Nora Foundation
Pro se litigation tools for self-represented litigants.
Nonprofit-built software — not a law firm, legal advice, or emergency service.
For people facing high-stakes court cases, administrative hearings, or institutional battles — without an expensive legal team, deep budget, or technical staff.
Foundation runs infrastructure · Nora's Law names the platform · case support is currently offline
Transparency
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Choose your path
Start with the public framework, then choose documentation or support.
Active case → Start Here. Research rules → Membership. Adversarial suite → Adversarial Process or the trust model below.
Trust & methodology
Designed for the courtroom.
How Nora's Law litigation tools differ from generic “ask AI for legal advice” products.
Trust in litigation comes from inspectable steps and traceable sources — not from generic generative essays. Full methodology and audit logs: Credibility. Legal boundaries: Disclaimers.
What generic AI legal tools do
- — Invent non-existent case citations (hallucinations)
- — Provide unverified summaries that can get you sanctioned
- — Present a confident tone even when entirely wrong
- — Expose private discovery files to public models
What this platform does instead
- — Verify every citation against official court databases
- — Bind every fact strictly to original source exhibits
- — Run adversarial reviewed stress-tests on your claims
- — Private-by-default, local-first document processing
Public lanes
Start with the process, or support the infrastructure behind it.
Current public lanes at a glance — full separation language (tax, receipts, non-goals) is on Disclaimers → Three lanes.
Start with process
Use the public framework to structure facts, deadlines, exhibits, and research questions before deciding what help or software you need.
Start Here →Fund the platform
Keep hosting, research capacity, and open-access tools online. When 501(c)(3) is granted, foundation gifts can be treated as deductible under IRS rules — until then, we say that plainly on every receipt.
Donate →Funding split
Support the public-interest infrastructure
Foundation gifts support hosting, documentation, research capacity, and grant-style access while the product suite is narrowed. Full boundaries →
Nora Foundation
Fund the platform
- $25helps cover one donor-subsidized Deep Research run for a parent who can't pay.
- $100 helps keep a week of core hosting and monitoring online.
- $500 helps sponsor grant-style access for a self-rep family for a year (quota-based).
determination is pending with the IRS.
Mission & backstory
Timeline, mission, and personal arc
Chronology, mission framing, and roadmap live on About (sections Origin and Platform direction). /story and /vision redirect there — one narrative surface.
Updates
Stay in the loop — and grab the procedure primer
The Guide is the documentation home — chapters and civil procedure literacy in plain language, updated as we ship. Read anytime — then subscribe below for lane-specific updates (help now, platform changes, or how to fund access). This is not verification and not membership.
Lead resource
Start with the Guide chapters that match your posture (evidence, timelines, research). We'll email when major sections change — no paywall on the content itself.
Open Guide →If you only do one thing: help keep the suite and research capacity online — or browse the adversarial process docs and use what already ships.
Community, verified collaboration, and research access are all linked from the nav when you're ready.