How Property Litigators Can Use Orbital Copilot for Lease Disputes

Lease disputes are some of the most common and time-consuming matters property litigators handle. Whether it’s unpaid rent, contested break clauses, or a landlord serving notice incorrectly, these cases demand speed, precision, and a deep understanding of lease provisions.

With the launch of our Real Estate Disputes (RED) Prompting Library, property litigation teams can now use Orbital Copilot to navigate complex leases faster, surface the clauses that matter most, and refocus their time on strategy and advocacy.

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The Challenge: Complex Leases and Pressing Deadlines

Lease agreements are long, technical, and packed with obligations and caveats. For litigators, the most common pain points include:

• Rent arrears: pinpointing remedies, penalties, and recovery options
• Eviction and possession: checking notice mechanics and ensuring service complies with lease terms.
• Covenant breaches: identifying breaches of repair, use, or assignment clauses.
• Break rights: interpreting timing requirements and conditions.

Traditionally, this means scrolling through dozens of pages or multiple leases just to confirm one or two provisions. It is repetitive, time-intensive work that increases the risk of missing a critical detail.

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Built for Lease Disputes

Orbital Copilot’s new RED Prompting Library is designed specifically for lawyers handling contentious lease matters. It provides a collection of ready-to-use prompts covering the most common areas of dispute, including:

• Vacant possession and termination
• Service of notice 
• Dilapitations and yield-up
• Rent arrears and recovery
• Alterations and reinstatement
• Alienation and possession strategy
• Landlord and tenant breaches

Litigators can use these prompts as a foundation for analysis, adapting and building on them to suit the nuances of each case. It is an easy way for litigators to build confidence in using Orbital Copilot for real disputes without starting from a blank page.

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How Orbital Copilot Supports the Litigation Workflow

Disputes work is rarely linear. Each case has its own context, set of documents, and time pressures. That is why the RED Prompting Library is built for flexibility, giving lawyers the ability to extract what they need from leases without being locked into a rigid workflow.

Simply open the RED Prompting Library, copy the relevant prompt, paste it into a conversation with Orbital Copilot alongside the relevant documents, and let it analyse the leases for the information you need.

Here is how it helps in practice:

1. Upload one or more leases related to the dispute
2. Extract key lease provisions with relevant source document citations, surfacing only the clauses that apply.
3. Generate clear summaries of notice provisions, arrears clauses, or tenant covenants.
4. Cross-check landlord actions against statutory and contractual requirements.
5. Draft letters or advice notes based on the findings, aligned with prescribed lease language, all within the same workspace.

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Purpose-Built for Real Estate Disputes

What sets Orbital Copilot apart is its real estate domain knowledge. It understands the structure and terminology of leases, interprets subtle variations in wording that affect risk, and surfaces only the provisions that matter.

One of the most powerful prompts in the RED library focuses on landlord and tenant breaches. Traditionally, litigators had to read through multiple leases, extract every covenant, and manually identify which had been breached. It is an effective process, but a slow and repetitive one.

With the new breach prompt, lawyers simply copy the example from the RED library and describe what has happened in natural language. Orbital Copilot then analyses the uploaded leases and returns only the clauses that are likely to have been breached, complete with citations to the original documents.

In one live example, lawyers used this workflow to pinpoint  a tenant breach across multiple leases and generate a follow-up letter before action based on those findings. A process that would normally take hours of manual review was completed in minutes.

For litigation teams, that translates into tangible value: faster case preparation, clearer advice, and more time spent on client strategy rather than combing through clauses.

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What’s Next

For firms, the RED Prompting Library opens up new opportunities to extend Orbital Copilot beyond transactional teams, empowering litigation and asset management groups to work more efficiently within the same platform.

Coming soon, Custom Drafts will allow users to tailor outputs such as break notices, Section 146 notices, letters, and emails to their firm’s preferred structure and language.

Together, these releases make Orbital Copilot even more adaptable, helping every real estate lawyer, from transactional to disputes, work faster and deliver even greater value for clients.