About
Meruit is a software platform for small law firms. We use the best of modern technology and AI to help firms run an efficient practice and give their clients a top-tier experience, without taking the lawyer out of the loop.
Why Meruit
In a small personal injury firm, the same facts get typed again and again: into the intake notes, the case file, the calendar, the chronology and the demand letter. Records arrive by the hundred pages. Deadlines live in someone's head. Most of that work is necessary, and very little of it needs a lawyer.
Small firms do most of the legal work most people ever need, often with less help than they deserve. Their clients notice the difference between a firm that calls back the same day with the answer and one that has to go looking for the file. We think good software should make every small firm the first kind.
AI can take a real share of that first pass, but only if lawyers can trust what it produces. So we built Meruit around two ideas: every fact the AI suggests shows where it came from, and nothing that matters happens without a person approving it.
We're starting with personal injury, where the hours hurt most, and building with a small group of design-partner firms who tell us when we're wrong. Today Meruit covers intake and conflict checks, matters, deadlines, medical records and demand letters. Client-facing tools, like a portal with plain-English updates, are on our roadmap.
The name
Quantum meruit: “as much as is deserved.”
It's the legal principle that people should be paid for the work they've done, even without a contract that says so. It fits what we want for small firms: to see the work you've done, show it, and be paid for it.
Our principles
Some of these describe features we haven't built yet, like citation checking for research and client-facing assistants. They're the rules those features will follow when they arrive.
Nothing goes to a client, court or opposing counsel without a named lawyer's approval, recorded in the audit log.
AI answers link to the page, email, record or case they came from. If there's no source, Meruit says so instead of guessing.
Case and statute citations will be checked against a licensed legal database before they're shown.
No training on customer data, zero-retention agreements with AI providers, encryption, per-matter permissions and ethical walls.
It reads the matter, not a snippet someone pasted in.
Written for busy lawyers and staff, not engineers.
In hours and dollars your firm can see, not in vague promises.
Client-facing assistants collect facts and share lawyer-approved information only.