Your situation, in plain words — no legal vocabulary required.
She reads the official texts: Légifrance, Cour de cassation, current circulars.
A sourced answer, cited articles, and your concrete next steps.
When to use a professional-grade legal AI (Julie) vs when to call a lawyer? The rule is not that AI would be less reliable, less professional, or less in-depth: Julie offers the same analytical depth as Doctrine or GenIA-L (full Légifrance access, Cour de cassation and Conseil d’État case law, multi-step reasoning). The rule is the scope of use: AI for understanding, orientation, preparation, amicable drafting — accessible and reliable from €11.99; the lawyer for court representation, litigation, personalized strategy with significant stakes. A lawyer consultation costs €100–300; for many everyday questions, that cost is disproportionate — AI handles the framing work and lets the lawyer focus on cases where their added value is decisive.
When AI legal help is enough
- Understanding a lease clause, a legal article, a deadline, or a procedure.
- Drafting a formal notice, a letter to an administration, or a refund request.
- Preparing a first consultation: identifying the right questions, gathering documents, framing the problem.
- Doing a first triage before deciding whether a lawyer is really needed.
- Rewriting an amicable document (redline) with Julie Pro or Expert: propose the passages to change and get justified edits, with an annotated export.
When you absolutely need a lawyer
- Ongoing litigation: trial, hearing, received formal notice with tight deadline.
- Imminent signing of a complex contract where a mistake is costly (real estate purchase, shareholding, executive employment contract).
- High financial stakes (> €5,000) or sensitive family issue (child custody, contested divorce).
- Personalised defence strategy, negotiation with an opposing party, representation in court.
The grey area — and how Julie helps you cross it
- Most real legal questions are in the grey area: not simple enough for Google, not serious enough for a lawyer.
- Julie Pro with Deep Analysis is built for this zone: structured facts/law/risks/steps analysis, with verifiable citations.
- If Julie detects that your situation is beyond her competence, she orients you toward a professional.
- For €11.99 you get a complete pre-analysis. If you then see a lawyer, you arrive better prepared and the consultation costs less.