For South African advocates, law firms, attorneys, candidate attorneys and law students
LegalBrain brings practice tools for advocates, law firms and attorneys, and study tools for law students, into one place, with AI-assisted legal research that shows the sources behind each point.
Free to use until further notice. No payment details needed.
Advocate / attorney portal
Student portal
Choose your pathway when you create your account. Each opens its own portal.
The Advocate Portal: matters, documents and dates in one place, with AI help for first drafts and research.
One enterprise account for the whole firm: every person gets their own workspace, organised in ranks.
The Attorney Portal: the same practice tools, set up for attorneys, candidate attorneys and their staff.
Organise your modules and study material, and practise in the formats you will be examined in.
The tools available today, by pathway. How the legal AI works
Practitioners and firms
Describe the matter and choose a document type, such as heads of argument, an affidavit or a letter of demand, to get a first draft to review, edit and save.
Advocates, law firms and attorneys
Matters, a court diary, filing deadlines, templates and client invoices, organised by matter. Advocates and attorneys also keep client records and documents.
Practitioners, firms and students
Ask a question in plain language. Research searches public South African legal sources and writes a memo that links each point to the source it used, so you can check it.
Students
Plain-language guides to nineteen core LLB modules, from Introduction to Law to Civil Procedure, with practice after each topic. Written for South African students and still in beta.
Students
Upload PDFs to your library and generate structured study notes from them, then keep and edit your own notes.
Students
Choose ready-made flashcard sets for each module, by topic or mixed, and review them on a schedule that brings back the cards you find harder.
Students
Create practice tests on a topic, answer them, and review the marked results.
AI output can be wrong. Check it independently; it does not replace professional judgement.
Your name, email address and a password, and whether you are a practitioner, a firm or a student. No payment details.
Practitioners and firms go straight to their dashboard. Students choose their university, degree, year and modules, or skip this and do it later.
Use the tools for your pathway. Check AI output against the sources and your own judgement before you rely on it.
Research looks first to public South African legal sources, such as SAFLII judgments, legislation on gov.za and the South African Law Library, and links to what it finds. How SA case law research works.
Student set-up starts from South African universities and law degrees, and the tools are written for South African law.
Universities set their own curricula, and LegalBrain does not cover every topic in depth. Always follow your course outline, your prescribed material and your lecturers.
Advocates, law firms, attorneys, candidate attorneys and law students working with South African law. Each has its own portal with the tools listed on this page.
Yes. LegalBrain is free to use until further notice. Creating an account does not ask for payment details.
Choose "Create a free account", enter your name, email address and a password, and pick your pathway: advocate, law firm, attorney, candidate attorney or law student. Assistant, intern and candidate attorney accounts are added by the advocate or attorney they work with.
Advocates and attorneys each get their own portal with clients, cases, documents, drafts, an AI drafting assistant, legal research, client invoices, a court diary, deadlines, templates and staff access. Firms get one enterprise account: each person (Director, Senior Associate, Associate or Attorney) has their own workspace with the practice tools, superiors can oversee, edit, review and reassign the work of those below them, and every oversight action is logged. A sole practitioner can still open their own attorney or advocate account. Students get modules, plain-language study guides, a PDF library, AI study notes, flashcards, mock exams and legal research.
AI features generate study notes, mock exams, first drafts and research memos. AI can be wrong or out of date, and it can miss points. Treat its output as a starting point, not a final answer.
Yes. Research memos link to the sources they used so you can read them yourself. LegalBrain is not legal advice and does not replace a lawyer or professional judgement. Students should follow their own course outlines and prescribed material.
Free to use until further notice. It takes a name, an email address and a password.
