Claudius, the future of Legal Service
Claudius is a Legal Intelligence company that uses artificial intelligence to help people figure out their legal problems. My mother is an attorney, and she once had a case where a client walked more than 100 miles to seek legal aid.
Lawyers and doctors are all professions that are very important for society. But not everyone has the opportunity to enjoy these services. As artificial intelligence evolves, there is an opportunity to use AI to shorten the distance between these services and the general public.
When I worked at Claudius, I got a project to clean a public legal dataset called Kentucky dataset. We worked with an Indian company. They help us name entity recognition. We focus on the development of a machine learning method. Our Indian partner could not provide us with the services we were supposed to because of internal problems.
I was a little disappointed but knew that we didn't have much time. I extracted the case using a python package called beautifulsoup and pandas. I applied for a public package called Spacy to help me to run name and entity recognition. I applied social network analysis to help us get a better understanding of the case.
In the end, we headed into the project before the deadline. And I also help the company develop a pipeline for future legal study.
I recently studied a project to identify biases in legal data. Free bonds refer to bail outcomes that grant freedom with no payment, and no/paid bonds refer to bail outcomes that either give no freedom or require a bond payment. Generally speaking, arrested persons are more likely to be granted free bonds in cases involving theft crimes than those involving narcotics crimes. Black persons are more often given restrictive bonds compared to white persons. About three times as many black men are arrested for Narcotics crimes.
