LegalEase BD: Cloud-Based AI Legal Assistant

Welcome to the repository for LegalEase BD, an intelligent, cloud-based AI legal assistant. This project leverages natural language processing and modern full-stack web development to deliver context-aware legal information and insights.

🚀 Live Demo

Experience the live application here: LegalEase BD Web App

📂 Repository Structure

This repository is organized into a full-stack architecture with dedicated frontend and backend directories:

• legalease-backend/: The core intelligence engine, data processing, and API layer.
• legalease-frontend/: The user-facing interactive web application.

🛠️ Technical Stack & Architecture

Backend (Python)

The backend is engineered for high-performance NLP operations and optimized data retrieval:

• FastAPI: Serves robust, high-speed API endpoints.
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Employs a custom RAG pipeline to dynamically retrieve relevant legal contexts, ensuring the AI's responses are accurate and grounded in factual data.
• Pinecone: Utilizes Pinecone as the vector database for highly efficient semantic search and embedding storage.

Frontend (JavaScript / CSS / HTML)

The frontend delivers a seamless user experience, communicating smoothly with the backend REST APIs to provide real-time, conversational access to the legal assistant.

⚙️ Local Development & Setup

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8+ (for the backend environment)
• Node.js & npm/yarn (for the frontend environment)
• Necessary API Keys: Pinecone API Key, LLM Provider API Key (e.g., Grok, Google Gemini).

Backend Setup

1. Navigate to the backend directory:

   cd legalease-backend