How to Develop an Effective AI-Powered Legal Assistant

Create a machine-learning-based search into legal decisions

In this article, I describe how I created an application to search for supreme court decisions in Norway. This application is a useful tool for quickly gaining insights into decisions made on different topics, which is especially interesting if you want to learn the Supreme Court’s stance on particular subjects. It can also be interesting if you want to learn more about creating advanced AI-search to find documents.

In this article, I show you how I made a powerful legal assistant. Image by ChatGPT.

You can access the application developed in this article here:

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Motivation

My motivation for this article is to describe the process of creating a legal assistant using the latest technology within language models. This tool has the potential to save enormous amounts of time for lawyers doing research into subjects. In the future, I plan to expand the application to include retrieving relevant laws, published legal opinions from relevant actors, and so on. This can then act as a complete tool for…