Thanks!
Based on the updated diagram you provided, here's the
revised and detailed "System Architecture Documentation Template"
tailored to your AI Paralegal (RAG-based) solution, now aligned with
the exact workflow in the image:
System Architecture Documentation Template
Project Name: AI Paralegal – Legal RAG System
Version: 2.0
Prepared By: [Your Team Name]
Date: [Insert Date]
1. Purpose
This document outlines the technical architecture of the AI Paralegal, a
legal document intelligence solution powered by Retrieval-Augmented
Generation (RAG). The system enables legal professionals to query vast
corpora of legal documents, such as case law, contracts, and policies,
and receive contextually accurate responses generated using a
combination of vector search and large language models (LLMs).
2. High-Level Architecture Overview
This architecture involves two parallel flows:
• Document Pipeline: For preprocessing and embedding legal
corpora.
• Query Pipeline: For processing user queries, retrieving relevant
context, and generating responses.
3. Architecture Components
3.1 Document Ingestion & Embedding Flow
Component Description
Input documents include court judgments, legal
Documents
contracts, SOPs, and case files in PDF or text format.
Chunking Splits each document into smaller, manageable text
Module segments for effective semantic search.
Embedding Uses Google's 004 Embedding Model to convert
Model chunks into high-dimensional vector representations.
Vector Database Stores the embedded vectors for efficient similarity
(FAISS) search and retrieval.
3.2 Query Processing & Generation Flow
Component Description
Query is entered via a web-based UI (e.g., Streamlit,
User Input
React).
Query User query is embedded using the same Google 004
Embedding Model to maintain vector space consistency.
Vector Search FAISS performs a similarity search to retrieve relevant
(FAISS) document chunks from the vector store.
Prompt The system constructs a structured prompt using the
Construction retrieved context and the user query.
LLM (Mistral) Mistral LLM processes the prompt and generates a
Component Description
legal response.
The answer is shown on the UI with possible follow-
Final Output
up actions (download, export, etc.).
4. System Architecture Diagram (Description)
5. Technologies Used
Layer Tools & Tech
Embedding Google's 004 Embedding Model
Vector Store FAISS
Language Model Mistral (open-source LLM)
Layer Tools & Tech
Frontend Streamlit / React
Backend FastAPI / Flask
Data Format JSON, PDF, plain text
Storage Cloud (Azure Blob, GCP Storage)
Deployment Docker + Kubernetes (optional), Azure/GCP VMs
CI/CD GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines
6. Security Considerations
• No persistent storage of sensitive legal queries or responses.
• Token-level access to LLM and embedding APIs.
• Role-based access control for internal document uploads.
• Encrypted data transmission (HTTPS, TLS 1.2+).
• GDPR & CCPA-compliant logging and user consent.
7. Performance Optimizations
• Document chunking optimized for semantic preservation (e.g.,
sentence boundaries).
• Indexed FAISS with HNSW algorithm for faster retrieval.
• Query caching using Redis to speed up repeated lookups.
• Prompt compression to avoid LLM context overflow.
8. Limitations & Roadmap
Limitations Planned Improvements
FAISS scalability on massive corpora Migrate to Weaviate or Pinecone
Mistral not trained on legal-specific
Fine-tune with legal corpora
data
Stateless chat experience Introduce session-level memory
Add citation-aware prompt
Limited citation generation
injection
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