Fern is purpose-built AI for EEOC and state agency Charges – it reads the Charge, identifies the claims, analyzes your documents to find the best facts and defenses, and then drafts a complete, cite-checked position statement so you can focus on strategic work that needs your judgment.
The Charge potentially sets the stage for litigation, an RFI or a cause finding can multiply the work overnight, and a private attorney may decide to pursue the claims – too risky to delegate.
Key documents have to be reviewed closely for good and bad facts. The law has to be applied correctly to the facts. The writing has to be persuasive enough to convince the agency investigator to move on.
Even low-stakes Charges with no merit take many hours to close. Paralegal and HR drafts need hours of your close review. Outside counsel charges $8,000–$25,000 for a position statement written by a junior associate who needs your time to get oriented. General AI tools aren't built for this workflow – they draft something that reads nicely but can't pinpoint your facts to your documents.
Fern does the legal analysis and drafting, cites each fact to your documents, and builds on the go-to defenses. You review and approve.
Reads the Charge and extracts what you need to know – the statutes, factual allegations, legal claims, and key people.
Identifies standard defense arguments and key frameworks for each claim in the Charge.
Reviews your documents, finds good and bad facts with pincites, and organizes them into defense arguments.
Produces a complete position statement with every fact pincited to your documents.
| Adverse action | Protected class | Statute | People named |
|---|---|---|---|
1 Retaliation Schedule moved to closing shifts, May 9, 2026 |
Protected activity | Title VII §2000e-3(a) ADA §12203(a) |
D. RiveraB. Kessler |
2 Hostile Work Environment – Sex Alleged comments by SM Kessler, Mar–Apr 2026 |
Sex (female) | Title VII §2000e-2(a) | D. RiveraB. Kessler |
3 Failure to Accommodate Lifting-restriction request, Feb 24, 2026 |
Disability (back injury) | ADA §12112(b)(5)(A) | D. RiveraS. AhnB. Kessler |
A hostile work environment requires conduct severe or pervasive enough to alter the conditions of employment; isolated remarks and offhand comments do not meet this standard. Harris v. Forklift Sys., Inc., 510 U.S. 17 (1993); Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 524 U.S. 775, 788 (1998).
Two isolated comments, six weeks apart, are neither severe nor pervasive as a matter of law. Kessler received documented coaching within three business days of the report, and no further conduct is alleged or documented after April 18DOC-007, p. 1 – prompt remedial action underscoring that the alleged conduct never altered the conditions of Rivera's employment.
Everything that makes a Charge response slow and cumbersome – handled, so you spend your energy on thinking strategically.
A timeline of key employment actions, so you can assess temporal proximity.
Easily identify decision-makers, witnesses, and comparators.
No matter how many there are – Fern tells you where the actual evidence proves an allegation incorrect, either a mistake by the claimant or an outright fabrication.
Surfaced early, so you can strategically decide how to handle them.
A complete, pro-employer Position Statement – or a demand letter response – with every factual assertion tied to a document and page.
Run Fern on an actual pending Charge for one week – full functionality, your documents, your record.
Defensible – but it costs 20–30 hours per Charge. Reading, cross-referencing, drafting, reviewing. Nights and weekends.
They can gather documents and organize exhibits. They cannot apply the legal reasoning the record requires.
$8,000–$25,000 per Charge. They don't know your company. You spend hours briefing them – and reviewing their draft anyway.
Can draft paragraphs quickly. No structured legal reasoning. Invents facts it cannot source. And anything you input is a privilege risk.
Use Fern on an actual pending Charge for one week – full functionality, your documents, your record.