"Anchor" refers to the case-and-drafting platform operated at anchorlegal.ca. "We," "us," and "our" mean the operator of Anchor. "You" and "your" mean the law firm and the individual lawyers, paralegals, and staff accessing Anchor under your firm's subscription.
Anchor is a workspace for BC family-law practice. It helps you draft court documents, track procedural deadlines, search a curated corpus of BC and Canadian family-law cases, and manage client matters end-to-end. Anchor is software — it is not a law firm, it does not give legal advice, and using Anchor does not create a solicitor-client relationship between you and us.
You are responsible for the legal work product Anchor helps you produce. Specifically:
You retain ownership of the matters, documents, parties, drafts, and notes you create in Anchor ("Customer Data"). We hold Customer Data on your behalf to provide the service. We do not use Customer Data to train models, do not sell it, and do not share it with third parties except as required to provide the service (see §7 Subprocessors) or as required by law.
Anchor uses third-party large language model ("LLM") providers to generate research summaries, suggest citations, and synthesize results drawn from the public legal corpus (court decisions, statutes, regulations, practice directions, and similar publicly available legal materials).
What we send to LLMs. Only publicly available legal information — typically case citations, holdings, statutory section text, and the research concepts you type into the search bar. We do not send client names, party identifiers, matter content, document uploads, drafts, comments, deadlines, billing records, or any other personal or confidential information you enter into Anchor. Where a workflow involves your own drafting (e.g. an LLM-assisted suggestion inside the editor), only the text snippet you explicitly select for processing is sent, and you are told before it leaves your browser.
Verification is yours. Every AI-generated suggestion must be verified by a lawyer before it is filed, sent to a client, or relied on in advice. Anchor records the model used for each output and the per-firm AI spend for the current month is visible on the firm dashboard.
Anchor uses a small number of third-party service providers to operate the service. Categories currently in use:
The specific vendor in each category may change over time. We will give 30 days' notice before adding or replacing a subprocessor in a way that materially changes the data-handling posture (for example, moving primary data storage outside Canada).
Pricing is set in your subscription agreement. You may cancel at any time; on cancellation we will retain your Customer Data for 30 days to allow export, then delete it from production systems within an additional 30 days (backups age out within 90 days). You may request earlier deletion in writing.
Anchor is provided on a commercially reasonable best-effort basis. We aim for 99.5% monthly uptime but make no formal SLA at the current pricing tier. To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability to you in any 12-month period is limited to the fees you paid in that period. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, including missed limitation periods caused by reliance on Anchor without independent verification.
We may update these terms from time to time. Material changes will be announced at least 30 days before they take effect, via email to your firm's admin user and via the "What's new" panel on the sign-in page. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.
These terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada applicable in BC. Exclusive venue for disputes is the courts of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Questions about these terms: [email protected].