DeepSeek R1 has shown great reasoning capability when it is firstly released. In this blog post, we detail our learnings in using DeepSeek R1 to build a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system, tailored for legal documents. We choose legal documents because legal professionals often face a daunting task: navigating libraries of cases, statutes, and informal legal commentary. Even the best-intentioned research can get bogged down in retrieving the right documents, let alone summarizing the...