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AI chatbots for law firms & legal departments in India

Case law research in 30 seconds instead of 4 hours. Contract Q&A with paragraph citations. Client intake automation. Multilingual legal drafting. Built by the team behind VakeelSaathi. India's largest legal RAG platform.

50,000+Judgments indexed
<1%Hallucination rate
8Indian languages
DPDPCompliant by default
FILE 01 / THE LEGAL RESEARCH PROBLEM

Your best lawyers spend 60% of billable hours on research a chatbot can do in seconds.

"What have Delhi HC held about arbitration clauses in Section 34 challenges?" is a 3-6 hour research task the traditional way. Opening Indian Kanoon, running keyword searches, reading through 40 hits, finding the 3 that matter.

A properly-built legal RAG chatbot returns a cited answer in 30 seconds with links to the exact paragraphs. Not "similar cases". the holdings you need, from the court that binds you, in the format you can paste into a memo.

PROOF OF WORK

VakeelSaathi is our own production legal RAG

50,000+ Indian court judgments indexed. Sub-500ms retrieval. Under 1% hallucination rate. Serving practicing advocates daily. When we build a legal chatbot for your firm, this is the tech we deploy. Not a slideware promise.

Read the VakeelSaathi engineering deep-dive

How the RAG engine underneath works (retrieval, citations, guardrails) → AI Chatbot & RAG Development

FILE 02 / CHATBOT PATTERNS FOR LAW FIRMS

Six deployments we've built or scoped

Every firm needs a different mix. Start with one, layer more as ROI proves out.

UC-01

Case Law Research Bot

"What have Supreme Court held about X under Section Y?" Returns cited answer + top 5 relevant judgments in 30 seconds. Runs over Indian Kanoon + your firm's precedent library.

3-6 hours → 30 seconds per query

UC-02

Contract Review Q&A

Upload an MSA, NDA, or shareholder agreement (100+ pages). Ask "does this cap liability?" "What's the notice period for termination?". Answers with clause references.

70% faster first-pass review

UC-03

Client Intake & Triage Bot

WhatsApp bot for new client enquiries. Collects case details, checks conflict of interest, categorizes matter type, schedules the initial call with the right lawyer.

80% intake self-serve

UC-04

DPDP & Compliance Advisor

Client asks "is this data handling DPDP-compliant?" Bot answers using DPDP Act text + your firm's compliance opinions + relevant Supreme Court guidance.

Turns compliance into a repeatable service line

UC-05

Multilingual Legal Drafting

Draft notices, agreements, plaints in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati. English drafting flows into regional-language output.

8 Indian languages

UC-06 PRIVATE

On-Prem Private Chatbot

Highest-sensitivity firms deploy on-prem. Llama or Mistral running inside your VPC. Client data never leaves the firm's servers. SSO, audit logs, role-based access.

Zero data leaves your walls

SCOPE CHECK

Curious what this would look like for your firm?

Ask Deci or reach us via the contact form. Tell us your practice areas, firm size, and top research pain points. We come back with a working prototype scope + fixed price within 48 hours.

Chat with Deci
FILE 04 / PROCESS & PRICING

6-8 weeks. Fixed pricing per phase.

FREE

Discovery · Week 1

Look at your practice areas, current research workflow, sensitive-data constraints. Written feasibility doc.

₹2-3L

Legal RAG Prototype · Weeks 2-3

Working bot on your firm's 500-1000 precedents + 5,000 sample judgments. Partners test it live.

₹8-15L

Full Firm Build · Weeks 4-8

Complete case-law index + firm knowledge base + client intake + drafting. SSO, audit logs, DPDP-compliant deployment.

₹50k/mo

Managed Ops · Ongoing

Weekly judgment refresh, model API costs, quality evals, monitoring, security review, WhatsApp template management. From ₹50k/mo.

REF-A Parent & Agents

RAG chatbot architecture, tech stack, pricing across all verticals.

REF-C Proof & Pricing

See our own live legal OS in action. Courts, AI research, drafting, billing. What we can build for your firm looks like this.

FILE 06 / FIELD MANUAL — FAQ

Questions partners ask on every call

How does a legal AI chatbot avoid making up case citations?
Through strict RAG grounding. The chatbot can only quote from judgments and documents we've indexed. Every citation resolves to a link on Indian Kanoon (or your internal document library) so lawyers can verify the source in one click. On VakeelSaathi we ran hallucination rate from 14% (baseline) to under 1% (production) through four defense layers: hybrid retrieval, reranking, strict grounding prompts, and confidence thresholds. Never trust a legal AI that doesn't cite paragraphs.
Can it search my firm's own case files and precedents?
Yes. This is the highest-value use case. We ingest your firm's memos, drafts, opinions, notes, and past pleadings. The chatbot then answers "have we argued anything like this before?" with citations back to the original file. Deployed on-prem or in your private VPC so nothing leaves your infrastructure.
Does it handle Indian court hierarchies correctly?
Yes. The system distinguishes binding precedent (Supreme Court, applicable High Court on your bench) from persuasive precedent (other High Courts, tribunals). It flags overruled judgments where our data includes the overruling case. Same logic that powers VakeelSaathi's legal research.
Can it draft in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and other Indian languages?
Yes. Legal research runs in English (since Indian case law is in English) but drafting outputs work in 8 Indian languages: Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati. Bilingual legal glossaries ensure terminology consistency.
Is it DPDP Act compliant?
Yes. Deployments run in Indian data centers (AWS Mumbai, Azure India), or on-prem in your firm's server room. When we use foreign LLMs (OpenAI/Anthropic), we sign zero-data-retention agreements. Client data never trains external models. For high-sensitivity firms, we deploy self-hosted Llama/Mistral so nothing leaves your VPC.
How much does it cost?
Prototype phase: ₹2-3 lakh (3 weeks). Full firm build with client intake + drafting + case law: ₹8-15 lakh (6-8 weeks). Ongoing operations: ₹50,000/month including model API costs, weekly judgment refresh, and evals. Free feasibility call to scope your specific needs.

Ready to give your firm back 60% of research time?

Have questions? Ask Deci (our AI assistant, bottom-right) or drop us a line via the contact form. Tell us your practice areas + top research pain points. We come back with a working prototype scope and fixed price in 48 hours.