutorUnder section 901.151, an officer may stop anyone on a hunch, Your Honor.
00:58 · JudgeCounsel for the defense, your response?
01:02 · DefenseYour Honor, if I may…
Law check · Flagged for your review
00:59
Statement doesn’t match the statute
Prosecutor cited § 901.151 for a stop on a hunch; the statute requires reasonable suspicion of a crime.
Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968): stop and frisk; reasonable suspicion required
Preservation flag: objection overruled: issue may need preserving for appeal.
When the gavel falls: synced back to the case
Short Answer
REGULA Second Chair is a live microphone session that transcribes and diarizes a hearing as it happens, takes your notes, and verifies the law the prosecutor and the court state against real, cited authority, flagging anything that doesn’t hold up. It never scripts what you say. It isn’t a standalone recorder: ending the session writes a summary into Case Notes, can move the case’s next court date, flags newly-mentioned evidence for the Evidence Vault, and offers one-click drafting of the motion that naturally follows what was just heard. The hearing becomes part of the same case file every other REGULA tool already reads from.
How It Fits the Rest of the Case
Four steps, from the mic going on to the next motion started.
01 · Listen
The mic goes on, the case is already known
Inside a case, Second Chair already knows who this is. From the homepage, pick the case from your list of active cases before the session starts.
02 · Verify
The law is checked as it’s spoken
When the prosecutor or the court states the law, Second Chair looks up the authority and checks it, and it listens for rulings that may need preserving for appeal. Anything misstated, mis-cited, or in conflict with your case file is flagged, every citation traced to an actual lookup, never invented. What you do with it is your call.
03 · Sync
The hearing writes itself into the case
End the session and REGULA adds a Case Notes entry summarizing the hearing, updates the next court date if one was set on the record, and flags any newly-mentioned evidence for the Evidence Vault.
04 · Draft
The next filing, started before you sit down
One-Click Post-Hearing Motion Generation drafts the natural next motion straight from the structured transcript, dropped into the Live Editor for you to review, revise, and file.
What is REGULA Second Chair?
REGULA Second Chair is a live, mic-driven assistant for defense attorneys in the courtroom. It listens to a hearing as it happens, transcribes and diarizes every speaker in real time, takes your notes, logs your next hearing, and verifies the law the prosecutor and the court cite, flagging anything that doesn’t hold up.
It never tells you what to say or what to argue. Your judgment and your advocacy stay yours; Second Chair handles the note-taking, the calendar, and the legal verification so your attention stays on the client and the bench. It starts from a launcher on the homepage, or from inside any case’s tool dock, where the case is already known.
Does Second Chair tell me what to say in court?
No. Second Chair is built to support an attorney’s judgment, not replace it. It does not script arguments or objections. It verifies what others say, flags discrepancies, and keeps the record organized.
Every flag is written as a neutral finding, what was said, by whom, and whether the authority supports it, and the attorney decides what, if anything, to do with it.
How does Second Chair listen to a hearing?
Audio streams live from the browser’s own microphone straight to transcription. It never touches REGULA’s servers as audio, only as text. Each turn is diarized (judge, prosecutor, defense, witness, clerk) and appears in a live transcript as the hearing unfolds.
Speaker tags are assigned automatically from the audio and can be relabeled on the fly, so "Speaker 1" becomes "Judge" once, and stays that way for the rest of the session.
What if the prosecutor or the court misstates the law?
When the prosecutor or the judge cites a case, statute, or rule, Second Chair looks up that authority in real time and checks it against how it was used. If it was misstated or mis-cited, a flag appears with the specific discrepancy and the authority it rests on, and if the lookup doesn’t support a misstatement, it doesn’t accuse one.
Speakers need to be labeled (Speaker 1 → Prosecutor) for the automatic check to know who is talking. Automatic checks are paced so a burst of citations doesn’t flood the screen, and "Check what was just said" always works on demand.
Can I ask legal questions during the hearing?
Yes. Inside a live session there is a question box: type something like "is a non-custodial stop covered by Miranda?" and get a short answer with citations drawn from an actual case-law or statute lookup, not the model’s memory.
Does Second Chair ever invent the law it cites?
No. Every flag is grounded the same way every other answer on the platform is: the law it cites has to come back from an actual case-law or statute lookup made during that same check, never from the model’s own memory. If nothing is retrieved, it says so rather than guessing.
This is the same grounding guarantee the rest of REGULA’s research runs on. See the "Zero Hallucinated Citations" section on the homepage.
How does Second Chair tie into the rest of the case?
A hearing isn’t a side conversation. It’s part of the same case record every other tool on REGULA reads from. Ending a session runs an automatic sync: a Case Notes entry summarizing what happened, an updated next-hearing date if one was set on the record, and any newly-mentioned evidence added to the Evidence Vault.
That’s the difference between Second Chair and a plain recording app: the hearing doesn’t just get transcribed, it gets absorbed into the case the same way a filed document or an uploaded exhibit would be.
What does REGULA do with the hearing after it ends?
It leaves behind a downloadable, structured transcript, timestamped, diarized, and offset from the start of the session, and offers One-Click Post-Hearing Motion Generation: drafting the natural next filing (a Motion to Suppress, a renewed objection) directly from what was just heard, ready to open in the Live Editor. It can also draft a plain-English update for your client and their family, including a short text message you can copy and send after you review it.
The attorney still reviews and files every draft. Second Chair removes the blank-page time cost of writing the motion from scratch the same day as the hearing. It doesn’t remove the attorney’s judgment on what to file.
Which cases can I use Second Chair on?
Only your own active cases. From the homepage you pick the case from a dropdown of your active cases before the session starts; closed or archived cases and anyone else’s cases can’t be selected.
From inside a case’s own tool dock, the case is already known, so this identification step doesn’t appear at all. The mic is one tap away.
Can I give Second Chair notes about the hearing?
Yes. Before starting a session, an attorney can add notes for that hearing, for example "motion to suppress the stop; watch for custody and Miranda issues", so Second Chair knows what matters most to check. It’s optional: leaving it blank still verifies whatever the hearing actually raises.
Is Second Chair part of REGULA’s existing plans, or a separate product?
It’s part of REGULA, the same platform as REGULA + AI research and drafting, just listening instead of typed. It appears as its own tile inside a case, and as a standalone launcher from the homepage, on the same subscription REGULA already runs on.