ModelRefs / Legal Research Assistant — Canonical Workflow
Legal Research Assistant — Canonical Workflow
Legal Research Assistant: provisional AI workflow implementation reference with candidate models, providers, tools, and architecture.
Overview
Prepare source-grounded legal research candidates with citation, court, jurisdiction, date, and treatment metadata for attorney verification; no legal advice or final conclusion is produced. Legal deployment requires matter- and jurisdiction-specific review of access, confidentiality, retention, privilege, and applicable professional obligations. Candidate outputs should preserve source-document and page traceability and route missing, conflicting, or interpretive issues to qualified legal reviewers. These pages describe provisional review support, not legal advice, privilege assurance, or a compliance determination.
Implementation profile
| Category | llms |
|---|---|
| Implementation maturity | enterprise |
| Evidence status | partial |
| Primary use cases | rag, reasoning |
| Deployment options | managed-api, hybrid |
| Architectures | serverless-api, managed-container, hybrid-private-cloud |
Candidate models with published references
- BGE-M3
- GPT-5
- GPT-5 Mini
- Claude Opus 4
- Llama 4 Scout
- DeepSeek R1
- Mistral Large 2
- Command R+
- o3
- o4 Mini
- Text Embedding 3 Large
- Claude Sonnet 4
Coverage means the model is a candidate worth evaluating for this workflow, not a ranking or a recommendation. Models whose reference pages are still in review are omitted.
Benchmarks relevant to this workflow
miracl, mkqa, mldr, swe-bench, aider-polyglot, gpqa, aime-2025, tau-bench, browsecomp-long-context, longfact-concepts, terminal-bench, mmmu, mmlu-pro, livecodebench.
Relevance is a coverage signal from the canonical registry. Each benchmark only describes its own protocol and date, so confirm the harness matches your workload before treating a score as evidence.
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