LEGALAID: A MULTI AGENT GENAI SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED LEGAL ASSISTANCE

Abstract

Theleg. alsys . temisacons . tantbarr . iertoacc . essaro. undthewor . ld.Thisisverymuchthe situa. tioninInd. iawhe. remorethan70perc . entofciti . zenshasnomeani . ngfulacc . essto leg. al adv. ice or coun. sel in the cont . ext of constit . utional rig. hts of just . ice. Whi . le exis . ting leg. alAI rese. archhasledtoeffec . tivesyst . emsfor judi . cialpredi . ction,docu. ment summari . zation, and leg. al ques . tion answe. ring, they suf . fer fromseve. ral well-kno. wn weakn. esses:Theyareall trai . nedonwest . ernleg. alcorp. ora;Theyfoc . usonspec . ificsub tas . ksoftheleg. alproc . ess, rat . herthanthebroa. deruserwork . flowofprob. lemformul . ation toactio. nablesolu. tion;Noneofthemapp. lyInd. ia’sleg. alsys . temaft . er2023.TheBhara. tiya Nya. yaSanh. ita,Bhara. tiyaNaga. rikSura. kshaSanh. ita,andBhara. tiyaSaks . hyaAdhin. iyam arethebigg. est ref . ormof theInd. iancrim. inal lawinmorethan150yea. rs. Thisthe. sis aimstofillthevoidthatens . uesfromthe. sefail . ures. This rese. arch intro. duces Lega. lAid: amul . ti-age. nt artif . icial intell . igence sys . temto conv. ertanunstru. cturedleg. aldisp. utenarra. tiveintoastruc . tured, lega. lly-bas . edstep-by stepplanandfor . mal leg. alwrit . ing. Thesys . temisbas . edonLangG. raph’smod. elof leg. al reaso. ning asafivenodestat . efuldire. ctedgra. ph,whi . chguara. nteesdetermi . nisticand ful . lyaudit . ableexecu. tion. AnInd. ianstatu. torytextspec . ificCont . ext-Awa. reHierar . chical Par . ent-Chi . ldChun. king algor . ithm is devel . oped accomp. aniedby a thr . ee-sta. ge retri . eval pipe. line consi . sting of Hypoth. etical Docu. ment Embed. ding, hyb. rid den. se-spa. rse Recip. rocal Rank Fus . ion and cro. ss-enco. der reran. king. Twomod. els are prese. nted: LegalM. istral-IN(afine-tun. edmod. elofMist . ral7B),optim. izedforapurp. ose-bui . lt leg. al instru. ctiondata. setcompr . ising52,400insta. ncesof Ind. ianlaw,andLegalB. ERTJC(afine tun. edmod. elofInLega. lBERT),optim. izedforthetaskofdisp. uteclassif . ication. Evalu. ationona200-inst . ancebench. marksetwithexp. ertannota. tionsgiv . esaJurisd. iction Accu. racyof0.943,Retri . evalPreci . sion@5of0.887andROU. GE-Lof0.591. LegalM. istral-IN has10.4ROU. GE-Lpoi . ntshig. her thanGPT-3.5-Tur . boonthesamedataset andredu. ces thestatu. toryhalluci . nationby71perc . entcomp. aredtoaretri . eval-augme. ntedbase. linewith ameanend-to-end late. ncyof9.59seco. ndsonful . ly loc . al hard. ware. All the. sefind. ingstoge. therdemons . tratethatapriv. acy-cent . ric, loca. llyrunleg. al AIsys . tembui . ltonexis . tingInd. ianlawsistechni . callyfeas . ibleandpracti . callyposs . ible, andthatdom. ain-adap. tivefine-tun. ingandhigh-endretri . evalarecomplem. entaryinst . eadof compe. ting,withsignif . icantimplic. ationsforleg. alaiddeli . veryatsca. leinInd. ia.