Blockway
Lawway律道

For Hong Kong solicitors' firms and barristers' chambers

The AI legal workflow platform that runs entirely inside your firm

Documents come in, an AI team works through them step by step, and every deliverable waits for a lawyer's approval.

Built by Blockway. Models and data never leave the firm; the AI drafts, the lawyer decides.

The Lawway review desk, where every AI deliverable waits for a lawyer
The review desk. Demo data.

AI drafts — reviewed by a lawyer.

What makes it different

Lawway is your firm's AI team, not a chatbot.

Runs 100% inside your firm

Models run on the firm's own Agens Station. Documents, indexes, AI processing and audit logs never leave the firm. No public cloud AI, and no training data collection.

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    Unverified content can't get through

    Every citation is checked against the legal index by code. Anything unverified is marked [UNVERIFIED] and cannot go out without a lawyer's explicit acceptance. The AI never does the arithmetic — code does.

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    Workflows, not a chatbot

    An AI team plans, researches, drafts and checks its own work, a second AI reviews it, and then it goes to a lawyer for approval.

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    Solicitor and barrister work

    Dedicated workflows from conveyancing, probate, family, employment, corporate and criminal work to counsel's opinions, pleadings and submissions.

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    Professional conduct built in

    Anything filed, sent to a client, an undertaking, client money or a conflict clearance always needs a lawyer's sign-off. Clients who prohibit AI are blocked automatically.

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    Hong Kong bilingual legal documents

    Traditional Chinese and English documents, deliverables and interface, with parallel bilingual drafts, a legal glossary and clause numbering preserved.

How a piece of work runs

Every job is a multi-step AI chain, and the last step is always a lawyer's approval.

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    Intake

    Four entry points feed one inbox: console upload, a watched scanner folder, a dedicated intake mailbox and scheduled tasks. An AI clerk reads each document and suggests the matter it belongs to and the workflow to start.

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    Plan

    The AI breaks the work into steps. Large jobs are split across several AIs working in parallel — one per legal issue or per document, for example.

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    Research and draft

    The AI works only from the matter's documents and the legal index, citing with page references. Amounts, dates and stamp duty are calculated by code.

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    Self-check

    Code checks citations, numbers and formatting. Anything that fails goes back to the AI to fix.

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    Second AI review

    An independent reviewing AI checks the work again.

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    Lawyer approval

    The deliverable goes to the review desk, where a lawyer approves it, edits it or sends it back.

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    Output

    Once approved, code produces the DOCX, XLSX or PDF — for example, a paginated and indexed bundle.

A Lawway run timeline showing each step of an AI workflow
A run timeline. Demo data.

The AI has no tools to send, email, file or write to the database; it can only draft. Every step is visible live on the run timeline and recorded in the audit log.

From our internal tests

Internal tests, demo data
Accuracy of the "verified" label
0.766 → 1.000
After code verification was added, every citation labelled "verified" was confirmed against the index (small sample).
Unverified citations left unmarked
11/88 → 0/115
Every citation that couldn't be verified was marked [UNVERIFIED] (small sample).
End-to-end tests of core workflows
12 workflows, 163 AI runs, 0 failures
First round completed; every deliverable stopped on the review desk for a lawyer's approval.
Trap tests on new workflows
49/50, 95/96
Hit rate on planted traps across two rounds of new workflows.

What that looks like

  • A fictitious case, Wong Tai Sin Holdings v Lucky Star [2019] HKCFA 512, was marked [UNVERIFIED] and never used as authority.
  • A conflict of interest was caught automatically when a new matter was opened.
  • A client who prohibits AI was blocked: no AI step ran, and their documents never entered the index.
  • In a termination calculation, the system flagged that HR's proposal to offset fully against MPF does not comply with current law.
  • A hearing-date clash was caught when a barrister's brief came in.

Internal tests, demo data

A contract review deliverable with an [UNVERIFIED] citation flagged for the lawyer
A contract review with an unverified citation flagged. Demo data.

Workflows

Lawway covers 38 categories of Hong Kong solicitor services and 19 of barrister services.

