Team Memebers: Patrick Chase Tai Guo Tianyi Wang Derek Yan
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" - William Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI, 4.2.59.
Any major transaction, legal procedure, patent dispute always require an attorney-at-law in the due process. However, the cost of seeking such legal counselling or hiring a lawyer is often astronomical for everyday people. Even though there are always legitimate cases of people who fall victims to unjust treatment; contractual violation; patent infringement; and etc, these victims often do not have the financial resources to seek justice through legal counselling.
This project is to create an interactive legal counsellor and interpreter of the law for the disenfranchised. The tool will take in an user-input legal dispute. It will output a prediction regarding the subject of the law (contract, tort, patent, or etc). The tool will also provide prior art/relevant cases which have already been decided and are similar to the dispute at hand. Finally, it will also predict the likelihood of winning/settling of this case along with any other useful information. Users would receive a vote of confidence regarding their legal concerns before proceeding with actual legal actions.
The training set to be used for the tool will be legal case briefs (which is public knowledge) on casebriefs.com and casebriefsummary.com. There are roughly over 3800 case briefs regarding different subject matters of the law.