Ask a litigator how they prepare a case and the answer is rarely a tidy form. It is a desk: the key document on the left, the statute open beside it, a list of what the other side will say pinned somewhere in view. Everyone arranges that desk differently.
That observation sits behind the Legal Terminal, the centrepiece of ilovelawyer, an AI legal intelligence platform for lawyers. The company's own description is "a litigation cockpit you arrange yourself." Instead of a locked grid, the Terminal offers up to 19 panes of case intelligence that a lawyer drags by the header grip and resizes from any edge or corner.
The Terminal does offer presets of one, two, four or six panes. They are only starting points. Once the layout is right, a lawyer can save it by name for a case as a Terminal Workspace and call it back on another machine. A Panel Library in the sidebar lets a lawyer drag in any pane that is missing, and display options such as High Density Mode, Grid Snapping and hideable pane labels let a lawyer tune how busy the screen feels.
The toolbar also surfaces hidden panes whose data already exists for the case. ilovelawyer says this is a simple check, not an AI recommendation, which is a small but telling piece of honesty in a market full of "AI-powered" claims.
