AI Agent for Lawyers on Mac, Retrieve Cases by Criteria

Oct 22, 2025

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AI agent for lawyers on Mac, retrieve cases by criteria

Finding the right precedent is often a race against time. Before, you had to open folders, skim long PDFs, and repeat in-file searches across dozens of matters. Now you can ask in plain language and land on the exact page that proves your point.

Example prompt you might use in Fenn in Agent mode:
“In what cases have we claimed damages over €150,000 for a victim of burglary”

The agent returns the relevant case files and lets you open each one directly at the page where the amount and context appear. Hours of manual review become minutes of targeted reading.

The problem in practice

You need matters where damages exceed a threshold, for a specific offense, across several years.
Relevant facts are buried across hearings, filings, and exhibits, often in scanned PDFs.
Traditional tools give you filenames, not the page that contains the number and the context you actually need.

Why typical tools fall short

Finder and Spotlight surface files by name or shallow metadata. They do not open to the right page.
Single document search in Preview is limited to one file at a time.
Many knowledge bases require hand maintained tags or uploads you cannot allow for client work.

How the Mac agent works with Fenn

Select sources
Point Fenn at your active matters, pleadings, exhibits, transcripts, and notes. Include folders where scanned PDFs and exports live.
Index on your Mac
Fenn indexes content on-device. It can search standard PDFs, documents, text inside images and screenshots, and even recordings with timestamps in your sources.
Turn on the Agent mode and ask in plain language
Use natural phrasing with the criteria that matter to you.
Examples you can try,
- “Damages over €150,000 for burglary victims”
- “Matters with punitive damages above €50,000 in 2023”
- “Cases citing Article 311 with compensation awarded”
  Refine by adding a party name, a year, or a jurisdiction in the same prompt.
Review results with context
Results show titles with context snippets that include amounts, statutes, or parties. You can scan the list and confirm relevance quickly.
Open at the exact place
Hit Return to open your default PDF app at the precise page where the match appears. No more scrolling through 200 pages to find a single number.
Tighten the set
If the set is broad, add one more qualifier to your prompt, for example a date range or offense subtype. Rerun and open only what matters.
Capture and proceed
Copy passages with page references, assemble your argument, and move on to drafting.

Mini case, time saved

Before, a paralegal might spend most of an afternoon pulling five matters that fit a threshold, opening multiple PDFs per case, and hunting for the exact amounts and outcomes.

With the Mac agent in Fenn, the same task becomes one query, a quick scan of snippets, and five precise opens to the right page. The review shrinks from hours to minutes, with better confidence because you are reading the passage in context.

Privacy for legal teams

Fenn is on-device by default. Your case files, transcripts, and exhibits stay on your Mac during indexing and search. This fits client confidentiality needs while still giving you instant access to the exact place inside a document.

Setup tips for firms

Keep active matters in clearly named folders so you can include them as sources.
When you receive scans, convert or save them where Fenn can index the text inside images.
Index both working files and exports, since numbers and citations often live in generated PDFs and screenshots.
Use short, consistent prompts that match how you think, amount thresholds, offense name, year, and party.