Terms of Use

1. The agreement

These terms are an agreement between Versal (“we”) and you. By creating an account or using Versal, you agree to them. If you use Versal for a firm or other organization, you agree on its behalf and confirm you are allowed to; “you” then means that organization as well.

The Privacy Policy explains how we handle information and is part of these terms.

2. Who may use it

Versal is built for criminal defense lawyers and the people who work with them. You must be at least 18, and able to enter into this agreement.

3. Accounts and organizations

• Give us accurate information, and keep your email address current: it is how we reach you.
• Keep your password and verification codes to yourself. An account is for one person; do not share it.
• We may require two-step verification, and we recommend it wherever it is optional.
• An organization’s owners and administrators decide who its members are and which cases each can open. You are responsible for what your members do in Versal, and for removing people who should no longer have access.
• Tell us promptly at [email protected] if you believe an account has been compromised.

4. Your case material

What you upload, and the notes, corrections and chronology you build on it, are yours. We claim no ownership of any of it.

You give us permission to store, copy, process and display your case material only as needed to provide Versal to you and your organization, and to keep it secure and working. We do not use it to train AI models, and we do not use it for any purpose of our own.

You are responsible for your right to put it here. That means:

• you are entitled to hold the material and to use a service like this one to review it;
• doing so is consistent with any protective order, court rule, discovery agreement or client instruction that applies to it; and
• you have decided, as a matter of your own professional judgment, that using Versal fits your duties of confidentiality and competence.

We will treat your case material as confidential, and we will handle any legal demand for it as the Privacy Policy describes: by telling you first, unless the law forbids it.

5. What the AI output is, and is not

Versal uses AI models to read case material and to produce summaries, answers, citations, entities and suggested chronology entries. It is built so that you can check its work, because its work needs checking.

• It can be wrong. Output may be inaccurate or incomplete, may misread a document, and may miss something that is in the record. Files that could not be read are listed as such; a search that found nothing does not establish that the record is silent.
• It is not legal advice. We are not a law firm, we do not practice law, and nothing in Versal creates an attorney-client relationship between us and you or your client.
• You remain the lawyer. Verify every statement against its source before you rely on it, file it or say it in court. Decisions about the case, and responsibility for your work product, are yours.

The sample case shown on this website and in the workspace, State v. Hale, is invented. No person, document or number in it is real.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use Versal to break the law, or to harass, threaten or unlawfully locate anyone named in case material;
• access an account, organization or case you are not authorized to access, or try to get around access controls or usage limits;
• probe, scan or test the service for vulnerabilities without our written permission, or interfere with its operation;
• upload malicious code;
• copy, reverse engineer or resell the service, or use it to build a competing product; or
• reach it by automated means other than the interfaces we provide for that purpose.

7. Connected apps

You can authorize other applications, including AI assistants, to reach your workspace. An application you connect acts with the permissions you grant it, for the organization you choose, until you revoke it. We do not control those applications and are not responsible for what they do with what they receive. Connect only applications you trust with a client’s file.

8. Fees

If you choose a paid plan, the price and billing period are shown before you buy. Plans renew at the end of each period until you cancel, and cancelling takes effect at the end of the period you have paid for. Payments are processed by Stripe. Except where the law requires otherwise, fees already paid are not refundable. If we change a price, we will tell you before your next renewal.

9. Our service

Versal, including its software, design and marks, belongs to us. We give you a limited, non-transferable right to use it under these terms, for as long as they are in effect.

We work to keep the service available and improve it continually, so features may change. If we plan to remove something you are likely to depend on, we will give reasonable notice. If you send us feedback, we may use it without obligation to you.

10. Ending the agreement

You may stop using Versal and ask us to close your account at any time. We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms, puts the service or other customers at risk, or is overdue on fees. Unless the situation is urgent, we will tell you first and give you a chance to put it right.

When an account closes, write to [email protected] if you need a copy of your case material; unless the law prevents us, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to retrieve it before it is deleted. Deletion then follows the Privacy Policy. Many protective orders require discovery to be destroyed when a case ends; meeting that obligation remains yours, and we will delete a case when you ask.

11. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent the law allows, Versal is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that its output will be accurate or complete.

12. Limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, neither of us is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits or revenue, arising out of these terms or the service.

Our total liability arising out of these terms or the service is limited to the greater of the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose and one hundred US dollars.

These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law.

13. Claims about your material or use

If someone brings a claim against us because of material you uploaded without the right to, or because you used Versal in breach of these terms or the law, you will cover the reasonable costs and damages that result. We will tell you about the claim promptly and let you take part in defending it.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We will post the new version here with a new effective date, and for a material change we will email your organization’s owners before it takes effect. If you keep using Versal after a change takes effect, you accept it; if you do not agree, you may close your account.

15. General

These terms, with the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between us about Versal. If a court finds part of them unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we do not enforce a term, we have not waived it. You may not transfer this agreement without our consent; we may transfer it to a successor to the business, which will be bound by it.

16. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected].