> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.weelkit.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Legal review

> Check an article for phrasing that may carry legal risk, read each finding in context, and see how its findings appear when you push to your CMS.

Open an article, choose **SEO & Metadata** in the editor's top bar, then the **Legal** tab. The tab has no count beside it: nothing it lists is a failure to fix.

The **Legal review** flags phrasing that may carry a legal risk for a publisher. It is advice, not a legal opinion. It never blocks a save. Before you push to your CMS, Weelkit lists its findings and you can always choose **Push anyway**.

## What it flags

The review looks for phrasing with a real legal implication and leaves style, tone, emphasis and ordinary opinion alone. Each finding carries one of these categories:

**Defamation or reputation**, **Unsupported claim**, **Health or medical**, **Financial or investment**, **Legal advice**, **Intellectual property**, **Trademark**, **Privacy or personal data**, **Advertising and endorsements**, **Regulated products**, **Safety**, and **Other**.

Each finding is marked **Note**, **Consider** or **Important**, and shows:

* **The passage it is about:** the article's own words in quotation marks. Choose the quote to find it in the editor. If the passage is no longer there, the tab says so: it may have changed since this review.
* **Why it matters:** the legal implication in plain words.
* **Suggested rewording:** a concrete replacement, with **Copy** to copy it (the button shows **Copied**).
* **Fix with AI:** puts a request for the rewording in the chat box, with the quote and the suggestion, unsent. Review it, then send it.

A review can also carry **About this check** notes, for example when your organization's region or language is unknown and a finding is general rather than tied to one jurisdiction.

When nothing is flagged, the tab says **Nothing in this article was flagged.**

> [!NOTE]
>
> The review is not legal advice: it flags phrasing worth a second look and never states that something is unlawful. Check any finding with a qualified lawyer before you act on it.

## Run the review

Save the article first. An unsaved article shows **Save the article to check it.**

Only people who can edit the article can start a run; everyone else sees **Not checked yet. Someone who can edit the article can run the check.**

* **Run check** starts the first review.
* **Run again** starts a new one.

When the article changes after a review, the tab shows **Out of date** and which version was checked, for example "Checked version 3; the article changed since." Choose **Run again**.

If starting a run can't be confirmed, the tab says **Starting the Legal review could not be confirmed. Refresh the checks to see its status.** Choose **Refresh checks**. A review that fails says why.

## What it never changes

The review is advisory only:

* It adds nothing to **To fix** and doesn't change the **SEO** or **AEO** results.
* It doesn't block a save. Before a push to your CMS, Weelkit runs the review for the version you send and lists its findings in **Article checks found problems**. Choose **Fix first** to stop, or **Push anyway** to send. See [Checks before you push](https://docs.weelkit.com/articles/checks-before-publishing.md).
* Its tab carries no count, unlike **SEO** and **AEO**.

Only articles get a Legal review. Writings don't have SEO, metadata or check tabs, so a writing never reaches it.

## Your organization's instructions

Your organization can add **Legal check instructions** under [Organization settings → Editorial → Check instructions](https://docs.weelkit.com/settings/check-instructions.md). The review follows them.


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