JBH Legal
Spanish legaltech platform that reads a case file with AI across ten areas of law, computes procedural deadlines against official court calendars and drafts pleadings, with every legal citation checked against the BOE and a registered lawyer signing off.
What is JBH Legal?
JBH Legal is a Spanish legal technology platform operated from Blanes, in the province of Girona, by JBH LEGALTECH & ADVISORY, S.L. It is deliberately not a law firm: the company describes itself as a legal intermediation platform under activity code CNAE 6910, while the legal direction of any matter is taken by a registered lawyer, either from the group's professional company JBH ABOGADOS Y PERITOS, S.L.P. or from a network of independent collaborating practices.
The product covers ten areas of Spanish law — criminal, civil, commercial, employment, administrative litigation, family, tax, immigration, succession and real estate — with criminal defence as its founding speciality and shop window. It presents itself as more than thirty AI tools grouped into six families: defence pleadings, strategy and sentencing, evidence and contradictions, deadlines and procedure, legal research, and multi-defendant cases.
What distinguishes it is where the law sits. The platform claims to have ingested 12,379 statutes and 547,853 article versions from the Spanish official gazette, each with the wording in force on the date of the facts, and publishes 83 laws and 10,494 articles one per page. Every legal assertion must be anchored to an article of that corpus; a pleading whose citation fails to resolve is stopped rather than merely flagged. Deadlines are handled the same way: the computation is deterministic rather than generative, running working days, regional and municipal holidays, the August recess and the Article 135.5 LEC grace day through a rules engine, not a language model.
Its flagship module, the Vigilante de Plazos, takes a forwarded LexNET notification, identifies the act, computes the deadline, raises escalating alerts and leaves the appeal already started. Drafts pass a triple audit framed as defence counsel, prosecutor and judge, and come out formatted to the Supreme Court's own 2016 standard. Signature is handled in-flow under eIDAS.
Access is split between a client portal and a lawyer portal, alongside eleven free public calculators requiring no registration and a read-only demo built on three fictitious files.
What it does
- Read and classify every document in a case file, scans included, and infer the area of law from the paperwork
- Compute procedural deadlines with a deterministic engine using official regional and municipal court calendars
- Check every legal citation against the BOE and every ruling against its ECLI before it reaches the lawyer
- Draft defence pleadings, appeals, evidence submissions and habeas corpus petitions for the lawyer to refine
- Cross the client's account against the file's evidence and flag contradictions before they reach court
- Watch LexNET notifications, identify the act, schedule escalating alerts and open the corresponding appeal
- Search favourable case law in CENDOJ and model sentencing ranges, prescription and plea scenarios
When to use JBH Legal / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if JBH Legal is the right fit.
When to use JBH Legal
- Spanish criminal defence lawyers working solo, who get one lawyer and ten active matters for EUR 375 per month
- Small and mid-sized Spanish firms with up to six fee earners, sharing fifty matters under role-based permissions
- Individuals facing Spanish proceedings who want a costed, itemised quote before committing to anything
- Companies and directors exposed to corporate criminal risk, through the recurring Legal Shield offering
- Litigators who live and die by procedural deadlines and want them computed, not estimated
When not to use JBH Legal
- Anyone practising outside Spain: the entire corpus is Spanish, built on the BOE, CENDOJ, the Penal Code and the LECrim
- Users hoping for automated legal advice, since the platform refuses that role and routes every output through a lawyer
- Anyone expecting a guaranteed outcome, which Spanish professional rules forbid and the site declines to offer
- Teams that need to work in a language other than Spanish, the tool's sole language of analysis and communication
- Lawyers on a tight budget, given a EUR 375 monthly floor before any AI consumption is added
How to use JBH Legal
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Upload the document you have received, or simply describe what happened — no personal details are asked for at this stage
- Let the system read the paperwork, infer the area of law and identify which deadlines are already running
- Receive a costed quote as a PDF, itemising what is billed separately, in about a minute
- Provide your contact details only at the final step, once you have seen the figures
- As a lawyer, open an account in a minute, either as a sole practitioner or as a firm
- Run your first complete matter free of charge, with no card and no time limit
- Invite your client through a secure link; they contribute documents without registering or paying
- Review and edit the AI-generated questionnaire before it goes out, since your judgement governs it
