Query Builder is live today for every Vizlegal user. It is our most advanced legal search built on Boolean logic, on every structured field we hold, and on any combination of our 38 sources, and it turns a research question into a query you can save, rerun, and export.
Where a standard search runs out
A standard source exposes a handful of filters, the ones that serve most queries most of the time. That is the right default for daily work, and Query Builder does not replace it. Vizlegal let’s you switch into Query Builder when a piece of research needs more power and specificity.
The difference is both reach and depth.
Take our High Court records. Now through Query Builder it carries twenty-four search fields. A conventional filter panel shows six of them. Everything we hold about a record is available to a query, not just the fields that fit in a sidebar.
Every field, combined the way you need them
Query Builder opens the full field set for a single source or for several at once, and lets you combine conditions with Boolean logic. Conditions can be grouped, nested, and reordered, and sample results appear at each step, so the query results takes shape as you proceed.
One query across jurisdictions
Now, with Query Builder, a search for a term across Irish judgments, the CJEU, and the England and Wales Superior Courts runs once and returns one result set, instead of five searches across five screens with the reconciliation left to you.
What our clients are doing with the results
Results are not a dead end in Query Builder.
- Work in split screen. Open a judgment in a side pane beside the result set, with the full feature set still available, so you can run an AI summary, bookmark it, or follow it without leaving the query.
- Shape the output. Choose which fields appear as columns, expand them to include further descriptors, and sort on whatever matters for the question in hand.
- Export for analysis. Results come out in tabular form, ready for analysis, reporting, and circulation to a team or a client.
- Save and share the construct. Queries that inform a practice, a client, or a team can be saved, and saved searches renew automatically, so the results stay current without anyone rebuilding the parameters.
The work that sits underneath it
Query Builder is only as good as the data it queries, and that data is the part that took time. Since 2019 we have been structuring and curating Irish and UK legal material that sits unstructured, scattered across bodies, or simply not published anywhere as a single collection. Fields have to exist, and be consistent, and be verified, before anyone can filter on them.
Twenty-two reliable fields on High Court records, matched to comparable fields across all of our 38 is the product of that data curation and structuring.
Where to start
Query Builder ships with pre-loaded queries at three levels, starter, technical, and advanced. They are working examples rather than demonstrations, so the fastest route is to open one close to your own area, see how it is constructed, and adapt it.
What comes next
Query Builder is a foundation rather than a finished product. Existing users, try it now: app.vizlegal.com
Or book a walkthrough at vizlegal.com/contact and we will build a query against a question your team is working on.