Launch — OpusLaw India
Indian case law,
now inside
OpusLaw.
Live Supreme Court and High Court judgments, pulled directly from Indian Kanoon and wired into ten surfaces across OpusLaw — /chat plus nine Practice Hub tools including Judge Research, Shepardize, Deep Research, Motion Generator, and more. Built for the 1.4 million attorneys practising in India.
For attorneys practising in India, authoritative case law has always been the anchor of serious legal work. Every motion, opinion, and strategy memo ultimately rests on whether the judgments you cite are real, relevant, and correctly applied.
Today, OpusLaw integrates with Indian Kanoon — the most comprehensive open-access Indian case law database — across ten distinct surfaces of the platform. The integration works automatically. There is nothing to install or configure. If you are practising in India, OpusLaw now behaves like a research assistant who has read the full corpus of the Supreme Court and every High Court, and knows which of those judgments to cite when you are drafting a motion, preparing a trial brief, researching a judge, or analysing a Shepard's-style citation history.
Where to use it
Ten surfaces. One integrated corpus.
/chat — Relevant Case Law
Ask any legal question in chat. When the response is ready, tap Relevant Case Law beneath the reply. OpusLaw identifies the cases worth reading and links you straight to the judgment on Indian Kanoon — no second search required.
Legal Search, Legal Memo, Motion Generator, Trial Brief
The drafting surfaces that lean hardest on citations. Every one of them now injects real Indian judgments into the AI's working context before a single word is written, so binding precedent is quoted accurately rather than reconstructed from memory.
Statutory Research, Pleading Drafter, Universal Legal Expert
Cross-reference Indian statutes against the judgments that interpret them. Draft pleadings anchored to the authorities a court will actually recognise. Run general Indian-law Q&A grounded in the real case corpus.
Shepardize — Indian citation lookup
Paste a citation in SCC, AIR, SCR, or SCC OnLine format. OpusLaw resolves it on Indian Kanoon, surfaces the underlying judgment, and analyses treatment — so the validation is grounded in a real opinion, not a hallucination.
Deep Research — per-thread grounding
The multi-pass legal research agent now pulls Indian Kanoon references on every research thread, in parallel with Google grounding. Five or six threads of real precedent, compiled into a single memorandum.
Judge Research — Indian judges
For Indian-family jurisdictions, Judge Research now pulls opinions authored by the named judge directly from Indian Kanoon. The AI analyses ruling patterns and writing style from the real sample, not guesses.
How it works
Automatic. Attributed. Resilient.
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Automatic jurisdiction detection
OpusLaw detects your practising jurisdiction from your IP location. Attorneys in India are routed to Indian Kanoon; attorneys in the United States continue to use CourtListener. No toggles, no setup.
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Live search and citation lookup
When the AI references a case, OpusLaw queries Indian Kanoon in real time for the direct judgment link. Citation formats like (2017) 10 SCC 1, AIR 2023 SC 451, and plain case names are all supported.
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Multilingual-aware
Queries work in English and Hindi, including Devanagari script input. Results respect the case law corpus of India — Supreme Court, 25 High Courts, and major tribunals — with proper attribution to Indian Kanoon.
Built for Indian practice
Designed around how Indian attorneys actually work.
Generic AI tools treat Indian case law as a footnote. They hallucinate citations, ignore the distinction between a Supreme Court ruling and a High Court order, and miss the formats that matter. OpusLaw was rebuilt so that an attorney in Mumbai, Delhi, or Bangalore gets the same quality of integrated research that an attorney in New York has long taken for granted.
Supreme Court & High Courts
Direct links to judgments across the Supreme Court of India and every High Court, including Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, and Karnataka.
Citation parsing
Full support for Indian citation formats: SCC, AIR, SCR, SCC OnLine, and more. Neutral citations resolve directly to the underlying judgment.
Resilient by design
If the Indian Kanoon service is temporarily unavailable, OpusLaw quietly falls back to AI-driven analysis. Your work product is never interrupted.
Mandatory attribution
Every surface that renders Indian Kanoon data — case-law tiles, Judge Research footer, tool outputs — displays a "Powered by Indian Kanoon" badge, meeting the platform's terms and crediting the open-access legal database properly.
Ten integrated tools
Relevant Case Law in /chat, plus nine Practice Hub tools wired directly into the Indian case corpus: Legal Search, Legal Memo, Motion Generator, Trial Brief, Pleading Drafter, Statutory Research, Universal Legal Expert, Shepardize, Deep Research, and Judge Research.
Silent failure by design
If Indian Kanoon returns no match, is rate-limited, or is briefly unreachable, the tool produces its normal AI-grounded output. No error banners, no interrupted drafts, no mention of the backend in the UI.
"Research that used to take an afternoon at the library now takes a minute. And the citations are real."
Advocate, Bombay High Court
A note on attribution
Indian Kanoon is an independent, open-access legal information platform that has made the Indian judicial record searchable for over a decade. Every case card, search result, and judgment link in OpusLaw that draws from Indian Kanoon carries proper attribution. We encourage every attorney who benefits from this integration to visit indiankanoon.org directly for deeper research and to support the continued availability of open legal information in India.
This launch covers every surface of OpusLaw where Indian case law meaningfully improves the output — ten integrations in all. Further work is already on the roadmap: deeper Hindi-language workflows across every tool, state-specific statutory research that maps cleanly to the Bar Council procedural requirements of each state, and direct integrations with the digital filing workflows that are rolling out across the e-Courts programme. If there is something specific your practice needs, we would welcome the conversation.
— The OpusLaw Team
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