Law Firm Innovation
May 7, 2026 · 5 min read · By Opus Law Team · Updated May 7, 2026
Meet Canvas:
A More Visual Way to
Work in OpusLaw Chat
Canvas brings a spacious, visual workspace to OpusLaw Chat so legal professionals can turn answers into diagrams, timelines, charts, tables, document summaries, risk views, and action boards without leaving the conversation.
Some legal questions are easy to answer in paragraphs. Others need space.
A litigation timeline, a contract risk review, a filing checklist, a relationship map between parties, or a set of uploaded documents should not be squeezed into one long chat bubble. Legal work is visual. It has structure, sequence, priority, evidence, deadlines, and moving parts.
That is why we built Canvas for OpusLaw Chat.
Capabilities
What Canvas does
Canvas turns a chat answer into a working surface beside the conversation. Instead of losing important structure in a wall of text, you can review the answer as the format that best fits the job: The goal is simple: the answer should breathe.
Drafts
for memos, letters, outlines, clauses, and legal work product
Document views
for uploaded files, key issues, parties, dates, and summaries
Timelines
for procedural history, deadlines, filing sequences, and dispute chronology
Risk matrices
for exposure, likelihood, recommendations, and practical next steps
Kanban boards
for tasks, workflow, discovery plans, and team handoffs
Diagrams
for litigation lifecycles, deal structures, decision trees, and process maps
Charts and tables
for comparisons, damages, obligations, evidence, options, and authority lists
Research maps
for relationships between claims, defenses, facts, documents, and authorities
Built for legal professionals, not generic chat
Canvas is designed around the way lawyers and legal teams actually think. If you ask about a civil filing process, Canvas can show the sequence. If you upload documents, it can organize the important dates, parties, sections, and issues. If you are comparing arguments, it can produce a table. If you are planning next steps, it can become a board. The chat remains the conversation. Canvas becomes the workspace.
Easier to revisit
Canvas is tied to chat history, so the workspace can come back with the session instead of disappearing after one response. That matters when a conversation becomes a case plan, a document review, or a research trail you want to reopen later. It also works across screen sizes. On desktop, Canvas can expand into a larger workspace when the material needs room. On mobile, it opens as a full-screen surface so you are not forced to work inside a cramped side panel.
More useful with every format
The best legal AI products will not be shallow text boxes. They will help professionals see the shape of the work. Canvas is our step in that direction: fewer cramped answers, more structured thinking, and more ways to move from a question to something you can actually use. Open Chat, turn on Canvas, and ask OpusLaw for the kind of legal work product you need. If the answer has structure, Canvas will help you see it.
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