// Legal & Law
McCready Law AI Assistant
RAG-Powered Legal Case Intelligence Platform
Built an AI-powered case management assistant for McCready Law that pulls criminal case data from their SmartAdvocate system, vectorizes it with Pinecone, and enables attorneys to search and query thousands of cases using natural language through a conversational chat interface.
Seconds
Case Search Time
1000s
Cases Vectorized
30+
Searchable Fields
RAG
AI-Powered Answers
// The problem · 4 pain points
The Challenge
McCready Law attorneys needed a way to quickly search and query thousands of criminal cases without manually digging through their case management system — they needed answers in seconds, not hours.
Thousands of cases, no smart search
Thousands of criminal cases in SmartAdvocate with no intelligent search capability
Hours of manual searching
Attorneys spent hours manually searching for case patterns, precedents, and status updates
No plain-English questions
No way to ask natural language questions like 'show me all DUI cases from 2024 still in discovery'
Case data siloed in the CMS
Case data was siloed in the CMS with no semantic understanding of case content
// How it works
How It Works
Case data is pulled from SmartAdvocate, vectorized with Pinecone, and queried by attorneys through a natural language chat interface.
Data Pipeline
Case data synced daily and vectorized
SmartAdvocate API
Case data pulled from the firm's case management system
Extract 30+ Fields
Status, type, parties, dates, staff, and fees per case
Vector Embeddings
Cases embedded for semantic search
Pinecone Index
Vector database kept current with daily syncs
- 01
SmartAdvocate API
Case data pulled from the firm's case management system
- 02
Extract 30+ Fields
Status, type, parties, dates, staff, and fees per case
- 03
Vector Embeddings
Cases embedded for semantic search
- 04
Pinecone Index
Vector database kept current with daily syncs
AI Agent
Plain-English questions routed to the right tool
Attorney Question
A natural-language question, like DUI cases still in discovery
LangGraph Agent
Agentic workflow decides how to answer
Tool Selection
Search, case lookup, pattern counting, or time-on-desk analysis
Semantic Search + Reranking
Metadata-filtered vector search, reranked for relevance
- 01
Attorney Question
A natural-language question, like DUI cases still in discovery
- 02
LangGraph Agent
Agentic workflow decides how to answer
- 03
Tool Selection
Search, case lookup, pattern counting, or time-on-desk analysis
- 04
Semantic Search + Reranking
Metadata-filtered vector search, reranked for relevance
Response
Streamed answers in a secure chat
Google Vertex AI
The model composes the answer from retrieved cases
Streaming Response
Answers stream back in seconds
React Chat UI
Firm-only chat interface with markdown and dark mode
- 01
Google Vertex AI
The model composes the answer from retrieved cases
- 02
Streaming Response
Answers stream back in seconds
- 03
React Chat UI
Firm-only chat interface with markdown and dark mode
// What we built
Our Solution
SmartAdvocate Data Pipeline
Built automated sync pipelines that pull case data from the SmartAdvocate API, extract 30+ metadata fields per case (status, type, parties, dates, staff, fees), and keep the vector database current with daily syncs.
Vector Embedding & Semantic Search
Vectorized all case data using Pinecone with llama-text-embed-v2 embeddings and bge-reranker-v2-m3 for reranking, enabling semantic search across thousands of cases with metadata filtering by status, type, and year.
LangGraph AI Agent
Built an agentic workflow with LangGraph and Google Vertex AI that autonomously decides which tools to use — semantic search, case lookup, pattern counting, or time-on-desk analysis — based on the attorney's natural language query.
Chat Interface
Developed a React chat UI with real-time streaming, markdown rendering, dark mode, and Firebase authentication — restricted to approved McCready Law email domains.
// In their words
“Our attorneys were spending hours digging through SmartAdvocate trying to find case patterns and status updates across thousands of criminal cases. 27nodes built us an AI assistant that connects directly to our case management system — now our team just asks a question in plain English, like 'show me all DUI cases from 2024 still in discovery,' and gets an answer in seconds. It searches across every case we have, understands the context, and pulls up exactly what we need. This has been a game-changer for how our firm operates — what used to take hours of manual searching now happens instantly.”
Michael M.
Owner · McCready Law
// Technologies used
Built With
// Boca Raton, FL → nationwide
Ready for Similar Results?
Let's discuss how we can help bring your project to life.