- Collect the organised file: classified documents, a timeline of the facts and flagged contradictions
- Authorise billing to switch the AI on; decline and it simply pauses while the rest of the platform keeps working
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Legal traceability that is rare in the category: each citation resolved against the BOE before it is stored, each ruling carrying its ECLI
- Deadlines computed by a deterministic rules engine rather than generated, with the day-by-day working retained and defensible
- Unusually dense legal and privacy documentation: nine legal pages, a full processor table with locations and safeguards, a published Article 28 annex
- Written commitment that customer data never trains any model, backed by account-level zero data retention with the AI provider
- A genuine trial rather than a teaser: one complete real matter, free, with no card and no time limit
- Clean separation between platform and legal direction, with two distinct invoices and no commission on an independent lawyer's fees
- Eleven genuinely useful calculators and reference tools open to anyone, without registration
Cons
- Both group companies are still being incorporated: tax number pending, registration at the Girona commercial registry in progress, and neither appears in the 2026 BORME or in GLEIF
- The platform therefore has no registered legal entity behind it yet, with the site itself citing Articles 36 to 38 of the Spanish companies act
- Single-country and single-language by design: Spanish law, Spanish corpus, Spanish analysis and communication
- The advertised EUR 375 per month covers the platform only, with AI consumption billed separately in EUR 100 tranches
- For a direct client the entry point is EUR 500 excluding VAT per matter, before any lawyer's fees
- No security certification is claimed — no ISO 27001, no SOC 2, no ENS — and no native mobile application exists
- A very young web presence: domains registered in May and August 2026, with no Wayback Machine capture to corroborate the claimed history
Pricing & Plans
A free tier exists and is genuine: eleven public AI tools run without registration or payment, and a law firm may run one complete real matter free of charge, with no card required and no time limit. Beyond that, the lowest paid entry point is the Individual plan at EUR 375 per month excluding VAT, covering one lawyer and ten active matters. The Despacho plan is EUR 995 per month for up to six lawyers and fifty matters, and the Grande plan is quoted on request. Annual billing grants two months free. Prospective customers should note that this figure covers the platform alone: artificial intelligence is invoiced separately on consumption, in EUR 100 tranches, with published unit rates from roughly EUR 0.15 per document read to EUR 6.75 per multi-defendant analysis. A direct client who is not going through a subscribing firm pays instead an opening fee of EUR 500 excluding VAT per matter, again plus AI consumption, and separately the lawyer's own fees. All amounts are stated excluding VAT.
- Primer caso gratis — EUR 0 — one complete real matter
- no card
- no commitment
- no time limit
- full Letrado IA access
- Individual — EUR 375 per month excluding VAT — one lawyer
- ten active matters included
- eIDAS signature
- client invitations
- EUR 45 per extra matter
- Despacho — EUR 995 per month excluding VAT — up to six lawyers
- fifty matters included
- firm branding
- role-based permissions
- priority support
- Grande — price on request — fifteen or more lawyers
- tailored seats and matters
- white label and API
- qualified seal and SLA
- assisted onboarding
- preliminary assessment
- file analysis and access to the tools on the case
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how JBH Legal handles your data.
GDPR overview
Implementation is unusually concrete. The privacy policy, dated 25 August 2026 and revised on 29 August, runs to twenty sections under the GDPR and the Spanish LOPDGDD, and names five processing activities with a legal basis and a retention period for each. Criminal offence data is handled under the Article 10 regime with reinforced safeguards, and a data protection impact assessment has been carried out. An external DPO, VeraSafe, LLC, is designated at dpo@jbhasesorialegal.com, though the site admits the AEPD notification is still pending because the company has no tax number yet. Processors are listed in full with location and safeguards, international transfers rely on the 2021/914 standard contractual clauses, and Article 22 automated decision-making is expressly ruled out.
Who owns the data?
Ownership stays with the client. On the business-to-business side the subscribing firm is the data controller and JBH LEGALTECH & ADVISORY, S.L. acts only as a processor under Article 28 GDPR, governed by a published processing annex. For the public website and the preliminary assessment, JBH is the controller of the technology layer; the registered lawyer who takes the case remains a separate controller for the professional act itself, bound by legal privilege. Joint controllership under Article 26 is expressly excluded unless agreed. The firm can export its file at any time, and the terms state that JBH never uses case data for its own purposes or to train AI models.
