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California legal AI,
attorney-built.

I'm Sergei Tokmakov, a California attorney (CA Bar #279869). I run production-grade AI on my own practice every day: 13 chatbox tools, 6 interactive tools, 30 demand-letter pages wired to live PayPal flat fees, and a sitewide attorney voice that survives audit. Watch it work.

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0 HIGH-severity legal findings ~1.3s average tool latency $0.05 per Opus tool call
live-demo // case-strength
Landlord-tenant
"My landlord changed the locks while I was at work last Tuesday. I have a written lease and texts where they admit they were trying to force me out."
Reading the facts and classifying the matterextract_facts()
Locating the controlling California statutecheck_statute()
Scoring the evidence and strength of claimassess_strength()
Drafting a sample attorney-letter paragraph (after retention)generate_dl_preview()
0 / 100 Strong · Wrongful lockout
Cal. Civ. Code § 789.3 TPA 2019

Written lease establishes tenancy. Contemporaneous texts admitting motive are a near-perfect § 789.3(c) evidence pattern. $100/day statutory penalty plus mandatory attorney's fees. Tier fit: $575 attorney letter.

Breach of contract
"We paid a California surrogacy agency $42,000 in March. They confirmed receipt. They stopped responding in May. No services delivered. We have wire records and the contract."
Reading the facts and classifying the matterextract_facts()
Mapping every plausible California cause of actionsearch_graph()
Scoring evidence and defendant solvency riskassess_strength()
Drafting a sample attorney-letter paragraph (after retention)generate_dl_preview()
0 / 100 Very strong · Breach + fraud + UCL
Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1549, 3300 CCP § 337 Bus. & Prof. § 17200

Documented payment, no consideration delivered, signed agreement. Fraud and conversion theories survive bankruptcy under 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A). Tier fit: $1,200 letter + draft complaint.

Insurance bad faith
"Homeowners insurer denied my $87,000 water-damage claim citing 'gradual seepage' but I have a plumber's report it was a sudden pipe burst."
Reading the facts and classifying the matterextract_facts()
Flagging Moradi-Shalal: no private § 790.03 actionflag_legal_risk()
Scoring evidence + expert-report leverageassess_strength()
Drafting a sample attorney-letter paragraph (after retention)generate_dl_preview()
0 / 100 Strong · Bad-faith + Brandt fees
Egan v. Mutual of Omaha Brandt v. Superior Ct.

Independent expert directly contradicting the carrier is the strongest fact in a bad-faith case. DOI complaint preserves an agency record. Tier fit: $1,200 letter + draft complaint.

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Contracts drafted across 14 years of California practice
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Upwork reviews · 100% job-success score
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Years licensed in California (Bar #279869, since 2011)
The AI moat

What's actually been built into this site.

Most lawyer sites have a chat widget bolted to a brochure. Mine has a real AI brain: tool-calling, content-graph aware, statute-grounded, voice-audited, and connected to my live calendar and payments. Here's the inventory.

13
Tools registered with the chatbox
Claude Opus 4.7 calls these in routing order: read page, extract facts, check scope, locate statute, score evidence, draft preview, pick tier, send to me.
Open the tools hub
6
Cloudflare Worker handlers
Tool proxy, intake submit, chat router, notification fan-out, calc narrative cache, lead grading. All Opus 4.7, all rate-limited, all observable.
How the stack works
15
Deep practice-area pages
~30,000 words combined. Statute-cited, fee-mapped, intake-modal wired. The pages a Claude Opus crawler can ground a citation in.
Browse practice areas
61KB
Pre-generated narrative cache
~100 calculator-result narratives written in advance, served sub-50ms. The chatbox quotes from this cache so it's fast and statute-grounded.
Open the calculators
200
Pages enriched in the content graph
Every page tagged by practice area, suggested tier, and cross-link map. The graph is what makes the chatbox actually find the right calculator or demand letter.
See llms.txt
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Sitewide Person + Attorney schema
Every page on the site carries a Person/Attorney JSON-LD block. When Claude, GPT, Gemini, or Perplexity cite a Terms.Law passage, they have a structured author they can quote.
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Before / after

What the upgrade looks like, one page at a time.

Across 30 demand-letter pages, the same playbook: live PayPal $575/$1,200 tiers, statute-grounded headlines, trust block, and zero "free consultation" language. Drag the slider to compare.

Before (Jan 2026) After (May 2026) Drag the bar →
Before

California Security Deposit Demand Letter

/Demand-Letters/Landlord-Tenant/security-deposit/

If your landlord didn't return your deposit, you might have a claim. Send a demand letter and request a refund.

A demand letter usually works, more often than not, because landlords don't want a lawsuit.

$450

What we offer: A call with one of our attorneys to discuss your case and decide if you need our help drafting a letter.