  • Solicitors
  • Barristers
  • Both

General

  • Legal research memoBoth

    Issues researched in parallel, every citation checked

  • Contract reviewSolicitors

    Clause by clause against the firm's playbook, risk-rated with suggested changes; NDA, SaaS, employment and distribution playbooks built in

  • Tabular document reviewSolicitors

    Custom fields extracted from every document, each cell linked to its source

  • Bilingual translation and proofreadingBoth

    Chinese–English parallel text, consistent terminology, clause numbering preserved

  • New matter intakeSolicitors

    Conflict check and client due-diligence checklist

Property

  • Conveyancing file openingSolicitors

    Provisional agreement extraction, stamp duty and deadlines, draft formal agreement

  • Land search reportSolicitors

    Encumbrances, gaps in the chain of title, requisitions

  • Mortgage, redemption and completionSolicitors

    Completion statement calculated by code

  • Tenancy drafting and reviewSolicitors

    With stamp duty and stamping deadlines

Wills and succession

  • Will drafting and execution checklistSolicitors

    Checks for beneficiary witnesses and whether every gift is covered

  • Probate application packSolicitors

    Assets and liabilities extracted from bank statements; estate schedule calculated by code

  • Enduring power of attorney and advance directiveSolicitors

    Form drafts, signing deadlines and capacity warnings

  • Trust deed and letter of wishesSolicitors

    Family trust documents

Family

  • Joint divorce application and Form EBoth

    Financial data extracted from hundreds of pages of bank statements; large transactions and missing documents flagged

  • Arrangements for children and maintenanceBoth

    Expense schedules, proposed arrangements and form data

Employment

  • Termination entitlementsBoth

    Payment in lieu of notice, severance or long service payment and annual leave, with the abolition of MPF offsetting handled

  • Personal injury and employees' compensationBoth

    Employees' compensation and common-law damages, limitation

Corporate and commercial

  • Incorporation and share transferSolicitors

    Instrument of transfer, stamp duty, registers of members and significant controllers

  • Due diligence reportSolicitors

    Report after bulk document review

Litigation

  • Debt recoverySolicitors

    Demand letter → Small Claims or writ → statutory demand; interest calculated by code

  • Winding-up and bankruptcy petitionsSolicitors

    Following on from the statutory demand

  • Chronology and cast listBoth

    Events with page references; contradictions flagged

  • Hearing bundleBoth

    Merged PDF, paginated and indexed; internal documents excluded automatically

  • Litigation deadlinesBoth

    Directions extracted from court orders; deadlines calculated around public holidays

  • Affidavits and statutory declarationsBoth

    Drafting and signing arrangements

  • Pre-action letters and time limitsSolicitors

    Judicial review, defamation, intellectual property, privacy, tax and more

  • Enforcement of judgments and arbitral awardsBoth

    Enforcement documents

Criminal

  • Criminal defenceBoth

    Analysis of statements and video-recorded interviews, sufficiency of evidence, mitigation, sentencing authorities

Notarial

  • Notarial and China-Appointed Attesting Officer document checksSolicitors

    Open only to qualified lawyers

Immigration

  • Hong Kong visa application packSolicitors

    Checklists for each immigration scheme

Barristers

  • Brief intakeBarristers

    Scope of instructions, hearing-date clashes, fee terms, conflict and independence checks

  • Counsel's opinionBarristers

    Prospects, evidence, quantum, limitation, strategy, appeal

  • PleadingsBoth

    Statement of claim, defence, counterclaim, reply, points of claim in arbitration

  • Submissions packBoth

    Written submissions, list of issues, list of authorities and bundle, draft order

  • AppealsBoth

    Grounds of appeal, appeal submissions and appeal deadlines

  • Trial preparationBarristers

    Review of the other side's documents, trial outline, cross-examination notes (no witness coaching)

  • Leave to apply for judicial reviewBoth

    Form 86 and the three-month time limit

  • Settlement or mediation position paperBoth

    Positions and settlement proposals

  • Expert report reviewBoth

    Medical, engineering and other expert reports

  • Fee noteBarristers

    Drafted from the brief's fee terms; needs counsel's approval and is never sent automatically

  • Briefing counsel through LawwayBoth

    Firms send briefs to chambers through Lawway; counsel decides whether to accept

Deployment

Both options run entirely inside the firm. No data leaves the firm's network.

One box

One machine, zero cloud

Hardware
One Agens Station, running both the models and Lawway
Best for
Firms of about 15 lawyers or fewer, and barristers' chambers
How lawyers use it
Sign in to the Lawway console in a browser
Maintenance
Remote updates and maintenance by Blockway: off by default, only with the firm's approval, all recorded in the audit log

Two boxes

More work in parallel, maintenance without interruption

Hardware
An Agens Station plus a separate Lawway host
Best for
Larger firms
How lawyers use it
Sign in to the Lawway console in a browser
Maintenance
Remote updates and maintenance by Blockway: off by default, only with the firm's approval, all recorded in the audit log

Hardware is sized to the firm, and it can be installed on a network isolated from the internet. The Station sends Blockway only operational data (health and usage); the system technically refuses document content and client data.

See Lawway at work

Tell us about your firm and the work you'd like to hand to an AI team. We'll walk you through it and set up a time-limited demo account for you.

The demo runs in the cloud; production deployments run inside your firm.

Or email info@blockway.io