Reuse rights
The customer keeps free rein over anything produced in the platform: JBH commits in writing that case data serves no purpose of its own and never feeds model training, and the lawyer-facing pages promise export "without exit locks". Nothing in the terms requires permission to reuse a drafted pleading, an analysis report or a timeline, which are worked on and signed by the lawyer, who takes ownership of them. Conversely the platform's own content is closed: reproducing, distributing or transforming the site's texts, code, designs and marks requires prior written authorisation, and reverse engineering is prohibited. Third-party access is limited to named processors acting on instructions, with no sale or disclosure of data beyond legal obligation.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Hosting and core infrastructure are provided by IONOS and Plesk in Germany, inside the European Union, and the platform's own DNS resolves to an Amazon address in Frankfurt. Case documents are stored encrypted on Cloudflare R2, which the privacy policy places in the EU or the United States depending on how each bucket is configured — a conditional statement rather than a residency guarantee. Several processors sit outside the Union: Cloudflare for CDN, DNS and perimeter security, Anthropic PBC for AI assistance, 8x8 for videoconference signalling, and Sentry for error telemetry, all in the United States. Payments run through Stripe Payments Europe in Ireland, and web analytics through Google Ireland. Every transfer outside the European Union is covered by the standard contractual clauses of implementing decision 2021/914, together with supplementary technical measures: encryption in transit and at rest, access control, data minimisation, and pseudonymisation of the parties before anything is sent to an AI system.
Where JBH Legal works
Country-level availability.
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Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting JBH Legal.
- The operating company is not yet registered: tax number pending, Girona commercial registry entry in progress, and no trace in the 2026 BORME or GLEIF — check who you are actually contracting with
- The site claims a history going back to 2021, yet both domains date from 2026 and no web archive capture exists to corroborate it
- Automation bias is the central risk: deadlines, sentencing ranges and defence lines are presented with confidence, and the platform itself insists they are orientative and require the lawyer's verification
- Leaning on generated drafts can erode the drafting and reasoning skills that make a litigator, especially for junior lawyers who never write the first version
- Highly sensitive material is involved — criminal offence data, health, sexual life, minors, third parties who never consented — so an access mistake carries unusual consequences
- Pricing can drift well past the advertised monthly figure, since AI consumption is metered separately and charged automatically in EUR 100 tranches
- Document storage on Cloudflare R2 is stated as EU or United States depending on bucket configuration, which is not a firm residency commitment
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. There is nothing to install: the product is a web application reached through a browser. A lawyer or firm can open an account in about a minute and run the first matter without entering a card, so no payment barrier stands in the way of evaluating it. Invited clients install and register nothing — they simply follow a secure link. The only optional technical step is connecting Google Calendar. Human support is available by telephone, one-to-one video and email during office hours, and assisted onboarding is included with the top tier.
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Behind JBH Legal
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Alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
Is JBH Legal a law firm?
Does the AI replace the lawyer?
How reliable are the legal citations?
Is my case data used to train AI models?
What does it cost?
Is the free trial genuinely free?
Which languages does it work in?
Where is the data hosted?
Can I refuse to have my file processed by AI?
Is the company behind the platform registered?
Should you pick JBH Legal?
JBH Legal is one of the better-documented products of its category. The legal and privacy material is dense and specific where most competitors are vague: named processors with their jurisdictions, a published Article 28 processing annex, retention periods tied to the rules that impose them, and an explicit response to Article 50 of the EU AI Act. The engineering choices are equally deliberate — deadlines computed by a rules engine rather than a language model, citations resolved against the official gazette before storage, and a pleading blocked when a reference fails to check out. For a Spanish litigator, that is a meaningful difference from a general-purpose assistant.
Two reservations matter. The first is not technical but corporate: both companies in the group are still being incorporated, with tax numbers pending and no entry in the commercial registry, which the site discloses plainly and which independent checks confirm. Anyone signing a subscription should understand what that means for the counterparty they are contracting with. The second is budgetary: the headline EUR 375 per month buys the platform alone, and AI usage is always billed on top, so the advertised figure is a floor rather than a forecast.
The product is also firmly bounded. It is built on Spanish law, works in Spanish and serves Spain; nothing about it travels. Read as what it claims to be — a vertical tool for Spanish practice, with a human lawyer holding the pen — it is coherent and unusually candid about its own limits, including its refusal to promise outcomes. The natural audience is the Spanish criminal lawyer working alone or in a small practice, for whom the free first matter makes the evaluation genuinely cheap.
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