In a recent interview with LawNext’s Bob Ambrogi, LexSelect co-founder and CEO Morgan Maguire unveiled LexChat, an AI-powered assistant that’s helping lawyers extract insight from one of their biggest digital headaches: the PDF.
Founded in 2023, Vancouver-based LexSelect began as a company obsessed with a deceptively simple problem—how to make unstructured documents machine-readable. “At its core, we’re an AI platform that converts PDFs and other unstructured documents into structured, machine-readable data,” Maguire told Ambrogi. That approach, he explained, allows firms to automate workflows and unlock institutional knowledge that would otherwise remain trapped in scanned exhibits and affidavits.
The company’s latest product, LexChat, sits on top of its proprietary parsing engine and allows users to query large collections of documents directly within Microsoft Word. Lawyers can ask questions about hundreds of pages of material, receive fully cited responses linked back to source passages, and insert those excerpts seamlessly into their drafts. “If you’re given a motion brief that’s hundreds of pages long,” said Maguire, “you can throw it into LexChat, ask it questions, and it’ll bring you back to the exact passages you need—without any formatting issues or hallucinations.”
According to Maguire, the accuracy advantage comes from what happens before the AI ever engages with the text. LexSelect’s parsing engine pre-processes every document—recognizing text from scanned images and even handwriting—before structuring it for analysis. “Because we’re using the underlying parsing engine to pre-process and structure data,” he told LawNext, “we can guarantee levels of accuracy that aren’t possible through other tools.”
The result is an AI assistant that doesn’t invent facts or miss handwritten annotations, a common flaw in general-purpose systems. LexChat’s responses are “always based on the facts contained within those documents,” Maguire emphasized.
Priced at $50 per month with a free tier for experimentation, LexChat is designed to be self-serve—no firm-wide implementation required. It integrates directly into Microsoft Word, allowing legal professionals to use it as part of their existing drafting process.
While early adoption has been strongest among litigators, Maguire said transactional lawyers are also using the tool for due diligence and contract review. “It’s very accessible, very easy to use, and not limited to litigation,” he said. “Anywhere you’re dealing with unstructured documents, it just makes sense.”
LexSelect isn’t stopping there. Maguire hinted at a coming integration with Clio, to be launched around this year’s ClioCon in Boston, alongside plans to expand its enterprise and API offerings. “We’re preparing to launch our Clio integration in the next ten days,” he told Ambrogi. “Our goal is to make it easy to get data from where it’s stored, parse it, and push it where it needs to go.”
With LexChat, LexSelect may have done more than build a document assistant—it’s redefining how legal professionals interact with the world’s most stubborn file format.