Law firm YulChon will join the Ministry of Government Legislation's project to build a "Generative AI statute search system" as an advisory institution.
The project aims to introduce a generative artificial intelligence (AI) search function to the National Law Information Center to improve the convenience and accuracy of statute searches. YulChon will handle advising on the legal information framework, legal review of dataset construction, and advising on ways to advance the AI statute search service.
YulChon operates the in-house work and data integration platform "LeXY" and the law-specialized closed AI system "AI:Yul." AI:Yul is an advanced legal AI system built on internal data and practical experience, and through it YulChon has accumulated experience in building data tailored to the legal environment, improving models, reflecting member feedback, and expanding through training.
Personnel who worked on building an in-house retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) search system will also join the advisory effort. RAG is a method in which AI finds relevant information from external documents or databases and reflects it in generating answers. YulChon noted that Korean statutes, precedents, and legal documents differ in structure and expression from general documents, requiring both legal expertise and system-building experience.
In this project, YulChon will present opinions on the AI statute search service, review the legal information framework, check extraction records for statute implementation and relationships, and examine the legal-system consistency of the knowledge graph. It will review the legal validity of answers generated by AI models and the integrity of the data, and will also present quality improvement measures.
The chief advisor will be YulChon senior advisor Lim Song-hak. Lim worked at the Ministry of Government Legislation for more than 30 years and also served at The National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee and the Constitutional Court.
Patent attorney Kim Myeong-hun and attorney Seok Ji-un will also join the advisory team. Kim has handled AI-related advisory work, including the Basic AI Act and issues around training-data copyright. Seok participated in a project under the Ministry of Science and ICT's "logical evidence reasoning AI core technology development project" to build and validate a legal knowledge graph, and oversaw the AI:Yul build project.
YulChon plans to use this project to combine its legal AI operating experience with its legislative advisory capabilities and expand advisory services related to AI legal services in the public sector.