Law monitors
Find out when the law your project relies on changes.
Research a question inside a project and every statute or regulation the answer cites is watched from then on. CaseRead re-checks each one about once a week and alerts you if it’s amended, repealed or superseded.
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How it works
Set up by your research, not by hand
Research in a project
Ask your question inside the project. Statutes and regulations the answer cites become monitors on their own.
Re-checked weekly
Each section is looked up again about every seven days, against the current text in CaseRead’s public law database.
An alert in CaseRead
If the text changes, the lawyers whose research cited it get a notification that names the citation, the change and the project.
You review it
Open the project’s Law monitors panel, read the current text, then keep watching, mute or remove the monitor.
Coverage
What a monitor watches
Watched
- Federal statutes and regulations
- State statutes and administrative rules
- State constitutions
- Up to 100 authorities per project, starting with the first ones cited
Not watched yet
- Court rules
- Local ordinances
- Agency guidance
- New court opinions: a monitor watches the enacted text, not the case law about it
The project’s panel says the same thing, so nobody assumes a court rule is being watched when it isn’t.
What the alert tells you
Three kinds of change, and one honest miss
Amended
The section’s text has changed since the research that cited it. Open it and read the current version before you rely on the old answer.
Repealed
The section is no longer in force. The research that cited it needs another look.
Superseded
The section has been replaced. The alert points you back to the project so you can find what took its place.
Couldn’t re-verify
If a section can’t be found again three checks in a row, you get one alert saying so and the monitor is muted, rather than a quiet gap.
Inside the project
All of it lives with the project
One panel per project
Every project has a Law monitors panel: each authority, the research that cited it, when it was last checked, and a link to the current text.
- “Check for new citations” picks up new research right away
- Mute one monitor, or every monitor on a project
- Delete a monitor you no longer need
- A cited statute was amended · Example projectNew
- Read
Gone when the project goes
Delete a project and its monitors are erased with its documents, conversations and the rest of its records.
- Alerts go only to the lawyers whose research cited the authority
- A colleague who has left the firm stops getting them
- Monitors are part of the project purge
Common questions about law monitors
Start a project and let it watch the law for you.
Free plan: 20 research questions a month (up to 4 a day) and 2 citation checks a day. No card.
Free plan, no card · Pro $149/mo · Cancel anytime