Organise Legal Knowledge Locally
LegalEase is an open-source legal research workstation that keeps documents, transcripts, and evidence on your own infrastructure.
Built for Private Case Work
LegalEase ingests documents, transcripts, and forensic exports, then makes them searchable without leaving your environment.
- Combine BM25 keyword ranking with dense embeddings stored in Qdrant. Jump straight to highlighted passages in the PDF viewer.
- Group material by case, control what is loaded into search, and keep upload status in sync with Celery workers.
- Run WhisperX on your GPU or fall back to the bundled Whisper integration. Summaries and key moments stay on-box via Ollama.
What You Get Out of the Box
The dockerised stack includes every service needed to go from raw PDFs to a working search and review workspace.
- Docling parses PDFs, applies OCR when required, and produces hierarchical chunks with bounding boxes for Qdrant indexing.
- Identify speakers, mark key moments, export caption files, and generate executive summaries from long-form recordings.
- PostgreSQL, MinIO, Redis, Qdrant, and Ollama run alongside the app. Disconnect from the network once images and models are downloaded.
Why LegalEase?
A practical foundation for legal knowledge management teams who need control over their tooling.
Modern UI
Nuxt 4 dashboard with search, PDF preview, transcript review, and shared data caches for snappy navigation.
Hybrid Retrieval
Tune BM25 and dense vector weighting, filter by case or chunk type, and inspect debug metadata for every result.
Transcript Workflow
Upload audio or video, monitor Celery progress, and export results in DOCX/SRT/VTT/TXT formats.
Evidence Intake
Scan Cellebrite/AXIOM exports straight from mounted storage and browse recovered items in the UI.
Local-first AI
Default Ollama prompts ship with the repository; swap in your own models or disable them entirely.
Open Source
MIT licensed. Extend the pipelines, wire in additional analytics, or integrate with firm-specific tooling.
Powerful Features in Action
See LegalEase AI's key capabilities with real interface screenshots showcasing transcription, discovery, case management, and document viewing.
AI Transcription
Self-hosted transcription with speaker diarization and summaries
Discovery Items
Comprehensive discovery document management
Case Management
Organize documents into structured cases
Document Viewer
Native PDF viewer with search highlighting
Beautiful Interface with Theme Support
Experience LegalEase AI with multiple color themes and a clean, modern interface designed for legal professionals.
Emerald Dark
Professional dark theme with emerald accents
Pink Light
Clean light theme with pink accents
Yellow Dark
Modern dark theme with yellow accents
Ready to run LegalEase?
Clone the repository, copy the environment files, and launch the Docker stack. Documentation and API schemas live alongside the code.