Schedule a call

No tier table. No statute citation. No trust block. Em-dashes throughout. Stale price.

After

California Security Deposit Demand Letter (Cal. Civ. Code § 1950.5)

/Demand-Letters/Landlord-Tenant/security-deposit/

If your landlord kept your deposit past the 21-day window in Cal. Civ. Code § 1950.5(g), the statute lets me ask for up to 2x the withheld amount as bad-faith damages, plus interest and attorney's fees.

Sergei Tokmakov, Esq. · CA Bar #279869 · 14+ years · 700+ Upwork reviews · 100% job-success
TierWhat's includedPrice
Letter onlyUSPS certified + email, statute-cited$575
Letter + draft lawsuitAbove + small-claims/Superior packet$1,200

Statute-grounded headline · live PayPal tier table · trust block with bar number · em-dashes removed sitewide.

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Interactive tools

Six free Opus 4.7 tools, each one is a Hollywood demo on its own.

Every tool takes free-text input from a real user and returns structured legal analysis. Opus 4.7 only: cheaper models hallucinate California citations.

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Tier · $575 letter

Case Strength

Describe a situation. Get the legal theory, evidence score 0-100, controlling statute, and a sample attorney-letter paragraph.

Open the live tool
Tier · $1,200 letter+draft

Cause Finder

Describe a dispute. Get every plausible California cause of action ranked by recovery, with statute and case-law anchors.

Open the live tool
Tier · $2,500 implementation

AI Firm Audit

Describe how your firm uses AI. Get a CRPC 1.1 / 1.6 / 1.5 / 5.3 / 1.4 compliance gap map with concrete remediation steps.

Open the live tool
"Counsel, I've reviewed your letter dated... and I disagree with the characterization of..."
Tier · $575 letter

C&D Response

Paste a cease-and-desist. Get a strategy assessment (concede / pushback / counter-attack) plus a draft response paragraph.

Open the live tool
indemnify Vendor for any and all losses
indemnify Vendor for losses caused by Customer's gross negligence
in perpetuity
for the duration of the Agreement
Tier · $349 review

Clause Risk

Paste a contract clause. Get a risk score, AI-suggested redlines, and a plain-English explanation of what the clause actually does.

Open the live tool
Tier · $1,250 packet

Pro Se Roadmap

Describe a case and forum. Get a phase-by-phase California Superior Court filing roadmap with deadlines and document checklist.

Open the live tool
The unified AI chatbox

Watch the chatbox route a real intake.

The chatbox on every page of this site runs Claude Opus 4.7 with 13 tools. It reads the page you're on, extracts facts from your message, looks up the statute, scores the evidence, picks a tier, and gives you a live PayPal button. Below is a static replay so the scripts on this page don't collide with the real one.

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AI Legal Analyst
attorney-supervised
claude-opus-4-7
Sergei Tokmakov, Esq. · CA Bar #279869 · Informational only, not legal advice. No attorney-client relationship formed.

The live chatbox is on every page of Terms.Law. Try it on any practice-area page.

Legal accuracy guarantee

No AI hallucinated California citations. Ever.

Three layers of guardrails between the AI and the user, audited by me as a California attorney.

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HIGH-severity legal findings across the last audit
L1

Legal-risk pre-reply audit

Every chatbox reply runs through a `flag_legal_risk` self-check. Catches attorney-client implications, outcome guarantees, conclusory legal opinions before the message ships.

L2

Safety sanitizer

A regex-pass Worker-side sanitizer strips em-dashes, "we/our" voice, "AI Lawyer" or "AI Attorney" brand drift, and "free consultation" language as belt-and-suspenders.

L3

URL sanitizer

Every link the AI suggests is validated against the site's actual content graph. The chatbox cannot send a user to a 404 or a hallucinated page.

L4

California-only gate

A `check_outside_scope` tool blocks the AI from giving advice on out-of-state, criminal, immigration, or family-law matters. Out-of-scope users get a polite redirect, not a hallucinated answer.

Real numbers, May 2026

What the rebuild moved.

Three rounds of upgrades. The numbers below come straight from the audit CSVs in /audit/.

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Demand-letter pages wired with tier tables
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Practice-area hubs standardized
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Voice-violation files auto-fixed
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Em-dashes killed sitewide
0
Blog posts upgraded with tier CTAs
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Pages enriched in the content graph
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Tools registered with the chatbox
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Interactive Opus-powered tools

Want this for your firm?

I build California-grounded AI stacks for law firms and legal teams. The same Opus 4.7 architecture you just saw, applied to your practice. Flat-fee $2,500 implementation, custom-scoped extensions billed at $240/hr.

Request this package · $2,500 Or try the tools yourself See all 15 practice areas

Built by Sergei Tokmakov, Esq., California State Bar #279869, J.D. Boston University School of Law.
Email owner@terms.law for scoping. Written intake only.