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Team Memebers:Patrick ChaseTai GuoTianyi WangDerek 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 inthe due process. However, the cost of seeking such legal counselling or hiring a lawyer isoften astronomical for everyday people. Even though there are always legitimate cases ofpeople who fall victims to unjust treatment; contractual violation; patent infringement; andetc, these victims often do not have the financial resources to seek justice through legalcounselling.

This project is to create an interactive legal counsellor and interpreter of the law for thedisenfranchised. The tool will take in an user-input legal dispute. It will output aprediction regarding the subject of the law (contract, tort, patent, or etc). The tool willalso provide prior art/relevant cases which have already been decided and are similar to thedispute at hand. Finally, it will also predict the likelihood of winning/settling of this casealong with any other useful information. Users would receive a vote of confidence regardingtheir 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 regardingdifferent subject matters of the law.