Marco Reid Bench
Research and draft
from the bench.
Judges write opinions on Word with no research integration. Clerks scramble between Westlaw, Lexis, and the court library. Marco Reid Bench puts verified case law, statute, and policy research one keystroke away — with citation verification so nothing reaches the page that didn’t come from a real source.
The bench deserves better tools.
Judges spend hours researching opinions, often relying on overworked clerks and tools that were designed for law firms, not the judiciary. Westlaw and Lexis are built for associates billing by the hour — not for a judge who needs an answer in chambers before a hearing resumes. The result is a research process that is slow, fragmented, and prone to citation errors that undermine the credibility of the court.
No commercial software is built specifically for the bench. Judges draft opinions in Word with no integrated research. Clerks toggle between multiple platforms, manually verifying citations and cross-referencing case histories. Sentencing decisions are made with guidelines pulled from PDFs and spreadsheets. The gap between how judges work and how technology could support them has never been wider.
Marco Reid Bench closes that gap. It is purpose-built for judicial chambers — verified research, AI-assisted opinion drafting, and sentencing aids in a single sovereign platform that never trains on your data and never hallucinates a citation.
How it works.
Query from chambers
The judge asks Marco a research question — natural language, no boolean operators. Verified citations with full-text sources are returned in seconds, not hours.
Draft with AI assistance
Marco assists in drafting bench memos and opinions in your chambers’ voice. Every citation is checked against the live corpus. Nothing reaches the page that isn’t real.
Access sentencing aids and references
Look up sentencing guidelines, comparable case ranges, and multi-jurisdictional references — federal, state, foreign, and international law — from one interface.
What it does.
Verified research
Case law, statute, regulation — every citation checked
Opinion drafting
Bench memos and draft opinions in chambers' voice
Sentencing aids
Guidelines lookup, comparable case ranges
Bench book
Personalised checklists for routine motions
Confidential by design
Sovereign deployment, zero training on chambers data
Marco at the bench
Live research during hearings
Multi-jurisdictional
Federal, state, foreign and international law
Citation graph
Subsequent treatment, overruling, distinguishing
A day on the bench.
From morning docket to final opinion, Marco Reid Bench works alongside chambers staff at every stage — never replacing judgment, always accelerating it.
8:30 AM
Morning docket review
Before the first hearing, Marco has already prepared AI-generated briefs for every matter on the calendar. Key precedents are surfaced, conflicts are flagged, and the judge walks into the courtroom prepared — not scrambling.
11:00 AM
Mid-hearing citation check
Counsel cites a case the judge hasn’t seen. One keystroke and Marco verifies it in real time — confirming it hasn’t been overruled, distinguishing it from the facts at hand, and surfacing contrary authority. No recess needed.
3:00 PM
Opinion drafting
Back in chambers, the judge outlines a ruling. Marco drafts supporting analysis in chambers’ voice, inserting verified citations, checking for subsequent treatment, and formatting to local rules. Hours of work become minutes of review.
“Judges report spending 40%of their time on administrative tasks. Marco Reid Bench gives that time back.”
Request a pilot for your court.
Marco Reid Bench deploys on your infrastructure with zero data leaving chambers. We work with courts of every size — from single-judge rural courts to multi-division state systems. Start with a 90-day pilot and see the difference purpose-built judicial technology makes.