Legito

Legito is an all-in-one workspace for Portuguese lawyers: document drafting and review with AI, client intake, court notifications and a shared file system, built around Portuguese legislation rather than adapted from a generic assistant. I designed the product end to end, from the sign-in screen to the editor. The whole brief came down to one idea: lawyers will only rely on software that behaves as carefully as they do.

Sign-in is the only moment every user sees, and for a tool that holds client documents it sets the tone for everything after. The form stays quiet and unambiguous, in plain European Portuguese. All of the brand's confidence goes into the panel beside it, where the geometric mark grows into an architectural pattern. On mobile that panel folds into a header, so the identity survives without pushing the form below the fold.

Lawyers can't afford a confident wrong answer, so the editor never rewrites a document on its own. Findings are sorted into corrections, suggestions and personal data, each highlighted in place. Opening one shows why it was raised, the original text beside the proposed text, and the article of the Civil Code it relies on. Accepting is always a deliberate action by a person, and the same surface carries comments and collaborators, so the review happens where the document lives.

Onboarding a client used to mean a long form or a back-and-forth by email. Magic links hand it to the client instead: the firm sends one link, and the client answers one question per screen on any device, with the steps adapting to a person or a company. Identity documents are scanned from the phone, with desktop users redirected there. The firm side stays simple, because the data arrives complete.

Court notifications are where a missed detail becomes a real problem. Reduced to what a lawyer needs to act, each item leads with the type of document, the court, the attached content and the time left to respond. The list reads like a queue, the document opens beside it, and the state of the linked account is always visible, so silence never gets mistaken for an empty inbox.

The marketing site takes its cues from the product: a serif that reads like a document, a palette with room to breathe, and imagery that feels like architecture rather than legal clip art. The message moves away from AI as the headline and onto what the firm gets back, which is time spent on clients instead of formatting.

Legal software has its own logic, from how a clause is cited to what a deadline means. In a high-trust domain the interface has to earn belief through restraint, and what you choose not to automate matters as much as what you do. The rule I took from Legito is simple: when the cost of being wrong is high, design for verification first and speed second.