Legal AI Assistant 🧑‍⚖️⚖️🤖

This is an AI-powered assistant for generating and filling legal document templates.
Users can describe their legal issue, and the assistant selects the appropriate template, collects details step-by-step, and generates a ready-to-use document.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: React + TypeScript + Vite + TailwindCSS
• Backend: FastAPI (Python)
• AI Integration: OpenAI GPT-4 API
• Document Handling: python-docx
• Environment Management: dotenv

📁 Project Structure

legal-assistant-app/
├── backend/                 # FastAPI backend with AI + docx handling
│   ├── main.py
│   ├── summarize_templates.py
│   ├── templates/
│   ├── .env.example
│   └── requirements.txt
├── frontend/                # Vite + React frontend with chat interface
│   ├── src/
│   ├── public/
│   ├── package.json
│   └── tsconfig.json
├── .gitignore
└── README.md

🧪 Setup Instructions

🔹 Backend (FastAPI + OpenAI)

# Create and activate virtual environment
python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate  # Windows

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Create a .env file based on the example
# .env
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key

# Run the FastAPI server
uvicorn main:app --reload

🔹 Frontend (React + Vite)

# Navigate to the frontend folder:
cd frontend

#Install frontend dependencies:
npm install

#Start the development server:
npm run dev

🚀 Features

• ✅ AI selects the best legal template based on user input.
• ✅ Asks one question at a time to collect details efficiently.
• ✅ Auto-fills legal document placeholders using GPT.
• ✅ Allows download of ready-to-use .docx legal files.
• ✅ Built-in support for multiple legal categories and templates.

🔒 Environment & Security

This project uses .env to manage sensitive keys like your OpenAI API key.
Example .env file:

#.env.example
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key

🌐 Live Demo

🚧 Deployment link coming soon…