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LegalSearch
Knowledge Management

AI-powered semantic search platform that helps law firms find relevant documents across 1M+ files in under 100 milliseconds.

Timeline 10 weeks
Industry Legal Tech
Stack Laravel + Vue
LegalSearch
Smith v. Johnson Corp - Settlement Agreement

Section 4.2: Termination clause requires 90-day written notice with cure period for material breach...

98% match 2023 | Commercial
Master Services Agreement Template v3

Article 12: Standard termination provisions including force majeure and convenience clauses...

94% match Template | Corporate
Employment Contract - Senior Associate

Appendix B: Termination for cause definition and precedent review requirements per firm policy...

89% match 2024 | Employment
<100ms
Search response time
1M+
Documents indexed
$220k
Annual savings
85%
Time saved on research

Legal research was
drowning in data

A mid-size law firm with 15 years of accumulated documents was losing billable hours to manual searches.

Hours Lost to Manual Search

Associates spent 2-3 hours per research task sifting through folder structures and outdated naming conventions to find relevant precedents.

Scattered Knowledge Sources

Documents lived across network drives, email attachments, and legacy systems. No unified search meant duplicate work and missed insights.

Keyword Search Limitations

Traditional search couldn't understand legal concepts. Searching "breach of contract" wouldn't find documents discussing "material default" or "failure to perform."

Security & Compliance Concerns

Client confidentiality required on-premise deployment with role-based access. Public cloud AI solutions were not an option.

Semantic search that
understands legal context

We built LegalSearch as a self-hosted knowledge management platform that uses vector embeddings to understand the meaning behind legal queries — not just keywords.

01

Vector-Based Semantic Search

Documents are converted to high-dimensional vectors that capture legal concepts and relationships, enabling conceptual search across the entire corpus.

  • OpenAI embeddings (self-hosted option available)
  • Milvus vector database for sub-100ms queries
  • Hybrid search combining semantic + keyword
  • Automatic synonym and concept expansion
02

Intelligent Document Processing

Automated ingestion pipeline that extracts text, metadata, and structure from any document format while preserving legal context.

  • OCR for scanned documents
  • PDF, DOCX, email, and image support
  • Automatic clause detection
  • Entity extraction (parties, dates, amounts)
03

Enterprise Security & Access Control

Self-hosted deployment with granular permissions ensuring client matters stay confidential and audit-ready.

  • On-premise or private cloud deployment
  • Matter-based access controls
  • Full audit logging
  • SSO with Active Directory/SAML

How it works

Documents
PDF, DOCX, Email
Processing
OCR + Extraction
Embeddings
Vector Generation
Milvus
Vector Database
Search API
<100ms Response
Laravel Vue.js Milvus PostgreSQL Redis OpenAI API Docker

Measurable impact on
legal research efficiency

$220k+ Per Year

Recovered Billable Time

Associates now complete research tasks in 20-30 minutes instead of 2-3 hours. At average billing rates, this translates to over $220,000 in recovered capacity annually.

100ms Avg Response

Instant Search Results

Vector similarity search across 1M+ documents returns relevant results in under 100 milliseconds, even with complex natural language queries.

85% Reduction

Research Time Saved

What previously took hours of manual folder browsing now takes minutes. Semantic understanding surfaces relevant documents that keyword search would miss.

15 yrs Indexed

Complete Knowledge Base

The firm's entire document history — 15 years of contracts, briefs, memos, and correspondence — is now searchable through a single interface.

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Our legal team was spending hours searching through documents. Now queries return results in 100ms even with over 1 million documents. That's $220k+ recovered per year in billable time that was previously lost to manual research.

MP
Managing Partner Mid-Size Law Firm

Ready to transform your legal research?

Let's discuss how AI-powered knowledge management can help your firm recover billable hours and surface insights faster.