Abstract: A computer-implemented method including receiving a query from a user related to legal information. The method also can include performing an initial retrieval of document chunks from a corpus of legal documents. The method additionally can include applying a cross-encoder model to generate relevance scores for the document chunks. The method further can include filtering the document chunks based on a quality threshold. The method additionally can include calculating a combined score for each remaining document chunk of the document chunks based on a respective relevance score of the relevance scores, temporal relevance score, and a document type importance score. The method also can include selecting a subset of top-scoring document chunks based on the combined score. The method additionally can include generating a response to the query based on the subset of the top-scoring document chunks.